Re: FDA approves Pfizer nerve pain drug ~ Lyrica

From: listener (listener_at_nospam.net)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: 04 Jan 2005 14:35:50 GMT

Where is Don questioning Dr. Golomb's credentials? I missed that. And
ehat do *her* credentials have to do with *your* statements?

This semms like just another non-response response, which you and zee are
very good at. It's just like a shell game: throw out erroneous or bogus
"facts" (which, of course, you're free to do) and when questioned on
them, divert attention.

L

"Sharon Hope" <shope@anet.net> wrote in
news:qinCd.745407$mD.158002@attbi_s02:

> You are ignorant of the facts in this case.
>
> Dr. Golomb does not practice at the university. Her practice is at
> the VA Medical Center.
>
> A renaissance woman, she is the NIH Principal Investigator for the NIH
> Statin Study (which accepts no drug company funding), and concurrently
> she is teaching at two universities, and a RAND researcher. She is
> also the US DOD's expert on Gulf War Syndrome.
>
> Her credentials are readily accessible (CV below). What are your
> credentials?
>
> Her CV:
> http://medicine.ucsd.edu/faculty/golomb/
>
> CURRICULUM VITAE
> Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, MD, PhD
> CURRENT POSITIONS
>
> a.. Assistant Professor of Medicine, U.C. San Diego April 1998-
> Division of General Internal Medicine
>
>
> b.. Staff Physician, San Diego VA Medical Center Aug 1, 1996 -
> Division of General Internal Medicine
> 3350 La Jolla Village Dr.
> San Diego, CA 92161
>
>
> c.. Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, USC: Oct
> 1998- Social Science Research Institute
> University of Southern California
> University Park Los Angeles, CA 90089-0375
>
>
> d.. Health Consultant, RAND: Aug 1996 -
> 1700 Main St.,
> M-28 P.O. Box 2138
> Santa Monica, CA 90408-2138
> (310) 393-0411 x6606
> EDUCATION AND TRAINING
>
> EDUCATION
>
> a.. BS, Physics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Southern California,
> 1979
>
>
> b.. Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California,
> San
> Diego, June, 1979
>
>
> c.. PhD, Biology, University of California, San Diego, June, 1988
>
>
> d.. MD, University of California, San Diego, June, 1989
>
>
> e.. Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk
> Institute, 1989-1990
>
>
> f.. Medical Resident, West Los Angeles V. A. Medical Center,
> 1990-1993
>
>
> g.. Chief Medical Resident, West Los Angeles V. A. Medical Center,
> 1993-1994
>
>
> h.. Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, UCLA, 1994-1996
> MAJOR AREAS OF TRAINING
>
> a.. Physics (BS)
> b.. Neurobiology (PhD)
> c.. Neural Networks (Postdoctoral fellowship)
> d.. Internal Medicine (MD, internship, residency, chief residency)
> e.. Health Services Research & Research methodology (Robert Wood
> Johnson
> Clinical Scholarship)
> Back to Top
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> LICENSURE: California, Issued 10-8-91
>
> BOARD CERTIFICATION
>
> Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, September 1993
>
> Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Examiners
>
> Back to Top
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
>
> Member, Medical Science Training Program Student Advisory Committee,
> UCSD School of Medicine, September, 1999-
>
> Associate Fellow, American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology
> and Prevention, elected March 25, 1999
>
> Fellow, 23rd Annual 10-day Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention
> of Cardiovascular Diseases, 1997
>
> Diplomate and member, American College of Forensic Examiners, 1996-
>
> Member, American College of Physicians, March 1995-
>
> Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, WLA VA Medical Center, 1993-1994
>
> Ethics Committee, West LA VA Medical Center, 1991-1994
>
>
> Peer Reviewer in various journals including: JAMA, BMJ, Circulation, J
> Clin Epi, Am J Med, Ann Behav Med, Psychosomatic Med, Psychiatric
> Services, Am J Epi, Am J Primatology, Complex Systems, Evolutionary
> Anthropology, J Gen Internal Med, & Medical Care
>
> Peer Review participation, Books: Oxford University Press
>
>
> Back to Top
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> AWARDS AND HONORS
>
> a.. Who's Who in America, 2000
> b.. Solomon Scholar Research Award, UCLA, 1993
> c.. Solomon Scholar Research Award 1992
> d.. Phi Kappa Phi, 1979
> e.. Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award, 1979
> f.. Junior Phi Beta Kappa, 1978
>
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>
>
