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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 263-272
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Since the mid-1990s, he has focused most of his work in the area of state-level health policy, serving as president and chief executive officer of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. This role has included special studies of long-term care, dental care for low-income persons, health insurance for low-income children, the health care safety net, the nursing workforce, and Latino health issues and will soon expand to include work on child abuse, health literacy, and the uninsured.
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National Health Objectives for the Year 2010. Currently, she serves on the Steering Committee for the National Initiative to Improve Adolescent and Young Adult Health, co-led by the federal Office of Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the Division of Adolescent and School Health, CDC, as well as 30 national organizations.
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Dr. Brindis has served on numerous IOM and NRC committees, most recently the IOM Committee on a Comprehensive Review of the DHHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program.
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He has more than 18 years of experience in children's health services research and has published extensively on child health policy and health economics, physician behavior, and interspecialty variation in the provision of preventive services to children.
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His research interests have included the development and adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines; the uses of advanced computer technologies, including the Worldwide Web, personal digital assistants, and pen-based computers, in medicine; and the development of computer-based documentation systems for the point of care. He also directed the development and evaluation of evidence-based pediatric care guidelines for Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Her research involves epidemiologic and health services research investigations in areas related to infant mortality and the outcomes of high-risk neonates. More specifically, she focuses on the following areas: outcomes of infants experiencing neonatal complications such as low birth weight and interventions with the potential to ameliorate adverse outcomes, evaluation of programs designed to improve the health of families and children, and maternal health and prematurity.
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Her work focuses on evidence-based medicine, medical technology assessment, health care quality, and patient safety measures and interventions. Her health care quality and patient safety research portfolio includes the publicly released Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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Previously, he served for 7 years as director of the Assessing the New Federalism project at the Urban Institute, one of the largest privately funded social policy research projects ever undertaken in the United States. He has also held a cabinet position as executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, was health policy advisor to Colorado Governor Roy Romer, and was assistant general counsel in the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security.
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Dr. Zaslavsky has served on numerous NRC and IOM committees and currently serves on the Committee on National Statistics and chairs the Panel to Review Alternative Data Sources for the Limited-English Proficiency Allocation Formula under Title III, Part A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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She helps organize planning meetings and workshops that cover current issues related to children, youth, and families, and provides administrative and research support to the Board's various program committees.
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