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Speaker Bios. Clinical Research Roundtable Symposia on Public Confidence and Involvement in Clinical Research
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DAVID BARR is the Director of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research (FCHR). Prior to this, he worked at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the nation's oldest and largest AIDS service provider and educator. He was the Director of GMHC's Treatment Education and Advocacy Department from 1993 - 1997, and the Assistant Director of Policy from 1990 - 1993. From 1987 - 1990, Mr. Barr served as a staff attorney at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, where he directed the AIDS Policy Program. He is a founding member of the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and was an active member of the ACT UP/New York Treatment and Data Committee from 1987 - 1991. In addition, he was a member of the Institute of Medicine's AIDS Roundtable. He has also served as a panelist on the Public Health Service (PHS) Panel for the Development of HIV Clinical Practice Guidelines; as a consultant to the FDA Anti-Viral Advisory Committee; and as a panelist to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Panel for the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention of HIV-related Opportunistic Infections. Mr. Barr is a founding member of the Community Constituency Group of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease's (NIAID) AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG), and was a member of ACTG's Executive Committee.
ROBERT L. COMIS, M.D. is President of the Board of Directors for the Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, Director of the Allegheny Cancer Center in Pittsburgh, and the Director of the Allegheny Clinical Trials Research Center in Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from and completed his internship and residency at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in New York. He completed a fellowship at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center at the Harvard Medical School. He is currently on the editorial board of Topics on Supportive Care in Oncology, Oncology Bulletin, Cancer Research, and Cancer Therapeutics.
REX COWDRY, M.D., M.P.H. serves as Medical Director and Deputy Executive Director for Research of NAMI, a grassroots advocacy organization of individuals with serious mental illnesses and their families. He graduated from Yale College in 1968, earned his MD and Masters of Public Health degrees from Harvard, and completed a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He joined the research staff of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1976. His research and clinical interests include mood disorders and personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder. He served as the NIMH Clinical Director, the Chairman of the Medical Board of the NIH Clinical Center, and the Chief Executive Officer of the NIMH Neuropsychiatric Research Hospital. From 1994 to 1996, he was the Acting Director of the NIMH. Prior to joining NAMI, he served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the American Association of Health Plans, focussing particularly on economic and public policy issues in health plan coverage of clinical research.
KENNETH GETZ, M.B.A., is the president and publisher of CenterWatch, a publication that focuses on the clinical trials industry. CenterWatch is a subsidiary of the Medical Economics Company. Mr. Getz earned his undergraduate degree and M.B.A. from Northwestern University. Prior to CenterWatch, Mr. Getz worked as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little and then with Corporate Decisions, where he assisted pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies develop and implement business strategies. He has contributed book chapters and journal articles to such publications as Scrip Magazine, Applied Clinical Trials, The Drug Information Journal, and the Medical and HealthCare MarketPlace.
MARTHA N. HILL, RN, Ph.D., FAAN is a professor and the Director of the Center for Nursing Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Hygiene and Public Health and the School of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the Society of Geriatric Cardiology, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, the American Heart Association's Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and was the 1997-1998 president of the American Heart Association. Dr. Hill received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Johns Hopkins, her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her doctorate degree in behavioral sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Before coming to Hopkins, Dr. Hill was coordinator of Research in the Division of Hypertension and Pharmacology and the director of the Hypertension Outreach Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
MARGENE A.KENNEDY RN, CRNP, CCRC is the ACRP Certified Senior Research Coordinator and Operational Manager of Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Clinical Trials Unit. Mrs. Kennedy received her RN in 1965, then served as a nurse in the United States Peace Corps in south east Asia for 3 years, followed by 3 years with the US State Department. in Bangkok, Thailand's 5th Field Hospital as Head Nurse of their Emergency Room. She completed her graduate Nurse Practitioner training at the University of Maryland in 1975. In 1999 she became certified as a Clinical Research Coordinator with ACRP. Her career in clinical research began in 1973 when she started working in hypertension and cardiovascular research at Georgetown Hospital and later D.C. General Hospital. During this period, she lectured and published several articles, one in JAMA, entitled, "Adolescent Hypertension in Inner City High Schools". She also designed and copyrighted a brochure about understanding hypertension for the adolescent student. As a nurse practitioner Ms. Kennedy has worked in private practice, a nursing home, an HMO, and college health. Just prior to starting at Johns Hopkins she worked as a Clinical Research Monitor reviewing data for a variety of pain management and rheumatology protocols. Mrs. Kennedy's last 8 years have been spent working in industry-sponsored research at Johns Hopkins University. Her first 4 years were spent coordinating studies with Peter Kwiterovich, MD, in lipid research. Over the past 4 years she has worked with Adrian Dobs, MD, coordinating a variety of research protocols as well as being responsible for the training and management of the research staff. She is presently in the process of developing tools for better training and time management of the research coordinators. She is still coordinating several protocols herself as well as assisting other coordinators with their studies. Over the years she has coordinated more than 60 pharmaceutical sponsored research protocols.
SHERRY A. MARTS, Ph.D. Dr. Marts is the Scientific Director for the Society for Women's Health Research, the nation's only not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to improve the health of women through research. Her responsibilities include directing the Society's scientific programs, and serving as the Society's liaison with the research community, and serving as scientific spokesperson for the Society. Her work focuses on the Society's strategic objectives of increasing the inclusion of women in biomedical research studies, and promoting the development of the field of sex-based biology. Under her direction, the Society has launched "Some Things Only a Woman Can Do," a national public education campaign to encourage women to consider volunteering for medical research studies. She and her staff are also producing a series of scientific conferences on the biology of sex differences. Dr. Marts has more than 10 years' experience in biomedical research and non-profit management. Prior to joining the Society in 1998, Dr. Marts was Senior Analyst in the Clinical Research and Epidemiology Area at the consulting firm of Abt Associates Inc. in Bethesda, MD, where she worked on governance and regulatory affairs for the NIAID-sponsored HIV Network for Prevention Trials. From 1991 - 1996 she served as Director of Grant Programs for the American Health Assistance Foundation, a publicly supported charity that sponsors research on age-related and degenerative diseases in the US and Europe. From 1988-1991 she worked in grants administration and research regulatory affairs at the American Red Cross biomedical research laboratories. She received her Ph.D. in physiology (with a concentration in cell and molecular biology) from Duke University, and her B.Sc. (Hons.) in applied biology from Hatfield Polytechnic (UK).
JUDITH E. TSIPIS, Ph.D. received her undergraduate training at the University of Rochester and her graduate training at M.I.T. (Ph.D. in Biology 1971) and has been on the faculty of the Biology Department at Brandeis University since 1976. She also serves as the Director of the Master's Degree Program in Genetic Counseling at Brandeis, a program she helped found in 1992. The Brandeis genetic counseling program is one of only 24 such programs in the country and is the only one in New England. Professor Tsipis is currently Co-Chair of the Canavan Disease Screening Consortium and Vice President for Education of the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. She is also an active member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, the New England Regional Genetics Group and the Association of Genetic Counseling Program Directors, for which she served as chair for four years. Her current interests include: the impact of human disease gene patents on public health, with a special focus on the Canavan disease gene patent; genetic screening and genetic testing in populations at risk; and the development of new models for increasing the sensitivity of health professionals, including genetic counselors, to persons with disabilities and to issues affecting them. Her involvement in the training of genetic counselors and the above derives in great measure from her own experiences as the parent of a child with Canavan disease, a rare and progressive genetic disorder.
MARY WOOLLEY is the President of Research!America, a non-profit, membership supported grassroots public education and advocacy organization committed to making health-related research a much higher national priority. Under her leadership, Research!America's membership has more than tripled as it has earned the attention and respect of research, media, and community leaders with its signature public opinion surveys, advocacy resource materials, and public service advertising campaigns. Ms. Woolley serves on the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health Dean's Council, the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute and is a Founding Member of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ms. Woolley has a twenty-year editorial and publication history on science advocacy and research related topics. Her op-eds and letters to the editor are published in newspapers from coast to coast and she has been published in Science, Nature, Issues in Science and Technology, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Scientist, and other research-oriented periodicals. She is a sought-after speaker and is frequently interviewed by science, news and policy journalists. For her work on behalf of medical research, she has been awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration Award from the Society for Research Administrators; the American Hospital Association Silver Touchstone Award for Public Affairs Programming; the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Dean's Award for Distinguished Service; the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Special Award for Science Advocacy and the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research's Health Advocacy Award.
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Last Updated: 6/10/2003, 11:19 AM
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