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>
> RESEARCH GRANTS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
>
> RESEARCH GRANTS
>
> Funded: NIH RO1
>
>
> Project Title: Statins and Noncardiovascular Endpoints
>
> Project Number; 98-1060
>
> Amount (Total direct costs over 5 years) $4.1 million
>
> Dates: 8-1999 to 7-2004
>
> Principal Investigator: Beatrice A. Golomb
>
> Link to the UCSD Statin Study Website
>
> Funded: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
>
> Project Title: Low Serum Cholesterol and Violent Behavior
>
> Amount: $30,000 per annum
>
> Dates: 1-1-96 to 1-1-98
>
> Principal Investigator: Beatrice A. Golomb
>
>
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> ---------
>
> TOPICS OF INTEREST
>
> * Medical Reasoning (an abiding and unifying current interest, that
> serves as the foundation for my interest in much of that below)
>
> * Illness in Persian Gulf War veterans (ongoing work for RAND funded
> by the Department of Defense, book available on RAND's website; first
> to synthesize information on Nerve Agent Pretreatment drug, "PB", with
> neurobiological literature; concluded that a role cannot be excluded.
>
> * Lipids: work in UCSD Dept of Medicine. Currently am PI of a ~5
> million dollar NIH study to evaluate noncardiovascular impact of lipid
> reduction using statins; Work for RAND has included development of
> quality-of-care indicators for hyperlipidemia.
>
> * Violence (work on link between lipids and violence; single-author
> article in Annals of Internal Medicine synthesizing clinical work with
> neurobiology; prompted a five-column article in the New York Times on
> this work in March 1998). This work continues, partially at USC in
> collaboration with Dr. Sarnoff Mednick; and with collaborators in
> Scandinavia; I was PI of Guggenheim grant (at USC) examining relation
> of lipids to violence.
>
> * Risk Benefit Assessment, with focus on restoring the risk to
> risk-benefit. Fundamentally paradigm-shifting insights have been
> presented at several talks, but not yet submitted for publication. I
> have shown that randomized trials are performed in a way that is
> inherently biased to demonstrate benefit and fail to show harm, if it
> is present. Moreover, a much heralded "new paradigm" in which
> cardiovascular disease risk is evaluated and used to determine
> aggressiveness of preventive treatments (a paradigm utilized by
> national guidelines for cholesterol and hypertension, among others)
> provides a one-sided look: It notes that potential benefit varies from
> individual to individual, and should be assessed (based on predictors
> of cardiovascular disease) to guide aggressiveness of preventive
> treatments. It implicitly (and improperly) assumes that treatment
> risks, if any, are fixed and need not be formally assessed. To the
> contrary, potential for harm also varies from individual to
> individual, and can also often be estimated by examining risk factors
> for adverse outcomes. Failure to consider treatment risks on par with
> treatment benefits means some individuals will receive treatment
> though potential harm exceeds benefit; while others may be denied
> treatment though potential benefit exceeds harm.
>
> * Cardiovascular risk: work at UCSD in collaboration with Dr. Michael
> Criqui, pertaining to lipids (and the preeminence of the total
> cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol ratio as a predictor of cardiovascular
> risk); alcohol and cardiovascular disease risk; peripheral artery
> disease; and subclinical cardiovascular disease. Some of this work has
> been cited in Cecil's Textbook of Internal Medicine, a preeminent
> medical text. Work for RAND in this area has included development of
> quality of care indicators for stroke, for men and for the frail
> elderly (two distinct RAND projects).
>
> * Placebos: Methodologically vital observation published as a letter
> to the Editor in Nature that the basis of "evidence-based" medicine,
> the placebo controlled trial, rests on the assumption that placebos
> are inert; but in fact there are no requirements about what goes into
> them, their composition remains unpublished, and the drug companies
> manufacturing the agent being tested typically determine the
> composition. Moreover, there is no evidence that any agent is inert to
> the degree required by recent very large clinical trials designed to
> tap small effects; therefore, a positive, negative, or same direction
> effect of a placebo can generate the spurious appearance of a
> negative, positive, or null effect of the agent under scrutiny.
