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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 311-318
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He is the author or editor of 36 books, including The Age of Melancholy: Depression and Its Social Origins and a research methods textbook for clinical psychiatry research. He has produced a second edition of Emotional Problems in Later Life and authored or co-authored more than 200 published abstracts and more than 450 peer-reviewed articles.
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Dr. Yaffe serves as the director of the UCSF Dementia Epidemiology Research Group, which conducts research relating to cognitive function and dementia in aging populations throughout the United States.
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She is principal investigator of two large National Institutes of Health– funded multisite randomized clinical trials to decrease the severity and duration of delirium and to improve nurse detection and management of delirium superimposed on dementia. She is board certified as a geriatric clinical nurse specialist by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Editor of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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She currently directs the Successful AGing after Elective Surgery study, a large program project from the National Institute on Aging exploring innovative risk factors and long-term outcomes of delirium.
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Dr. Kramer is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, a former member of the executive committee of the International Society of Attention and Performance, and a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Ten Year MERIT Award.
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and has served on numerous editorial boards, advisory boards, National Institutes of Health committees, and the board of directors of the American Federation for Aging Research.
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media campaign against youth drug abuse, the CDC's Verb campaign promoting youth activity, the March of Dimes and the CDC's folic acid promotion campaign, and NIDA's fetal alcohol syndrome campaign. She has also consulted for the National Academy of Sciences on diversity and campaigns.
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Preventive Services Task Force and the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He is a former chair of the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association.
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