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Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches
Pages 89-98

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From page 89...
... After serving as Director of the undergraduate program in Family Medicine at McGill University for two years, she joined the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD as Predoctoral Director in 1988. With the help of UCSD medical students and several 89
From page 90...
... In that role, he chaired the Missouri Health Literacy Enhancement Coordinating Council and facilitated the development of HLM, a statewide health literacy center. He has also been a leading force in building a national coalition of state health literacy initiatives and was recently selected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy.
From page 91...
... For the past 25 years, she has led an interdisciplinary team investigating the impact of patient literacy on health and healthcare. Seminal achievements include development of the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine, the most widely used literacy test in healthcare settings, and development of user-friendly patient education and provider training materials.
From page 92...
... Her research and consulting have been in the areas of child care and health care management systems. In the last 10 years her main focus has been on low income population and developing low literacy health education programs.
From page 93...
... Herman was awarded the first annual Health Literacy Innovation Champions Award by Health Literacy Innovations, for her work in the Health Care Institute.
From page 94...
... to study the quality of care for persons with diabetes where her work has focused on the relationship between organization of care, cost sharing, control of cardiovascular risk factors and process outcomes such as adherence to medications. She was also recently awarded funding from CDC and NIDDK to conduct the "Diabetes Health Plan: A System Level Intervention to Prevent and Treat Diabetes," and was appointed to be the National Chairperson for the multi-site National Program entitled "Natural Experiments and Effectiveness Studies for Diabetes Prevention and Control." Dr.
From page 95...
... Her work centers on health communication and the design and evaluation of public health programs. She teaches courses on innovative strategies in health education, program planning and evaluation, health literacy, and theory.
From page 96...
... He was recently awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health, The California Endowment, the Com monwealth Fund, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the California Health Care Foundation, to develop and evaluate diseasemanagement programs tailored to the literacy and language needs of patients with chronic disease, and is a co-investigator for the National Association of Public Health and Hospital Institute's Diabetes Quality Improvement Consortium.
From page 97...
... In recent years, she has also helped staff task forces on Substance Abuse Services, and Transitions for People with Intellectual or Other Developmental Disabilities, Health Literacy, Primary Care and Specialty Supply, Chronic Kidney Disease, the Ethical Issues that would Arise in Event of an Influenza Pandemic, Covering the Uninsured, the Health Care Safety Net, Nursing Workforce, Latino Health, NC Health Choice, Long-Term Care, and Dental Care Access.
From page 98...
... Public Health Service, and elec tion to the IOM of the National Academy of Sciences, where he serves on the governing Council of IOM. He also serves on the boards of the Robert Wood Johnton Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation, and the congressionally mandated Scientific Management Review Board of the National Institutes of Health.


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