Chemical and Biological Terrorism

Committee on R&D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents

Health Science Policy Program

Institute of Medicine

and


Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Commission on Life Sciences

National Research Council



 


















National Research Council

Copyright 1999 by the National Academy Press

 



COMMITTEE ON R&D NEEDS FOR IMPROVING CIVILIAN
MEDICAL RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL
TERRORISM INCIDENTS

PETER ROSEN (Chair), Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

LEO G. ABOOD, Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center*

GEORGES C. BENJAMIN, Deputy Secretary, Public Health Services, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland

ROSEMARIE BOWLER, Assistant Professor and Fieldwork Coordinator, Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University

JEFFREY I. DANIELS, Leader, Risk Sciences Group, Health and Ecological Assessment Division, Earth and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

CRAIG A. DeATLEY, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Health Care Sciences Program, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

LEWIS R. GOLDFRANK, Director, Emergency Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, New York

JEROME M. HAUER, Director, Office of Emergency Management, City of New York

KAREN I. LARSON, Toxicologist, Office of Toxic Substances, Washington Department of Health, Olympia

MATTHEW S. MESELSON, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

DAVID H. MOORE, Director, Medical Toxicology Programs, Battelle Edgewood Operations, Bel Air, Maryland

DENNIS M. PERROTTA, Chief, Bureau of Epidemiology, Texas Department of Health, Austin

LINDA S. POWERS, Professor of Electrical and Biological Engineering, and Director, National Center for the Design of Molecular Function, Utah State University, Logan

PHILIP K. RUSSELL, Professor of International Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

JEROME S. SCHULTZ, Director, Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

ROBERT E. SHOPE, Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

ROBERT S. THARRATT, Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Toxicology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento


Committee Liaisons

JUDITH H. LAROSA, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Services, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Liaison to the Board on Health Science Policy

WARREN MUIR, President, Hampshire Research Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, and Liaison to the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology


Study Staff

FREDERICK J. MANNING, Project Director

CAROL MACZKA, Senior Program Officer

C. ELAINE LAWSON, Program Officer

JENNIFER K. HOLLIDAY, Project Assistant (May 1997 through May 1998)

THOMAS J. WETTERHAN, Project Assistant (June 1998 through November 1998)


Institute of Medicine Staff

CHARLES H. EVANS, JR., Head, Health Sciences Section

ANDREW POPE, Director, Health Sciences Policy Program

LINDA DEPUGH, Section Administrative Assistant

JAMAINE TINKER, Financial Associate


National Research Council Staff

JAMES REISA, Director, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology





*Deceased, January 1998.
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