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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH &

HUMAN SERVICES

I am Lin Amendt and I served in the Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics
Research and Review for 30 years. I started at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) as a Chemist and was immediately recruited to work for the

FDA as a Consumer Safety Officer. My main duty was to license and regulate
Blood Banks all over the United States and across the world. I next served for
many years as the Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Blood, and
coordinated the emergency response efforts for 900 people. I worked getting

Blood and Blood Products to those in need in emergency situations like
Hurricane Isabel and NYC's 9/11 attacks on Sept 11, 2001. I spent my last 10
years recruiting world-renowned scientists to be members of the FDA

Advisory Committees for Blood, Vaccines, Cells & Tissues, Allergenics, and
'Mad Cow Disease.' I was involved for a few years working to keep the Blood
supply safe from West Nile Virus, and received the Secretary's Award for my
work. I started many Diversity groups within the FDA, was a member of

HHS-level Diversity groups, worked with the 'Assistant Secretary for Health'
on putting together a website on LGBT health issues, and cofounded the
LGBTQ group at the FDA in 1992.

I am Dr. Sambhu N. Banik and I served in the Department of Health and
Human Services. In my vast career, I worked as the Chief Psychologist and
Director of Internship Training at Glenn Dale Hospital and then as Chief of

South Community Mental Health Center and as the Administrator for Children
and Youth Services. At Glenn Dale Hospital, I developed Sound Stimulation

Therapy, for the multi-handicapped, mentally challenged children, which
became so innovative that it attracted the attention of the professional
community as an effective tool of using music and other sounds through the
patients’ earphones. At Glenn Dale, I also developed Nursery Therapy (the

use of plants and vegetables), for the Hemiplegic and Quadriplegic patients,
which proved highly therapeutic. For older patients, I developed a highly
therapeutic group treatment to share past experiences with each other,

providing them with insights on how they managed to survive segregation. As
the Chief of South Community Mental Health Center, I created AA type
programs with drug-addicted clients to address chronic alcoholism and other

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