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Committee and Staff Biographies
Gerald E. Thomson, M.D. (Chair), is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and
Senior Associate Dean Emeritus at the Columbia University College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons. A graduate of Queens College and the Howard University
College of Medicine, he was director of a dialysis unit at the State University of
New York--Kings County Hospital Center from 1965 to 1968, Director of
Medicine at Harlem Hospital from 1970 to 1985, Executive Vice President and
Chief of Staff at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1985 to 1990,
and Senior Associate Dean from 1990 to 2003. From 1972 to 1985 he served on
numerous advisory committees and panels on hypertension at the National Insti-
tutes of Health (NIH) as well as on the NIH Clinical Trials Review Committee.
More recently, he has served with efforts addressing delivery of primary medi-
cal care, professionalism in medicine, and racial and ethnic disparities in
medical care. Dr. Thomson is past President of the American College of Physi-
cians and former Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has
been a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) since 1996.
John F. Alderete, Ph.D., is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Texas
(UT) Health Science Center at San Antonio. He received two B.S. degrees (math-
ematics and biology) as an undergraduate student at New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology at Socorro. He received his Ph.D. in microbiology in
1978 from the University of Kansas-Lawrence. He did postdoctoral work at
UNC-Chapel Hill prior to a faculty position at the UT Health Science Center at
San Antonio. He has over 110 publications in peer-review journals and is the
author of 54 book chapters and invited OP-ED editorials. His research on the
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number one, nonviral sexually transmitted agent, Trichomonas vaginalis, has
been presented as abstracts published in 138 proceedings of national and interna-
tional scientific meetings, where he has also participated in, chaired, and orga-
nized scientific symposia. His research has resulted in 5 patents and 2 patents-
pending. He serves on three editorial boards and has been an ad hoc reviewer of
46 scientific journals. He is asked to speak on issues involving minorities, higher
education, and the scientific workforce by government agencies. These include
the President's National Science Board, the NIH, the Federal Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the White House Office for Science and Technology
Policy, and White House "One Nation" on race and health disparities. He has
received many honors and awards, most notably the Premio Encuentro Award for
Science and Technology in 1992, the single highest honor given to a Hispanic in
America. Dr. Alderete is the past president of the Society for the Advancement of
Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS), and SACNAS has
honored him with the 2003 Distinguished Scientist Award presented at the annual
conference. He is an ASM Academy of Microbiology Fellow and was elected a
member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is co-founder of a biotechnol-
ogy company, Xenotope Diagnostics, Inc., that has FDA approval for two prod-
ucts for the diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginitis.
Moon S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Professor, Department of Public Health
Sciences and the Associate Director for Cancer Disparities and Research at the
University of California, Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento. He previously
served as Chair, Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, School of
Public Health at The Ohio State University's College of Medicine and Public
Health. He has authored or co-authored over 90 refereed articles or abstracts that
have appeared in various medical and scientific journals. Dr. Chen is frequently
being sought for his expertise in public health and has served as a consultant to
the Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control, NIH, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation,
University of South Florida, University of Hawaii, and the University of Califor-
nia-San Diego, as well as state public health departments in California, Ohio,
Michigan, Virginia, and Hawaii. He is perhaps best known as being a pre-
eminent scholar/researcher in public health issues affecting Asian Americans. In
2002 President George W. Bush named him to the National Cancer Advisory
Board for a six-year term; he is the only Asian American on that Board. In 2003,
he was one of two non-Federal Co-Chairs of the first-ever Trans-HHS (U.S.
Health and Human Services) Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group
charged with overseeing and leading a national effort to reduce cancer health
disparities. Later that year, Dr. Chen received the American Cancer Society's
Humanitarian Award for his "unfailing commitment and considerable contribu-
tions to the field of public health..." his "dedication to addressing and improv-
ing the health of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders..." and his "leadership
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in investigating and securing funds for continued research on the health dispari-
ties within minority populations."
