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APPENDIX B
Committee Biographies
WILLIAM H. FOEGE, Chairman, is assistant surgeon
general and special assistant for policy development at
the Centers for Disease Control, where he served as
director from 1977 to 1983. Dr. Foege is president-elect
of the Amer loan Public Health Association. He is pro ject
director for a national health policy project chaired by
former President Jimmy Carter and director of an inter-
national task force for child survival cosponsored by the
World Health Organization, Rockefeller Foundation, United
Nations Development Program, World Bank, and UNICEF.
SUSAN P. BAKER, Vice~Chairman, is professor of health
policy and management and of environmental health ~;cienc:es
at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and
Public Health, with a joint appointment in pediatrics at
the School of Medicine. An epidemiologist specializing
in injury control, Dr. Baker i'; senior author of The
Injury Fact Book and chaired the advisory panel for the
Department of Transportation ' '; National Accident Sampling
System. Ber research has addressed injuries; from motor-
vehicle crashes, fires;, and poisoning and occupational
injuries.
JOHN H. DAVIS is professor and chairman of the
Department of Surgery of The University of Vermont
College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Davis also
serves as associate dean for clinical affairs in the
College of Medicine and chief executive off icer of the
University Health Center. He is the editor of the
Journal of Trauma, serves on the board of directors; of
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the American Trauma Society and the American Association
for the Surgery of Trauma, and is a past member of the
Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons
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and of the National Research Council. He is pas t
chairman of the Surgery Study Section of the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences.
PARK E. DIETZ is associate professor of law and of
behavioral medicine and psychiatry and medical director
of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at
the University of Virginia Schools of Law and Medicine.
Dr. Dietz is a psychiatrist and sociologist specializing
in criminal violence. He is vice-president of the
Amer ican Academy of Psych iatry and the Law, a consultant
to the FBI Academy Behavioral Science Unit, and pr incipal
investigator for a National Institute of Justice study of
mental disorder and violent cr ime .
DONALD S. . GANN is chairman of the Depar tment of Sur-
gery at Brown University and chief of surgery at Rhode
Island Hospital . Dr . Gann specializes in surgery of the
injured patient and in the hormonal and metabolic res-
ponse to injury. He has been chairman of the National
Research Council Committee on Emergency Medical Services
since 1974. He is secretary of the American Association
for the Surgery of Trauma and chairman of the Subcom-
mittee on Education of the Committee on Trauma of the
American College of Surgeons.
ALBERT I. RING is professor of mechanical engineering
and director of the Bioengineering Center at Wayne State
University. Dr. King'= principal research is in injury
biomechanics and low back pain. His research is supported
by U.S. government agencies and industry. Re is a fellow
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an
associate member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons.
ROBERT R. McME$KIN is director of the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology. Dr. MoMeekin is both a physician
and an attorney. Be was selected as a Robert Wood
Johnson Health Policy Fellow in 1980. His major health
policy interests are the health and safety aspects of
transportation systems, medical issues in national
defense, and the relation of military medicine to other
health care systems. He is a recognized authority on
aircraft accident investigations, directed the medical
investigation of the 747 collision in the Canary Islands
and the Jonestown homicides/suicides, and recently led a
forensic team to Grenada. Be served with He Rockefeller
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Commission on CIA activities in the United States
regarding the assassination of President Kennedy.
JOHN F. MULLAN is professor and chairman of the
Division of Neurological Surgery at the University of
Chicago and until recently was director of the Brain
Research Institute of the university. Dr. Mullan is a
fellow of the American College of Surgeons, assistant
secretary of the World Federation of Neurological
Societies, a member of the American Association of
Neurological Surgeons (Harvey Cushing Society) and the
American Academy of Neurological Surgery, and president
of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. He serves on
the editorial boards of the Journal of Neurosurgery and
the AMA Archives of Neurology.
BRIAN O'NEILL is executive vice-president of the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Mr. O'Neill is
head of the Institute 's research and communication
programs and is responsible for developing and imple-
menting programs to reduce the losses--deaths, injuries,
and property damage--resulting from motor-vehicle crashes.
