Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 189-196
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He formerly was a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group at NIH. He also directed the national coordinating office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative to Strengthen the Patient-Provider Relationship in a Changing Health Care Environment, and he chaired the End-of-Life Committee convened by the American College of Physicians.
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Before coming to UNC, she was a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Emory University/ Grady Memorial Hospital. She is currently the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award and a Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Development Award to examine the patient-specific and investigator-specific factors that influence participation in research.
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, which investigates the pathways and health effects of pesticide exposure in farmworkers and their children and develops interventions to prevent future exposure. She is also the principal investigator on two projects on endocrine disruption, one investigating the reproductive health of a cohort of women exposed to high levels of dioxin and another examining persistent and nonpersistent endocrine disrupting pesticides.
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Patricia King is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of law, medicine, ethics, and public policy at the Georgetown University Law Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the Hastings Center.
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Lanphear is the Sloan professor of children's environmental health and the director of the Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. He has conducted numerous epidemiologic studies and randomized controlled trials of environmental hazards, including dust control and soil abatement to prevent childhood lead exposure and HEPA-CPZ air cleaners to reduce children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
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Recent projects include developing peer consultation procedures for risk assessment; an evaluation of the ethical conduct of 15 human pesticide studies for private companies; development of a framework and approach to characterize the effectiveness and risk from use of nonlethal weapons for the Department of Defense Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate and development of TERA's international toxicity estimates for risk database, which was added to the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET system in 2004. Previously, Ms.
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Previously, he was pediatrician-in-chief at Rochester General Hospital and the director of the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Rochester; director of maternal and child health for the city of Boston; and director of general pediatrics at Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. He has conducted research and written extensively on a wide range of issues, including epidemiology, childhood lead poisoning, chronic illness, passive and prenatal exposure to ciga
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Dr. Weitzman also currently serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program and is a former member of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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