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Appendix D: Biographies of Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update) and Staff
Appendix D: Biographies of Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update) and Staff
Pages 980-986
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She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and the 2005 recipient of American Public Health Association's Mortimer Spiegelman Award for outstanding contributions to health statistics by a statistician under 40 years old. Her current methodologic interests are in latentclass modeling for genomic data and survival analysis under complex sampling and with auxiliary information.
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Carvan, III, PhD, MS, is Shaw Associate Professor at the School of Freshwater Sciences and School of Public Health, both of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He earned his MS in biologic oceanography at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Coral Gables and his PhD in veterinary anatomy and public health with a focus in toxicology from Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine in College Station.
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He is an author of more than 200 publications and has served on the National Academies Committees on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents; on Copper in Drinking Water; on the Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Uniform Case Assessment Protocol; to Review the Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War; to Conduct a Study on Curriculum Development in Environmental Medicine; and on the Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite. He also served on the IOM Committee on Veterans and Agent Orange for Update 2010.
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Olson, PhD, MS, is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University at Buffalo, where he also serves as director of the Environmental Health Sciences Division in the School of Public Health and Health Professions. His research focuses on the toxicity and mechanism of action of dioxin and related chemicals in laboratory animals and humans and on human exposure to, metabolism of, and susceptibility to pesticides and polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
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His research focuses on how environmental factors affect the nervous system and on the epidemiology of neurologic disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson disease, and autism spectrum disorders. He has served on the IOM committee on the long-term neurologic consequences of traumatic brain injury and the external advisory board for the Department of Defense Millennium Cohort Study, and he assisted the Environmental Protection Agency in the section on adult neurological health effects of the National Assessment of Air Quality Standard for Lead.
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She received an MS in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and a doctorate in genetics from the George Washington University. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology.
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, is a senior editor at the National Academies. Before joining the National Research Council Division of Medical Sciences in 1963, he worked as an analyst in information storage and retrieval at Documentation Incorporated and as a technical editor at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Nuclear Power Department, in Washington, DC.
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