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Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 239-248
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Dr. Krugman also has held a variety of administrative positions at the University of Colorado, including director of admissions and codirector of the child health associate program, director of the university's SEARCH/AHEC program, vice chairman for clinical affairs in the Department of Pediatrics, and director of the Kempe National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
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Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., is professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and the founding director of the Florida Public Health Institute. He was previously the first permanent director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint academic appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and School of Medicine.
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She has spearheaded a number of innovative practice initiatives and research programs at the NYU College of Dentistry and serves as a member of the Santa Fe Group, a think tank that seeks to identify and implement effective solutions to significant problems in oral health and health care. She was a keynote speaker at the Second Annual Meskin Symposium, "Meeting the Oral Health Needs of the Aging Population: Education, Service & Advocacy." She has also served on previous panels with the Institute of Medicine, including Violence in Families: Understanding Prevention and Treatment (1998)
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Her academic career has included directing an undergraduate program in Dental Auxiliary Teacher Education, which was one of the first programs in the country to educate dental hygiene, dental assisting, and dental laboratory technology teachers; developing an M.S. degree program for allied dental educators; and directing undergraduate programs in dental hygiene and dental assisting.
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She is a retired senior scientist in the Division of Population and Health Promotion Sciences at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She served as the planning committee chairperson for the 1983 NIH Consensus Conference on Dental Sealants in the Prevention of Tooth Decay and cochairperson of the 2001 NIH Consensus Conference on the Management and Diagnosis of Dental Caries.
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He was a 2003–2004 Health Policy Fellow with the office of Senator William Frist. Prior to that, he was the chief of medical staff at the Seattle Indian Health Board, a community health center serving urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, where Painter led that clinic's award-winning diabetes team.
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Dr. Vargas holds degrees in dentistry and epidemiology from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia; after fulfilling the obligatory rural service, she worked in private practice, academia, and dental public health programs.
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Dr. Weyant currently serves on numerous local, state, and national committees aimed at reducing oral health disparities, increasing the dental workforce, and improving access to oral care.
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She has worked on two studies related to oral health and recently began working on a study of geographic variation in health care spending and promotion of high value care. Before joining the IOM, she worked on health care regulatory matters at a national law firm and reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program at the New America Foundation.
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Herdman joined the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine as a senior scholar and directed studies on graduate medical education, organ transplantation, silicone breast implants, and the VA national formulary. On completing those studies, he was appointed Director of the IOM/NRC National Cancer Policy Board from August 2000 through April 2005.
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