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Appendix M Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix M Committee and Staff Biographies
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M Committee and Staff Biographies Gerald E Thomson, M.D.
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Health and Human Services) Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group charged with overseeing and leading a national effort to reduce cancer health disparities.
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282 EXAMINING THE HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH PLAN OF THE NIH in investigating and securing funds for continued research on the health disparities within minority populations." Harvey R Colten, M.D., Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Columbia University Medical Center, was the Chief Medical Officer, iMetrikus, Inc.
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Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Behavior & Health Education in the School of Public Health. He was also a Senior Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research.
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, co-edited with Sarah Wamala of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, is forthcoming in June 2006. Kawachi is the Co-Director of the Harvard site of the national Robert Wood Johnson Scholars Program in Health and Society, as well as the site director of the national Kellogg Foundation Fellows in Minority Health Disparities.
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APPENDIX M 285 lowship Award from the American College of Cardiology in 1997. In 1992 he received the Golden Heart Award of the American Heart Association.
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. ACU is a national, nonprofit, transdisciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care organizations united in a common mission to improve the health of America's underserved populations by enhancing the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.
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She has served on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Research Training study section, and review panels for the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and NHLBI.
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Williams, Ph.D., is at the University of Michigan where he serves as the Harold W Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, a Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, and a Faculty Associate in the Center for AfroAmerican and African Studies and the Program of Research on Black Americans.
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Hill's studies have focused on preventing and treating hypertension and its complications, particularly among young, urban African American men. She currently is an active investigator on several NIH-funded projects, including "Comprehensive HBP Care for Young Urban Black Men," "Barriers to HBP Care and Control in Black South Africans," and "Research Training in Health Disparities in Underserved Populations." Dr.
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Ms. Cox has worked on several IOM reports, including In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce; Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; and Ethical Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies.
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