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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 355-362
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She has held appointments on the Governor's Carcinogen Identification Committee for the State of California, the scientific advisory boards/panels for the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Toxicology Program, and National Institutes of Health Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research.
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Her research interests include understanding the biological basis of health disparities in those cancers that disproportionately affect minority and underserved populations via clinical trials; cancer epidemiology using minority cohorts; and behavioral epidemiology as it relates to physical activity and nutrition interventions. She aims to export preventionbased clinical trials and behavioral interventions targeting nutrition and exercise strategies to address obesity from the laboratory setting into the community.
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Her research interests focus on health effects of exposure to airborne materials, including responses of asthmatic children to short-term fluctuations in particulate air pollution, neurologic and reproductive effects of hexane on workers, secondhand smoke, and the effects of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on asthmatic children and users of coal in China. She has received the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Alice Hamilton Award for Excellence in Occupational Safety and Health and the American Industrial Hygiene Association's Rachel Carson Environmental Award.
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She serves on the Physician Data Query (PDQ) Cancer Screening and Prevention Committee of the National Cancer Institute, and she is a member of the advisory board for the AARP Cohort Study.
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She is also PI of grants funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to identify barriers and facilitators of African American participation in cancer genetics research and to understand the long-term psychological and behavioral impact of genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. She earned her Ph.D.
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Dr. Langholz is a member of the American Statistical Association, the International Biometrics Society, the International Genetic Epidemiology Society, and the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics.
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Reynolds has served as principal investigator for a study of regional variations in breast cancer in California, a study of body burden levels of endocrine disruptors in breast cancer patients, a study of breast cancer in young women, studies of breast cancer incidence in flight attendants and cosmetologists, a study of malignant melanoma among Lawrence Livermore Laboratory employees, and a statewide study of patterns of childhood cancer.
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Lauren Zeise is chief of the Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. She oversees or is involved in a variety of California's risk assessment activities, including cancer and reproductive toxicant assessments; development of frameworks and methodologies for assessing toxicity, cumulative impact, nanotechnology, green chemistry/safer alternatives, and susceptible populations; the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program; and health risk characterizations for environmental media, food, fuels and consumer products.
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