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Appendix D: Biographic Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, and Staff
Pages 179-188

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... , the UNOS Ethics Committee, the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, and several Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for NIH clinical trials. In 1996, President Clinton appointed him to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
From page 180...
... His areas of interest in research include genetic databanks and biobanks, euthanasia and end-of-life care, conflicts of interest in research and practice, and the work of national ethics commissions. Professor Capron served as the first Director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law at the World Health Organization and was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
From page 181...
... Malin served as the Organizing Chair of the workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule's De-Identification Standard for the HHS Office of Civil Rights in 2010 and for the Electronic Health Information & Privacy Conference in 2009. He was also the Scientific Program Chair of the Privacy Aspects of Data Mining Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
From page 182...
... His research focuses on tissue banking and development and validation of biomarkers for treatment prediction and prognostication in leukemia, including whole-genome gene and microRNA expression and epigenetic profiling. He chairs the CALGB Leukemia Correlative Science Committee and currently oversees the molecular screening for FLT3 mutations that tests the eligibility of North American AML patients for CALGB 10603, a multi-institutional trial involving also major European academic institutions.
From page 183...
... Medico-Legal Commission, which oversees Forensic Pathology activities in the Commonwealth. He also serves or has served on many national and international academic and governmental advisory committees, grant review committees and editorial boards, and is consultant and scientific advisor to numerous medical device companies.
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... A major aspect of Dr. Wistuba's efforts involves overseeing correlative laboratory biomarker studies for lung cancer prevention and therapy trials (MD Anderson BATTLE program)
From page 185...
... While at the AFIP, Dr. Mason also served as the Administrative Director of the AFIP Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center and Co-Director of the Brain Injury Research Center, a collaborative program between the AFIP and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.
From page 186...
... , a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics, chair of an NHGRI advisory group on ethical issues in large scale sequencing, and a member of UW's institutional review board for health sciences research.
From page 187...
... Her doctoral work was funded by a National Research Service Award from the NIH and focused on developing mouse models of breast cancer to study the biological function of the protein encoded by the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1)


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