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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 340-350
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In January 1984, he became president of the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park, California, and guided the foundation to a national leadership role in health promotion and disease prevention, until assuming his current positions in October 1990 as Director, Division of Health Improvement, The Health Institute, New England Medical Center; professor of medicine, Tufts University 340
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HENRY A ANDERSON is chief of Environmental and Chronic Disease Epidemiology for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, as well as adjunct professor of preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School with a joint appointment in the Institute for Environmental Studies.
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His main research interests are disability and health outcome measurement, health care utilization, disability policy, epidemiology, national health care policy, and medical ethics. He is the author of more than 100 papers on health, disability, and income policy issues but is perhaps best known for his seminal work on disability policy and the independent living movement.
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He is past president of the Association of Academic Physiatrists and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and past chairman of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and president of the American Spinal Injury Association.
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She has also been named special consultant to the Mental Retardation Construction Unit of the National Institutes of Health, vice president for medicine of the American Association on Mental Retardation, consultant by special invitation to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation on Early Screening for Prevention, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Kennedy Child Study Center, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Dr. MacEwen is a member of the Medical Clinical Care Advisory Board of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation, and acts as Medical Advisor for the Louisiana-Gulfcoast chapter; he also holds membership in the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society and the Scoliosis Research Society.
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He is president-elect of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and past president of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the American Association of Electromyography and Electrodiagnosis, the National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, and the Association of Academic Physiatrists. He is a founding member of the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and chairman of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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Formerly vice chairman and clinical director of the Department of Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, he has written extensively in the area of psychiatric disability and chairs the National American Psychiatric Association Committee on Psychiatric Rehabilitation as well as the Task Force on Social Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance.
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Mr. Starkloff has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Commissioner's Distinguished Service Award, from the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, a commendation from the National Council on the Handicapped, and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Missouri-St.
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He is also principal investigator for the Medical Outcomes Study, which assesses variations in physician practice style and outcomes for patients with chronic conditions treated in different systems of care. Formerly senior research psychologist at the RAND Corporation, he was the principal architect of the surveys of health outcomes and patient satisfaction used in RAND's Health Insurance Experiment.
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