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Biographical Infromation
Pages 235-248

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... is senior fellow and director of the Health Care Delivery Project at Harvard University, where he brings his expertise in the health care system and information technology and his experience in community services to innovations and reforms in the medical care delivery system. He is also chairman emeritus of New England Medical Center, where he was chairman and CEO from 1979 to 1995, professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and an honorary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
From page 236...
... freight transportation planning, express freight service design, and rail service design. Professor Barnhart has served as an associate editor for Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Management Science, as a board member for INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
From page 237...
... Transportation Research Board and a past member of the NRC Marine Board Executive Committee, secretary treasurer of the Board of the Eno Transportation Foundation, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Public Administration.
From page 238...
... He was vice president for freight policy of the American Trucking Associations, Inc., from 1994 to 1998, and executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation from 1987 to 1994. He also served terms as president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board, and president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
From page 239...
... He was elected founding fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in January 1993, has twice won the American College of Cardiology Governor's Award for Excellence, and in 1980 was inducted as a fellow of the Medtronic Bakken Society.
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... DAVID ,1. FARBER is the Alfred Fitter Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments.
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... He is a trustee of Wellesley College, Thompson Island Outward Bound School, Mystic Seaport Museum, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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... Dr. Heilmeier joined RCA Laboratories in 1958, where his work with electrooptic effects in liquid crystals led to the first liquid-crystal displays for calculators, watches, computers, and instrumentation.
From page 243...
... Dr. Hermann is a member of the Defense Science Board, National Academy of Engineering, and Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute; he is chair of the Board of Directors for Draper Laboratory ADAM B
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... in economics from the University of Chicago, is professor of finance at the Graduate School of International Economics and Finance of Brandeis University, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Sloan fellow. Before moving to Brandeis, Dr.
From page 245...
... Concurrently, he was director of technology at the Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy, a research consortium comprising Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , and Draper Laboratory.
From page 246...
... He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Technology Transfer and Technology Studies; principal author of The Impact of Office Automation on ClericalEmployment, 1985-2000 (Quorum Books, 1985~; editor of Government Innovation Policy: Design, Implementation, Evaluation (St. Martin's Press, 1988~; editor of a special issue of Research Policy, published in 1989, devoted to the evaluation of government innovation programs; and co-editor of a 1996 special issue of Research Policy, "Evaluation of Industrial Modernization." Dr.
From page 247...
... He began his career there in 1952 as a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories, was promoted to department head in the Research Division in 1955, to director of the Solid State Device Laboratory in 1962, director of research and development for the Western Electric Company in 1964, followed by vice president of the Engineering Division and vice president of manufacturing, before returning to Bell Labs in 1975 as executive vice president responsible for the development of customer services, switching and transmission equipment, and electronics technology.
From page 248...
... , California Health Care Institute, Children of Bellevue, Committee for Economic Development, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, National Council on Aging, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, and many other organizations. He is also a trustee and a member of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame; he is actively involved in aviation policy and history.


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