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Appendix C: Planning Committee Biosketches
Pages 59-62

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... influences health. In the field of risk perception, she has studied how adolescents' perceptions of risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy influence sexual behavior and use of contraceptives.
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... Floyd Bloom, M.D., is the executive director of scientific communications and professor emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a past editor-in-chief of Science and served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2002 to 2003 and as chairman of its board of directors from 2003 to 2004.
From page 61...
... Huber Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after spending 15 years on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, where he served as chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and as a director of ambulatory care at the Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Medical Center. He served as president of the American College of Physicians and chaired the U.S.
From page 62...
... Sox served as chair of the IOM Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood Products and the IOM Committee on Health Effects of Exposures in the Persian Gulf War. Most recently, he was a member of three IOM committees involved in the emergence of comparative-effectiveness research.


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