Steven A. Adams, M.P.H., has served as the deputy director of the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Program located within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the time of its inception in 1999. As such, he has been intimately involved with the development and evolution of the national doctrine for response to public health crises and directly engaged with state and local authorities in the planning and implementation of the civilian medical response to large-scale public health emergencies. In addition to programmatic leadership, Mr. Adams has managed large-scale emergency responses and led CDC’s rapid field response teams in the aftermath of events such as 9/11. He has served CDC in a variety of leadership roles for 20 years in contingency response programs as well as in public health efforts as varied as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) field research and radiological dose reconstruction related to Cold War–era nuclear weapons production. Mr. Adams earned an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas N. Ahrens, Pharm.D., currently serves as chief of Emergency Pharmaceutical Services for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). He has served as the California SNS Coordinator since January 2001. Dr. Ahrens coordinates and supervises all CDPH programs on emergency response and recovery activities and services related to the SNS (including the Chempack Project, the Cities Readiness Initiative, selection of and pur-
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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Workshop
Speakers and Panelists
WORkSHOP SPEAkERS AND PANELISTS
Steven A. Adams, M.P.H., has served as the deputy director of the U.S.
Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Program located within the Department
of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) from the time of its inception in 1999. As such, he has
been intimately involved with the development and evolution of the national
doctrine for response to public health crises and directly engaged with state
and local authorities in the planning and implementation of the civilian
medical response to large-scale public health emergencies. In addition to
programmatic leadership, Mr. Adams has managed large-scale emergency
responses and led CDC’s rapid field response teams in the aftermath of
events such as 9/11. He has served CDC in a variety of leadership roles
for 20 years in contingency response programs as well as in public health
efforts as varied as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) field research and
radiological dose reconstruction related to Cold War–era nuclear weapons
production. Mr. Adams earned an M.P.H. from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thomas N. Ahrens, Pharm.D., currently serves as chief of Emergency Phar-
maceutical Services for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
He has served as the California SNS Coordinator since January 2001.
Dr. Ahrens coordinates and supervises all CDPH programs on emergency
response and recovery activities and services related to the SNS (including
the Chempack Project, the Cities Readiness Initiative, selection of and pur-
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chase of pharmaceuticals for the Hospital Preparedness Program and the
state’s antiviral cache for pandemic preparedness) and all CDPH’s emergency
plans pertaining to the requesting of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals
in response to planning needs and emergency response. He has been directly
involved in various emergency response activations of the State Emergency
Operations Center and has served as a Public Health Agency representative
and a Public Health Branch coordinator. In addition, Dr. Ahrens has served
as the director of the CDPH Joint Emergency Operations Center during
emergency response activations and as warehouse director during functional
exercises involving the receipt and distribution of the SNS. His background
includes working as a pharmacist, with 29 years experience with the Cali-
fornia departments of health services, public health, and mental health, in
addition to private hospital and retail pharmacy services. He received his
doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California.
Richard L. Alcorta, M.D., FACEP, is a board-certified emergency medicine
physician. He started his EMS career as an emergency medical technician–
ambulance and went on to become a paramedic in California. While per-
forming as an EMT-P in Imperial County, California, he also performed
as a sworn sheriff reserve. He received his B.S. degree at San Diego State
University. In 1983 he graduated from Howard University School of Medi-
cine and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (Honor Medical Society).
He completed his emergency medicine residency at Harbor-University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, and in 1986 he started
as a faculty member of the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Medi-
cal Center. He has practiced emergency medicine at Suburban Hospital
Shock Trauma Center since 1987. From 1992 to 1994 he was the state
EMS director for Maryland, and in 1995 he was appointed the state EMS
medical director at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services
Systems. He has developed and delivered numerous presentations on chemi-
cal, biological, radiological, and traumatic (including blast) injures as well
as on incident management to EMS, nurses, and physicians. He was the
state medical director for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Prepared-
ness Program (CSEPP) during the neutralization of 1,600 tons of mustard
chemical warfare agent in Maryland as well as a medical advisor to the
U.S. Secret Service. Dr. Alcorta has spoken as a subject matter expert at
National CSEPP, B.A.T.T.L.E. FBI, and National Disaster Medical System
conferences.
