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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 299-308
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. During 24 years with the HLAA, 5 as executive director, she led nationwide advocacy efforts to change the way society views hearing loss, pushed for accessible and affordable hearing 299
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The Beaver Dam Offspring Study funded by the National Institute on Aging follows the adult children of the EHLS to study generational differences in the risk of age-related sensorineural disorders. She is the director of the EpiSense A udiometry Reading Center which provides support for other cohort studies of hearing, including the Hispanic Community Health Study, a multicenter study of 16,000 Latinos, and the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study of hearing impairment.
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, focuses on auditory perception and speech recognition in adverse listening conditions and how perception changes with age, hearing loss, hearing aids, and training. She previously served on the NIDCD Advisory Council of the NIH, three Institute of Medicine committees, as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and as President and Vice President of the Acoustical Society of America.
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. Her research interests include governance, privacy, and financing issues with large health information networks; the regulation of genomic testing under FDA's medical device regulatory framework and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988; and legal barriers to the introduction of new medical technologies and care-delivery concepts.
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Gaskin, Ph.D., is an internationally known expert in health care disparities, access to health care for vulnerable populations, and safety net hospitals. He is the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.
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Following a sabbatical year in the United Kingdom learning the British approach to geriatrics, he successively initiated programs in geriatrics at three American academic health centers, in so doing moving progressively toward the center of the Department of Internal Medicine as a Division Head at Washington, vice chairman at Hopkins, and finally in 1986 as chairman at Wake Forest, where his negotiated recruitment goal was specifically to "gerontologize" the department and the institution, notably from a newly designed and constructed Sticht Center on Aging, which opened in 1997. Now in semiretirement, his greatest satisfaction continues to derive from promoting career development with a focus on aging across the life span with students, fellows, and faculty at the Sticht Center and as a leading institutional priority to witness how deeply and broadly its program has continued to expand throughout the university and community.
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Her research investigates hearing loss and rehabilitation in adults, with a focus on reducing hearing health care disparities, maximizing communication access, and living well with hearing loss. Her laboratory-based research centers on understanding the effects of hearing loss and amplification on speech communication and memory; her community-based research efforts are focused on the implementation of group audiologic rehabilitation programs and rural health access.
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He was also a professor and the chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center. Thomas Pippin, BC-HIS, has worked in the hearing health field as a hearing instrument specialist since 1967.
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Dr. Tucci's leadership roles in professional societies include president of the American Auditory Society, secretary-treasurer and president of the American Neurotology Society, president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, board of directors for the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and research fund trustee and current president of the American Otological Society.
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He has served on the American Board of Audiology and the board of the American Academy of Audiology and the American Balance Society and is a past president of the Tennessee Academy of Audiology. He is the recipient of the Edward Dalstrom Distinguished Service Award by the Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service (2001)
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