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Five Members Appointed to NCRR Advisory Council
The National Advisory Research Resources Council, which advises NCRR on policies and programs and performs second-level peer review of grant applications, has five new members. The new appointees are:
Kevin B. Johnson, associate professor of pediatrics, vice chair and associate professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University. Johnson’s research lies at the intersection of clinical informatics and medicine. His areas of study include developing and evaluating computer-based software to record patient encounters and electronic prescribing systems to assist with ambulatory order entry and clinical decision support.
Thomas J. Rosol, dean of the college of veterinary medicine at The Ohio State University. Rosol studies hormones and cytokines related to cancer. He is known for his discovery of parathyroid hormone-related protein in multiple animal cancers. He also has made contributions to the study of bone metastasis and the metabolism of calcium and bone, and he has developed mouse models of human and animal cancers.
Richard Rudick, director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research; chairman of the division of clinical research; and Hazel Prior Hostetler professor of neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Rudick researches the pathogenesis and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). He is also involved in the study of new outcome measures for MS clinical trials.
(Photos courtesy of Vanderbilt University [Johnson], J. R. Harvey, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University [Rosol], The Cleveland Clinic [Rudick])
M. Roy Wilson, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Wilson is a skilled administrator in the health sciences field. He is the former president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and vice president for health sciences at Creighton University. His interests include glaucoma research, minority health, and health disparities.
(Photos courtesy of University of Colorado at Denver [Wilson], University of California, Davis [Yilma])
Tilahun D. Yilma, distinguished professor of virology and director of the International Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Tropical Disease Agents at the University of California, Davis. Yilma’s research focuses on the development of a vaccine against HIV as well as the development of recombinant vaccines for major diseases of livestock.
