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Appendix H: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 279-288

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From page 279...
... An honored teacher and scholar, a highly popular speaker, and a widely read writer on many aspects of health law and policy, she has emphasized public engagement as a core element of her professional life, providing public service to six presidential administrations and 15 Congresses since 1977.
From page 280...
... and autism spectrum disorder and the co-occurrence of these conditions with other neurodevelopmental conditions and developmental disabilities. He serves as medical director for the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service, a collaborative effort of the Division of Developmental Medicine and the Institute for Community Inclusion at Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Boston to support training and education in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
From page 281...
... Dr. Camarata teaches graduate courses on how children acquire language, on child language and speech disorders, and on research design.
From page 282...
... Krahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., holds the Barbara Emily Knudson Endowed Chair in Family in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. Previously, she served for 5 years as division director of human development and disability at CDC, and for almost 25 years on the faculty of the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
From page 283...
... Her lab also is combining structural and functional brain imaging with computer-based training interventions to determine whether computer games can help children resist distracting information and improve visual motor planning. The overarching goal of her research is to use basic science findings to create beneficial treatments for children.
From page 284...
... His work on quality has focused on receipt of mental health care consistent with national standards among children in the child welfare system, geographic variations in mental health services, and policy approaches to supporting implementation of mental health services. His current work focuses on developing better predictive models of the risk of mental health service use among child Medicaid beneficiaries and understanding the determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in Medicaid expenditures for child mental health services.
From page 285...
... In addition to having authored and coauthored many refereed publications, Dr. Sorrells is a consultant and presenter at the local, state, and national levels, and currently serves as a principal investigator or co-investigator of several state and federally funded grants. She served as co-editor of the Journal of Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners and is co-author of the book Critical Issues in Special Education: Access, Diversity and Accountability.
From page 286...
... He has also held positions as a senior Fulbright scholar at Wilhelms Westfälische Universität in Germany, a congressional science fellow with the United States Senate, and chair of the Department of Research and Development at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
From page 287...
... Barbara C Sonies, Ph.D., formerly chief of the Speech-Language Pathology Section and chief of the Oral Motor Function Section, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NIH, is currently a research professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences; she also is former adjunct professor at the George Washington University Speech and Hearing Department.


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