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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches
Pages 335-342
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He has been appointed to various international committees, such as the Organizing Committee of European Conference on Visual Perception and the UK image interpretation initiative External Review Board. He received the Merit Award from the National Eye institute in 1992 and 1997.
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Burkhauser is chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and the Sarah Gibson Blanding professor of policy analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. His current research interests focus on the importance of social environment on the work outcomes of people with disabilities; how disability influences economic well-being; how Social Security reforms affect the work and economic well-being of older persons; and crossnational comparisons of the economic well-being and work of older persons.
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An experimental psychologist who specializes in the assessment of vision in infants and young children, she is currently conducting research on visual acuity and visual fields in infants and young children. She was involved in the development of the Teller acuity cards and has conducted studies of visual development in infants treated in a neonatal intensive care unit.
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He is also a member of the Glaucoma Advisory Committee, the editorial board of the fournal of Glaucoma and Optometry and Vision Science, the scientific advisory board for the Glaucoma Foundation, and co-founder/co-chair of the North American Perimetry Society. He served on the National Research Council's Committee on Vision 1985-1988 and on its working group on night vision.
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He was a contributor to the development of the National Eye institute visual function questionnaire. He serves on the board of trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the writing committee for the board recertification examination, and as an associate examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology.
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He is currently a member of the National Advisory Eye Council at the National institutes of Health and the Vision' Research editorial board. He was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually impaired and was a member of the Committee on Vision 1990-1995.
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Previously she managed and performed studies related to human performance in work and everyday tasks; job performance test development; training analysis, design, and evaluation; and organizational factors in nuclear power plant safety. She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and its technical groups on visual perception and aging.
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342 APPENDIX D currently serves as a member of the basic and clinical science curriculum committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the scientific advisory committee for the American Health Assistance Foundation, and the scientific advisory boards of both the Glaucoma Foundation and the Glaucoma Research Foundation. He has an MS in epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MD from the Harvard Medical School.
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