Advisory Committee Staff Bios Biographical Sketches (Including full-time and part-time staff and consultants as of July 20, 1994) BARBARA BERNEY, M.P.H. Senior Policy and Research Analyst Before she joined the Advisory Committee Staff, Ms. Berney directed a project at Boston University on identifying and evaluating health indicators in populations living near hazardous waste sites. She established and ran the Urban Environment Conference's Center for Occupational Health Education for Women and Minority Workers and helped organize the first national conference on the impact of environmental and occupational exposures on communities and workers of color. Ms. Berney has also evaluated grass roots oriented environmental initiatives for the C.S. Mott and Public Welfare Foundations. In addition, she has written about the history of epidemiology of lead poisoning, methodological issues in risk assessment, women's health, and other environmental and health care topics. Ms. Berney received an M.P.H. from UCLA and is a Pew Fellow in Public Health Policy at Boston University. Her undergraduate training was in Political Science at Reed College. ALLEN BUCHANAN, Ph.D. Consultant In addition to his staff role, Dr. Buchanan is Grainger Professor of Business Ethics, School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison where he is also Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Medical Ethics. He served as staff philosopher for the President's Commission for the study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1982. He is the author of numerous articles and books on ethical theory, political philosophy, bioethics, and business ethics including the following books: Marx and justice (1982), Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market(1985),Deciding for 0thers: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making(with Dan W.Brock)(1989), and Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (I 99 1). FAITH ANNE BULGER, J.D. Research Analyst Before she joined the Advisory Committee staff, Ms. Bulger practiced environmental law for three years with Vinson and Elkins L.L.P. in Houston, Texas. As an associate, she worked with many state and Federal environmental statutes and regulatory schemes. Her practice developed into predominantly toxic tort litigation. Ms. Bulger served as a legal intern at both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Department of Interior. She received her Juries Doctor degree from the University of Texas with her undergraduate degree from Princeton University. In law school, she took both a bioethics course with John Robertson focusing on informed consent in human experimentation and a seminar on international human rights. Her interests are primarily related to intentional releases of radiation. 1 SARA CHANCRES Research Associate In addition to her Committee duties, Ms. Chandros is a Doctor of Science candidate 'in the Program in Law, Ethics, and Health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her primary research interests include issues of genetic technology and reproductive rights. She has served as ethicist on the Johns Hopkins' School of Public Health Animal Care and Use Committee, and participated in several health policy research projects at the school. Prior to her graduate studies, Ms. Chandros earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Brandies University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she conducted research for several years in the area of molecular genetics. In addition, she was a three-year member and chairperson of the Brandies University Board on Student conduct KRISTIN CROTTY Coordinator for Congressional Relations and Public Affairs Ms. Crotty joined the staff of the Advisory Committee after working as a research assistant for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce chaired by Rep. John Dingell (D-MI). While with the Subcommittee, she researched human radiation experiments, and workers' health and safety at the nuclear weapons complex. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Ms. Crotty attended Michigan State University majoring in Humanities with an emphasis in political science. JIM DAVID, M.A., J.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst In addition to his duties on the Advisory Committee Staff, Jim David is a historian at the Department of Space History, National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. His work primarily involves post-World War II military and military-related research. He has written an entry for the American National Biography to be published by Oxford University Press, and co-authored an article which appeared in the New York Times. Current projects include a work on conducting post-World War 11 national security research in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. David received his B.A. from Occidental College and his J. D. from the University of Santa Clara. He earned his Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. GWEN V. DAVIS Research Associate Ms. Davis is presently a candidate for the Master in Public Affairs degree at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. She received a B. A. in Political Science, with a concentration in public policy, from Swarthmore College. She previously worked as a research assistant for the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work at SELC focused on energy efficiency and electric utility planning,. Ms. Davis was awarded a Rep. Jake Pickle Fellowship from the LBJ School, to support a federal government internship, and she joins the Advisory Committee staff as a research associate for the summer. 2 JONATHAN ENGEL, Ph.D. Research Analyst Dr. Engel received his Ph.D. in History of Medicine from Yale where he concentrated on History of Health Policy and Public Health, and History of Psychiatry. His dissertation focused on deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in Maryland, and demonstrated how Federal health legislation was Translated into a state policy. He has worked in OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and HCFA's Office of Legislation and Policy, and has taught a variety of courses on topics ranging from managing the AIDS epidemic to the impact of the Freudian movement on the Vienna Jewish community. Dr. Engel received a B.A. degree in the History of Science from Harvard University, as well as an M.P.P.M. degree from the Yale School of Management. PATRICK A. FITZGERALD, M.A. Research Analyst Mr. Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and doctoral candidate at The University of Arizona. He received an MPhil. in politics from Oxford University, an M.A. in philosophy from The University of Arizona, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Miami University. Previously he has been an Olin Fellow, Lambe Fellow, and Human Studies Research Fellow. He specializes in ethics and political philosophy. JERRY GARCIA, M.A. Special Assistant for Committee and Staff Affairs Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Mr. Garcia was owner of Results Marketing, a small marketing and public relations company, for four years. As a marketing consultant he worked with clients mainly in Scandinavia and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition he worked for Alexander Proudfoot International as a management consultant in Brussels. He holds an M.A. in Psychology from the University Of Dusseldorf in Germany and a B.A. in Psychology and Rhetorical Communications from the University of Virginia. MARK W. GOODMAN, Ph.D. Research Analyst Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Dr. Goodman served as a Congressional Science Fellow, working on energy, environment, science and technology issues, and as a contractor for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contributing to several reports on space policy. Dr. Goodman's earlier policy research focused on arms control, nuclear weapons, and military space policy, and he contributed to the book Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: Guidelines for US Policy (Harper Collins, 1992). Dr. Goodman received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton in 1986, and worked as a theoretical physicist before switching his focus to public policy. 3 JOHN C. HARBERT, M.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst Dr. Harbert trained at Stanford University and Northwestern University Medical Center School before completing his residency in nuclear medicine at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH. He became Chief of Clinical Nuclear Medicine at NIH in 1969, leaving to become Director of Nuclear Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Radiology in 1979. After leaving Georgetown in 1988, Dr. Harbert wrote a popular medical health advisory, titled "Doctor In The House," published by Humana Press, 1994. In 199 1, Dr. Harbert returned to the NIH to write and edit a three volume textbook of nuclear medicine to be published by Thieme Publishers, New York Dr. Harbert is the author of 11 textbooks in the field of nuclear medicine, has written more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles, more than 100 abstracts, and contributed 10 book- chapters to other editors. His research in human subjects at the NIH and at Georgetown University Hospital included investigations into the clinical efficacy and dosimetry of radioisotope cisternography, as well as radioisotope diagnostic studies pertaining to kidney, heart liver, thyroid, and bone diseases. JON M. HARKNESS, MA. Consultant In addition to his staff duties, Mr. Harkness is Managing Editor of Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society, which is edited by Corneal University. He is also nearing completion of the doctoral program in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is broadly interested in the history of American medicine, science and technology, but his research presently centers on the history of human experimentation. His dissertation looks in particular at the history of the use of the American federal and state prisoners as research subjects. He holds a B.A. in biology from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa and an M.A. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. GREGG HERKEN, Ph.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst In addition to his staff duties, Dr. Herken currently is Chairman of the Department of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum and Curator of Military Space in the department. Before joining the Smithsonian, Dr. Herken taught recent American History and the History of American Foreign Policy at Oberlin College, Yale University and the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of three books, The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf, 198 1; Princeton, 1988), Counsels of collective political biography of physicists Ernest Lawrence, Edward Teller, and Robert Oppenheimer. He received a Ph.D. in Modem American Diplomatic History from Princeton University in 1974. DEBORAH J. HOLLAND, M.A. Research Analyst Ms. Holland is-currently a graduate student at Northwestern University completing a Ph.D. in History with a concentration in the development of he U.S. nuclear weapons program. For three years she served as the Issues Director of the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute. She holds a M.A. in History from Northwestern and a B.A. in American Studies from Hamilton College. 4 DENISE HOLMES, J.D., M.P.H. Research Analyst Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Ms. Holmes was a lawyer in private practice, and a legal consultant for both the 1992 Democratic National Convention and The Washington Post. She has performed policy analysis for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and the New York City Board of Education. Ms. Holmes holds a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, and a Masters in Public Health (Health Policy) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in American Studies from Mount Holyoke College. JEFFREY KAHN, Ph.D., M.P.H. Associate Director In addition to his staff duties, Dr. Kahn is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Associate Director for Graduate Studies in the Center for the Study of Bioethics of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). His administrative responsibilities at MCW include directing the College's Master's program in Bioethics. Before joining the faculty at MCW, Dr. Kahn was Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities at East Carolina University School of Medicine, in Greenville, NC. Dr. Kahn's background includes study in both science and the humanities, with a B.A. in Microbiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a M.P.H. (Health Policy) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University, where he studied Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Dr. Kahn does research and has published in a variety of areas, including theoretical bioethics, ethics and genetics, ethical issues in health policy, and research ethics. NANCY E. KASS, Sc.D. Consultant In addition to her staff duties, Dr. Kass is Assistant Professor with the Program in Law, Ethics, and Health, Department of Health Policy and Management Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She received her B.A. degree from Stanford University, her Sc.D from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Most of her work has combined empirical health services research with normative analyses, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her primary research interests have been policy and ethics issues related to HIV disease and to genetics. She also has served as consultant to the Office for the Protection of Research Risks, National Institutes of Health and to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. LANNY KELLER Public Affairs Officer Mr. Keller has been an editor, reporter, columnist and editorial writer. He is a former Executive Editor of the Baton Rouge Business Report and Editorial Page Editor of the Shreveport Journal. As an editorial writer, he won the 1990 Walker Stone Award for distinguished editorial writing in the public interest. He has been press secretary to candidates for governor and Congress, and served as assistant press secretary in the Louisiana govenor's office. Mr. Keller has written extensively on public policy for regional and national publications. 