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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 49-58

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... He has authored or coauthored over 230 publications in a wide variety of clinical and methodological areas, including papers on the study of meta-analytic methods as applied to randomized trials and epidemiology. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership, a public–private partnership aimed at understanding methods for assessing drug safety in large, administrative databases.
From page 50...
... and serves as senior associate editor of Health Services Research. She serves on multiple editorial boards, including those of Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, the American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review.
From page 51...
... Dr. Clayton has served on several committees at the NIH Clinical Center and currently serves on the Food and Drug Administration Advisory Panel for Ophthalmic Devices, the board of directors of Women in Ophthalmology, the executive committee of the Women's Eye Health.Org, the medical and scientific advisory board of Tissue Banks International, and the editorial boards of The Ocular Surface and Oral Diseases.
From page 52...
... Dr. Davidoff has served on the Non-Prescription Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, as vice-chair of the board of Physicians for Human Rights, as chair of the Journal Oversight Committee for JAMA, and as a member of the editorial boards of Quality and Safety in Healthcare, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
From page 53...
... He served as chair of the Northwestern University Medical School curriculum committee and developed the curriculum on medical decision-making (which includes critical appraisal of the medical literature) , serving as course director since 1992; for this curricular work, he received the Society of General Internal Medicine National Clinician–Educator Award for Teaching Innovation.
From page 54...
... She is active in medical journalism and holds leadership positions in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Council of Science Editors, and the World Association of Medical Editors Ethics and Policy Committee. She has been instrumental in the development of editorial policy about such issues as authorship, conflicts of interest, and data-sharing in medical research.
From page 55...
... Patient Education System Task Force, the AHA Peer Review Evaluation Design Task Force, the AHA Stroke and Epidemiology Councils, and the AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Expert Panel. She has been a member of the Program Committee for the AHA Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention and a cochair of two National AHA Writing Committees, and she is a member of the AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Stroke Statistics Committee.
From page 56...
... Her most recent experience was as assistant vice president for federal affairs at MetLife. Before joining MetLife, she was counsel for state affairs for United Health Group, where she oversaw lobbying, coordinated advocacy, and managed state legislative and regulatory issues for over half the country.
From page 57...
... John B Wong, M.D., is the chief of the Division of Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine in the Department of Medicine of Tufts Medical Center and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of the Tufts University School of Medicine.
From page 58...
... Dr Wong received his M.D. from the University of Chicago and had postgraduate training in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center, including a National Library of Medicine–sponsored medical informatics fellowship in clinical decision-making.


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