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Appendix B: Committee Biosketches
Pages 273-278

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... He is also an adjunct professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, and an adjunct professor of health policy and research (health informatics) at Weill Cornell Medical College.
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... Dr. Bonauto and SHARP have developed novel approaches to using state workers' compensation data for public health surveillance and research, linking state administrative databases to develop more accurate estimates of the working population at risk, and using population based surveys to assess worker-reported work-related injury and illness rates.
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... She has conducted numerous surveillance research studies exploring use of a wide range of public health data sources for occupational health surveillance, including a recent study exploring the feasibility of multi­ource surveillance for work-related amputations and carpal tunnel s syndrome. She has a particular interest in addressing the occupational health and safety concerns of vulnerable workers and has recently completed a project incorporating occupational information in the electronic record systems of community health centers to improve documentation of occupational health needs of underserved worker populations.
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... He has published 205 articles on occupational and environmental disease. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU he taught in the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and was director of occupational and environmental health services at the New Jersey Department of Health.
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... in industrial hygiene at Harvard School of Public Health in 1982 and a Ph.D. in industrial health from the University of Michigan in 1990.
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... He was also involved in developing regulatory proposals on injury and illness prevention program standards, and served as agency coordinator and department lead on a joint OSHA/NIOSH/BLS conference on use of workers' compensation data for injury and illness prevention and public health activities. In 2012, the International Association of Industrial Accidents Boards and Commissions awarded him the Samuel Gompers Award for his work on identifying, educating, and promoting injury and illness prevention activities within workers' compensation.
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