Joseph A. Barbera, M.D., is codirector of the George Washington University
Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management and has blended clinical
practice, academics, research, preparedness, and emergency response activi-
ties throughout his professional career. He is associate professor of engineer-
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ing management and clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at
George Washington University. Dr. Barbera created and teaches masters-
and doctoral-level academic courses in emergency management and has
completed multiple applied research projects focusing on health and medical
systems in emergency response. He directed emergency management activi-
ties at teaching hospitals in New York (Bronx Municipal Hospital Center)
and Washington, DC (George Washington University Hospital), and he has
provided emergency management consultation and training for a wide vari-
ety of health care organizations and federal and state agencies. Dr. Barbera
coordinated implementation of one of the first hospital mass patient decon-
tamination and treatment facilities and chaired the establishment of a com-
prehensive hospital mutual aid system in Washington, DC, well before the
9/11 generated attention in this area. He has enjoyed a 2-decade career as
an emergency responder to major disasters for the U.S. government and
others. Experiences include scene response to hurricanes (2005 Hurricanes
Katrina and Wilma and others), mine disasters, earthquakes (Baguio City,
Philippines; Northridge, California; and Tou-Liu, Taiwan), mass terrorism
(the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 Pentagon and World Trade
Center attack sites), biological terrorism (anthrax, 2001), and tsunami
(Banda Aceh, Indonesia). Dr. Barbera has authored numerous scientific and
technical papers related to medical and public health emergency manage-
ment. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medi-
cine and completed residency training in both family practice (University of
Connecticut) and emergency medicine (Albert Einstein College of Medicine),
and he maintains board certification in emergency medicine.
Steven M. Becker, Ph.D., is associate professor of public health and vice
chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Becker has nearly two decades of experience
dealing with the public health, emergency planning, community response,
and risk communication aspects of incidents involving invisible toxic agents.
He is one of only a small number of U.S. researchers to have carried out
extensive overseas fieldwork related to all three major types of invisible
agents: chemicals, infectious disease, and radiation. This includes fieldwork
during a major chemical accident in Great Britain; onsite work during the
1999 nuclear accident in Tokaimura, Japan; follow-up work in Ukraine and
Belarus related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; and fieldwork during the
2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the United Kingdom. Dr. Becker
served as principal investigator for the radiological/nuclear risk communi-
cation component of the Pre-Event Message Development Project, a major
CDC-funded study to improve emergency communication during terrorism
incidents. The multiyear, multisite project identified key concerns and infor-
mation needs for the general public, first responders, hospital emergency
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department personnel, and the public health workforce. The project also
provided the most extensive research to date on the public information
aspects of improvised nuclear device (IND) scenarios. In 2005 Dr. Becker
was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measure-
ments, where he also serves as a member of the Advisory Panel on Public
Policy and PAC 3 (Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security). In addi-
tion, Dr. Becker has served on several national policy panels dealing with
CBRNE terrorism and is a coauthor of the landmark NCRP 138 report,
Management of Terrorist Incidents Involving Radioactive Material.
James S. Blumenstock became chief program officer, public health practice,
for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in
June 2007. His portfolio includes the state public health practice program
areas of infectious and emerging diseases, immunization, environmental
health, injury prevention, and public health preparedness and security,
including pandemic influenza preparedness. He also serves as a member
of the association’s executive management team responsible for enterprise-
wide strategic planning, administrative services, member support, and pub-
lic health advocacy. Prior to his arrival at ASTHO on November 1, 2005,
Mr. Blumenstock was the deputy commissioner of health for the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services, from which he retired after
almost 32 years of career public health service. In this capacity, he had exec-
utive oversight responsibilities for a department branch with more than 650
staff members and an operating budget of approximately $125 million. The
branch comprised the Division of Public Health and Environmental Labo-
ratories; the Division of Epidemiology, Occupational, and Environmental
Health; the Division of Local Health Practice and Regional Systems Devel-
opment; the Division of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response;
and the Office of Animal Welfare. During his tenure Mr. Blumenstock also
represented the department on a number of boards, councils, and commis-
sions, including the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force.
