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Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Pages 334-346

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From page 334...
... He has also been a member of the NRC-IOM Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Work and the IOM Committees to Review the Health Consequences of Service during the Persian Gulf War and to Review Gender Differences in Susceptibility to Environmental Factors. He also served as chair of the NRC Committee on 334
From page 335...
... His research is concerned with performance and health issues in manual work and has focused on the development of methods for analyzing physical work requirements; the development of biomechanical models of hand function; analysis of the relationship between physical work requirements and musculoskeletal disorders; the design of workstations, hand tools, and keyboards; identification of ways of facilitating the return to work of injured workers; analysis and design of jobs for accommodation of restricted workers; and the design of ergonomic programs for control of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. He has conducted research and training within the automobile, aerospace, electronics, computer, office, and food processing industries.
From page 336...
... Leighton Chan is chief of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship and was a congressional fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington)
From page 337...
... He has published more than 50 journal articles and five book chapters and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is a member of the Health Policy Legislation Committee of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and was chair of the Association of Academic Physiatrists Task Force on Chronic Disease and Disability Education.
From page 338...
... Current major projects include analyses of family demographics, evaluation of state disability spending, cognitive testing of health surveys for persons with intellectual disabilities, evaluation of international disability statistical surveillance, health statistics and intellectual disability, and the application of knowledge utilization models in Americans with Disabilities Act technical assistance. He has worked extensively in both the creation of large national data sets on intellectual and developmental disabilities and the secondary analysis of national statistical surveillance systems.
From page 339...
... Ian D Graham is vice president of the Knowledge Translation Portfolio at Canadian Institutes of Health Research, where he is responsible for knowledge translation, partnerships and citizen engagement, commu nication and public outreach, and pan institute affairs and initiatives.
From page 340...
... Dr. Iezzoni has spent more than two decades conducting health services research focused in three primary areas: risk adjustment methods for predicting cost and clinical outcomes of care, use of administrative data for assessing health care quality, and health care experiences and outcomes of persons with disabilities.
From page 341...
... Dr. Jette is research director for the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center based at Boston University Medical Center, serves on the Executive Committee of the Boston Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, and directs the Boston Rehabilitation Outcome Measures Center.
From page 342...
... She teaches public and nonprofit program evaluation, research design, and applied statistics. She routinely conducts research and training for federal and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations on performance measurement and program evaluation, and has designed and conducted evaluations for several U.S.
From page 343...
... His research is concerned with ergonomics aspects of the design, selection, installation and use of manually operated equipment and products; investigating the causes and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders; developing novel measurements and methods for assessing exposure to physical stress in the workplace; and quantifying functional deficits associated with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorders for medical surveillance, rehabilitation, and prevention.
From page 344...
... While she was serving on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work, her research included a developmental study examining the implementation and intermediate outcomes of a trauma-focused intervention for youth and an evaluation of the implementation and outcomes of an interagency initiative designed to integrate vocational and supportive housing services for homeless persons with mental illness, substance abuse, HIV, and other disabilities. Before coming to DBASSE, she worked at the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute, where she led initiatives to promote the dissemination of evidence-based practices, was a team leader for the national impact component of the cross-site evaluation of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, and coordinated pilot studies to increase the utilization of multistate administrative data sets to address mental health policy questions.
From page 345...
... Prior to rejoining the National Academies, she worked on an initiative to spread innovative health care practices and with the coordinating center for a medical registry on islet cell transplantation. In her previous tenure at the National Academies, she worked with the Committee on Social Science Evidence for Use and supported numerous studies that produced reports, including Scientific Research in Education, Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment, and the National Science Education Standards.
From page 346...
... 346 REVIEW OF DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH while also serving as a guest reviewer for a number of other journals. From November 2001 through April 2008, Dr.


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