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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 93-108
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Dr. Araneta received the 2014 ADA Vivian Fonseca and Nagendran Family Diabetes Research Award for her research on diabetes among Asians and Pacific Islanders; the Best of Care Award as author of the nine leading publications in Diabetes Care in 2015; and the Inaugural Wing Family Lectureship at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School in 2017.
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in 2014, where he served in a number of roles, including as executive director for BCBSNC's federally qualified health maintenance organization and as senior vice president, health care, and chief medical officer. His accomplishments there include producing the company's first primary care provider profiles/reports, implementing BCBSNC's first fully transparent online medical policy, developing and successfully marketing the State of Preventive Health Summits, developing and implementing the country's first bariatric surgery centers of excellence in collaboration with the American Society of Bariatric Surgery, developing an office-based endoscopy network (so members could obtain endoscopy services for an office copay rather than a deductible and coinsurance)
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Chin, M.D., M.P.H., is Richard Parrillo family professor of healthcare ethics in the Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, and a general internist and health services researcher with extensive experience in improving the care of vulnerable patients with chronic disease. He co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation Program Office and the Merck Foundation's Bridging the Gap: Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care National Program Office.
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Secretary of Health Award for Distinguished Service as part of the Salud para su Corazon campaign, and in 2003 became an NIH minority health scholar. He is a former member of the National Advisory Council of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research program, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center in Urban and Health Sustainability, and the Oregon Health Policy Board and is emeritus board member of the American Council on Exercise and the Oregon Public Health Institute.
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Her prior experience includes serving as program director for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Healthy Weight Program, overseeing a major program expansion of the clinical, research, educational, and community components of the program. Additionally, as a senior research project manager at the University of Pennsylvania, she managed health behavior change research with underserved populations to reduce health disparities in Philadelphia.
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He drafted NDI's policy statement for health care reform and was NDI's liaison to the Michigan Legislature regarding liability/tort reform and its effect on physicians in Detroit. He also administered a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant that established the first school-based health centers in the Detroit Public Schools.
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In 1999, she was appointed head of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Division of Community and Minority Programs. In 2003, she was appointed associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was deputy director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions.
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-funded R01 studies aimed at improving Indigenous food environments, including "THRIVE," a randomized trial of healthy makeovers in tribally owned convenience stores, and "FRESH," a food sovereignty intervention currently being implemented with Osage Nation. She is a standing member of the Community Level Health Promotion Study Section for NIH and a member of the College of Reviewers for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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He has a strong commitment to achieving health equity and improving the health of Indigenous communities, reflected in his service at the national level as past chair for the Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health network and his recent appointment to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities. On a local level, Dr.
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Dr. Kumanyika is currently a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Task Force on Community Preventive Services, co-chair of the Policy and Prevention Section of the World Obesity Federation, a member of the Lancet Commission on Obesity, and a nutrition policy advisor to the World Health Organization and the World Cancer Research Fund.
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She focuses on advancing the use of policy, advocacy, and law to aid in creating a strong and comprehensive public health system; leadership development; and issues ranging from public health preparedness to promoting healthy eating and active living. Prior to working at RWJF, she was a health scientist/public health law analyst at the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Legislation in CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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Her broad, deep, and diverse experience with populations and partners and stakeholders are strong assets for leading DNPAO in its focused efforts to prevent chronic diseases through population-wide public health initiatives and health system innovations. Throughout her career, she has drawn on her expertise in patient care, health system change, disease prevention, and community engagement to develop and guide programs, research, and policy to improve health behaviors and reduce chronic disease.
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Gardner professor of clinical gynecology, vice chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, founder and director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative, and co–program leader for cancer control and survivorship and community outreach and engagement at the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Awards include the 2013 American Public Health Association Latino Caucus, Founding Member Award for Vision and Leadership, 2013; the University of Maryland Outstanding Woman of Color Award for her lifetime achievements; and the 2011 Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Latinos/as Section for her contributions to the sociology of Latinos and immigrant studies, teaching, and mentoring. She was principal investigator of a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Understanding the Relationship Between Work Stress and U.S.
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APPENDIX E 107 completing a book on these findings. Her most recent research award, from the Annie E
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