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Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Pages 65-70
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(IOM) is the Ridley Watts Professor and was the founding head of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School (HMS)
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Her largest ongoing study compares quality of care in the VA system with that in the private setting for patients with cancer. For several years she coordinated several large studies comparing the value of alternative imaging modalities for patients with cancer.
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To perform these studies, she and other collaborators developed the NCI Radiation Risk Assessment Tool (RadRAT) , which is interactive computer software that uses state-of-the-art risk projection models to estimate lifetime cancer risks and incorporates Monte Carlo simulation methods to assess the impact of uncertainties in the assumptions and data.
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Kosti was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., where she conducted research on biomarker development for early cancer detection using casecontrol epidemiologic study designs. She focused primarily on prostate, breast, and liver cancers and trying to identify those individuals who are at high risk of developing malignancies.
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in biochemistry from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, an M.Sc. in molecular medicine from the University College London, and a Ph.D.
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