> Moreover there are demonstrable cases of such problems arising in the
> older literature, when placebo composition was actually sometimes
> stated. Advised change in policy, at the minimum requiring placebo
> composition to be stated in medical journals, and offered other
> suggestions to mitigate the problem. Wrote a follow-up invited
> Editorial in Chemistry and Biology.
>
> * Sex Recognition: Constructed the first neural network to identify
> sex of a person from raw photographic images of their face; the
> recognition task is difficult for humans when face is stripped of most
> hair, makeup, and jewelry cues, and the "SexNet" actually did slightly
> better than tested humans. This was the perhaps the first
> demonstration that NNs could solve problems that, say, decision trees
> could not solve - because we had no a priori concept of what features
> were relevant, and permitted the network to figure this out. (We then
> examined the hidden units to learn from the network.)
>
> * Facial Expressions (did the initial work on use of neural networks
> in evaluating facial expressions; wrote the scientific part of NIH
> grant proposal that funded continued work at the Salk in this area.)
>
> * Hiccups: Read the world's literature on this, my chosen topic for
> the minor proposition exam for my PhD; can mount a good defense that I
> am the world's expert in this topic. Wrote a draft of an opus on this
> topic and have given medical lectures.
>
> * Foreign Body Munchausen's (identified the hitherto unrecognized link
> between serial foreign body ingestion and the fabled Munchausen's
> syndrome; manuscript in preparation.)
>
> * Visual perception and illusions (topic of PhD thesis): "Discovered"/
> constructed two new visual illusions.
>
> Back to Top
>
>
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> ---------
>
> PUBLICATIONS
>
> RESEARCH PAPERS
>
> Golomb BA, Stattin H, Mednick SA 2000. "Low cholesterol and violent
> crime", J Psychiatric Res, in press.
>
> Golomb BA, Pyne JM, Wright B, Lohr JM, Bozzette SA 2000. "Primary care
> for patients with severe mental illness: What role can psychiatrists
> play?". Psychiatric Services, in press.
>
> Golomb BA, Criqui MH, Detrano RC, Wong ND, Bundens WP, Mattrey RF,
> Denenberg JO 1999. "Noninvasive testing to detect subclinical
> cardiovascular disease. What is its role?", Preventive Cardiology
> 2(4):42-50 (Fall supplement).
>
> Golomb BA 1998. "Low cholesterol and violence: Is there a
> connection?", Annals of Internal Medicine, 128:478-487.
>
> Criqui MH, Golomb BA 1998. "Epidemiologic aspects of lipid
> abnormalities", American Journal of Medicine, 105 (1A): 48S-57S.
>
> Stewart-Bartlett M., Viola PA, Sejnowski TJ, Golomb BA, Larsen J,
> Hager JC and Ekman P 1996 "Classifying facial action", Advances in
> Neural Information Processing Systems 8: 823-829.
>
> Gray MS, Lawrence DT, Golomb BA and Sejnowski TJ 1995 "A perceptron
> reveals the face of sex", Neural Computation, 7(6)1160-64.
>
> Golomb B, Lawrence DT, and Sejnowski TJ 1991, "SexNet: A neural
> network that recognizes sex from human faces", Advances in Neural
> Information Processing Systems 3, 572-577.
>
> Golomb B, Andersen RA, Nakayama K, MacLeod DIA, Wong A 1985, "Visual
> thresholds for shearing motion in monkey and man", Vision Research 25,
> 813-820.
>
>
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>
> EDITORIALS AND INVITED COMMENTARY
>
> Criqui MH and Golomb BA 1999 "Should patients with diabetes drink to
> their health?", Journal of the American Medical Association 282
> (3):279-80.
>
> Golomb B and Criqui M 1999 "Antihypertensives: Much Ado About Lipids",
> Archives of Internal Medicine, 159: 535-537.
>
> Golomb B 1998 "Dietary Fats and Heart Disease: Dogma Challenged",
> Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 51(6): 461-464.
>
> Golomb BA 1995 "Are Placebos Bearing False Witness?", Chemistry and
> Industry 21: 900.
>
>
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>
> BOOKS
>
> Golomb BA 1999. "A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains
> to Gulf War Illnesses, Vol 2: Pyridostigmine Bromide". Washington, DC,
> RAND (Has undergone external scientific peer review) Pp 1-385.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------- TECHNICAL REPORTS AND RAND REPORTS
> Golomb B 1999. Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders. Potential
> Quality Indicators and Literature Review: Stroke. 113 pages.
