Offices or Service in National/International Bodies

All faculty are encouraged to participate in national and international organizations as a means to contribute to the scientific community. Faculty research and service activities described here will be limited to those with their primary appointments in the Department. Secondary appointees’ activities are listed in the Department's annual reports.

William H. Barker, MD, MRCP Edin

• President, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM)
• Ex officio member Steering Committees for ATPM cooperative agreements with Center for Disease Control, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Health Resources and Service Administration
• Governing Board American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• Chairman, Professional Advisory Committee, Teaching Immunization for Medical Education (TIME) project
• Council of Academic Linkage with Public Health Practice
• Association American Medical Colleges Education Subcommittee of the Medicine-Public Health Initiative.
• International Advisory Board Age and Aging
• Editorial Board for Supplement to Academic Medicine on "Enhancing Teaching of Prevention in Medical Schools"
• Roche Laboratories, consultant on Tamiflu education
• Wyeth, Laboratories, expert advisory committee for National Influenza Preventive Program
• American Heart Association Working Group on Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Database, 2000
• New York State Assisted Living for Elderly Project – Steering Committee

Theodore M. Brown, PhD

• Contributing Editor for "Public Health Then and Now" and "Voices of the Past" sections of the American Journal of Public Health.
• Editor, Rochester Studies in Medical History, University of Rochester Press.
• Referee for Annals of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Press, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Secretary-Treasurer of the Henry E. Sigerist Circle of Medical Historians

Nancy Perini Chin, PhD

• Human Organization – manuscript reviewer

Isabel D. Fernandez, MD, MPH, PhD

• Abstract reviewer for the American Public Health Association Meeting 2001 – Epidemiology Section

Bruce Friedman, PhD

• Member, American Public Health Association
• Member, Review Panel, James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award, Gerontological Health Section, American Public Health Association, 2000
• Member, Association for Health Services Research
• Article Reviewer, The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences
• Member, State Society on Aging of New York

Stephen J. Kunitz, MD, PhD

• Committee on Anthropology and Demography, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1998-2001.

Scott McIntosh, PhD

• Member, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
• Member, American Psychological Association
• Advisor, American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Youth Tobacco priority planning group
• Member, planning team, Monroe County teen tobacco cessation campaign
• Journal reviewer for Preventive Medicine
• Journal reviewer for Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
• Journal reviewer for American Journal of Health Promotion
• Leader – Team of researchers and medical experts updating and re-publishing smoking cessation self-help manual, "Clear Horizons," using web-based document development and communiction support.

\Deborah Ossip-Klein, PhD

• Member, Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN) Measures of Use Task Force (for measurement of adolescent tobacco use), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Member, Executive Committee, Abstinence Workgroup, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
• Member, Expert Advisory Panel, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Youth Cessation Survey Development
• Member, Department of Veterans Affairs RAI/MDS National Project Team
• Member, Department of Veterans Affairs VISN2 Implementation Team
• Member, Department of Veterans Affairs VISN2 Research Advisory Council
• Member, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
• Member, Editorial Board, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
• Advisor, Healthy Aging Project, Medicare tobacco treatment benefit demonstration project (RAND/Qualidigm)
• Co-founder and Chair, Lake Ontario Tobacco Cessation Research Consortium (investigators from universities in Western New York and Ontario)
• Advisor, American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Youth Tobacco priority planning group
• Member, American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium
• Member, planning team, Monroe County teen tobacco cessation campaign
• Journal reviewer for multiple scientific journals
• Reviewer, American Cancer Society National Grants Program, Research Scholar and Junior Faculty grants

Thomas A. Pearson, MD, MPH, PhD

• World Heart Federation
  • Executive Committee, Forum for Global CVD Prevention
  • Chair, Task Force of Education, Forum for Global CVD Prevention
• National Institutes of Health
  • Chair, Steering Committee, Nutrition Academic Award Program
  • Member, Curriculum Committee, Nutrition Academic Award Program
  • Member, Nutrition Education Research and Development Committee, Nutrition Academic Award Program
  • Chair, 2 Special Emphasis Panels, Genetic Determinants of Physical Activity and Coronary Calcification, Bethesda, MD, March 8-9, 2001
  • Formal Reviewer, Adult Treatment Panel III report, National Cholesterol Education Program
• National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine
  • Committee on Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Member
  • Reviewer – Clearing the Smoke: The Science Base of Tobacco Harm
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Chair of Cardiovascular Health Practitioners Institute
• Organizing Committee, Vth International Conference on Preventive Cardiology, Member
• Osaka Declaration Writing Group, Member and Co-chair
• American Heart Association
  • Population Sciences Committee, Chair
  • Scientific Affairs Coordinating Committee, Member
  • Task Force on Research – Population Studies, Member
  • 27th Ten Day Seminar on Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Faculty Member.
  • Prevention V Conference, Epidemiology Writing Group, Member
  • Secondary Prevention Consensus Committee, Member
  • Population Wellness Strategic Group, Member
• University of Glasgow: Member, Data Safety and Monitoring Board, PROSPER Study
• Harvard University: Data Safety and Monitoring Board, PROVE-IT Study, Member
• University of Nevada-Reno: Data Safety and Monitoring Board, Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Health Study (NIEHS), Chair
• Astra-Zeneca: Data Safety and Monitoring Board, EARTH Study, Member
• Johns Hopkins University: External Advisory Committee, Johns Hopkins Sibling Study, Member
• Bayer Corporation: Steering Committee, CHARGE Study, Co Chair
• Veterans Administration: Steering Committee, COURAGE Study, Member
• Morehouse College of Medicine: External Advisory Committee, Stroke Prevention Center, Member
• Editorial Boards
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Risk
  • CVD Prevention
  • American Journal of Medicine
• Reviewer
  • Journal of the American Medical Association
  • American Journal of Cardiology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Circulation
  • Others on request
• The Welcome Trust. Reviewer of Grant Proposal on Noncommunicable Disease Initiative

James G. Zimmer, MD

• Member, Scientific Review and Evaluation Board, Health Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs (1996 - )
• Associate, American College of Epidemiology
• Fellow, American College of Preventive Medicine
• International Epidemiological Association
• American Public Health Association
• Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
• American Geriatrics Society
• The Gerontological Society of America
• Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene