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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Presenters
Pages 75-100

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... ; Organizing Committee for the National Security and Homeland Defense Workshop (co-chair) ; Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (co-chair)
From page 76...
... Laurencin has been named to America's Top Doctors for more than 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 Surgi cal Association.
From page 77...
... He is a fellow of the American C ­ hemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Materials Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
From page 78...
... Dr. Morgan served as the 95th president of the National Medical Association during 1996 and 1997.
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... He is a diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and the American Board of Managed Care Medicine. He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society.
From page 80...
... Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given by the Association of American Medical Colleges in conjunction with the American Orthopaedic Association. He was honored by the Association of Surgical Education with its lifetime achievement award -- the Distinguished Educator Award -- given annually to one person considered by his peers to be a
From page 81...
... He is also the past president of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the American Surgical Association. At the inaugural presidential ceremony held in Washington, D.C., during the 96th annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Dr.
From page 82...
... , where he oversaw new program development, research, and capacity building for the organization's 37 historically black colleges and universities and held the title of senior vice president for research, innovation, and member college engagement. Before his service at UNCF, he worked in positions of progressive responsibility to increase diversity at his alma mater, the ­Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
From page 83...
... Reid read Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities, a seminal book about educational disparities in the United States, which sparked his passion for bringing about positive change through education of African Americans and other underserved populations.
From page 84...
... Leonard Goldner Award for best basic science research for their work on tendon regeneration titled "Successful Achilles Tendon Regeneration using a Bioresorbable Nanofiber Scaffold, Stem Cells, and Growth Factor in a Rat Tendon Gap Defect Model." In 2014, Dr. Hogan received the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA)
From page 85...
... He was a founding executive committee member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2007–2008) , and anchored the special task forces that produced the society's guidelines for stem cell research and clinical translation (2006,
From page 86...
... Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He served as the Sanford I
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... She completed residency training in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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... Before 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.
From page 89...
... Wendy L Yallowitz, M.S.W., senior program officer, joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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... He is the K Ranga Rama Krishnan Endowed Associate Professor at Duke University with appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery.
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... Notable prior leadership positions in academia include dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, senior vice president for health sciences at Howard University, and professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, a position she held for 12 years. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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... She is a member of the Board of Directors of Ascension, serving as a chair of the Quality Committee and a member of the Finance and Audit Committees. She is a member of the Board of the AΩA Medical Honor Society of which she leads the Leadership Development Committee, and associate editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
From page 93...
... Banton completed her doctoral training in the Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
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... He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Chest Physicians, and a member of the Society of University Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. In 2014 the Society of Critical Care medicine bestowed him the Master of Critical Care Medicine distinction.
From page 95...
... She has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including awards from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Robert Toigo Foundation.
From page 96...
... Valerae O Lewis, M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
From page 97...
... For the past 10 years, Dr. Lewis has served as director of the Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Program at symposiums throughout the year and is active in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the International Society for Limb Salvage, and the Western Orthopaedic Association.
From page 98...
... , a citywide collaborative Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Institute of Technology, along with their partnering health systems and statewide research organizations. Since 2007, ACTSI has engaged more than 673 investigators and 134 postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees in discovery science, training, and community engagement.
From page 99...
... , and a Young Physician Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Monica Hall is a program associate at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
From page 100...
... in zoology from Howard University, graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She is a practicing emergency department physician at Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, New York.


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