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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 441-452
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In 1976, she assumed the position of associate commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and was a consultant to and chairperson of the Human Resources Policy Committee at the National Institute of Mental Health. As the first commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, she designed and implemented the new state agency to take social services out of the Department of Public Welfare and to ensure citizen involvement as she improved social services and child welfare policy.
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He just completed a 4-year term as a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, National Institute of Mental Health. He is cochair of the National Institutes of Health's Community Engagement Key Function Committee for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards, the immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association)
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Ittleson Award of the American Psychiatric Association, has been a faculty scholar of the William T Grant Foundation, and in 1999 received the Irving Philips Award for Prevention and the Catcher in the Rye Award for Advocacy for Children from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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She is a policy analyst who has been a study director at the National Academies since 1987. She has directed or served as a senior staff member for over a dozen studies in the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, including studies on vaccine finance, the public health infrastructure for immunization, family violence, child abuse and neglect, research ethics and misconduct in science, and education finance.
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Clinically, he has been working with Kaiser Permanente of Northern California to implement an innovative practice model designed to improve the treatment of depression in the primary care setting, and his current practice is located in the UCSF Women's Health Center Primary Care Clinic. He has experience working with a variety of consumer groups to ensure access to safe and equitable mental health care.
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She has over 25 years of experience in government and nonprofit organizations and has held positions at the Annie E Casey Foundation and the Human Service Collaborative and senior executive positions in child mental health in the New York State Office of Mental Health and the District of Columbia Commission on Mental Health Services.
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Her main areas of research interest are the examination of pharmacotherapies to treat drug dependence during pregnancy and the impact of prenatal exposure to these medications and drugs of abuse; creating and testing behavioral interventions to help prevent relapse to drug use in pregnant women; and researching issues of differences in drug addiction. She is the principal investigator for four federally funded studies of behavioral and pharmacological treatments for pregnant drugdependent women, including an international, multisite randomized clinical trial comparing the maternal and neonatal safety and efficacy of methadone and buprenorphine.
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She also helps organize planning meetings and workshops that cover current issues related to children, youth, and families.
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She serves on several local, federal, and international committees and boards, such as the Board of the Wellesley Institute in Toronto, the national Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System committee, and the national Canadian Institute for Health Research grant review panel on population health.
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Her focus has been on helping to address psychosocial issues and provide better preventive health care in primary care and community settings. Her research and community-based activities have focused on mothers with depressive symptoms, children and families affected by chronic illnesses, and adolescent health risk reduction.
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During that time she has progressed through several positions and studies as a research assistant, research associate, senior program associate, and currently as program officer with the Board on Children, Youth, and Families. Her most recent projects include directing a workshop study and report titled Influence of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health (2006)
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She has a B.S. in biology with an emphasis on food science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and has taken graduate classes in food science from North Carolina State University and is pursuing a M.P.H.
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