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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
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Committee on Health Literacy and a developer of the AMA's Train-the-Trainer Health Literacy Curriculum. Currently she is a member of the Healthy People 2020 Health Literacy/Health Communication Section and serves as a health literacy advisor to the U.S.
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His vision is for academic health sciences centers to lead the transformation of medicine through innovation, translation, and globalization. Leading this vision at Duke, he and his colleagues developed the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, and the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.
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In 2011, he led a partnership between Duke University, the World Economic Forum, and McKinsey, and he founded the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery and currently chairs its Board of Directors. Among his honors and recognitions are the Gustav Nylin Medal from the Swedish Royal College of Medicine; the Max Delbruck Medal from Humboldt University, Charité, and the Max Planck Institute; the Commemorative Gold Medal from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; the Inaugural Hatter Award from the Medical Research Council of South Africa; the Polzer Prize from the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research; the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association (AHA)
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Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 10 Regional Health Offices across the nation, and 10 Presidential and Secretarial advisory committees. He also served as senior public health advisor to the Secretary. During his tenure, he championed the critical public health dimensions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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During his service, the state saw advances in areas such as tobacco control, cancer screening, bioterrorism response after 9/11 and anthrax, health issues of the homeless, newborn screening, organ donation, suicide prevention, and international public health partnerships.
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McEvoy is a recognized authority on consumer medication information, testifying before and advising FDA on medication safety communication issues involving consumers, advising Consumer Reports on medication use issues, being engaged for his expertise in this area by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution, testifying before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and speaking internationally on the provision of safe medication use information to consumers. His recognition also has resulted in appointment to additional IOM expert panels as part of workshops conducted by their Roundtable on Health Literacy and engagement in CDC to aid in development of the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy.
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Dr. aasche-Orlow is currently a co-investigator with five funded grants P that examine health literacy, including two intervention studies evaluating simplified information technologies for behavior change among minority patients with a range of health literacy levels.
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communication. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, serves as co-chair of the United Nations Secretary General's Every Woman Every Child Innovation Working Group, serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Well-Being and Mental Health, and is a former Ambassador for global health research selected by Research!
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As CAPIR Chair she hosted two national access summits convened by the ADA, the American Indian/Alaska Native Oral Health Access Summit in 2007 and the Access to Care Summit in March 2009. She is a founding board member of the U.S.
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As director of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Dr. Rothman oversees a center that engages more than 120 faculty across the university engaged in health services research, implementation science, behavioral research, health disparities research, quality improvement research, and other areas aimed at improving health outcomes.
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. She served on the IOM Committee on Health Literacy, the National Research Council Committee on Measuring Adult Literacy, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Workgroup on Oral Health Literacy, on the Joint Commission Advisory Committee on Health Literacy and Patient Safety and contributed to the ensuing reports and white papers as well as to several IOM Health Literacy Round Table publications.
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DPRAM developed comparable methodology for studies of the effectiveness and economic impact of prevention programs, provided training in these methods, developed CDC's capacity for conducting necessary studies, and provided technical assistance for conducting economic and decision analysis. The Division also evaluated the impact of interventions in urban areas, developed the Guide to Community Preventive Services, and provided support for CDC's analytic methods.
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Wong continues a small practice in Family Medicine at Asian Health Services, a federally qualified health center based in Oakland, where he previously served as Medical Director.
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112 HEALTH LITERACY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE his medical school, public health, and residency training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Emory University. He also served as chief medical resident at Grady Memorial Hospital, during which time he collaborated with the IOM Roundtable on Health Literacy to develop a Health Insurance Literacy toolkit and consumer education series around the basics of health insurance.
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