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"Racism,
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Alison Bunting, Dr. Joseph Newhouse Named to NLM Board of
Regents
At its September meeting, the NLM Board of Regents welcomed
two new members, who will serve until 2003
Alison Bunting has been the Director of the Louise Darling
Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
since 1984. In 1991 she gained the additional title of Associate
University Librarian for Sciences when the scope of her
responsibilities was expanded to include administrative oversight of
the Science & Engineering Library. Bunting received her
bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine and her
master's in library science from UCLA. Recent professional
activities include reviewing medical informatics and library grant
applications as a member of NLM's Biomedical Library Review
Committee, and serving as a consultant on the Library's Long-Range
Planning Panel on the Education and Training of Health Sciences
Librarians. She is editor-in-chief of an eight-volume series
entitled Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship,
published by the Medical Library Association and Scarecrow
Press.
Dr. Joseph Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of
Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Director of the Division of Health Policy
Research and Education there. He is also a member of the faculties
of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Medical
School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences. Dr. Newhouse received BA and PhD degrees in economic
from Harvard.
Following his bachelor's degree, he studied in Germany as a
Fulbright Scholar. He spent the first 20 years of his career at
RAND, where he designed and directed a project to study different
methods of financing medical care services. Dr. Newhouse joined the
Harvard faculty in 1988. He has served on several prominent
government bodies including the Medicare Payment Advisory
Commission, and has received numerous awards for his research and
writings. |
