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Appendix D: Committee Biographical Sketches
Appendix D: Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 545-558
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, home of the Dartmouth Atlas. He is also the founding chairman of the Departments of Orthopedics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth Medical School (now the Geisel School of Medicine)
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. She has dramatically advanced the understanding of substance abuse disorder treatment, HIV prevention, and other urgent public health challenges through a distinguished career that has spanned scholarly research, translation of science to practice, top-level policy consultation, and service on four Institute of Medicine committees.
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and currently serves on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; the Standing Committee on Integrating New Behavioral Health Measures in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Data Collection Programs; and the Workshop Steering Committee on Integrating New Measures of Trauma and Recovery (chair) into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Data Collection Programs.
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Dr. Calonge serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice as well as on the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities.
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In work supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, she has examined the intersection of behavioral health and the juvenile justice systems; Medicaid policies and their impact on justice-involved youth and youth with behavioral health problems; mental health courts as an innovative alternative for juvenile delinquents; and health care services for incarcerated youth and adults returning to the community. She was a member of a national collaborative Mental Health Policy network supported by the MacArthur Foundation.
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She currently is a Kaiser Permanente Chris Burch Leadership Awardee. Robert García, J.D., is a civil rights and human rights advocate who engages, educates, and empowers communities to fight for equal justice, human dignity, and equal access to public resources.
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He has influenced the investment of more than $43 billion in underserved communities, working at the intersection of equal justice, public health, and the built environment. Previously he served as the chairman of the Citizens' School Bond Oversight Committee for 5 years, helping raise more than $27 billion to build new and modernize existing public schools as centers of their communities in Los Angeles.
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Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D., is the co-director at EmbraceRace, an online community of parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers and guidance counselors, day care providers, young people, and caring adults. He is also a race and social justice consultant, currently serving or having served in that capacity with the Haas Institute, the Democracy Fund, Open Society Foundations, Kellogg Foundation, Tufts Public Health Programs, and the Fetzer Institute, among others.
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In addition, she previously served on the nominating committee of the American Hospital Association and the finance committee of the Maryland Hospital Association and is a past chair of the Florida State Human Rights Advocacy Commission.
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, and he previously served on the Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills and the Committee on Independent Evaluation of DC Public Schools. Julie Morita, M.D., is the commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH)
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Dr. Powell graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College.
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She has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Whittier College, Lewis and Clark College, Wheelock College, the University of Maryland, Bank Street College of Education, and Wilkes University. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served on numerous committees, forums, and boards, including the Committee for Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn; the Board on Children, Youth, and Families; the steering group of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Their Families; and the Forum on Global Violence Prevention.
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The firm grew rapidly, and in 2004 it became part of Marsh & McLennan. Today, the firm is one of the world's leading management consulting firms, employing nearly 4,000 professionals in 26 countries.
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