Dr. Howard K. Koh - (Chair)
Harvard School of Public Health
Howard Koh, M.D., M.P.H., is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Associate Dean for Public Health Practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Koh's research interests include exploring community-based strategies to reduce cancer disparities and promote cancer prevention and early detection, as well as tobacco control.
Previously, he served as Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health to advance projects with a broad array of state and national organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute. He is a member of IOM and is currently serving on the Committee on Smoking Cessation in Military and Veterans Populations and the Roundtable on Health Disparities. Dr. Koh received his M.D. from Yale University, and his M.P.H. from Boston University School of Public Health.
Dr. Ana V. Diez Roux
University of Michigan
Ana Diez-Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities, and Associate Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Her research interests include social epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, air pollution and cardiovascular risk, race and ethnic disparities, and systems approaches in population health. She has published extensively on a variety of public health issues, including the relationship between communities and cardiovascular risk factors and exposure to particulate matter and subsequent development of atherosclerosis, among others. Dr. Diez-Roux earned a Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She also earned an M.D. from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985.
Dr. David W. Fleming
Public Health - Seattle & King County
David W. Fleming, M.D., is the Director of the Department of Public Health in Seattle/King County. Previously in his career, Dr. Fleming directed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Strategies Program, served as the Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, and was the State Epidemiologist for the Oregon Health Division. Dr. Fleming has published on a wide range of public health issues, and has served on multiple boards and commissions, including the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. He has served on numerous IOM committees, including the Committee on Training Physicians for Public Health Careers, the Committee on the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States, and the Panel on Performance Measures for Data and Public Health Performance Partnership Grants. Dr. Fleming received his M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. He is board certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine and serves on the faculty of the departments of public health at both the University of Washington and Oregon Health Sciences University.
Dr. Martha N. Hill
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Martha Hill, R.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., is Dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and professor in Nursing, Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Hill is known for her research in preventing and treating hypertension, particularly among young, urban African-American men. She is a member of IOM (elected in 1998) and has served on numerous IOM committees, including as vice-chair of the Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems and Vice Co-Chair of the report Unequal Treatment; Confronting Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Health."Dr. Hill has also served as past-President of the American Heart Association, and on editorial boards, and advisory committees. She has over 130 publications to her credit. She received a M.S.N. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in behavioral sciences from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Dr. Corinne Husten
Partnership for Prevention
Corinne Husten, M.D., M.P.H., is the Vice President of Policy Development of the Partnership for Prevention. Previously, she served as chief epidemiologist and acting director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC). Some of her accomplishments include serving as the scientific lead for developing the Healthy People 2010 tobacco control objectives, leading the release of the Surgeon General’s report on second-hand smoke, developing “Best Practices” for tobacco prevention and control, serving on the guideline panel for the PHS “Treating tobacco use and dependence” guideline, providing technical assistance to the Community Preventive Services Task Force guideline recommendations on tobacco, and helping plan tobacco-free campus initiatives at the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Husten received her M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine and her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Dr. Sherman A. James
Duke University
Sherman James, Ph.D., is the Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies and also Professor of Sociology and Community and Family Medicine at Duke University. Dr. James, a social epidemiologist, studies the social determinants of racial disparities in health and healthcare, particularly in cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He is a member of IOM (elected in 2000) and served on the Committee for Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Plan to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities. Dr. James earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Thomas G. Pickering
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Thomas Pickering, M.D., D. Phil., is Director of the Behavioral Cardiovascular Health and Hypertension Program at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Pickering's extensive research focuses on hypertension, psychosocial factors and cardiovascular disease, and delivery of effective care. His research contributions include the recognition of white coat hypertension as a clinically important entity of behavioral origin, the role of job strain in the development of hypertension, and the use of ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring for evaluating the causes and consequences of hypertension. He has authored more than 550 scientific articles and chapters and recently served on the IOM Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress. Dr. Pickering serves on numerous editorial boards of hypertension and behavioral medicine journals. In addition, he has served on several NIH task forces. He received his M.D. from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London, and his D.Phil. from Linacre College, Oxford University.
Dr. Geoffrey Rosenthal
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Geoffrey Rosenthal, M.D., Ph.D., is a pediatric cardiologist and the Director of the Pediatric Cardiovascular Research group at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rosenthal has served on numerous committees including the Pediatric Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration and as co-chair of the Quality Improvement Working Group of the Section on Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology of the American College of Cardiology. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Walter C. Willett
Harvard School of Public Health
Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Willett is also the Chair of the Department of Nutrition. Dr. Willett's research primarily involves the investigation of dietary factors, using epidemiologic approaches, in the cause and prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other important conditions. Fundamental to this work has been the development of methods to measure dietary intake in large populations. In addition, Dr. Willett continues to work on the development and evaluation of biological markers of dietary intake, particularly using plasma and toenail samples. These biological indicators are primarily utilized in nested case-control studies using the large specimen banks collected prospectively as part of ongoing studies. Dr. Willett is a member of the IOM. Dr. Willett received his M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1970, and his Dr.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980.
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