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Appendix D: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 399-408

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... in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. His epidemiologic research has addressed a wide range of environmental and perinatal health issues, including exposures related to military deployments, the environmental effects of energy development, pesticides and breast cancer, risks from environmental exposures during pregnancy, and drinking water safety.
From page 400...
... She is a general internist and pharmacoepidemiologist whose research focuses on the safety and effectiveness of drugs and vaccines, program evaluation, and methods in pharmacoepidemiology. She has served on Food and Drug Administration committees, including the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Vaccine and Related Products Advisory Committee, and she continues to serve as a member of the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
From page 401...
... p Dr. Neria uses multimodal brain imaging and a number of novel paradigms focusing on fear circuitry to probe new biomarkers of PTSD and to identify structural and functional neural markers of clinical response to PTSD treatment.
From page 402...
... , and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, for which she was a founding member of the Mental Health Statistics Section and has received the Gertrude Cox Award for applied statistics and the Myrto Lefkopoulou award from the Harvard University Department of Biostatistics, and she has been consistently recognized for her teaching and mentoring.
From page 403...
... She evaluates the function of the living human brain in individuals with and without schizophrenia using brain imaging techniques. Then, building on this knowledge, she uses human postmortem brain tissue to translate the functional alterations from the living human patient into molecular observations of the illness.
From page 404...
... Earle Outstanding Health Science Educator Award, the University of Nebraska Medical Center Distinguished Scientist Award, the UNeMed Lifetime Achievement Award, and the University of Nebraska Innovation, Development, and Engagement (IDEA) Award.
From page 405...
... White is an associate program officer in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies. Previously a medical writer and editor, she worked across numerous medical specialties and drug classes to create materials for, and resulting from, continuing medical education programs, international medical symposia, and drug and research advisory board meetings.
From page 406...
... BPH has examined such topics as the safety of childhood vaccines and other drugs; systems for evaluating and ensuring drug safety postmarketing; the health effects of cannabis and cannabinoids; health effects of environmental exposures; population health improvement strategies; integration of medical care and public health; women's health services; health disparities; health literacy; tobacco control strategies; and chronic disease prevention, among others. Dr. Martinez was awarded the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM)
From page 407...
... . Her experience also includes 6 years directing research studies for the Regional Health Ministry of Madrid, Spain (1982–1988)


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