>
> Perry W, Johnson D, Cecchine G, Golomb B, Hilborn L, Hearn A, Anthony
> R 1999. Issues and Insights from the Army Medical Technology Workshop,
> 1999. Prepared for the US Army Training and Doctrine Command and the
> US Army Medical Department. PM-946-A, July 1999.
>
> Hilborne L and Golomb BA 2000. "A Review of the Scientific Literature
> as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses, Vol 1: Infectious Diseases".
> Washington, DC, RAND - in press.
>
> Golomb BA "Cerebrovascular disease", in Asch S, Kerr E, Geschwind S,
> Clark K, Hamilton E, Heslin K, McGlynn EA (Eds.) Quality of Care for
> Cardiopulmonary Conditions: A Review of the Literature and Quality
> Indicators. RAND (Draft publication, Aug 1997): 42-62.
>
> Golomb BA "Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease", in Asch S, Kerr E,
> Geschwind S, Clark K, Hamilton E, Heslin K, McGlynn EA (Eds.) Quality
> of Care for Cardiopulmonary Conditions: A Review of the Literature and
> Quality Indicators. RAND (Draft publication, Aug 1997): 63-87.
>
> Golomb BA "Hyperlipidemia", in Asch S, Kerr E, Geschwind S, Clark K,
> Hamilton E, Heslin K, McGlynn EA (Eds.) Quality of Care for
> Cardiopulmonary Conditions: A Review of the Literature and Quality
> Indicators. RAND (Draft publication, Aug 1997): 169-185.
>
> Golomb BA "Peptic ulcer disease", in Asch S, Kerr E, Geschwind S,
> Clark K, Hamilton E, Heslin K, McGlynn EA (Eds.) Quality of Care for
> General Medical Conditions A Review of the Literature and Quality
> Indicators. RAND (Draft publication, Sep 1997): 242-268.
>
> Hays RD, Vickrey BG, Golomb B "Health related quality of life measures
> in studies of stroke", RAND, report to Pfizer, Inc., July 1997.
>
> Sherbourne CD, Golomb BA, Bystritsky A, Inkeles M, Marshall G "Summary
> of Health-related Quality of Life Measures for Use in Anxiety
> Disorders", RAND, report to Pfizer, Inc., July 1997.
>
> Gray MS, Lawrence DT, Golomb BA and Sejnowski TJ, (1993) "A perceptron
> reveals the face of sex", Institute for Neural Computation Technical
> Report Series, INC-9303.
>
>
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> ---------
>
> BOOK CHAPTERS
>
> Golomb B. Health and Medical Factors: Cholesterol. In Encyclopedia of
> Violence in the United States , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
>
> Golomb B and Sejnowski TJ, "Sex recognition from faces using neural
> networks". In: A. F. Murray (Ed.), Applications of Neural Networks,
> Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> THESIS
>
> Golomb B 1988, "Visual Motion Processing: Some Special Properties",
> PhD Thesis, Department of Biology, U. C. San Diego.
>
>
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>
> LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
>
> Golomb BA 1998 "Cholesterol and violence: Is there a connection".
> Annals of Internal Medicine 129(8): 669-670.
>
> Golomb BA 1996 "Low serum cholesterol and serotonin metabolism --
> other studies have been done in humans and monkeys. BMJ
> 312(7041):1299.
>
> Golomb BA 1996 "Using placebos," Nature 379: 765.
>
> Golomb BA 1995 "Low cholesterol and violence," Arch Intern Med 155:
> 2485.
>
> Golomb BA 1995, "Paradox of placebo effect," Nature 375: 530.
>
> Golomb B 1990, "Hiccup for hiccups," Nature 345: 774.
>
> Golomb B 1989, "Taking a byte out of time," JAMA 262: 3132.
>
>
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>
> BOOK REVIEWS
>
> Golomb BA 1997 "Catalyst -- For Change in Book Reviews", Chemistry and
> Biology 4: 651-652.
>
> Golomb BA 1996 "Genius talk or moron babble? The complementarity
> principle", Chemistry and Biology 3: 813-814.
