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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 709-716

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From page 709...
... National Toxicology Program, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the NIH Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research, and the California Governor's Proposition 65 committee. She has served or currently sits on the editorial boards for the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, Epidemiology, and Autism Research.
From page 710...
... Nancy Berliner, M.D., is the chief of the Division of Hematology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School. Her research focus is gene regulatory pathways of normal white blood cell development and how they are disrupted in leukemia and pre-leukemic syndromes as well as the pathogenesis of the anemia of aging and benign and malignant hematologic disorders.
From page 711...
... She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry and Epigenetics and is an associate editor for Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Epigenetics, and Toxicological Sciences. She is an active member of the Society of Toxicology, the Environmental Mutagen and Genomics Society, and the American Society for Nutrition, and she served as the chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference in Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Toxicity.
From page 712...
... Dr. Dolinoy recently received the 2015 National Institutes of Health Director's Transformative Research Award to develop novel epigenome editing tools to reduce disease risk, and in 2016 served as the chair of the Society of Toxicology's Contemporary Concepts in Toxicology meeting, ToxicoEpigenetics: The Interface of Epigenetics and Risk Assessment.
From page 713...
... She also leads the Community Engagement Core of Oregon State University's Superfund Basic Research Program, which works in collaboration with Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest to investigate their environmental health concerns and is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on a research project examining the potential for developmental exposures to influence immune functioning in children.
From page 714...
... She has been active in Gordon Research Conference programs and was the chairperson for the Mechanisms of Toxicology summer session in 2008. Her past research focused on the elucidation of dioxin's carcinogenic activity, specifically how TCDD activates the aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway resulting in altered gene expression in different biologically relevant targets.
From page 715...
... He J has directed several National Academies studies on military and veterans health, environmental health, and risk assessment topics, including ones that produced Research on the Health Effects of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation: Opportunities for the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute; Future Uses of the DoD Joint Pathology Center Biorepository; Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services Under TRICARE; PTSD Compensation and Military Service; Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998 and Update 2000; Disposition of the Air Force Health Study; and the report series Characterizing the Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam.
From page 716...
... She is also a fellow of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg­ School of Public Health, where she is pursuing a doctorate of public health in environmental health. Pamela Ramey-McCray, is an administrative assistant in the Health and Medicine Division.


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