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News & HighlightsTop StoriesSummer 2010
NVHR Announces New Steering Committee Members
The NVHR Annual Steering Committee Election is complete. We asked for nominations from among our voting (community based organization) members and 15 people were nominated to fill 4 three-year terms. With a 37% voter turnout, and a close race, we are happy to announce the winners. Please join the NVHR staff and steering committee in welcoming Micheal Carden and Chiehwen (Ed) Hsu as new members of the steering committee and returning members Lorren Sandt and Dennis Simon. Their terms will commence in September. Michael represents the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C at Weil Cornell Medical Center where he oversees an NIH funded study investigating the effectiveness of providing hepatitis C antiviral treatment to active drug users, using multidisciplinary care integrated by intensive case management, in collaboration with community-based needle exchange programs. He is also the chair of the National Hepatitis C Advocacy Council and a Project Director at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Ed represents the University of Texas School of Public Health/School of Biomedical and Informatics and is active in the NVHR member organization, St. Luke's Texas Liver Coalition. He has a broad background in health informatics, with specific training and expertise in hepatitis health data, policy dynamics and cancer disparities. As the first Associate Professor of Public Health Informatics in the nation jointly appointed to University of Texas School of Public Health and School of Biomedical Informatics, for the past 7 years, Ed has led and participated in several studies examining hepatitis B infection in Asian American communities in both the states of Maryland and Texas. Lorren is the Executive Director & Hepatitis C Program Director of the Caring Ambassadors Program in Oregon City, Oregon. She has managed the hepatitis C division of the program since its inception in 1999. Lorren is completing her first term on the NVHR steering committee and has served as its chair for the past year. Dennis and His wife Sue founded Hepatitis C Association in 2001 in New Jersey. He is the Secretary Treasurer and business manager of the organization. Dennis is will be returning for a second term on the steering committee and he has served as treasurer for the past year. We would like to thank the rest of the candidates for stepping up to volunteer for the steering committee. They are: Candace Abate, Bruce Burkett, Peter Fisher, Karen Kim, Hong Liu, Jane Pan, Michele Peterson, Richard Ross, Mary Gene Ryan, Gloria Searson, Janet Zola. We thank outgoing members, Deborah Wexler and Bruce Burkett for their years of service to the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. Martha Saly NVHR in the Press |
  
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