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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 281-294
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, is Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research, director of Gerontology, and associate director of the Aging Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Senior Services and the University of Pittsburgh.
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Hartford Foundation/ The Gerontological Society of America, National Institute of Rehabilitation and Research, Alzheimer's Association/Health Resources and Services Administration, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and Larson Endowment for Innovative Research. Overall, her research addresses the study of psychosocial care of adult and late-life psychiatric disorders, linguistic and cultural adaptations of behavioral health services, and evidence-based interventions.
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In addition, she is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Gerontological Society of America. She is the past chair of the Risk Prevention and Behavior Scientific Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health.
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Previously, he worked in the field of hospital administration for 20 years. He participates at the national, state, and local levels to foster effective strategies to support family caregivers, encourage aging well, and build community partnerships.
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Gitlin is nationally and internationally recognized for her research on developing, testing, and implementing novel nonpharmacologic interventions to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia and their family caregivers, enhance daily functioning in older adults with a disability, and address mental health disparities among minority groups. She is a wellfunded researcher, having received continuous research and training grants from federal agencies and private foundations for nearly 30 years.
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From 2005 to 2009, he initiated and directed the IOM National Cancer Policy Forum, which differed from the Board by including members from federal and private-sector agencies or organizations in addition to at-large academic/industry members. From 2007 to 2014, he served as director of the IOM Board on Health Care Services in addition to his other duties.
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from Tulane University and completed his Psychiatric residency at UC San Francisco. He received postdoctoral training in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UC San F rancisco and in the NIMH-funded "Clinically-Relevant Medical Anthropology Program" at Harvard Medical School, where he conducted seminal work on dementia caregiving in ethnically diverse families.
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His research on home care includes the evaluation of Channeling, a large randomized study that tested the effect of public financing of home care for older adults. Other research analyzes state options for the design of home care programs, case management in home care, the effect of state Medicaid home care spending on unmet need for personal care, and options for improving the jobs of direct care workers.
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She worked extensively with family caregivers of older adults as a clinical nurse specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and as a home health care nurse at Community Health Services, Inc., in Nashville. Her research now focuses on family
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Prior to joining Baylor Scott & White Health and Texas A&M in 2005, he was an associate professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Donna Wagner, Ph.D., dean of the College of Health and Social Services, New Mexico State University, has been examining family caregiving and workplace eldercare programs since the mid-1980s.
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At MPR, Ms. Eden directed studies on health plan accreditation, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, health care access and satisfaction in the military health system, the health care experiences of people who use community health centers, and the technical quality of state-specific,
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At OTA, Ms. Eden authored or co-authored reports on individual cost sharing, Oregon's 1990 proposal to significantly expand Medicaid in the state, adolescent health, and the impact of HIV and AIDS on individual health insurance.
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APPENDIX B 293 Planck Institute in Germany under a Fellowship from the Heinrich HertzStiftung Foundation. She was the 2007 recipient of the Cecil Award for Excellence in Health Policy Research, the 2010 recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the Academies, and the 2012 recipient of the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as the team leader)
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