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Appendix B: Biosketches of the Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biosketches of the Workshop Speakers
Pages 57-68
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In addition to her own cultural competence research, she has overseen the development of guides to assist health plans in implementing culturally and linguistically appropriate services and a research agenda for cultural competence in health care. Currently Ms.
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LCHC is California's only statewide organization that focuses specifically on Latino health by engaging in policy development, community education, and research. Focus areas include access to health care, reducing health disparities, and community health.
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funding for a five-year Health Literacy Intervention to improve cancer screening in Louisiana Federally Qualified Health Clinics. She is currently working with faculty at Northwestern University and Emory University to improve patient comprehension of medication labels.
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He also is an active board member of the Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company, the largest medical liability carrier in the country. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr.
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Dr. Egorin's professional affiliations include a fellowship in the American College of Physicians and memberships in the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society for Clinical Oncology, the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
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Before his current position, he was medical director of MedCenters Health Plan in Minneapolis. In the late 1980s, he was executive director of University Health Care, an organization affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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and editorin-chief of AHFS Drug Information, ASHP's federally recognized drug compendium. He has established expertise in evidence-based medical publishing, focusing on rational drug therapy and safe medication use, and has led ASHP's distinguished drug information publishing activities for over 25 years.
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She was key in developing FDA's Medication Guide rules and in research assessing the private-sector effort to ensure that patients getting new prescription medicines receive useful written information about these medicines.
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Williams has led a reengineering effort designed to ensure that USP's products and services meet the needs of its constituencies. These constituencies include practitioners and patients/consumers who seek safe, effective, and good-quality therapeutic products, as well as pharmaceutical manufacturers, compounding professionals, and many other stakeholders.
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He was a member of the New England Journal of Medicine editorial board from 2004 to 2006; he was the drug therapy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1985 to 2004; and he is on the editorial board of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Scientist. He has previously served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics and Drug Disposition.
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He has studied the handling of medical errors since 1998 and has published influential papers including "Do house officers learn from their mistakes" in JAMA in 1991; "To tell the truth -- ethical and practical issues in disclosing medical mistakes to patients" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine; and "Medical error: the second victim" in the BMJ. He was co–principal investigator of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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Mara Youdelman, J.D., L.L.M., has been a staff attorney in the National Health Law Program's Washington, D.C., office for over 4 years. She works on issues such as language access, civil rights, Medicaid, and racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
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