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Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 445-452

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From page 445...
... Dr. Rosof is a past Chair of the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement convened by the American Medical Association to lead efforts in developing, testing, and implementing evidence-based performance measures for use at the point of care.
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...
... She is a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Unbiased Peer Review Task Force, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Clinical Research Alliance, and the organizing committee of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Congress. She has received a recent Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Senior Research Award as well as an American College of Gastroenterology Clinical Research Award to continue her work on reproductive health in IBD.
From page 449...
... and the Dubois Memorial Lectureship from the American College of Rheumatology. She currently serves as chair of the Lupus Committee and coleader of the Mental Health Workgroup for the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance, member of the LFA Medical Scientific Advisory Council, and member of the Lupus Research Alliance Scientific Review Committee.
From page 450...
... from Harvard Medical School, and he completed his medical residency at Second (Cornell) Medical Service at Bellevue Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and his rheumatology fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital (now New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
From page 451...
... Major research interests include epidemiology, comorbidities, and public health impact of rheumatic and autoimmune diseases; clinical epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) , including studies of subclinical cardiovascular disease in SLE and gene expression-based molecular classification of lupus nephritis; and pharmacoepidemiologic issues in autoimmune disease.
From page 452...
... She completed postgraduate clinical training in medicine and neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and then research fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the Rand/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. STAFF Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., is the Director of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (1999–present)


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