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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Presenters
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Presenters
Pages 63-80
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Dr. Alexander's research interests include cardiovascular disease, geriatric epidemiology, and child health.
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Prior to joining CCNY, she served as associate chair for graduate studies and professor in the Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
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His investigative reporting into umbilical cord blood banking was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011. In 2012, he received an Overseas Press Club award as part of ABC's coverage of global maternal health issues, and two Peabody Awards as part of ABC News' coverage of Hurricane Sandy and Robin Roberts' health journey.
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Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute. He served as the chair for the Boys and Girls Club of Durham and Orange Counties and the Lincoln Community Health Center.
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Dr. Dawson is a scholar in the Sparkman Global Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, Robert Wood Johnson nurse executive fellow, and a Johnson & Johnson Wharton nurse administrative fellow.
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In 2011, he led a partnership between Duke University, the World Economic Forum, and McKinsey, and he founded the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery and currently chairs its board of directors. Among his honors and recognitions are the Gustav Nylin Medal from the Swedish Royal College of Medicine; the Max Delbruck Medal from Humboldt University, Charité, and the Max Planck Institute; the Commemorative Gold Medal from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; the Inaugural Hatter Award from the Medical Research Council of South Africa; the Polzer Prize from the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research; the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association (AHA)
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Prior to joining a philanthropic foundation, he devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His past research has focused on global health, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations.
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Gibbons has received numerous honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies; selection as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Faculty Development Awardee; selection as a Pew Foundation Biomedical scholar; and recognition as an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. Garth Graham, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., is a leading authority on social determinants of health and health equity.
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He contributes to several boards, including the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Advisory Council, the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health, the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Associational National Quality Oversight Committee, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards, and the Harvard Medical School Diversity Fund (chair) , and he was named by President Obama to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, among others.
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Board of Health and the National Board of Public Health Examiners. She is also actively sought as a contributor to national efforts to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity, including as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; as a faculty member for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Pursuing Excellence in the Clinical Learning Environment collaborative addressing health-care disparities; and as a project advisor and on-screen expert for the groundbreaking film series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
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Laurencin has been named to America's Top Doctors for over 15 years. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Surgical Association.
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Laurencin Lifetime Research Achievement Award, given during the open ing ceremonies of the National Medical Association Annual Meeting.
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In 2008 the American Sociological Association recognized her many contributions with the Johnson-Cox-Frazier Award, and the Wisconsin Alumni Association honored her with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012. She is a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Wisconsin– Madison College of Letters and Science.
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and the first woman to lead the freestanding medical institution, Dr. Montgomery Rice serves as both the president and dean.
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Montgomery Rice held faculty positions and leadership roles at various health centers, including academic health centers. Most notably, she was the founding director of the Center for Women's Health Research at Meharry Medical College, one of the nation's first research centers devoted to studying diseases that disproportionately impact women of color.
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He is also chairman of the board of the National Health Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, which aims to improve the health of Americans by enhancing health literacy and advancing healthy behaviors.
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He is an active member of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, and the Heart Failure Society of America. His bibliography includes over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, numerous book chapters, editorials and review articles, and consultations for the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
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