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Appendix H: Committee Biosketches
Pages 319-326

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From page 319...
... He has chaired the following IOM committees: Committee for a Forum on Smallpox: The Scientific Basis for Vaccination Policy Options; Committee on Assessing the Science-base for Tobacco Harm Reduction; Committee on the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants; Co-chair of the Committee on Public Health. Joyce K
From page 320...
... Dr. Berman also helped found and now serves as field coordinator for the complementary medicine field of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization dedicated to evaluating all medical practices, and is Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
From page 321...
... He has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals concentrating on thyroid disease and has written or edited six books, one of which is in the fifth edition, in addition to numerous chapters on diseases of the thyroid. Michele Chang, M.P.H., C.M.T.
From page 322...
... is the William Maul Measey Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Program Development at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is Director of the Office of Complementary Therapies at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as representative of the University to the Consortium of the Association of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
From page 323...
... is Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of the General Medicine Division and Director of the Medical Practices Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has served on the Clinical Practice and Clinical Efficacy Assessment Committees of the American College of Physicians and on a number of committees of the Institute of Medicine addressing issues in clinical research and clinical quality improvement.
From page 324...
... is a Professor of Anthropology, Family and Community Medicine, and Public Health at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on health behaviors related to infectious and vector borne diseases, reproductive health, pharmaceutical practice, tobacco use and dependency, and health care seeking in pluralistic health care arenas in diverse populations throughout the world.
From page 325...
... He has achieved national recognition in the areas of health quality and clinical practice guidelines and is the current Chair of the Physician Consortium for Performance Measures convened by the AMA.
From page 326...
... Mr. Cohen is also the author of Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives, Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution, and Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health and Healing in Human Transformation.


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