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Appendix B: Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 351-360

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... , served from 1994 to 2008 as the first full-time president of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) , a private, independent foundation dedicated to advancing the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities.
From page 352...
... In the past 2 years he has received the American Pain Society Wilbert E Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award, the Pain Medicine Fellowship Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the NIH Directors' Award for his efforts on the NPS.
From page 353...
... In this role he has worked with employers, labor, state regulators, and lawmakers in more than 20 states on reform efforts, and he has served on a number of task forces and committees nationwide. He was engaged for many years as the national medical director of commercial insurance claims for Liberty Mutual Insurance, where he was responsible for medical review operations, medical networks, and medical policy for workers compensation.
From page 354...
... Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award and the Distinguished Service Award, both from the American Pain Society. He earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in pain research at the University of North Carolina.
From page 355...
... . Her research in this area has included both descriptive and mechanistic studies focused on the role of general and lifestyle factors in chronic pain conditions.
From page 356...
... Dr. Ohrbach is a member of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain, American Pain Society, International Association for Dental Research, International Association for the Study of Pain, and International Network for Orofacial Pain and Related Disorders Methodology (INfORM)
From page 357...
... Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award from the American Pain Society (2008) and the prestigious John J
From page 358...
... He lectures to medical and dental students at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and he mentors oral and maxillofacial surgery residents through the Massachusetts General Hospital residency program.
From page 359...
... Her research methods include cell culture, molecular biology, genetic manipulations, behavioral ­ pharmacology, clinical trial methodology, and implementation science. She has received numerous awards, including the Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy and the Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award ­ from the American Physical Therapy Association and the Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society.
From page 360...
... She completed post-graduate clinical training in medicine and neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle and then research fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA and the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. Robert Weyant, D.M.D., Dr.P.H., is the associate dean for public health and a professor and the chair of the Department of Dental Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.


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