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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 181-190
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His epidemiological research includes study of acute and chronic occupational respiratory disease, occupational cancer risk, and occupational musculoskeletal disorders, with special interests in study of subjective outcomes as early indicators of health effects and in surveillance of occupational conditions and risks. He is a national associate of the National Research Council and chaired the Committee on the Review of NIOSH Research Programs and the Committee on External Evaluation of NIDRR and Its Grantees.
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In 1999, in partnership with George Taler, he cofounded the Medical House Call Program to promote the health and dignity of frail elders in their own homes. He was named the National House Call Physician of the Year in 2003 by the American Academy of Home Care Physicians and is engaged in efforts to promote innovative health policy reform for Medicare and Medicaid.
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His current research focuses on the impact of consumer health informatics applications on health care disparities and on the role of information technologies in providing patient-centered care. He is also working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the future design of personal health records.
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Jefferson Elder Care seeks to translate proven interventions into real-world settings, train health and human service providers in proven programs, and deliver these evidence-based programs directly to consumers. Her publications include an introduction to research emphasizing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies used widely to train health professionals in research and a book describing the Home Environmental Skill-building Program, a proven occupational therapy home-based intervention for dementia caregivers.
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He also serves as director for the Functional Electrical Stimulation Center at the Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center and director of orthopedic research for the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at MetroHealth Medical Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on the Committee on Spinal Cord Injury: Strategies in a Search for a Cure.
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He is a member of the adjunct faculty at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where he is also associated with the Program on Usability Enhancement in Health Information Technology. He has been actively involved designing and evaluating usability criteria for electronic health record systems and is currently engaged in a grant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Her recent research has included usability and field testing of prototype robotic devices capable of offering navigational guidance to persons with wayfinding difficulty or real-time instruction and feedback during performance of therapeutic exercise at home. She serves on the faculty of the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center, a collaboration involving Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, with projects focused on exploring potential users' concerns and preferences regarding intelligent systems capable of providing context-aware and responsive physical and cognitive support for routine activities.
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representative to the International Standards Organization collateral draft standard on home medical equipment and is an FDA representative on the Global Harmonization Task Force that is working to harmonize regulatory bodies throughout the world. She began the Center for Devices and Radiological Health's Home Care Committee in 2001 to monitor the safe migration of medical devices going into the home and continues to chair this group.
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in health finance and management from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a B.A. in economics from Bucknell University.
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