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Appendix D: Biographic Sketches of Workshop Planning Committee, Forum Members, Invited Speakers, and Staff
Appendix D: Biographic Sketches of Workshop Planning Committee, Forum Members, Invited Speakers, and Staff
Pages 311-342
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at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and deputy director and acting director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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Alexander is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most of which relate to his research in developmental disabilities. Mark Blaxill is the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism and vice president of SafeMinds.
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Colamarino manages and oversees Autism Speaks' Biology Portfolio and new High Risk/High Impact program. After 16 years of research experience, she joined Cure Autism Now (CAN)
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-- on research matters related to autism. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders since 1994 and is on the editorial board of several other scientific journals.
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She also cofounded the Stanford Brain Research Center (now the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford) , and served as its first executive director between 1998 and 2001.
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Dr. Schwartz has served on numerous study sections and editorial boards, is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and was awarded the Scientific Accomplishment Award from the American Thoracic Society in 2003.
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Research projects include a 20-year longitudinal study of traumatic brain injury; investigations of spinal injury, stroke, aneurysms, arterial thrombolytic therapy intervention, neuropathology, central nervous system (CNS) tumors, sleep disor
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(Chair) , biography in Workshop Planning Committee.
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He is a fellow of AAAS, and a member of the IOM, the Executive Committee of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research Initiative, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He has served as president of the Society for Neuroscience, vice president of the American Neurological Association, and chair of the U.S./Canada Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization.
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He was a research fellow in the laboratory of society grantee Dr. Brian Popko at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and was the recipient of one of the society's Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards.
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Steve Hyman, M.D., biography in Workshop Planning Committee. Judy Illes, Ph.D., biography in Workshop Planning Committee.
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from Harvard University, and completed his residency training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he was named chief medical resident. He also conducted research at the Nobel Medical Research and Karolinska Institutes in Stockholm and served as deputy director of the Department of Biochemistry within the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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He is involved in a number of trans-NIH initiatives and activities in neuroscience and other areas, including the Coordinating Committee of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. Before coming to NIH, he was a program officer at NSF, where he was involved in a number of activities, including directing the Developmental Neuroscience Program.
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Dr. Paul joined Lilly in 1993 as a vice president of LRL responsible for central nervous system discovery and decision phase medical research.
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He developed a Lilly/IU fellowship early in 1996 and was named professor of psychiatry at IUMC. Before being associated with Lilly Research Laboratories, he held the position of chief, Section on Clinical Pharmacology, Intramural Research Program at NIMH.
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She has participated extensively in scientific and educational activities, including serving as chair for NASA's Research Maximization and Prioritization Committee reviewing Scientific Priorities for the International Space Station; Society for Neuroscience Program committee (Theme E: Autonomic and Limbic System) ; chair, External Advisory Committee, NSF Center for the Study of Biological Rhythms at the University of Virginia; search committee for editor of journals, department chairs, and provost at various institutions; and panel member of a number of committees.
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Roy E Twyman, M.D., is vice president, Franchise Development, in the Central Nervous System/Pain Area of Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.
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Christian G Zimmerman, M.D., FACS, M.B.A., biography in Workshop Planning Committee.
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One of her children has autism. Laura Bono, biography in Workshop Planning Committee.
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Gary W Goldstein, M.D., is chair of the Autism Speaks scientific affairs committee, and president and CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, one of the nation's leading treatment centers for autism and other developmental disorders.
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. She authored the chapter "Environmental Epidemiology" in the textbook Modern Epidemiology (Rothman and Greenland, and currently serves on editorial boards for the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Epidemiology, as well as on scientific advisory boards for the U.S.
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She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and recently received the American Society for Nutritional Sciences award for innovative research in the understanding of human nutrition. Philip J
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Dr. Levitt is a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and the National Advisory Mental Health Council for NIMH.
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His postgraduate training included clerkship at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London; internship in medicine at the University of Pittsburgh; residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington; residency in neurology at UCSF; and fellowship in neurovirology and molecular neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. His honors include National Multiple Sclerosis Society Postdoctoral Fellowship; Clinical Investigator Development Award, NIH, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; Pew Scholar; Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences; and Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Global Infectious Diseases.
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Major initiatives included the development of methods for monitoring autism spectrum disorders prevalence and participation in the largest population-based epidemiologic study of autism risk factors to date: the National Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE) Study of Autism and Child Development.
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Dr. Noble's current research is focused on developing a comprehensive approach to the field of stem cell medicine, research which includes topics such as identifying the optimal cells for enhancing repair of spinal cord injury; the central importance of precursor cell dysfunction in developmental maladies; and the discovery of molecular mechanisms that underlie effects of environmentally relevant levels of chemically diverse toxicants on CNS precursor cells and that integrate stem cell biology, redox biology, signaling pathway analysis, and toxicology into a mechanistic framework.
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In addition, within DHHS, he has twice been presented the Distinguished Service Award and has received the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award and the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award.
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Her professional research interests are in developmental disabilities epidemiology. She has been recognized for her work in autism (Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service [2005]
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Dr. Spence was recently recruited to the Division of Intramural Research at NIMH, where she is contributing to the design and administration of various clinical research protocols examining the phenomenology of and novel treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders.
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Susan Swedo, M.D., biography in Workshop Planning Committee. David R
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Since joining the Board on Health Sciences Policy, he has been a program officer on multiple IOM studies including, Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem, The National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: 2007 Amendments, and Assessment of the NIOSH Head-andFace Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users.
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Lora K Taylor is a senior program assistant for the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the IOM.
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