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Roster of the Risk Communication Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Administration

Applying for Membership on FDA Advisory Committees

As part of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) ongoing efforts to recruit qualified experts with minimal conflicts of interest who are interested in serving on FDA advisory committees, FDA is requesting nominations for members to serve on its advisory committees.

Current Number of Vacancies   1 
Note, one or more vacancies may be in the nomination process or a final appointment may have been made.

Chair
Ellen M. Peters, Ph.D.
Expertise: Risk Communication and Decisions, Numeracy
Term: 10/01/2011 – 09/30/2015
Professor
The Ohio State University
Psychology Department, 235 Psychology Building
1835 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210  

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) 
Lee Zwanziger, Ph.D.
Office of Policy and Planning
Office of Planning
Office of the Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Building 32, Room 3278
Silver Spring, MD  20993
rcac@fda.hhs.gov
Tel 301-796-9151
Fax 301-847-8609

Noel T. Brewer, Ph.D.
Expertise: Medical Decision Making
Term: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2013
Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings
School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina
325 Rosenau Hall CB7440
Chapel Hill, NC  27599

Mary L. Brown, Ph.D.
Expertise: Health Communication
Term: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2013
Partner, Dues, Brown, Associates
Research Associate, Pharmacy Practice and Science Department
College of Pharmacy
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 64393
Tucson, AZ  85718

Nananda Col, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Expertise: Risk Modeling and Decision Support 
Term: 10/10/2010 – 09/30/2014
Shared Decision Making Resources
1123 Five Islands Road
Georgetown, ME  04548

Moshe Engelberg, Ph.D.,M.P.H.
Expertise: Social Media and Marketing
Term: 10/01/2011 – 09/30/2015
President, ResearchWorks, Inc.
12396 World Trade Drive
San Deigo, CA 92128

Angela T. Fagerlin, Ph.D.
Expertise: Risk Perception, Risk Communication, and Medical Decision Making
Term: 10/01/2009 – 09/30/2013
Associate Professor 
Co-Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Science in Medicine
Ann Arbor VA HSR&D, University of Michigan
300 North Ingalls Building, RM 7C27
Ann Arbor, MI  48109

Vicki S. Freimuth, Ph.D.
Expertise: Communications Research
Term: 10/10/2011 - 09/30/2015
Director, Center for Health and Risk Communication
Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication 
N107 Corverdell Center, University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602 

Jeremy N. Kees, Ph.D.
Expertise: Health and social marketing and public policy
Term: 10/01/2012 – 09/30/2016
Associate Professor of Marketing
Villanova School of Business
Bartley 3006, Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19085 

Daniel G. Morrow, Ph.D.
Expertise: Health communication and health literacy, cognitive aging, human factor and performance
Term: 10/01/2012 – 09/30/2016
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education Building, 1310 S. 6th St.
Champaign, IL 61820

William K. Hallman, Ph.D.
Expertise: Social Psychology
Term: 10/10/2011 - 09/30/2015
Chairman, Department of Human Ecology
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Cook Office Building 
55 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 

Gavin Huntley-Fenner, Ph.D.
Expertise: Cognitive Science, Risk Perception, and Product Safety
Term: 10/10/2010 - 09/30/2014
CEO & Senior Advisor
Huntley-Fenner Advisors
5319 University Drive, #137
Irvin, CA  92612 

Kala L. Paul, M.D.
Expertise: Neurology, Medical Risk Communication, and Health Literacy
Term: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2013
President, The Corvallis Group, LLC
24 Sweetbriar Road
Summitt, NJ  07901

Valerie Reyna, Ph.D.
Expertise: Gist Knowledge and Medical Decision Making, Risk Perception, Memory
Term: 10/10/2010 - 09/30/2014
Co-Director, Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research
Cornell University 
Department of Human Development
B44 MVR Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

Expertise: Psychosocial and community health, health education, nursing
Term: 10/01/2012 – 09/30/2016
Associate Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
University of Washington School of Nursing
Box 357263
Seattle, WA 98195

 

* As described in the charter for this committee, the membership includes no single designated consumer representative, but several voting members with experiential knowledge of risk communication including patient and consumer perspectives. Also as described in the charter, the membership includes no single designated industry representative, the Commissioner or designee may select an industry representative from a group of individuals nominated by industry to serve temporarily as nonvoting members who are identified with industry interests.

  

Updated February 16, 2012

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