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Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 63-72
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Currently, she is the director and primary investigator of the Saudi Human genome lab at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) in Riyadh, associate research professor at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
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Early on, she and her colleagues provided the first physiological evidence for the role of endorphins in the brain and showed that endorphins are activated by stress and inhibit pain. In investigations of the mechanisms underlying stress reactivity in anxiety and depression, she demonstrated that social defeat in rodents activates unique neural pathways resembling those altered in human depression.
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and a Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, in special education with a focus on intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder.
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She is coauthor of The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools (2013, Russell Sage Foundation) , which was awarded the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award by the American Sociological Asso ciation (ASA)
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She has established several undergraduate and graduate programs in Egypt and the United States in the fields of regenerative medicine, w omen's health, and gender medicine. She has received grants and awards from the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health, and the Science and Technology Development Fund of Egypt, and recently from the Women in STEM Exemplary Leader in Management Position Award by the Meera Kaul Foundation.
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conducting research to refine the diagnostic criteria for the basal-like phenotype, particularly as related to cancers in African American women, while simultaneously identifying molecular features that can be used as markers and clues for further studies into the pathogenesis of these cancers; (2) developing novel approaches for prevention and treatment of breast and prostate cancers (together, these exploratory analyses will provide clues regarding specific chromosomal regions, and genes within those regions, which are important for this henotype of breast cancer)
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Dr. Kelly received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family Research and has published articles in leading journals, including the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology.
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Her research focuses on applications of operations research and management science in revenue management, inventory management, and supply chain management. In revenue management, she studies business problems with multidimensional capacity, such as the ones arising in the air cargo and cruise ship industries.
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, the AERA Grants Board, and the Sociological Research Association. Dara Norman is a full scientist and deputy associate director of the C ommunity Science and Data Center at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
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She recently completed a term as president of Sociologists for Women in Society, a national organization that encourages feminist research and social change, and is a regular contributor to Slate, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review.
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