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Pages 443-450

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From page 443...
... Assess the direct and indirect costs of autoimmune diseases. • Examine insurance claim data to assess inpatient, emergency room, outpatient, physician visit, pharmacy (including dispari ties between different therapies)
From page 445...
... He has chaired committees for the New York State Department of Health and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and is the Board Chairman of the Institute for Exceptional Care. Dr. Rosof is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Quality and has published extensively in the peer-reviewed medical literature.
From page 446...
... During her tenure in the Epidemiology Branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1993 to 2006, she developed and directed a multidisciplinary research program focusing on occupational and hormonal influences on lupus and other autoimmune diseases. This research program helped establish our understanding of the effects of occupational and environmental exposures, particularly silica dust, on autoimmune diseases.
From page 447...
... Fairweather specializes in how sex differences in inflammation caused by environmental exposures lead to chronic inflammatory disease, including rheumatic autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and lung disease. She has served as a Councilor for the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences for three separate terms over 10 years.
From page 448...
... Dr. Knight's research focuses on mental health in youth with rheumatologic conditions, with an emphasis on neuropsychiatric function in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE)
From page 449...
... He also cares for children with rheumatic diseases and participates in efforts to better understand Sjögren's in children through an international collaborative workgroup. He has co-authored several book chapters on rheumatic disease manifestations in children including, most recently, the chapter on Sjögren's in children in Sjögren's Syndrome: A Clinical Handbook (Elsevier)
From page 450...
... Dr. Lockshin has had a long-standing interest in the overlap of autoimmune diseases such as SLE, multiple sclerosis, and thyroid disease, and in sex differences in disease incidence.


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