He received the ASTHO 2004 Noble J. Swearingen Award for excellence in
public health administration and the Dennis J. Sullivan award, the highest
honor bestowed by the New Jersey Public Health Association, for dedicated
and outstanding service and contribution to the cause of public health. He
is also a Year 14 scholar of the Public Health Leadership Institute, and he
held an elected office serving his community for 12 years. Mr. Blumenstock
received his B.S. in environmental science from Rutgers University in 1973
and his M.A. in health sciences administration from Jersey City State
College in 1977.
Daniel J. Bochicchio, M.D., FCCP, a decorated combat surgeon, currently
serves as deputy chief surgeon on the Joint Staff of the National Guard Bureau
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in Arlington, Virginia. For the Office of the Surgeon he addresses medical
issues related to domestic disaster preparedness and the development and
implementation of policies to ensure smooth integration of National Guard
medical assets into civilian disaster response plans. Colonel Bochicchio’s role
is to establish and mature strategic relationships with key Department of
Defense (DoD) and federal civilian interagency partners to promote integra-
tion and unity of effort as required by the National Response Framework.
In 2005 Colonel Bochicchio was the Battalion Surgeon for Task Force
1-172 (Armored) Marine Division in Iraq, where he was responsible for the
coordination and delivery of emergency and routine medical care to soldiers
and Marines during combat operations in Al-Anbar Province, Iraq. From
2004 to 2005 he was responsible for planning and developing the National
Guard domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive
(CBRNE) medical response as chief of Domestic Medical Operations for the
National Guard Bureau. He was tasked with design and implementation of
medical aspects of the National Guard CBRNE Enhanced Response Force
Package teams and Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) Civil Support
Teams. Colonel Bochicchio’s previous assignments have included chief of
the Division Medical Operations Center, Headquarters, Division Support
Command, 29th Infantry Division and commander of Company C, 229th
Support Battalion, 29th Infantry Division. He is board certified in anesthe-
siology and critical care medicine and is a former faculty member of the
University of Maryland School of Medicine.
John F. Brown, M.D., M.P.A., has served as the medical director for the
San Francisco EMS Agency, Department of Public Health, since 1996. In
his current position he has been responsible for the development and imple-
mentation of local policies, procedures, and protocols for the pre-hospital
emergency responders for the public safety agencies and private ambulance
providers in San Francisco. He serves as the medical health operations area
coordinator in the city’s disaster response structure, and he has been medi-
cal advisor for the local Metropolitan Medical Response System program.
He serves as a medical officer for the Disaster Medical Assistance Team
CA-6 and is an assistant clinical professor in emergency medicine working
at San Francisco General Hospital. Prior to his current position Dr. Brown
served as the U.S. Navy Surgeon General’s Advisor for EMS and worked at
the San Diego Naval Medical Center after the completion of his residency
in emergency medicine there. He performed a postdoctoral fellowship in
emergency medical services and earned an M.P.A. at the University of
Arizona. His M.D. is from the University of Connecticut.
