TAB C Biographical Sketches New Staff/Consultant Hires since October 13, 1994 STEVEN GOODMAN, M.D., M.H.S., Ph.D. Consultant Dr. Goodman in an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Oncology, Biostatics and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, where he works as a consultant and collaborator on a broad range of clinical research throughout the medical center. He has served on several NIH panels, including the committee that reviewed the Human Growth Hormone trials. In 1992 he authored a report to OTA on "The Adequacy of International Council on Radiation Protection (ICRP) Standards for Internal Alpha-Emitters". His own research interests are in methods to combine biological and statistical evidence in clinical trials, and issues relating to inference and ethics in early stopping of clinical research. His undergraduate training was in applied math and biochemistry at Harvard, he received an MD from NYU, his residency training was in pediatrics at Washington University, and he received a masters degree in Biostatics and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins in 1989. VALERIE HURT Research Associate Ms. Hurt joined the staff of the Advisory Committee after working as a research assistant for the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction (NABER) in Washington, DC. At NABER, she worked on many topics, including oocyte donation, embryo splitting, and the value of children. Prior to that, Ms. Hurt worked as a research assistant to Dr. Joanne Lynn, then of the ICU Research Department of George Washington University, and for the Intergovernmental Health Policy Project, also at GWU. Ms. Hurt received a B.A. degree from Rice University. Her self-designed major in ethics and the history of public policy and law included coursework in history, religion, and philosophy. She completed a senior thesis on eugenics and criminal sterilization. Currently, her research interests include the ethical prospects of clinical research and how technology is made available to society. WILHELMINE MILLER, M.S., M.A. Research Analyst In addition to her staff duties, Ms. Miller is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Georgetown University, with a specialization in ethics and public policy. She received her M.S. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and served as a policy analyst in the Department of Health and Human Services for fifteen years prior to undertaking graduate work at Georgetown. She has developed legislative policy and conducted program evaluations primarily in the areas of health care finance, services coverage, and payment policy. Her B.A. is in Sociology from the University of Michigan. PATRICIA J. PERENTISIS, R.N., C.N.M.T. Research Associate Before joining the staff, Ms. Perentisis worked in a community hospital as staff and charge nurse in multiple units concentrating in intensive and coronary care units. She joined the National Institutes of Health in February 1983 to perform nuclear cardiology research and later joined a group researching the use of monoclonal antibodies in radioimmunoscintigraphy and radioimmunotherapy in cancer. She has been an invited speaker at a number of scientific meetings and co-author on multiple publications. Ms. Perentisis attended Hartford Community College and St. Mary's College of Maryland and received her nursing degree in 1977. She went on to study Nuclear Medicine Technology in 1981 and received certification in 1983. Ms. Perentisis has continued her education with graduate courses in Tissue Cell Culture, and Law, Policy and Ethics.