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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 58-68
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He was Chief of the Acute Illness Clinic at Madigan Army Medical Center m Tacoma, WA; Chief of Emergency Mcdicinc at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; and Chair of the Community Health and Ambulatory Care Department at the District of Columbia General Hospital. From 1990-1991 he served as the District of Columbia's Commissioner of Public Health.
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He has also won numerous awards for his work in public health, including two Outstanding Service Medals from the USPHS and the Shepard Science Award, CDC/ATSDR's preeminent award for scientific excellence, for a study he first-authored on deaths in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. Graham Colditz, M.D.
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One, "National Medical Expenditures Attributable to Overweight and Obesity," appeared in Health Affairs and garnered national media attention, including a front-page story m USA Today and coverage m the Economist, Time magazine, and the Washington Post, and was reported by other radio, television, newspaper, and Internet outlets across the country. That paper is now routinely cited as a driving motivation to reduce obesity rates.
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He has received the Spiegelman Gold Medal for Health Statistics, the Snedecor Award for applied statistical research, the Howard Gamin Award for AIDS Research, the NIH Director's Award, and the Public Health Service's Distinguished Service Medal. His research Interests include: developing statistical methods for epidemiologic studies, including mtervention trials and genetic epidemiologic studies, modeling absolute risk of disease, including breast cancer risk projection, and gastric cancer etiology, including an intervention trial to reduce the prevalence of advanced precancerous gastric lesions in Shandong Province, China.
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As statistician for the Hopkins Oncology Center, General Clinical Research Center, and Pediatric Clinical Research Unit, he has participated m the design and analysis of a wide range of clinical and epidemiologic studies. He has served as Statistical Editor at the Annals of internal Medicine since 1987.
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Lurie had line responsibility for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, which included developing emergency response plans at state and local levels, including plans for events involving multiple jurisdictions and an influenza pandemic. She was involved with flu surveillance and response at a time when hospitals m multiple jurisdictions across the coumtry were full, with multiple preparedness and response exercises, and with other efforts to directly link public health and health delivery sectors.
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He holds fellowships m the American College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology and the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association Christopher Murray, M.D., Ph.D. Christopher Murray, M.D., Ph.D., is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy, Director of the Harvard University Global Health initiative, and the former Executive Director of the Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster at the World Health Organization.
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She is currently extending this quantitative research into the area of breast cancer risk communication; specifically, into how to convey epidemiologic findings on risk and risk factors to individuals and policymakers. Her future research plans include examination of public attitudes toward, and understanding of, health risk messages, including information on the benefits and risks of disease screening, and examination of the positive and negative social consequences of a focus on individual risk and individual susceptibility for primary prevention strategies directed against common cancers.
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He has collaborated for more than two decades with statisticians and computer scientists on a project to axiomatize the relationship between causal models and statistical independence to characterize what can and cannot be learned about causal claims from statistical data in a variety of empirical settings, and to develop and implement algorithms for causal discovery. His research Interests emphasize the problem of inferring causal relations among latent variables, such as intelligence, that cannot be measured directly.
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She has received awards from, and has helped direct, numerous organizations dealing with epidemiology and statistics, and she is widely published m the areas of research synthesis, methods for detection of aberration m public health data, risk communication, and assessment of research impact. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the American Epidemiologic Society, and an Honorary Member of the Epidemic intelligence Service, the first woman ever accorded this honor.
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Dr. Wikler's current research Interests are ethical issues m population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, and ethical dilemmas arising m public health practice.
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