Harvey R. Colten, M.D., Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Aca-
demic Affairs at Columbia University Medical Center, was the Chief Medical
Officer, iMetrikus, Inc. and Clinical Professor Pediatrics at UCSF between 2000
and 2002. Previously, he served as Dean of the Medical School and VP for
Medical Affairs at Northwestern University from 19971999 and was the Harriet
B. Spoehrer Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO from 19861997. Dr. Colten
earned a B.A. at Cornell in 1959, an M.D. from Western Reserve University in
1963, and an M.A. (Honorary) from Harvard in 1978. Following his clinical
training in 1965, he was an investigator at NIH until 1970. In 1970, he was
appointed to the faculty at the Harvard Medical School, where he was named
Professor of Pediatrics in 1979 and Chief of the Division of Cell Biology,
Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Program at Children's
Hospital Medical Center, Boston. Dr. Colten's research interests include the
regulation of acute phase gene expression and genetic deficiencies of proteins
that play a major role in pulmonary diseases, autoimmunity and inflammation,
on which he has published more than 270 original articles, book chapters and
invited reviews. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and a recipient of other
honors, including a Special Faculty Research Award from Western Reserve
University, the E. Mead Johnson Award for Pediatric Research, a MERIT Award
from NIH, Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of
Immunologists, and Honorary Membership in the Hungarian Society of Immu-
nology. He has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1982. He has trained
more than 60 investigators in pediatric allergy/immunology, pulmonology and
related scientific disciplines, many of whom have achieved leadership positions
in academic medicine both nationally and internationally. He served on and was
Vice Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Medicine. He is also a member
of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Pediatric
Research, the Association of American Physicians, the American Pediatric Soci-
ety, the American Association of Immunologists (former secretary and trea-
surer), and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is
also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
American Academy of Allergy and Immunology and the American Academy of
Pediatrics. Dr. Colten is a Diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and the
American Board of Allergy and Immunology (former Board member and chair
Examination Committee), and was a member of the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute Advisory Council and the Board of Managers Central Institute
for the Deaf. He currently serves on the Boards of Immtech, International, Inc.,
Parents as Teachers and the March of Dimes Scientific Advisory Council. Dr.
Colten has been on editorial boards and advisory committees of several leading
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scientific and medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine,
Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of Immunology,
and the Annual Review of Immunology. Dr. Colten is a member of the IOM and
former member and Vice Chair of the IOM Council.
Robert A. Hiatt, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Population Science and Deputy
Director of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a Professor of Epide-
miology and Biostatistics at UCSF and also a Senior Scientist for the national
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland. From 1998 to early 2003
he was the Deputy Director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population
Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he oversaw cancer re-
search in epidemiology and genetics, surveillance, and health services research.
Before that he was the Director of Prevention Sciences at the Northern California
Cancer Center and also Assistant Director for Epidemiology at the Division of
Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California. He
was trained in medicine at the University of Michigan and in epidemiology at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is Board Certified in Preventive Medi-
cine and, until taking his NCI position, practiced general internal medicine. After
an early career in international health and tropical disease research, his research
interests have included cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer
prevention and screening. He is a past president of the American College of
Epidemiology and is now President of the American Society for Preventive On-
cology. His central focus at UCSF is building a strong, interdisciplinary program
in cancer population sciences that includes epidemiology and genetics, behavior
and health services research, surveillance, and survivorship research.
Sherman A. James, Ph.D., is the inaugural Susan B. King Professor of Public
Policy Studies in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University.
Prior to joining Duke University, he taught at the University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill (19731989) and at the University of Michigan (19892003). At
Michigan, he was the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health with
joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Behavior &
Health Education in the School of Public Health. He was also a Senior Research
Scientist in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. Dr.
James' research focuses on the social determinants of racial and ethnic health
inequalities and community-based and public policy interventions designed to
minimize these inequalities. Dr. James was elected to the IOM of the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2000. In 2001, he received the Abraham Lilienfeld
Award from the Epidemiology section of the American Public Health Associa-
tion for career excellence in the teaching of epidemiology. He is a fellow of the
American Epidemiological Society, the American College of Epidemiology, the
American Heart Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public
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Health. A social epidemiologist, Dr. James received his Ph.D. (Social Psychol-
ogy) from Washington University, in St. Louis (1973).
Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Social Epidemiology and the
Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, both at the Harvard
School of Public Health. Kawachi received his M.D. and Ph.D. (epidemiology),
both from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Kawachi's research is focused
on the social and economic determinants of population health. He has published
over 300 peer-reviewed articles and reviews in scientific journals on health dis-
parities. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social
Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and currently in its
6th printing. His most recent books include The Health of Nations with Bruce
Kennedy (The New Press, 2002) and Neighborhoods and Health with Lisa
Berkman (Oxford University Press, 2003). A textbook on Globalization and
Health (Oxford University Press), co-edited with Sarah Wamala of the Swedish
National Institute of Public Health, is forthcoming in June 2006. Kawachi is the
Co-Director of the Harvard site of the national Robert Wood Johnson Scholars
Program in Health and Society, as well as the site director of the national Kellogg
Foundation Fellows in Minority Health Disparities. Kawachi is also the Senior
Editor (Social Epidemiology) of the international journal Social Science & Medi-
cine, as well as an Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He has
served as a consultant/special advisor to the Pan-American Health Organization,
the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.
Claude Lenfant, M.D., is the former director of the National Heart Lung and
Blood Institute (NHLBI). He received his B.S. degree in 1948 from the Univer-
sity of Rennes, France, and his M.D. in 1956 from the University of Paris. In
1960, he joined the University of Washington in Seattle where he rose to the rank
of Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics. In 1970, Dr. Lenfant was
appointed the first associate director for lung programs of the then NHLI. This
program evolved into the Division of Lung Diseases, formed in 1972, with Dr.
Lenfant as its director. For his accomplishments he was awarded the HEW Supe-
rior Service Honor Award in 1974. The Division of Lung Diseases continued to
grow and to coordinate a strong and diverse program of research into the preven-
tion, diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. He became NIH associate director
for international research and director of the Fogarty International Center in
1980, positions he held until his appointment as director of NHLBI in 1982. In
1983 he was elected member of the IOM, NAS. He was named Distinguished
Executive of the Senior Executive Service in 1991 and Federal Executive of the
Year in 1992 by the Federal Executive Alumni Association. Dr. Lenfant received
the Surgeon General's Exemplary Award in 1993, the Laura Graves Award--
National Marrow Donor Program and the Consortium of Southeastern Hyperten-
sion Centers' Excellence in Leadership Award in 1995, and the Honorary Fel-
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lowship Award from the American College of Cardiology in 1997. In 1992 he
received the Golden Heart Award of the American Heart Association. He holds
honorary degrees from the University of New York at Buffalo; Wake Forest
University, Winston Salem; University of Medona, Italy; University of
Montpellier, France; and the Medical University of Toledo, Ohio. His member-
ships include the Soviet Union's Academy of Medical Sciences and of the Na-
tional French Academy of Medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians (London), an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and
an honorary fellow in the Polish Society of Hypertension. Dr. Lenfant is a mem-
ber of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of
American Physicians. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of
Applied Physiology, American Review of Respiratory Disease, and the American
Journal of Medicine. He is the chief editor of a series of monographs, Lung
Biology in Health and Disease, that includes 212 volumes. He has published 308
papers in his areas of research interest.
Spero M. Manson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, and Head, American In-
dian and Alaska Native Programs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. Over the last 19 years, Dr. Manson and his colleagues have acquired a
research portfolio currently in excess of $62 million, drawing upon federal, state,
private, and tribal sources, and involving collaboration with 102 Indian and Na-
tive communities. He has published over 160 articles on the assessment, epidemi-
ology, and prevention of alcohol, drug, mental and physical health problems
across the developmental life span of Indian and Native people. Dr. Manson is the
founding editor of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research,
a professionally refereed journal dedicated to this area of concern. He also serves
on a wide range of boards and panels, including the National Institute of Mental
Health, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of
Technology Assessment, IOM, State of Oregon Governor's Commission on Al-
cohol and Drugs, American Association of Retired Persons, Gerontological Soci-
ety of America, and Denver Community Mental Health Commission. Dr. Manson
has received numerous awards for his work, including the Colorado Public Health
Association Researcher of the Year (1994), Beverly Visiting Professorship at the
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto (1995), the Indian Health
Service's Distinguished Service Award (1996, 2004), the prestigious Rema
Lapouse Mental Health Epidemiology Award from the American Public Health
Association (1998), Walker-Ames Professorship at the University of Washington
(19992000), the Hammer Award from former Vice President Gore (1999), be-
ing named among the 10 Best TeleHealth Programs in the US by TeleHealth
Magazine, and election to the IOM (2002).
Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She is a mental health services researcher who
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has focused her work on providing mental health care to low-income and minor-
ity communities. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of
Kansas and completed post-doctoral training at University of California, San
Francisco. Dr. Miranda's major research contributions have been in evaluating
the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority communities. She conducted
a trial of treatment of depression in impoverished minority patients at San Fran-
cisco General Hospital. Traditional care for depression was contrasted with tradi-
tional care supplemented by case management. Case management offered addi-
tional benefits for Latino patients but was not beneficial for African American
and white participants. She has also studied the impact of care for depression in
low-income, minority women screened through county entitlement programs.
This study found that short-term care for depression is effective for impoverished
women, but outreach is necessary to engage these women in care. Dr. Miranda is
an investigator in two UCLA centers focusing on improving disparities in health
care for ethnic minorities. She directs community cores and an innovative re-
search core focusing on translating lifestyle interventions (diet and exercise) for
low-income and minority communities. She was the Senior Scientific Editor of
Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A
Report of the Surgeon General, published August 2001. She is a member of the
IOM of the NAS.
Kyu Bak Louis Rhee, M.D., M.P.P., serves as a primary care physician and
medical director at the Upper Cardozo Community Health Center in Washington,
DC. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and he is an
active member of the National Health Service Corps. As medical director of the
largest community health center serving the underserved in Washington, DC, he
manages and leads a staff of over 40 full- and part-time clinicians. He also has a
joint appointment at the George Washington University School of Public Health
in the Departments of Prevention and Community Health and Health Policy. He
teaches a course on Health Disparities and Community Health Management and
Leadership. In addition, Dr. Rhee is the immediate Past President of the Board of
the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU). ACU is a national,
nonprofit, transdisciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care
organizations united in a common mission to improve the health of America's
underserved populations by enhancing the development and support of the health
care clinicians serving these populations. Prior to coming to Washington, DC,
Kyu did his residency and served as a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine and
Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His medi-
cal school training occurred at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles. He also finished a Master's degree in Public Policy with a concentration
in Health Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. His undergraduate education was at Yale University where he re-
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ceived a Bachelor's degree in Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
and also served as President of the 5,100-member student body.
Lynne D. Richardson, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., is Associate Professor of Emergency
Medicine and Vice Chair for Academic, Research and Community Programs of
the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
in New York City. She holds Bachelor of Science degrees from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology in Life Sciences and Management; and an M.D.
degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM). Her post-
doctoral training included the Emergency Medicine Residency at Jacobi Hospital/
AECOM, and a research fellowship with the AAMC Health Services Research
Institute. Dr. Richardson is a nationally recognized expert in health services
research; her areas of interest are access to care, ED utilization and ED crowding.
She was the Principal Investigator of the Emergency Medicine Patients' Access
to Healthcare (EMPATH) Study and the New York City Site Principal Investiga-
tor for the PAD Trial, an NHLBI-funded, randomized trial of public access
defibrillation. She is currently Principal Investigator of "Community VOICES"
(Views On Informed Consent In Emergency Situations), an NHLBI-funded
project to study community perspectives on the ethics of research without con-
sent in emergency conditions. She has served on the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality's Research Training study section, and review panels for
the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and NHLBI. Dr. Richardson
serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Public Health
Committee and for the past three years has been national ACEP liaison to the
Healthy People 2010 Consortium. Dr. Richardson's other current memberships
include the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) HP 2010 Task
Force, the joint SAEM/CORD (Council of Residency Directors) Diversity
Curriculum Task Force, the New York City Board of Health and the New York
City Advisory Committee on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D., is Professor and The Nola J. Pender Collegiate
Chair in Health Promotion at The University of Michigan. She has an extensive
background in health promotion and health disparities research and practice. Her
research focuses on the development and testing interventions to reduce HIV
sexual risk among Mexican and Latino youth. Dr. Villarruel is also the Director
of a National Institute of Nursing Research P20, which is a partnership with the
University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, designed to increase
the capacity of minority nurse researchers. Dr. Villarruel has assumed leadership
roles in many national and local organizations. She is the Vice President and
founding member of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nursing Associa-
tions and past president of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. She was
appointed by Secretary Thompson to the HRSA/CDC HIV/STD Advisory Coun-
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cil and also served as a charter member of the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services' Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health
Disparities.
