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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Staff
Pages 146-158
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is Virginia Lazenby O'Hara Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. In his 14-year tenure as Chairman of the Biochemistry Department, he built a world-recognized center of biochemical research, in particular, research related to the cytochrome P450s.
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Dr. Cozzens has served as a consultant to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Research Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, NSF, Institute of Medicine, Office of Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, and on advisory committees for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Liberal Education and the Sciences, EPSCOR Evaluation)
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He is the author of Universities and State Governments: A Study in Policy Analysis and over 100 refereed journal articles, final research reports, and book chapters, as well as of numerous papers presented to academic, professional, and policy audiences. He has been a consultant to the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; Ford Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Dr. Francis has contributed to the literature in the areas of coronary artery disease in African Americans, thrombolysis in myocardial infarction, hypertensive heart disease, mitral valve insufficiency, AIDS-associated heart disease, access to medical care, and the advancement of health care of minorities.
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As Chief of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI's) Hypertension and Kidney Diseases Branch in the 1970s, he managed a research portfolio that included research grants, program projects, centers, contracts, clinical trials, and education research grants.
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He is also former president of the American Society for Investigative Pathology, and is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society of Toxicology. He has served as member and chair of the NIH Chemical Pathology Study Section and was a member of the NCI Cancer Center Support Review Committee.
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, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, recipient of the Mortimer Spiegelman Gold Medal Award (1984) , and recipient of an Environmental Protection Agency Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (1987)
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. As the first nonmedical recipient of an NCI Institutional Research Training Grant, she opened the door for other nonmedical fields to become competitive in securing funding.
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Among his other numerous UAB committee appointments, he is a member of the Hospital AIDS Committee, the UAB AIDS Education Advisory Committee, and the General Clinical Research Center Scientific Advisory Committee. Among his numerous professional associations, Saag chairs the Cryptococcal Subproject Committee of Mycoses Study Group of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY LIAISON MICHAEL D LOCKSHIN, M.D., is the Director of the Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, New York and Professor of Medicine at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University.
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Board on Health Sciences Policy and study director. In nine years at IOM, he has served as study director for projects addressing a variety of topics including medical isotopes, potential hepatitis drugs, blood safety and availability, rheumatic disease, resource sharing in biomedical research, occupational safety and health, and chemical and biological terrorism.
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As a Research Assistant for the Division on Earth and Life Studies at the National Academies, Ben worked with the Board on Radiation Effects Research on projects studying the health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations on the human body. His work at the Institute of Medicine has included Testosterone and Aging: Clinical Research Directions, Review of NASA's Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content in Medical School Curricula, and NIH Extramural Center Programs: Criteria for Initiation and Evaluation.
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Between 1981 and 1995, he worked at the National Academies, where he directed the staff work for a dozen reports by IOM and other committees, including assessments of the cancer centers program of the National Cancer Institute and the AIDS research program of the National Institutes of Health. He did his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, prior to going to the National Academies, taught at Wellesley College and worked for the National Academy of Public Administration.
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