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Appendix B: Speaker, Moderator, and Panelist Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker, Moderator, and Panelist Biographies
Pages 93-116
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Previously, Dr. Herbst served as professor and chief of the section of thoracic medical oncology in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and served as professor and codirector of the Phase I Program in the Department of Cancer Biology.
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Dr. Herbst is the recipient of ASCO's Young Investigator Award and Career Development Award, as well as the MD Anderson Cancer Center Physician Scientist Program Award.
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Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., FACP, is the chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society (ACS) , where he is responsible for promoting the goals of cancer prevention, early detection, and high-quality treatment through cancer research and education.
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Previously, he was the medical director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital and deputy director for cancer control at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. He has served as a member of the ACS's Prostate Cancer Committee, co-chaired the U.S.
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Deyton has overseen implementation and enforcement of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) , including the prohibition on marketing tobacco products to children and adolescents; a ban on misleading descriptors ("light," "low," "mild")
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She was a board member of the North American Quitline Consortium from 2008 to 2010; is a board member of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; and is chair of the Tobacco Control subcommittee of the American Society for Clinical Oncology Prevention Committee. Academic interests range from the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer; nicotine addiction, particularly as it affects smoking cessation; the susceptibility of women to lung cancer; and the global issues of tobacco control, particularly using the human rights based approach.
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Gritz, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the department of behavioral science and Olla S Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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He recently received the Canada's Premier Young Researcher Award from the CIHR and is a past recipient of the Canadian Medical Association Journal 's Top Canadian Achievements in Health Research Awards for his work with Geoffrey Fong and Mary Thompson as part of the International Tobacco Control Policy project, conducted in more than a dozen low- and middle-income countries. He received his B.A.
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Under her leadership, Legacy has undertaken numerous public education campaigns, research, technical assistance, and a broad program of grantmaking. She is a frequent commentator for national and local media coverage of tobacco control issues, appearing on ABC's Good Morning America; CNN's Larry King Live; NBC's Today; MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews; National Public Radio; and more.
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He completed his internship/residency at Boston City Hospital, and a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at Tufts University/ New England Medical Center. After his fellowship, he began his career in the department of thoracic/head and neck medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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He has published more than 200 articles in the medical and public health literature in areas such as disparities, cancer control, melanoma and skin oncology, tobacco control, public health preparedness, disease prevention and health promotion, and public health leadership.
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At the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, his work has included using small-area estimates of tobacco use to guide public health initiatives; the impact of smoke-free workplace laws on heart attack deaths; changes in smoking prevalence and cardiovascular hospitalizations following the implementation of the Massachusetts tobacco cessation benefit for Medicaid subscribers; and the use of clinical encounter records from electronic health records to estimate the effect of systems change on behaviors and health outcomes. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming and a Ph.D.
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Dr. McAfee has been a principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous research studies focusing on the effectiveness and dissemination of telephone- and Web-based tobacco cessation programs in medical systems and through government-sponsored quitlines.
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in political science from the University of Georgia and an M.A., also in political science, from Michigan State University. John Mendelsohn, M.D., was president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1996 until 2011.
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From 1982 to 1996, Mr. Myers represented the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, an organization composed of the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and the American Heart Association.
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Ms. Nevidjon is president-elect of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, a Trustee of the Association of Community Cancer Centers, and a member of the IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum.
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Since 1999, she has served as founder and director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Tobacco Cessation Program, a hospital-based program now serving more than 1,200 tobacco-dependent cancer patients, families, and staff annually. During the past 20 years, she has developed clinical and research expertise in treating tobacco dependence in varied health care settings, such as primary care, oncology care, dental care, and lung cancer screening sites.
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In 1986, Dr. Pechacek joined the NCI, leading the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation and the early development of the American Stop Smoking Intervention Trial.
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He joined the ACS in 1996 to direct New York's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's SmokeLess States grant. In 1999, New York's SmokeLess States coalition successfully advocated for a doubling of the state's cigarette excise tax, using the revenue to fund a comprehensive tobacco control program and expand the New York Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Mr. Sciandra was honored with the John Joseph Moakley Award for Leadership in Promoting Fire Safe Cigarettes by the Harvard School of Public Health in 2006, and in 2010 he received the National Staff Advocacy Leadership Award from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
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Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center, and the program director of the Smoking Cessation Service for Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. He has received grants from the NIH, including the NCI and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and he is the author of 40 peer-reviewed publications.
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Graham Warren, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified radiation oncologist and a scientist working to evaluate the effects of tobacco and tobacco products on cancer diagnosis, management, and treatment outcomes. He is the director of the Tobacco Assessment and Cessation Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
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He has coordinated the development of a program for automated tobacco assessments with mandatory referrals to a dedicated cessation service delivered through the electronic medical record at RPCI. He is a member of the AACR Task Force on Tobacco and Cancer and is a member of the Prevention Committee for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB)
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