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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 271-280

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... . His laboratory developed and applied advanced measurement technologies to elucidate mechanisms involved in cancer genesis, progression, and response to therapy, and he applied systems control strategies to develop more durable and tolerable cancer treatments.
From page 272...
... Dewji was a radiological scientist in the Center for Radiation Protection Knowledge, where her recent work has included assessment of patient release criteria for nuclear medicine patients and development of dose coefficients associated with the external exposure and internal uptake of radionuclides due to environmental or nuclear security exposures.
From page 273...
... He is a recipient of an NIH Director's Pioneer Award; a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the NIH Council of Councils; and received honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala, the Karolinska Institute, and the University of Amsterdam. Benjamin French is an associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University and an expert advisor to the Department of Statistics at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF)
From page 274...
... As a collaborative biostatistician, he has led or participated in a wide range of biomedical research projects, most recently as the director of the biostatistics core for an international consortium studying outcomes among cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19. He has taught short courses on longitudinal data analysis and joint modeling of longitudinal and survival outcomes in the United States and abroad.
From page 275...
... She has served on a number of committees at the National Cancer Institute including as the co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Panel that provided scientific advice to Vice President Biden's Moonshot Initiative. She currently serves as the chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board and the chief medical advisor to the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
From page 276...
... Morton's studies have contributed to assessments of the risks and benefits of cancer treatments, guidelines for long-term surveillance of cancer survivors, methodological improvements in data collection for cancer survivors, and understanding of the biological basis of radiation carcinogenesis. She has served as the co-chair of the Late Effects Task Force of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research; as an associate editor for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute; on the editorial boards of Cancer Research, British Journal of Cancer, and Leukemia and Lymphoma; and as a member of the Radiogenomics Consortium
From page 277...
... He is a member of Committee 1 (Radiation Effects) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection; serves as a lead coordinating writer for the United Nations Committee on Epidemiological Studies of Radiation and Cancer, Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation; and serves as the associate editor of the journals Occupational and Environmental Medicine and American Journal of Epidemiology.
From page 278...
... Dr. Shaikh has served on several national scientific committees, including those at the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board, and he has served on the Board of Advisors at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Irvine.
From page 279...
... Prior to her current appointment, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she conducted research on biomarker development for early cancer detection using case-control epidemiological study designs.


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