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Appendix B: Workshop Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Workshop Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Pages 87-98
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. In addition to overseeing clinical delivery and clinical operations at CCA, she is a practicing physician, serving as the primary care physician for elderly homeless and marginally housed CCA members cared for within an interdisciplinary team at Commonwealth Community Care, as well as a hospitalist on CCA's shared inpatient service at Boston Medical Center.
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The Public Information Office also manages the NIH Visitors Center and the NIH Nobel Laureate Hall, special events, and grantee public information office relations. Prior to 2004, Dr.
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Crisis Prevention and Response services, and the redesign and growthfocused activities for Self-Directed Services. These initiatives are foundational to the NYS system transformation focused on equity of service access, increased capacity for effective behavioral health treatment, and increased autonomy and self-determination for a system serving 130,000 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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She conducted research and provided direct clinical services to children and adults with developmental disabilities while on the faculty of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in the Division for Prevention and Treatment of Developmental Disorders and at the Center for Development and Learning, a Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the University of South Florida she focused on improving the health of persons with disabilities through educating health care providers and health promotion activities for children and adults with disabilities.
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She has also co-authored two books titled Health Matters: The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities and Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program. Karen L
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, member of the APHA Disability Section Executive Committee, and member of the Disability and Health Journal editorial board. She also serves on the Massachusetts Health and Disability Partnership, the Massachusetts Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Advisory Committee, and the Massachusetts Pregnancy to Early Life Longitudinal Data System Advisory Committee.
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Ms. Palacios recently graduated from the National Practice Change Leaders program and Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership Program and was awarded the Emanuel and Lilly Shinagel Scholarship at the Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Melissa Simon, M.D., M.P.H., is the Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; George H Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology; Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, preventive medicine, and medical social sciences; and the Director of the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Biospecimen Management Program for Region 5, a multisite transdisciplinary partnership that aims to increase collaborative biospecimen research and improve minority and medically underserved populations participation and retention in biospecimen and clinical trial research.
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. In her role as Associate Executive Director at United Cerebral Palsy of Tampa Bay, she was responsible for overseeing programs providing supports for both children and adults with IDDs, including early intervention, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, supported employment, supported living, and respite services.
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Silvia Yee, L.L.B., M.A., is a senior staff attorney at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) , where her work has included projects to increase physical and programmatic accessibility and disability awareness in the delivery of health care services, as well as affect litigation to increase access for people with disabilities in myriad aspects of public and private life.
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