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Appendix D: Biographical Notes on Committee Members
Pages 221-224

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From page 221...
... Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, is in his second term as chairman of the congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, which oversees the Medicare hospital payment system. Between 1971 and 1976, Dean Altman was deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation/health in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
From page 222...
... Louis University, the University of New Mexico, Cornell University Medical College, and Rockefeller University. He is the author or coauthor of more than 150 scientific papers and is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Physiological Society, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
From page 223...
... In 1975 he received the Nobel Prize, together with David Baltimore and Renato Dulbecco, for some of this work. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the National Institutes of Health Virology Study Section and on the editorial board of several virology journals.
From page 224...
... He was a member of the steering committee of the IOM/ NAS panel that wrote Confronting AIDS and is on the executive committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.


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