5 JEANNE G. KEPPER Special Assistant for Committee and Staff Affairs Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Ms. Kepper was the Assistant Office Administrator at Green Stewart & Farber, P.C., in Washington D.C. After receiving her B.A. from Vanderbilt University she worked as a paralegal for Schwalb, Donnenfeld, Bray & Silbert, P.C. and for Green, Stewart & Farber, P.C., a spinoff of Schwalb, Donnenfeld. An enthusiastic volunteer, Ms. Kepper is a member of the Junior League of Washington. STEPHEN KLAIDMAN Director of Communications Counselor to the Committee In addition to his staff duties, Mr. Klaidman is currently a visiting Professor of Journalism at the Pennsylvania State University and a Fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He began his career in academia after 23 years as a journalist with The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The International Herald Tribune. Mr. Klaidman has been a columnist, editorial writer, reporter, and editor. He has been a Senior Associate of the Institute for Health Policy Analysis at Georgetown University, Director of the Undergraduate Values Project at Georgetown University; and is currently an Associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Health in the Headlines (Oxford, 199 1) and The Virtuous Journalist (Oxford, 1987, with Tom L. Beauchamp). Mr. Klaidman has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he won First Prize in the Media Studies competition in 1989. In 1992, he won the Lowell Mellet Award for improving journalism through critical evaluation. ANNA C. MASTROIANNI, J.D. Associate Director Before, joining the Advisory Committee staff, Ms. Mastroianni was a study director in the Division of Health Sciences Policy of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. In that position, she most reently directed a study evaluating legal and ethical issues relating to the inclusion of women in clinical studies. Previously, Ms. Mastroianni practiced health care law in Washington, D.C., and served as a legal consultant to the National Research Council's Committee on Contraceptive Development. She received her J.D., B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include legal and ethical issues related to human subjects research and the "right to die." She currently studies health policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and is a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Workgroup on Women in Medicine. 6 JONATHAN D. MORENO, Ph.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst In addition to his staff dudes, Dr. Moreno is a Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine and founding Director of the Division of Humanities in Medicine at the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. Dr. Moreno has also held full-time academic appointments at George Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Swarthmore College. He received a Doctorate in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis in 1977, and graduated from Hofstra University in 1973, with highest honors in philosophy and psychology. Dr. Moreno has been Associate for Social and Behavioral Studies at the Hastings Center, was the first Philosopher-in-Residence at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and was an Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in association with the-Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. RONALD NEUMANN, M.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst In addition to his staff duties, Dr. Neumann is Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Department, Clinical Center of National Institutes of Health, and is Clinical Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the George Washington University Medical School. He received his medical degree and residency training in Anatomic Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Neumann served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Radiology and Anatomic Pathology at the Yale School of Medicine before joining the NIH in 19 85. His research interests focus on radionuclide techniques for identifying and treating cancers. DAVID SAUMWEBER, MA. Director of Information Services Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Mr. Saumweber was Director of the Office of Archives and Information Services at the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council. In that position, Mr. Saumweber directed the NRC Library and the NAS Archives. Mr. Saumweber's recent activities include managing development of computer applications for electronic information delivery, membership management and institutional policies, directing redevelopment of records management programs, and planning future service development Mr. Saumweber received a B.A. degree with honors in Philosophy and an M.A. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Virginia. His research interests include the nature of the document and the meaning of authenticity in electronic environments. Mr. Saumweber's most recent publications are a review of the NAS archival program for the AIP History Newsletter and contributions to Preservation of Historical Records, an NRC report to the National Archives. 7 GARY M. STERN, J.