He is vice chairman of the National Safety Council's
Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and a member of the
National Research Counc~l's Committee on Geometric Design
Standards for Highway Improvements. He has also served
on the advisory committee for the Department of
Transportation's National Accident Sampling System.
JAMES B. RESWICK is director of the Rehabilitation
Research and Development Evaluation Unit at the Veterans'
Administration Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Reswick has directed centers at Case Western Reserve
University and the University of Southern California
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital that develop technologic
devices for disabled persons. He is a member of the
Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of
Engineering and served as senior scientist at the
National Institute of Handicapped Research for 3 years.
He was the founding president of the Rehabilitation
Engineering Society of North America, is a fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and is
a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
LEON S. ROBERTSON is a research scientist in the
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the Yale
University School of Medicine. For the past 15 years,
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Dr. Robertson has conducted research on the epidemiology
of in jur ies and the ef festiveness of injury control
programs. He has served on the faculties of The Johns
Hopk ins University, Harvard University Medical School,
and Wake Forest University, and has taught for several
years in the summer session in epidemiology at the
University of Minnesota. He was also a senior behavioral
scientist in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
RICHARD G. SNYDER is director of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration Center for Excellence
in Man-Systems Research, a research scientist at the
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
and Institute of Science and Technology, and professor of
anthropology. Dr. Snyder served as head of the Bio-
medical Department of the Highway Safety Research
Institute for 14 years, has taught at various univer-
sities, and has managed biomechanics and impact in jury
research at Ford Motor Company and, as chief of the
Physical Anthropology Laboratory, at the Civil Aero-
medical Research Institute of the Federal Aviation
Administration. He has written some 400 scientific
publications, reports, and presentations, primarily on
human tolerance, occupant crash protection, and impact
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WILLIAM A. SPENCER is president of The Institute for
Rehabilitation and Research at the Texas Medical Center
in Houston and professor and chairman of the Fleming
Department of Rehabilitation at Baylor College of
Medicine. Dr. Spencer, a member of the Institute of
Medicine, is a consultant to the National Institute of
Handicapped Research and a consultant in rehabilitation
to numerous hospitals in Texas. Be serves on the
scientific advisory board of the Paralyzed Veterans of
America Technology and Research Foundation and the
scientific merit review board for rehabilitation research
and development of the Veterans' Administration and is a
member of the executive committee of the board of the
National Association of Rehabilitation Research Centers.
He z~ also on the editorial boards of several journals in
the fields of computers, information handling, and
physical medicine and prosthetics.
C. THOMAS THOMPSON is a general surgeon in private
practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. Thompson has a
long-standing interest in injury dating back to his
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residency years in New Orleans after he received his
medical degree at Harvard University Medical School in
1949. He has held various positions on the Committee on
Tr auma of the Amer loan College of Surgeons, culminating
in appointment as chairman in 1978. He is currently
governor and a senior member of the Committee on Trauma
of the American College of Surgeons. His interest in
standards of injury care has led to publication of the
optimal care documents. He has been an administrator at
St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, and chairman of the
executive co~unittee of its board of directors.
DAVID C. VIANO is assistant head of the Biomedical
Science Department of General Motors Research
Laboratories. Dr. Viano is in charge of the research
program dealing with the biomechanics and pathophysiology
of automotive crash injuries. He is a specialist in the
biomechanics of whole-body, internal-organ, and
soft-tissue injury and has identified the viscous
mechanism of soft-tissue damage. He has degrees in
applied mechanics from the California Institute of
Technology and has completed postdoctoral research in
biomedical sciences. Be is on the adjunct faculty at
Wayne State University, where he has taught graduate
courses in biomeabanics and conducted research.
JULIAN A. WAr7~R is professor of medicine at The
University of Vermont. Dr. Waller, an epidemiologist and
public health specialist, has carried out research and
intervention programs in both highway and nonhighway
safety for the last 25 years. He is a past president of
the American Association for Automotive Medicine and has
served on the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee
and the National Academy of Sciences Review Panel for the
National Bureau of Standards and as a consultant on
injury to the World Health Organization and the National
Commission on Causes and Prevention of Violence. He
received the National Safety Council' Metropolitan Life
Award for Accident Research.
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