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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 339-346
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committees including the planning committee for The IOM Drug Safety Report: Resource Implications workshop, Committee on Improving Mammography Quality Standards, and the IOM Membership Committee. She has served as the Chair of the IOM Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake.
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Dr. Biswal studies the mechanisms of gene-environment interactions and susceptibility to environmental lung diseases involving tobacco smoke exposure, such as COPD and lung cancer.
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His book, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 (Princeton University Press, 2001) , was awarded the APSA's Gladys Kammerer Prize as well as the Charles Levine Prize of the International Political Science Association.
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. She is also a faculty member at UCSF's Psychology and Medicine Postdoctoral Program, the Center for Health and Community, and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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The Hecht laboratory studies mechanisms by which carcinogens are metabolically activated and detoxified in humans, and uses this knowledge to develop practical strategies for cancer prevention, includ ing the validation of tobacco carcinogen and toxicant biomarkers, with a particular focus on nitrosamines, aldehydes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Studies in laboratory animals are used to understand metabolic pathways.
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Ongoing work includes developing and applying filter-based methods for assessing cigarette smoke exposure, characterizing physical properties and design features of international tobacco products, assessing smokers' interest in alternative nicotine delivery systems, and smokers' reactions to novel tobacco products. He is a co-investigator on the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project)
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She held numerous positions within the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, culminat ing in her 2004 appointment to the position of Director of the Office of Device Evaluation, where she oversaw the medical device premarket review program. During her tenure at the FDA, she played a pivotal role in the development of guidance documents, standards, and policy frame works for medical device software and health information technology.
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Early in her career, she conducted a series of lung cancer studies to determine the role of indoor air pollution from passive smoking, cooking and heating fuels/fumes, and other factors in explaining the high rates of lung cancer in Chinese women when few were active smokers. She continues to have a strong interest in lung cancer research, particularly to better understand hormone-related effects on lung diseases.
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