Skip to main content

Currently Skimming:

Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 263-274

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 263...
... After a residency in internal medicine at Duke Medical Center he held several health policy positions within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was a senior policy analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President from 1978 to 1981.
From page 264...
... He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Heart Association's Stroke Council and has served as the principal investigator or a co-principal investigator on numerous studies of stroke, including the multicenter Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (SPAF I, II, and III) study, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-funded Mechanism of Injury and Repair in Ischemic Stroke study, and the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial.
From page 265...
... from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 1982 and completed an internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in 1985. He held a National Research Council endocrine fellowship for 2 years and was awarded an M.M.S.
From page 266...
... He remained at the University of California, rising to the position of professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesia and professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology in 1984. He has assumed leadership positions in many local and national organizations involved with anesthesia, pharmacology, and critical care and has chaired the National Institutes of Health Surgery, Anesthesia, and Trauma Study Section and the Food and Drug Administration Anesthesia and Life Support Drug Advisory Committee, among many others.
From page 267...
... from Emory University in 1988, after which he spent 2 years at Boston City Hospital and 1 year at The Johns Hopkins University as a pediatric resident. After working in a neighborhood health center for 1 year, he returned to a fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at Harvard/Children's Hospital and also served a fellowship in medical ethics.
From page 268...
... She is board certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine and has served as president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine as well as chair of its Research Committee and member of the Test Development Committee. She has represented the group at the American Board of Medical Specialties.
From page 269...
... He has also served as president of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, chair of the Governing Council of the Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services of the American Hospital Association, and coeditor-in-chief of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. His research activities have focused on the biological and psychosocial aspects of substance use disorders and the outcomes of care for psychiatric patients generally, for which he received the Presidential Award for Research from the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems in 1991.
From page 270...
... ; the Clinical Research Panel of the National Task Force on the NIH Strategic Plan; and the Committee on Research Capabilities of Academic Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she has been vice president of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of its Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine; a grant reviewer for the NIH Reproductive Biology Study Section and Human Embryology and Development Study Section; a panel member for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Cesarean Childbirth; and a panel member for Treatment Effectiveness of Hysterectomy and Other Therapies for Common Noncancerous Uterine Conditions, a conference of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Center for Medical Effectiveness Research.
From page 271...
... Dr. Worth most recently served as an Institute of Medicine study staff member to the Committee on Fluid Resuscitation for Combat Casualties and is senior adviser to the Committee on Creating a Vision for Space Medicine During Travel Beyond Earth Orbit.
From page 272...
... Kelly designed, administered, and analyzed the results of a survey of 16 hospices and home care facilities as part of the New Hampshire End of Life Project at Dartmouth Medical School, and from Tune to September of that year he was an environmental health intern with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is a Wilderness Emergency Medical technician; served as medical officer, finance officer, and membership director of the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team in Hanover, New Hampshire; and is a member of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and of
From page 273...
... TANYA M LEE is a project assistant for the IOM Committee on a Strategies for Small Number Participants Clinical Research Trials and the Committee on Creating a Vision for Space Medicine during Travel Beyond Earth Orbit in the Board of Health Science Policy.
From page 274...
... The change will, in the considered judgment of the committee, allow NASA and the international space community to build a better-integrated comprehensive system of health care to provide for the best possible health and safety of all astronauts who travel beyond Earth orbit. CONCLUS ONANDRECOMMENDAT ON Conclusion The challenges to humans who venture beyond Earth orbit are complex because of both the unique environment that deep space represents and the unsolvec]


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.