David R. Williams, Ph.D., is at the University of Michigan where he serves as
the Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, a Senior Research Scien-
tist at the Institute for Social Research, a Professor of Epidemiology in the School
of Public Health, and a Faculty Associate in the Center for AfroAmerican and
African Studies and the Program of Research on Black Americans. Previously, he
was an Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University, and Associate Profes-
sor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine. He holds a master's degree in
public health from Loma Linda University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of Michigan. His research has focused on social influences on health
and he is centrally interested in the trends and determinants of socioeconomic and
racial differences in mental and physical health. He is the author of more than 125
papers in scientific journals and edited collections. He has served as a member of
the editorial board of 8 scientific journals and as a reviewer for some 45 others. In
1995, he received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2001, he was elected as a member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the
Department of Health and Human Services' National Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics (and chair of its subcommittee on Minority and Other Special
Populations), and on five panels for the IOM/NAS. He has also held elected and
appointed positions in professional organizations, such as the American Socio-
logical Association and the American Public Health Association. Currently, he is
a member of the board of directors for Academy Health and is a member of the
MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health.
HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY BOARD LIAISON
Martha N. Hill, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, is Dean and Professor at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing. Dr. Hill has been a faculty member of the School
of Nursing since it opened in 1983 and holds academic appointments in The
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1994 to 2001, she directed the
School of Nursing Center for Nursing Research. Dr. Hill received a doctorate in
behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and
Public Health, a Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of
Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from The Johns
Hopkins University. Dr. Hill is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
and a member of the IOM of the NAS. She served as the co-Vice Chair of the
IOM Committee which produced the 2002 publication "Unequal Treatment: Con-
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fronting Ethical and Racial Disparities in Health Care." She also served on the
IOM/National Research Council committee which produced the report "Enhanc-
ing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change to
Meet New Challenges." Currently she serves on the IOM Board on Health Sci-
ences Policy. Dr. Hill also is a past president of the American Heart Association
(19971998), the only nonphysician to serve in that role. Internationally known
for her research, Dr. Hill's studies have focused on preventing and treating hyper-
tension and its complications, particularly among young, urban African Ameri-
can men. She currently is an active investigator on several NIH-funded projects,
including "Comprehensive HBP Care for Young Urban Black Men," "Barriers to
HBP Care and Control in Black South Africans," and "Research Training in
Health Disparities in Underserved Populations." Dr. Hill has also consulted on
hypertension and other cardiovascular-related issues among populations outside
the United States, including those in Australia, Israel, Scotland, South Africa, and
China. Dr. Hill has over 150 publications, including journal articles and book
chapters on hypertension care and control, nurse led clinics, and community
outreach. She currently serves on several review panels, editorial boards, and
advisory committees including the Board of Directors of Research!America.
IOM PROJECT STAFF
Faith Mitchell, Ph.D., is a Senior Program Officer at The National Academies,
where she has been on the staff since 1995. Her professional experience includes
ethnographic research, academic appointments, philanthropy, and government
service. She is co-editor of several National Research Council reports, including
Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future; His-
panics and the Future of America; Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral
and Social Sciences; Discouraging Terrorism: Some Implications of 9/11;
America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences; Governance and
Opportunity in Metropolitan America; and Premature Death in the New Indepen-
dent States. Her doctorate is in medical anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Monique B. Williams, Ph.D., is a Program Officer at The National Academies.
Dr. Williams received her B.A. in Urban Studies from Vanderbilt University in
1997. After receiving her Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 2001, she worked as a demographic statistician at the U.S. Census
Bureau. She joined the IOM staff for the Committee on the Review and Assess-
ment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate
Health Disparities in 2004 after serving as a research analyst on the National
Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-sponsored Alcohol Epidemiology
Database Surveillance project at CSR, Incorporated.
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Thelma Cox is a Senior Program Assistant in the Board on Health Sciences
Policy. During her years at the IOM, she has also provided assistance to the
Division of Health Care Services and the Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and
Mental Disorders. Ms. Cox has worked on several IOM reports, including In the
Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce;
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care;
and Ethical Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies. She
has received the National Research Council Recognition Award and two IOM
Staff Achievement Awards.
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