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Appendix L: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix L: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 459-468
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She has served as a member on numerous committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , including the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group of the Newborn Screening Taskforce, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources Services Administration.
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Reeder award for Distinguished Service to Medical Sociology; in 1996 he received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research; and in 1999 he received the Baxter Allegiance Health Services Research Prize.
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Bender, J.D., is chief executive officer of Women's Health V irginia, a statewide nonprofit organization that promotes and improves Virginia women and girls' health and well-being. The organization focuses attention on the health needs of women and girls in Virginia; addresses women and girls' health comprehensively and as a continuous process; takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes economic, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and medical issues; and connects people and organizations in the public and private sectors and from around the state to work together.
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Dr. Brindis leads a multidisciplinary team evaluating California's Office of Family Planning's Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care and Treatment) program and has conducted program evaluations of teenage pregnancy and parenting programs, teenage pregnancy prevention programs, and community coalitions focused on teenage pregnancy prevention.
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She has been providing direct medical services to children and adolescents for more than 25 years, particularly in identifying and engaging trauma-affected adolescents. The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center is a unique program that provides comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary primary care, reproductive health, mental health, and health education services to teens.
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This division provided comprehensive women's health care services to more than 72,000 women annually in Dallas County, with a special emphasis on Title X–supported family planning services. It also provided certificate women's health care nurse practitioner education through a Title X grant for more than 20 years.
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Among its responsibilities, Public Health Solutions has been a Title X grantee since 1982 and is a provider of reproductive health services to 20,000 low-income women through a network of seven centers. Before joining Public Health Solutions (then MHRA)
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Edward Hébert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She has also served as national president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and president of the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians, and has chaired cultural competence and diversity committees at the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Association of American Medical Colleges, developing tools for teaching and assessing cultural competence.
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She also served as study director for the report Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy, a study conducted by the Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, and for the IOM reports In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce and Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, studies conducted by the Board on Health Sciences Policy. Prior to working at the IOM, Dr.
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468 A REVIEW OF THE HHS FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM 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. She has received the National Research Council Recognition Award and two IOM Staff Achievement Awards.
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