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst From 1987 to 1994, Gary Stem was Legislative Counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union and its Center for National Security Studies. Mr. Stern's work concentrated on government secrecy, security clearances, counterintelligence, oversight of the intelligence community, the Freedom of Information Act, and information policy. Mr. Stem is editor of 7he US. Constitution and the Power to Go to War (Greenwood Press,1994, with Morton H.Halperin), co-authorof The Right to Protest: The Basic ACLU Guide to Free Expression (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), and an editor and contributor to the ACLU's annual Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws. He has published articles in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Nation, Mr. Stern graduated from Yale Law School in 1987, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of international Law. He received his A.B. from Vassar College in 1983, where he majored in Ancient Greek and was Phi Beta Kappa. JEREMY SUGARMAN, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. Senior Policy and Research Analyst In addition to his staff duties, Dr. Sugarman is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Program in Medical Ethics in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Health Policy Research and Education at Duke University Medical Center. He received his medical deg= and residency training at Duke and went on to pursue formal training in Medical Ethics at Georgetown University, where he received his M.A. in Philosophy. Dr. Sugarman also received training in empirical research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he received an M.P.H. Dr. Sugerman is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a practicing physician at the Duke Medical Cc=. He has consulted for the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment on its Defensive Medicine and Use of Medical Technologies Project. His primary research interests relate to the moral issues associated with physician-patient communication such as advance directives, informed consent and shared medical decision making. KATHERINE A. TAYLOR, J.D. Research Analyst Ms. Taylor is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Georgetown University, with a specialization in bioethics. Before returning to school, she practiced health law for six years, first with Fulbright & Jaworski-in Houston and Washington, D.C., and then with Fox, Bennett and Turner, also in Washington. Her health practice included regulatory and lobbying work in the food and drug arena; medical malpractice defense; and counseling hospitals on issues such as medical staff matters,reimbursements, informed consent, andwithholding of treatment. Ms.Taylor received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. 8 NOEL THEODOSIOU Research Associate Ms. Theodosiou recently received her B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College where she majored in history, and minored in political science and music. During the summer of 1992, Noel travelled to Bucharest, Romania, where she worked for the League for the Defense of Human Rights, translating proposed press laws, researching press rights violations and studying international human rights law during the pre-election period. At Swarthmore, Ms. Theodosiou actively participated in the revision of the school's sexual assault policy, rehabilitative programs for survivors and educational programs for the college community. In addition, Ms. Theodosiou is a certified mediator. SANDRA D. THOMAS, M.D., M.S. Research Analyst Before joining the Advisory Committee, Sandra Thomas served as a postdoctoral fellow in the epidemiology department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has conducted research on the effects of tobacco on platelet counts, female fertility and personality factors, and smoking cessation in pregnant women. Her educational background included a Bachelors in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Medicine and Masters in Preventive Medicine from the Ohio State University. She wrote her masters' thesis on diagnostic radiation exposure in neonatal intensive care units. EDWARD W. WEBSTER, Ph.D. Consultant Since 1953, Dr. Webster has been a medical physicist in the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He has been the chairman of the Radiation Safety Committee since 1966. He became the director of the Radiological Sciences Division in 1970 and has been a Professor of Radiology (Physics) at the Harvard Medical School since 1975. His major recent activities have concerned the dosimetry, effects and risk assessment of ionizing radiation. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (1980), of the Oversight Committee on Radioepidemiologic Tables (1984), and is currently a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. He has been a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection since 1965 and was a co-author of the 1993 NCRP reports on Risk Estimates for Radiation Protection and Limitation of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. DONALD WEIGHTMAN, J.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst Before joining the Advisory Committee staff, Mr. Weightman was special counsel at the Office of Thrift Supervision, working in a special unit investigating departures from professional standards by lawyers and accountants in the savings and loan collapse. Previously, he was in private practice at Spiegel & McDiarmid, where he helped lead investigations into causes and consequences of cost overruns in nuclear construction programs. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before studying law, he did graduate work in philosophy at Boston University, and received a B.A. from Haverford College. 9 GILBERT WHITTEMORE, J.D., Ph.D. Senior Policy and Research Analyst Dr. Whittemore is a lawyer and historian of science from Cambridge, MA. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1972, a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1975, and a PhD. in the History of Science from Harvard University in 1986. He has taught the History of Science at Harvard and in the Concourse Program for first year students at MIT. He currently serves in an of counsel' capacity for the Boston law firm of Stalter and Kennedy, while completing a book on the history of radiation protection standards and beginning a book on attempts to build a nuclear- powered aircraft. Scholarly work relevant to the Advisory Committee's tanks includes his dissertation The National Committee on Radiation Protection, 1928-1960: From Professional Guidelines to Government Regulation (University Microfilms #8704465) and the article "A Crystal Ball in the Shadows of Nuremberg and Hiroshima: The Ethical Debate Over Human Experimentation to Develop a Nuclear-Powered Bomber, 1946-195 1", published in E. Mendelsson M.R. Smith and P. Weingart (eds.), Science, Technology and the Military. Sociology of Sciences Yearbook, Vol. XII (1988) pp. 431462. Dr. Whittemore also devotes some time to teaching middle-school science at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School in Cambridge. 10