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Appendix D: Committee Biographies
Appendix D: Committee Biographies
Pages 323-332
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, past chair of IOM's Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and current chair of IOM's Board on the Health of Select Populations. He is the author or coauthor of over 300 publications and 22 book chapters and has been the editor of 4 books, including the current edition of MaxcyRosenau-Last's Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
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in health promotion and health education from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Her research focuses on cancer survivors and the role of health behavior interventions in decreasing the severity of late effects of cancer, improving physical functioning, optimizing their quality of life, and reducing their risk of developing other chronic diseases.
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She is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Social Medicine and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the director of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center's Methodology Core at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, codirector of the North Carolina Family Medicine Research
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Subsequently, he was Associate Chairman of Internal Medicine at the University of Florida HSC/Jacksonville. His personal research interests include the epidemiology of pulmonary diseases and health outcomes research, and his projects have focused on patients with interstitial lung diseases, environmental and occupational lung diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Her current research focuses on studying the neuroendocrine response to chronic psychological stress as a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Career Development Award recipient, and her current research is funded through the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Horton, R.N., M.P.H., J.D., is a research professor at George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy. Professor Horton's research focuses primarily on the implementation of health reform, specifically issues that relate to public health, health insurance coverage, quality of and access to care -- especially for those with chronic disease.
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She previously served as associate dean for Health Policy, vice chair, and associate professor within the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Kansas School of Medicine where her research and teaching focused on health system reform at the federal and state level, the relationship between socioeconomic disparities and health, access to primary health care and the patient centered medical home, and public health. Prior to rejoining the KU faculty, she was the first executive director (2006–2009)
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Specifically, he is conducting multi- and interdisciplinary behavioral interventions targeted at improving medication adherence and blood pressure control among hypertensive African American patients who receive care in community-based primary care settings. This line of research will ultimately lead to the development and implementation of communitybased behavioral interventions targeted at cardiovascular risk reduction in minority patients.
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He has won seven awards for excellence in teaching and maintains a clinical primary care practice of frail older persons and attends on inpatient, and geriatric psychiatry units at UCLA.
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Dr. Schoenbaum was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1995–1997.
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