Brooke Buddemeier, CHP, M.S., works for the Global Security Direc-
torate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory supporting risk
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and consequence management activities. He recently completed a 3.5-year
assignment with the Department of Homeland Security as the weapons
of mass destruction emergency response and consequence management
program manager for the Science and Technology Directorate’s emergency
preparedness and response portfolio. He supported the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the Homeland Security Operations Center as a
radiological emergency response subject matter expert. He also facilitated
the department’s research, development, test, and evaluation process to
improve emergency response through better capabilities, protocols, and
standards. He is a certified health physicist who received his M.S. in radio-
logical health physics from San Jose State University and his B.S. in nuclear
engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nelson J. Chao, M.D., M.B.A., is professor of medicine and immunology
and the chief of the Division of Cellular Therapy/Bone Marrow Transplant
at Duke University. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard
University, his M.D. from Yale University, and his postgraduate training at
Stanford University. He then joined the faculty at Stanford University. He
was the associate director of Stem Cell Transplantation at Stanford Univer-
sity prior to moving to Duke University in 1996 to be the program director
of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program. The program became a
division within the Department of Medicine in 2000 and was renamed the
Division of Cellular Therapy/BMT. Dr. Chao is also the codirector of the
Clinical Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory, and he continues to direct
his own research laboratory focused on understanding and preventing graft-
versus-host disease and improving immune reconstitution. He also directs
the clinical research within the division. He obtained his M.B.A. from the
Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2000. He is the author of
approximately 200 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and 1 book. He is
also a cofounder of Aldagen, a start-up biotechnology company in Research
Triangle Park.
Cham Dallas, M.S., Ph.D., is professor and director of the Institute for
Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense (IHMD) at the Uni-
versity of Georgia, interim director of the Department of Health Policy and
Management at the College of Public Health, and a member of the Depart-
ment of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG). He
received his M.S. and Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Texas (UT)
School of Public Health at Houston. For 7 years Dr. Dallas was the director
of one of the largest university toxicology programs in the country, with 50
professors, at the University of Georgia. For 5 years he was the director of
the Center for Mass Destruction Defense, a CDC Center for Public Health
Preparedness dealing with mass casualty management. Dr. Dallas’s institute
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has established a nationally successful collaboration with the American Med-
ical Association (AMA), MCG, and UT for the development of the National
Disaster Life Support (NDLS) family of courses. NDLS has been accepted as
a national standard for WMDs training by the AMA and has been taught
in 45 states to more than 60,000 health care personnel. Dr. Dallas and
IHMD staff are currently conducting mass casualty evaluation exercises for
Georgia hospitals as well as devising evacuation planning for special-needs
populations. He has been the recipient of several teaching awards, includ-
ing a university-wide award. He has written scores of research papers for
the scientific community and educational articles for the public on the toxic
components of WMDs. Dr. Dallas led a series of scientific expeditions to the
most highly contaminated areas around Chernobyl and conducted research
and teaching efforts there for more than 10 years, including at more than
40 institutions overseas. He has testified before the U.S. House and Senate
Homeland Security hearings and at the United Nations three times on the
topic of nuclear war medical response.
Eric G. Daxon (Colonel-Retired, U.S. Army), Ph.D., CHP, is currently
a senior research scientist with Battelle Memorial Institute. His current
work centers on policy, doctrine, and plans for radiological or nuclear
events for DoD clients. His current work at Battelle and the past 15 years
of his 30-year military career have focused on the integration of radiation
risk into decision making for the full range of military deployments. As
the army’s medical lead for issues related to the use of depleted uranium
munitions in combat, Dr. Daxon dealt directly with the issue of radiation
risks and the risks of radiation exposure mitigation in emergency environ-
ments. Prior assignments include director of the Proponency Office for
Preventive Medicine at the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and
Preventive Medicine and the chair of the Radiation Biophysics Department
at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. Dr. Daxon has a
Ph.D. in radiological hygiene from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in
nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
a B.S. in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West
Point.
Craig DeAtley, PA-C., is currently the director of the Institute for Public
Health Emergency Readiness at Washington Hospital Center, the District of
Columbia’s largest hospital. Prior to taking this position he was an associate
professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University, where he
worked full-time for 28 years before leaving to start the institute. He also
works as a physician assistant at Fairfax Hospital, a level 1 trauma center
in Northern Virginia. In addition to being a physician assistant, he has been
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a volunteer paramedic with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Depart-
ment since 1972 and a member of their Urban Search and Rescue Team
since 1991. He currently serves as the team’s medical team coordinator.
