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Appendix F Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 732-740

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... Dr. Adashi has until recently served as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.
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... Rita Loch Caruso, is a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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... Her research has focused broadly on the role of stress in preterm delivery, especially identifying the components of stress and emotion that predict preterm birth, the biological and behavioral pathways involved, ethnic disparities and cultural factors in pregnancy, and the roles of other psychoso
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... In 2004 she received the Distinguished Senior Research Award in Health Psychology (Division 38) from the American Psychological Association.
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... He is currently working with the California Maternal Child Health (MCH) Branch on developing a framework for quality monitoring and improvement of maternal health care in California.
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... , the sociological (educational attainment, social and emotional functional limitations, and quality of life) and health (chronic illness, growth trajectories, physical activity, body composition, and economic burden of health care)
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... 738 PRETERM BIRTH and policy meetings on issues related to prematurity. She was awarded the Distinguished Neonatologist Award (2005)
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... Adrienne Stith Butler is a senior program officer in the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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... , she has also provided assistance to the Division of Health Care Services and the Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders.
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