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Appendix B: Workshop Speaker Biosketches
Pages 71-78

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... He was one of the developers of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults, and he has published extensively on the mea­ surement of health literacy and the consequences of inadequate health literacy. His current work focuses on developing interventions to improve health communication and to improve patient self­management skills and health behaviors, including use of multimedia and health information technology.
From page 72...
... She is a cochair of the Healthy People 2020 Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup and a cochair of the HHS workgroup on health literacy. She is the lead author of the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy and one of the developers of CDC's online health literacy training for health professionals.
From page 73...
... Dr. Davis is Principal Investigator on a 5 year NCI health literacy intervention to increase regular breast and CRC screening among patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers.
From page 74...
... with distinction and his M.D. He subsequently completed his resi­ dency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago.
From page 75...
... Her studies include basic social psychology research regarding social and psychological determinants and consequences of interpersonal influence within medical encounters, patient and provider interventions to improve health care quality, and communication and educational appli­ cations to enhance patient and provider communication skills.
From page 76...
... She is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, London Southbank University and is appointed the visiting Health Literacy Scholar at the Horowitz Center on Health Literacy at the University of Maryland, School of Public Health. She is a coprincipal investigator on several ongoing health literacy research projects.
From page 77...
... He completed an Open Society Institute Advocacy Fellowship working with California Literacy, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization that helps people gain literacy skills, to advance the California Health Literacy Initiative. With respect to chronic disease control on the global level, he recently returned from a semester as Visiting Scholar at the University of Chile's School of Public Health to help develop chronic disease preven ­ tion and treatment initiatives, has served as a consultant to the National Health Group in Singapore on its chronic disease and health promotion initiatives.
From page 78...
... Dr. Wolf also led an Institute of Medicine white paper on health literacy and medication safety, and he is the principal investigator of a trial to test enhanced drug labeling and the use of visual aids to improve patient processing and understanding of medication instructions.


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