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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 77-88

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... is International Programs professor of management and professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management; he is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research focuses on empirical studies of the supply of biomedical innovators, particularly at the interface of academia and the biopharmaceutical industry.
From page 78...
... Before joining FAS, Dworkin was assistant professor of clinical biostatistics at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where his research touched on statistical methodology, medical imaging, and mental health. He holds a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in psychology from Haverford College.
From page 79...
... At NSF, Gianchandani also previously served as deputy assistant director of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, twice serving as its acting assistant director. He also has led the development and launch of several new NSF initiatives, including the Smart & Connected Communities program, Civic Innovation Challenge, Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research, and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
From page 80...
... Goroff has also held extended visiting positions at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, the Dibner Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University's Teachers College, and the Bellagio Residency Program. Other previous positions include serving as division director for social and economic sciences at the National Science Foundation and as a division director at the National Research Council.
From page 81...
... Husbands Fealing developed and was inaugural program director for the National Science Foundation's Science of Science and Innovation Policy program. She also cochaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Task Group, chartered by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Policy Council.
From page 82...
... Agency for International Development (USAID) ; Frederic Esser Nemmers distinguished professor of economics and finance at Northwestern University; and founder and former president of Innovations for Poverty Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems.
From page 83...
... DANIELLE LI (Planning Committee Member) is associate professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management; she is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
From page 84...
... She takes advantage of her training in physics to explore such policy issues as how scientists use the technical information in patents, how scientific expertise might improve patent examination, the patenting of publicly funded research under the Bayh–Dole Act, and the integration of intellectual property with other levers of innovation policy. She has also coauthored a free patent law casebook, Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials, which has been adopted at more than 40 law schools.
From page 85...
... Prior to Anthem, Pham served as chief innovation officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where she was a founding official and the architect of foundational programs on accountable care organizations and primary care. She has published extensively on provider payment policy and its intersection with health disparities, quality performance, provider behavior, and market trends.
From page 86...
... At the forefront of this project is a dedicated research and development patent examination unit, consisting of more than 30 patent examiners, that will focus on the development and testing of new processes and procedures to generate evidence to support policy and decision making related to agency goals and objectives. This project also includes overseeing ideation workshops, which are structured brainstorming sessions designed to evaluate a wide range of complexities related to patent examination, develop problem statements, and create test and evaluation plans to investigate the efficacy of proposed solutions with patent examiners.
From page 87...
... . She has published articles in such journals as The American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Management Science, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Organization Science, PLOS One, and Research Policy and Science.
From page 88...
... She is also director of science policy at the Institute for Progress; cochair (with Paul Niehaus) of the Science for Progress Initiative of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab; and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is codirector (with Ben Jones)


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