Mr. DeAtley also serves as the assistant medical director for the Fairfax
County Police Department. Those positions involve working with the special
operations personnel (special weapons and tactics, civil disturbance, marine
patrol, and helicopter operations) in those agencies. He has particular inter-
est in hazardous material and WMD planning and response, and he was a
founding member of NMRS-DC-1, the nation’s first U.S. Public Health Ser-
vice trained-and-equipped civilian nuclear, biological, and chemical incident
response team. For the past 11 years he has been working as a consultant on
projects related to DoD/Department of Justice WMD Domestic Prepared-
ness Programs and on a variety of HHS/CDC Public Health Department
projects regarding preparedness and response. Each of these projects has led
to him working with police, fire, EMS, hospitals, emergency management,
and mental health and public health personnel to develop and exercise their
hazardous material/chemical-biological response plans. Mr. DeAtley also
worked for the HHS Office of Emergency Preparedness in developing and
facilitating a new Public Health Emergency Practicum Program for medi-
cal, emergency management, public health, and public safety personnel. His
publications include recently serving as editor and contributing author for
Jane’s Mass Casualty Handbook Pre-Hospital Care-Emergency Prepared-
ness and Response. He served as the project manager to assist Arlington
County, Virginia, in writing and exercising the Isolation and Quarantine
Annex to its Emergency Operations Plan. More recently he served as the
comanager of the HEICS IV project done on behalf of the California EMS.
This project led to the recent release of the new Hospital Incident Command
System. In addition, the project personnel also provided feedback to the
National Incident Management System Integration Center on the system’s
compliance activities for health care organizations.
Sara D. DeCair, B.S., has been a health physicist with the Office of Radiation
and Indoor Air at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 2003.
She works on policy, planning, training, and outreach for EPA’s radiological
emergency preparedness and response program. She is the project and techni-
cal lead for revising the Protective Action Guides and is especially interested in
emergency worker dose limits and turnback levels. She previously worked for
7 years with the State of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality.
Three of those years were spent in nuclear power plant emergency planning,
and before that she was an inspector of radioactive materials registrants and
a radiation incident responder. She is currently the affiliates director of the
Baltimore-Washington chapter of the Health Physics Society.
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Michael Fitton has served the City of New York as a paramedic for the past
24 years. He began his career in pre-hospital care receiving and dispatching
911 calls throughout the city. His years as a paramedic in the Bronx
brought his future career goals into focus. He earned instructor certification
and taught both basic life support and advanced life support programs. He
went on through the ranks of lieutenant, captain, and deputy chief. In these
years Chief Fitton was the commanding officer at EMS stations, a city-
wide dispatch supervisor at the Fire Department of New York’s (FDNY’s)
Emergency Medical Dispatch Center, has served as a deputy chief citywide,
and currently is the division commander of the borough of the Bronx. He
was selected to participate in the FDNY and U.S. Military Academy’s Joint
Program for Combating Terrorism. Chief Fitton completed an intensive
program at the Fire Officers Management Institute, a part of the Columbia
University Graduate School Executive Development Program. He is cur-
rently pursuing a professional studies degree in emergency management at
Empire State College/State University of New York.
H. keith Florig, Ph.D., is senior research engineer in the Department of
Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he
conducts research on public policy and communications issues involving
health, safety, environment, and security risks. His work on the manage-
ment and communication of radiation risks has been published in Science,
Health Physics, Risk Analysis, and other journals. Dr. Florig has served
on committees addressing radiation risks at both the National Council
on Radiation Protection and Measurements and the National Academy
of Sciences. In recognition of his work on public involvement in radiation
protection, he was selected to deliver the 2004 G. William Morgan Lecture
of the Health Physics Society. Dr. Florig holds degrees in engineering and
public policy (Ph.D.), nuclear science and engineering (M.S.), instrumenta-
tion (M.S.), and physics (B.S.), all from Carnegie Mellon. Before joining
the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1996, he worked for 6 years in Washington,
DC, at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and at Resources
for the Future.
