Three new members named to NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health: congratulations ... Debra Toney PhD, RN.Three new members have been appointed to the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ) Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH). The new members are: Linda C. Giudice, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco ; Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean, State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and also the President-elect of the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. (AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. ); and Debra Toney, Ph.D., R.N., President of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) and the Administrator, Rainbow Medical Centers, Las Vegas, Nevada. The Advisory Committee advises the Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health on research activities to be undertaken by the national research institutes and recommendations regarding the inclusion of women in clinical trials and opportunities for women in biomedical careers. Dr. Toney was elected as President of the NBNA in November 2007. With over 28 years of experience in health care leadership roles in family practice management, ambulatory care, outpatient diagnostics, hospitals and home health care, she is currently responsible for the oversight of six primary/urgent care centers and an outpatient diagnostic center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Toney, a Robert Wood Johnson Robert Wood Johnson was the name shared by members of the family that descended from the President of Johnson & Johnson:
For more information about NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health, visit http://orwh.od.nih.gov/. |
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