>
> Golomb BA 1995 "Author's Imagination" (Review of Nature's Imagination:
> The Frontiers of Scientific Vision) Chemistry and Biology 2(10):
> 651-2.
>
> Back to Top
>
>
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>
> LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS & ABSTRACTS
>
>
>
> LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
>
> "Medical Care: Restoring the Risk to Risk-Benefit Analysis".
> University of Chicago Health Sciences group; Chicago, IL, Feb 8, 2000.
>
> "Gulf War Illness", VASDHS Medicine Faculty Development series, June
> 11, 1999.
>
> "Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease" Debate vs
> Dr. Felicio. Dept of Medicine quarterly conference series, "Why Do We
> Do It?", VA San Diego Healthcare System, Mar 26, 1999.
>
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence: Where do we go from here?" Health Services
> Research and Development Seminar Series, San Diego VAMC/UC San Diego,
> Feb 11 1999.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence", Colloquium, Social Science Research
> Institute, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 19, 1998.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence", Grand Rounds, Dept of Psychiatry, UC San
> Diego, La Jolla, CA, Nov 12, 1998.
>
> Invited speaker and panelist: "How might interdisciplinary models of
> research guide us to a better understanding of violence?" USC
> Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Understanding and Preventing
> Violence, co-sponsored by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater
> Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA, Apr 17, 1998.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence", Dept of Psychology Colloquium, UCSD, San
> Diego, Apr 16, 1998.
>
> "Measurement and Management of Hyperlipidemia for the Primary
> Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease", with Dr. Michael H. Criqui.
> Primary Care Grand Rounds, UCSD Dept of Family and Preventive
> Medicine, San Diego, Apr 15, 1998
>
> "The Cholesterol Controversy", VA San Diego Healthcare System
> quarterly "Why Do We Do It?" seminar, La Jolla, CA, Mar. 29, 1997.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence: The Serotonin Connection", Mc Donnell Pew
> Research Center, Warner Springs Ranch, CA, Mar. 15, 1997.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence", USC Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Los
> Angeles, CA, Feb 21, 1997.
>
> "The Cholesterol Controversy", San Diego VAMC, La Jolla, CA, Jan 10,
> 1997.
>
> "Hyperlipidemia Panel Discussion" Discussants: Alistair Fyfe, MD, PhD;
> B. Golomb, MD, PhD; David Heber, MD. UCLA Department of Medicine Grand
> Rounds, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 14, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence: Is There a Connection?" RAND/UCLA Child and
> Adolescent Health Policy Seminar, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, July 9,
> 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence: The Serotonin Connection", Telluride Summer
> Research Center Public Lecture, Telluride, CO, July 5, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol and Violence: New Evidence," UCLA Health Services
> Research Seminar Series, Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol Reduction: When is it Indicated?" Cardiology Grand
> Rounds, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, June 18, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol, Serotonin, and Violence: Is there a Connection?," The
> Helmholtz Society, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, June 11, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol Reduction in Primary Prevention: When is it Indicated?"
> Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Health Services Research Group, Los
> Angeles CA, Mar 6, 1996.
>
> "Cholesterol Reduction: When and Who?" St. Johns Medical Center, Santa
> Monica, CA, Nov 2, 1995.
>
> "The Cholesterol Controversy": The Alzheimer Disease Research
> Consortium of Southern California, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 21, 1995.
>
> "Cholesterol Reduction in Primary Prevention": Debate vs Dr. David
> Leaf. WLA VA Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine Grand Rounds, Mar 8,
> 1995.
>
> "The Cholesterol Controversy," UCLA Dept. of Medicine Grand Rounds,
> Jan 11, 1995.
>
> "Neural Networks Distinguish Demented Subjects from Elderly Controls
> based on EEGs", Neural Information Processing Systems conference,
> Neural Networks in Medicine workshop, Vail, CO, December 3, 1994.
>
> "Cholesterol Reduction in Primary Prevention: Rethinking the
> Evidence," UCLA Dept. of Endocrinology Grand Rounds, September 21,
> 1994.
>
> "Advance Directives", West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Dept. of
> Medicine Conference, September 16, 1994.
>
> "The Cholesterol Myth," Grand Rounds, West Los Angeles V. A. Medical
> Center, Dept. of Medicine, June 8, 1994.
