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Appendix B: Biographies
Pages 111-122

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From page 111...
... In 1968, Dr. Estabrook moved to Dallas, Texas, to serve as Virginia Lazenby O'Hara Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
From page 112...
... In 1982, Dr. Benet received the American Pharmaceutical Association's Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutics and the University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy Distinguished Alumnus Award.
From page 113...
... . In conjunction with colleagues at the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, he has written extensively about clinical and economic outcomes in chronic ischecon heart disease.
From page 114...
... from the University of California at Davis Medical Center, where he remained as Chief Resident and later Residency Program Coordinator before entering a fellowship program in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
From page 115...
... He is a member of numerous honorary and professional societies including Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, and the American College of Cardiology. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
From page 116...
... Before joining Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey he was Managing Director of Health Strategies for the Alexander & Alexander Consulting Group, a leading international human resources and benefits consulting organization. Previously, he was an executive with Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, New York, first as Vice President of Health Services Management, and then as Corporate Vice President of Health Affairs.
From page 117...
... Rogers sponsored or played a major role in enacting are National Cancer Act of 1971 and 1977, Health Manpower Training Act, Heart, Lung and Blood Act, Research on Aging Act, Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Medical Device Amendments of 1976, Emergency Medical Services Act, Health Maintenance Organization Act, Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977.
From page 118...
... DANIEL SECKINGER, M.D., was formerly Group Vice President of Professional Standards at the American Medical Association. His responsibilities included science and technology, medical education, ethics and quality/managed care.
From page 119...
... He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship in general internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his fellowship, he also became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied health care administration and health policy at the Wharton School of Business and where he was active in ambulatory, student health, prevention, and geriatric clinical care settings.
From page 120...
... Dr. Yaffe's honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Lederle Medical Faculty Award, Wall Memorial Lecturer, Editor, Pediatric Clinics of North America, Upjohn Lecturer, Louisville Pediatric Lectureship, Guest Editor, Clinics in Perinatology, Creasy Visiting Professorship, and the Hardt Memorial Lecturer.
From page 121...
... Davis was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Head of the Malaria Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he was the principle and coprinciple investigator on grants investigating the fundamental biology of malaria transmission and on the development and testing of candidate malaria vaccines in human volunteers.
From page 122...
... in science, technology, and public policy in 1994 from the George Washington University, and in 1987, she simultaneously earned two bachelor's degrees in international studies and Latin American studies. NICOLE AMADO was the Project Assistant for the Forum on Emerging Infections, as well as for the Roundtable on Research and Development of Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices.


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