TAB C-2

                       Biographical Sketches

          (New staff/consultants as of December 17, 1994)


PRAVEEN FERNANDES
Research Associate

Before joining the Advisory Committee, Mr. Fernandes worked at the 
Senate Committee on Labor & Human Resources, as a staff assistant to 
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's economic advisor, job training advisor, 
and labor counsels.  He graduated from Brown University in June 1994 
with a B.A. in Biomedical Ethics.  Within the Biomedical Ethics field, 
Mr. Fernandes' particular area of interest is informed consent 
policies and adolescents, which was the focus of his thesis research.  
He is also interested in immigration law/policy, and issues of race 
and ethnicity.

SHOBITA PARTHASARATHY
Research Associate

Ms. Parthasarathy recently received her B.A. from the University of 
Chicago where she majored in biology, while also fulfilling the degree 
requirements for a major in public policy.  Before joining the 
Advisory Committee staff, she worked as a policy analyst for the 
Chicago Health and Medicine Policy Research Group where her work 
focused primarily on provisions for women's health in the various 
health care reform proposals.  During the summers of 1992 and 1993, 
Ms. Parthasarathy served as a student researcher at the Baylor College 
of Medicine in Houston, TX.  Her work culminated in a paper about the 
nature of myocardial infarction and its impact on patients' recovery 
from heart disease, which is soon to be published in the Journal of 
Clinical Investigation.