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B COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Pages 289-298

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From page 289...
... He has been a consultant for 15 years for a major national accounting/management consulting firm as a consultant for 15 years and has accumulated 31 service-years of membership on governing boards or boards of directors of hospitals, health care systems, and health maintenance organizations. He has served in a wide variety of health policy advisory and consulting capacities to governmental and nongovernmental organizations in all parts of the United States and in 13 foreign countries.
From page 290...
... Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction, 1988; member, Clove Cigarette Scientific Advisory Board to the Department of Health for the State of California, 1986-1987; technical consultant and chapter author for the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee Report on the Health Consequences of Smokeless Tobacco; and contributing author for the U.S.
From page 291...
... Surgeon General's Report on Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress, 1989, and "Public Opinion and Changing Patterns of Tobacco Use," a chapter in Strategies to Control Tobacco Use in the United States: A Blueprint for Public Health Action in the 1990's, 1991. He is on the editorial boards of Tobacco Control: An International Journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, and Health Education Quarterly.
From page 292...
... In 1991 Dr. Dexter was a member of the Youth Tobacco Task Force of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Branch of the IHS and served on the Oral Cancer Subcommittee, Tobacco Advisory Group, of the IHS Oral Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Program.
From page 293...
... Dr. Nichter is conducting, for the National Institute on Child Health and Development, a major study of "Adolescent Smoking and Dietary Behavior." He has done extensive anthropological fieldwork, particularly in the areas of medical anthropology, culture and the individual, and South Asian ethnography.
From page 294...
... As a consultant, she has developed employee smoking cessation programs for a number of businesses (Mellon Bank, PPG Industries, Gulf Oil Corporation, Mobay Chemical Corporation, Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Steel Corporation, Society of Automotive Engineers, and DeLuxe Check Printers, Inch.
From page 295...
... Dr. Schelling has been a consultant to the Departments of State and Defense, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency and has been a member of the Defense Science Board and the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S.
From page 296...
... , a videotape funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to be shown to smoking mothers when they come to pediatric offices for well-baby care; Enough Snub: A Guide to Quitting Smokeless Tobacco on Your Own (19921; Systematic Archival Record Search (1991) , a procedure for systematically assessing at-risk students using school record information; and Preschool Screening for Behavioral Problems (19931.
From page 297...
... Her audiences-through programs, training, and publications have included the general public, policymakers, federal agency personnel, public school personnel, university students, and the multiple constituents of the health care and health promotion fields: biomedical researchers, physicians, nurses and allied health professionals, health management personnel, epidemiologists, and health and medical educators. She has worked with federal agencies, with contractors and grantees, with voluntary health organizations, and with committees, national commissions, and advisory boards.


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