>
> "Death by Hiccup," Reno V. A. Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine
> Conference, Reno Nevada, February 1994.
>
> "Hiccups," V. A. West Los Angeles Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine
> Conference, January 1994.
>
> "Neural Networks that Recognize Sex and Expressions from Faces", in an
> international conference, Facial Expression: Brain, Perception, and
> Development, The Salk Institute, April 6, 1991.
>
>
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>
> ABSTRACTS
>
> Golomb, BA "Could dysregulation of acetylcholine (from pyridostigmine
> bromide or other acetylcholinesterase inhibitors) contribute to
> illness in Persian Gulf War veterans? Conference on Federally
> Sponsored Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Research, June 23-25, 1999
> (Abstract accepted; withdrawn for security reasons at request of DoD)
>
> Golomb BA and Criqui MH 1998 "Put the risk back in risk-benefit", 1998
> San Diego Biostatistics & Epidemiology Research Exchange Conference.
> La Jolla, CA (Platform presentation 5-5-98.)
>
> Bagley S and Golomb BA 1998 "Patient interest and response to genetic
> testing for cancer susceptibility: A systematic review of the
> literature", American Federation for Medical Research, Western
> Regional Meeting, Feb 4-7, Carmel, CA. J Investigative Medicine 46(1):
>
> Pyne J, Golomb B, Schten E, Jaworski B, Bozzette S 1998 "Appropriate
> roles for psychiatrists delivering primary medical care", VA HSR&D
> meeting, February 1998.
>
> Golomb BA 1996 "Low cholesterol and Violent Crime" Proceedings of the
> Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program 24th National Meeting,
> Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (Platform presentation, Nov 1996.)
>
> Golomb BA 1995 "Cholesterol, serotonin, and violence: Is there a
> connection?" Proceedings of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars
> Program 23rd National Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (Platform
> presentation, Nov 9, 1995.)
>
> Golomb B and Leuchter AF "Neural Networks Distinguish Demented
> Patients from Elderly Controls Based on EEG Recordings" Solomon
> Scholar Research Award, UCLA. (Platform presentation, June 1993.)
>
> Golomb B, Lawrence D, Sejnowski T, and Ekman P. "Neural Networks
> Evaluate Facial Muscle Actions" Solomon Scholar Research Award, UCLA,
> 1992. (Platform presentation, June 1992.)
>
> Golomb B 1990, "Cross adaptation to flow field motion", Investigative
> Ophthalmology and Visual Science 31 (4):522. Poster presentation,
> Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL,
> April 1989.
>
> Golomb B 1988, "Motion Escape", Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual
> Science 29. Poster presentation, Association for Research in Vision
> and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, April 1988.
>
> Golomb B 1986, "The Crankshaft Effect", Investigative Ophthalmology
> and Visual Science 27(3): 345. Poster presentation, Association for
> Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, April 1986.
>
> Golomb B, Andersen, RA, Nakayama, K, MacLeod, DIA, Wong, A. 1984
> "Thresholds for shearing motion detection in monkey and man".
> Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 25(3):69. Poster
> presentation, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,
> Sarasota, FL, April 1984.
