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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 317-324
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BARBARA BOWLES BIESECKER is Genetic Counselor and Section Head in the Medical Genetics Branch of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. She obtained her M.S.
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Formerly vice chairman of the National Task Force on Organ Transplantation, he serves on the Board of Directors of the United Network for Organ Sharing and is a member of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Human Gene Therapy Subcorn~nittee, and the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Hastings Center, and he has been the Joseph P
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His interest in ethical issues in genetics goes back to 1973 when he was a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Screening for Inborn Errors of Metabolism, whose report, Genetic Screening: Programs, Principles and Research, was published in 1975. He was a member of the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Population Screening for the Cystic Fibrosis Gene, a member of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
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In 1989, Dr. Holtzman's book Proceed with Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Commission on Civil Rights; and Executive Director, National Urban Coalition. He has served on several national and state commissions on health, aging, and public policy, including: the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Task Force on Long-Term Care; Governor's Commission on Long-Term-Care Insurance; National Academy of Sciences Committee on an Aging Society; Pew Commission on Health Professionals; and Commonwealth Fund Commissions on Elderly Living Alone and on Health Care Reform.
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Dr. Wexler is a member of the Program Advisory Committee of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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. Within the last two years, Nancy Wexler was elected to the Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from New York Medical College, an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Michigan, the Distinguished Service Awarifrom the National Association of Biology Teachers, and the Albert Lasker Public Service Award.
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