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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 301-316

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... Dr. Keusch is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine, where he has served on the Board on Global Health and the Forum on Microbial Threats and co-chaired an Institute of Medicine/ ­ National Research Council report, Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases, released in September 2009.
From page 302...
... He joined the MRC HIV Clinical Trials Centre (HIV CTC) as deputy head in 1992 and was directly responsible for overseeing all statistical aspects of the center's research program.
From page 303...
... In 2006 Dr. Barrie co-founded and became the executive and medical director of Wellbody Alliance, a nonprofit health care organization based in Kono District, Sierra Leone.
From page 304...
... from Northeastern University in 1988, her masters in nursing as an adult nurse practitioner from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 1997, and her doctorate in nursing practice with a concentration in global health in 2008 also from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She was a faculty member at the School of Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions for 4 years and an adult nurse practitioner at MGH Infectious Diseases outpatient practice for over 15 years.
From page 305...
... committees. She received the IDSA Mentor Award in 2006, the Distinguished Physician Award from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society in 2011, the Maureen Andrew Mentoring Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2014, and the Charles Mérieux Award in Vaccinology from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in 2016.
From page 306...
... Dr. Lewis's expertise centers on adaptive and Bayesian clinical trials, including platform trials; translational, clinical, health services, and outcomes research; interim data analysis; data monitoring committees; and informed consent in emergency research studies.
From page 307...
... He founded and directs the Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections at the Department of Infectious Diseases, based at the Copenhagen University Hospital ­Rigshospitalet) , University of Copenhagen, where he also directs the ( Centre of Excellence for Personalized Medicine of Infectious Complications ­ in Immune Deficiency, serves as a member of the executive committee of the NIH/NIAID-funded International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT)
From page 308...
... /WHO, the scientific review committee for the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) , for the EDCTP Senior Fellowships Training Awards, and the WHO/MIM/TRD Task Force on Malaria Research Capability Strengthening in Africa.
From page 309...
... Fred Wabwire-Mangen, M.B.Ch.B., DTM&H, M.P.H., Ph.D., was trained in human medicine at Makerere University, in tropical medicine at ­ iverpool L University, and in immunology and infectious diseases and infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained a Ph.D.
From page 310...
... . In his role at Otsuka he oversaw the clinical development program for delamanid, including clinical operations charged with conducting the global clinical trials in 14 countries across 5 continents, and served on the regulatory submission team responsible for the product's registration.
From page 311...
... CONSULTANTS Janet Darbyshire, CBE FMedSci, joined the UK Medical Research Council Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Unit, after training in respiratory medicine, to coordinate a program of clinical trials and observational epidemiological studies in East Africa and the United Kingdom which led to the short-course chemotherapy regimens which are now the basis of tuberculosis treatment worldwide. She subsequently moved into HIV research at the time when the first antiretroviral drugs were becoming available and led the MRC HIV Clinical Trials Centre, developing a program of clinical trials and observational studies in the United Kingdom and in collaboration with research groups across Europe, Australia, and North and South America and subsequently in Africa.
From page 312...
... Mr. Berrios joined the National Academies in 2014 and has worked on the consensus studies Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk and Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and Policy Considerations.
From page 313...
... She has advised or worked on numerous studies and projects relating to drug discovery and development, clinical research, and biomedical ethics, including Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and Policy Considerations; Global Health Risk Framework: Research and Development of Medical Products: Workshop Summary; and Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk. Before joining the National Academies in April 2010, Ms.
From page 314...
... Ms. Mancher joined the National Academies in 2009, and has since worked on many consensus studies and workshops related to health care services delivery, clinical trial data sharing, and medical product research and development, including Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research; Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust; Variation in Health Care Spending: T ­ arget Decision Making Not Geography; Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk; and Global Health Risk Framework: Research and Development of Medical Products: Workshop Summary.
From page 315...
... Army and previous assignments included the Chief of the Global Emerging Infections Department at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand, where she developed surveillance programs for infectious diseases in Asia, the Chief of the Field Studies Department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where she played a pivotal role in developing the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE)
From page 316...
... in the control of infectious diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2012. Her graduate research focused on developing alternative methodologies for assessing small-scale wastewater infrastructure decay in rural Alabama.


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