>
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>
>
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>
> BRIEFINGS AND EXPERT PANELS
>
>
>
> EXPERT PANEL PARTICIPATION
>
>
> Panelist and speaker at event sponsored by the Violence Prevention
> Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, entitled "How might
> interdisciplinary models of research guide us to a better
> understanding of violence?" 11-98
>
>
> Expert panelist for NIH (NHLBI) Review Panel on "Prevention of
> Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes Mellitus: Clinical Center Network
> Proposals"
>
>
>
> Expert "panelist" for the Department of Defense in the Army After Next
> AMEDD Technical Workshop (aka "War Games") in MacLean,Virginia, to
> help determine strategies for troop health protection (6-13 to 6-18,
> 1999)
>
>
>
> Expert panelist for the Center for Health Policy Research/Health Care
> Financing Association "Normative Standards Project", pertaining to
> normative standards for home health care 6-99 (requested;
> participation aborted due to date conflict with panel #3)
>
>
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>
> PRESENTATIONS BEFORE EXPERT PANELS
>
> 11-97: Briefings to Cardiopulmonary Expert Panel (panel of nationally
> recognized experts): separate briefings on Stroke; Hyperlipidemia; and
> COPD, toward development of quality of care indicators for these
> conditions
>
> 10-97: Briefings to General Medicine Expert Panel (panel of nationally
> recognized experts): briefing on Dyspepsia/Peptic Ulcer Disease,
> toward development of quality of care indicators for these conditions
>
>
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>
> BRIEFINGS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
>
> "Pyridostigmine Bromide: A Review of the Scientific Literature as it
> Pertain to Gulf War Illnesses ", Testimony to Congress: House Veterans
> Affairs Committee, Health Subcommittee and Benefits Subcommittee:
> 11-19-99
>
> Briefings to members of Senate subcommittees (Foreign Affairs and
> Veterans Affairs): 10-19-99
>
> "Pyridostigmine Bromide: A Review of the Scientific Literature as it
> Pertain to Gulf War Illnesses ", Briefing to representatives of
> multiple U.S. Veterans advocacy groups: 10-19-99
>
> "Pyridostigmine Bromide: A Review of the Scientific Literature as it
> Pertain to Gulf War Illnesses ", Press Briefing from the Pentagon:
> 10-19-99
>
> "Pyridostigmine bromide and illness in Persian Gulf War veterans"
> Briefing to group consisting of: the Undersecretary of Health; the
> Undersecretary of the Army; the Surgeon General of the Army; the
> Principal Deputy for Health Affairs; representatives from the Surgeons
> General of the Navy and Air Force; several other generals; and the
> Directors of the Health and Defense Programs at RAND, in Washington
> DC, on the effect of pyridostigmine bromide in illness in Gulf War
> veterans. Feb 3, 1998, Washington DC. (The group convened for the
> exclusive purpose of hearing my briefing.)
>
> "RAND on PB and Immunizations", Presidential Special Oversight Board
> for Department of Defense Investigations of Gulf War Chemical and
> Biological Incidents, Oct 28, 1998. Special Oversight Board Office,
> Arlington VA.
>
> "RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research: Gulf War Illness"
> (with Dr. Ross Anthony). Briefing to Major General James B. Peake,
> Commanding General/Commandant/ Installation Commander, US Army Medical
> Department Center and School. Oct 22, 1998. RAND Arroyo Center, Army
> Research Division, Santa Monica.
>
> "Health Effects of Service in the Gulf War". Briefing to DARPA and DSO
> (Defense Science Office), (with Dr. Ross Anthony). Sept 8, 1998,
> DARPA, Arlington, VA.
>
> "Health Effects of Service in the Gulf War". Briefing to Advisory
> Board of the National Defense Research Institute, (with Dr. Ross
> Anthony). May 5, 1998, RAND, Santa Monica.
>
> "Health Effects of Service in the Gulf War". Briefing to RAND Board of
> Trustees (with Dr. Ross Anthony), RAND's 50th birthday. April 9, 1998,
> Washington, DC
>
> "Pyridostigmine bromide and illness in Persian Gulf War veterans".
> Briefing to representatives from DoD, VA, FDA, PAC, and Congress. RAND
> Washington, Nov 4, 1997, Washington DC.
>
> "Pyridostigmine bromide". Briefing to Israeli Defense and Health
> personnel, as part of a mission to the Middle East with Dr. Bernard
> Rostker (Assistant Secretary of the Navy; now Undersecretary of the
> Army) and others from the DoD, Nov 1 1997, Tel Aviv, Israel;
> participated in other briefings in the Middle East (Kuwait, Saudi
> Arabia, and Egypt) during a ~2 week trip.
>
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>
>
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>
> MEDIA RECOGNITION AND ATTENTION
>
> MEDIA RECOGNITION OF WORK
>
> National media recognition related to:
>
> 1.. Neural networks (CNN, popular book, 1990).
> 2.. Cholesterol and violence (KNBC TV 11-97; NY Times 5 column
> article,
> CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, LA Times, Reuters/AP, other 3-98).
> 3.. Alcohol and diabetes (Fox News, Science News, 7-99); and
> 4.. Pyridostigmine bromide and illness in Gulf War veterans (front
> page
> article on NY Times and LA Times; multiple other newspapers; NPR,
> other radio stations, national TV news on ABC and CBS (lead story),
> NBC; CNN, CSPAN; websites including policy.com, lead news story on
> Yahoo, comedycentral.com; science journals including New Scientist)
> International:
>
> 1.. For cholesterol and violence work, British newspapers;
> 2.. For pyridostigmine bromide work: BBC radio interview, TV news
> throughout Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Britain, Australia,
> newspapers and news magazines throughout same distribution.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> MEDIA ATTENTION
>
> 1.. Neural Networks/ facial expression:
>
> a.. CNN News 1990
>
>
> 2.. Neural Networks/ gender recognition ("SexNet"):
> a.. Book on Neural Network revolution
>
>
> 3.. Cholesterol and Violence:
> a.. KNBC TV News promo story) aired Nov 4 (Los Angeles) and Nov 5
> (San
> Diego), 1997
>
>
> 4.. Cholesterol and Violence: re paper in Annals of Internal
> Medicine:
> a.. New York Times: "Researcher links reduction in cholesterol
> with
> violent death" (Denise Grady), Science section, B13 (5 column
> article), March 17, 1998
>
> b.. CNN TV News, March 14, 1998
>
> c.. NBC News, radio interview, March 14, 1998
> d.. ABC News, radio interview, March 14, 1998
> e.. CBS News, radio interview, March 14, 1998
> f.. Los Angeles Times; US News and World Report; (Reuters, AP)
> other,
> March 15, 1998
> g.. Other (1998): Hippocrates, Men's Health, Clinical Pearls,
> Internal
> Medicine News, British publications
>
>
> 5.. Alcohol consumption in diabetes editorial:
> a.. Fox News, July 1999
> b.. Science News, July 1999
> c.. Channel 8 TV (interview with M Criqui), July 1999
>
>
> 6.. Pyridostigmine bromide (PB) and illness in Gulf War veterans:
> Pentagon Press Briefing and surrounding interviews
> a.. New York Times, front page story: Oct 19, 1999
> b.. Los Angeles Times, front page story: Oct 19, 1999
> c.. Washington Post New York Times, front page story: Oct 19, 1999
> d.. San Diego Union Tribune: Oct 20, 1999
> e.. Multiple other newspapers
> f.. New Scientist (science periodical)
>
> g.. CBS national television, Lead news story, Oct 19, 1999
> h.. ABC national television, Lead news story, Oct 19, 1999
> i.. NBC national television news, Oct 19, 1999
> j.. CSPAN live and in replay, Oct 19 and 20, 1999
> k.. San Diego, 3 local television news stations, Oct 19, 1999
> l.. PBS radio interview: Oct 19, 1999
> m.. BBC radio interview: Oct 19, 1999
> n.. CNN live interview: Oct 20, 1999
> o.. Several other local radio interviews: Oct 18 and 19, 1999
> p.. Yahoo, Lead news story, Oct 20, 1999
> q.. Daily Show, Comedy Central, Oct 1999 (TV show and website)
> r.. Policy.com, Oct 1999
> s.. International coverage: TV, newspapers, and news magazines
> throughout Europe (e.g. England, Germany, Hungary)
>
>
> 7.. Pyridostigmine bromide (PB) and illness in Gulf War veterans:
> Congressional Testimony
> a.. CSPAN live and replay, Nov 16 and Nov 20, 1999
>
>
> 8.. Commentary on others' Gulf War work:
> a.. NBC News (local, channel 7/39, 11-30-99)
> b.. NPR radio,12-7-99)
>
> "Don Kirkman" <donkirk@covad.net> wrote in message
> news:773jt0do1k3qm61ifff8q9elvcohlca7jj@4ax.com...
>> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Sharon Hope wrote in article
>> <Rp3Cd.742898$mD.174164@attbi_s02>:
>>
>>>The 15% is a measurement of fact.
>>
>> The issue is what is being measured. What is being measured is not
>> the general population of cardiac patients nor the general population
>> of statin users. What is being measured is Dr. Golomb's caseload,
>> which is almost certainly not typical of most statin users because,
>> first, she is in a university setting with patients who to some
>> extent are self-selected and in general would be expected to be more
>> serious cases and, second, who may have sought her out because of her
>> interest in statin effects. The bulk of statin users are unlikely to
>> be seeing a doctor at a university or VA clinic.
>> --
>> Don
>> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
>> us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
>> use. --Galileo Galilei
>
>
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