Dan Hanfling, M.D., is the director of Emergency Management and Disaster
Medicine for the Inova Health System in Falls Church, Virginia. He is also
the state medical director for PHI Air Medical Group-Virginia, the largest
private rotor-wing air medevac service in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
He serves as a medical team manager for Virginia Task Force 1, a Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)- and U.S. Agency for International
Development-sanctioned international urban search-and-rescue team, and
he has been involved in the response to international and domestic disaster
events, including the response to the Pentagon attack in September 2001
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and the response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005. Dr. Hanfling
was intimately involved in the response to the anthrax bioterror mailings
in the fall of 2001, when two cases of inhalational anthrax were success-
fully diagnosed at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He was a founding member and
cochairman of the Northern Virginia Emergency Response Coalition and a
founding member of the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance. He has been
appointed to the Virginia Secure Initiative Health and Medical Subpanel,
the Virginia Department of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
Advisory Committee, and the Virginia Health and Hospitals Association
Hospital Emergency Management Committee. Dr. Hanfling has testified
before Congress on the issues of health care emergency management and
disaster response. He lectures nationally and internationally on pre-hospital,
hospital, and disaster-related subjects, and has coauthored numerous peer-
reviewed articles on the subject of health care facility disaster preparedness.
He received an A.B. in political science from Duke University and an M.D.
from Brown University. He completed an internship in internal medicine
at Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and an emergency medi-
cine residency at George Washington/Georgetown University hospitals.
He is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington
University and an adjunct distinguished senior fellow at the George Mason
University School of Public Policy.
Bryan Hanley is the regional disaster medical and health specialist represent-
ing the State of California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES)
Mutual Aid Region One. OES Region One is home to nearly 14 million
people living within Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San
Luis Obispo counties. Region One is a Tier 1 Urban Area Security Initiative
area. Mr. Hanley is employed by the County of Los Angeles Emergency
Medical Services Agency under contract with the State of California EMS
Authority and California Department of Public Health. He works closely
with county-level EMS agencies and public health departments in preparing
their hospitals, fire service, EMS, law enforcement, and other medical and
health partners to facilitate a coordinated response to natural or manmade
disasters. Mr. Hanley also assists state agencies by facilitating integration of
state priorities and projects into the local plans and efforts. During actual
responses he coordinates information flow, requests for mutual aid, and
reception of assistance into a disaster area as the director of the Medical and
Health Branch of the Regional Emergency Operations Center (EOC). He
serves as a member of various advisory groups locally and at the state level.
Mr. Hanley has coordinated major response activities in his career, both at
the field command level and within the command policy group in an EOC.
He is a command staff member of the National Disaster Medical Assistance
Team, California-1, based in Orange County. He has spent more than
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20 years in emergency management and is a trained and licensed paramedic,
a former firefighter, and a hazardous materials technician. His educational
background includes advanced degrees in health science and criminal justice-
law enforcement. He has received training at the National Fire Academy and
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He
has had the opportunity to teach at the university and community college
level, and he lectures throughout the nation and internationally on various
emergency management and terrorist threat topics.
Jerome M. Hauer, M.P.H., one of the nation’s best-known names in emer-
gency management and health and medical response to disasters, is now the
chief executive officer of the Hauer Group. He served as the first assistant
secretary (acting) of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness
at HHS and was responsible for coordinating the country’s medical and
public health preparedness in response to emergencies, including acts of
biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism. Before that Mr. Hauer was New
York City’s first director of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management
and was charged with coordinating the city’s planning for and response
to natural and manmade events, including acts of terrorism. Prior to that
he served as the executive director of the State of Indiana’s Emergency
Management Agency as well as its Department of Fire and Buildings. He
was on the Congressional Fire Caucus’s Urban Search and Rescue Advi-
sory Committee as well as the National Institute for Urban Search and
Rescue Advisory Council. Mr. Hauer served on the Institute of Medicine’s
(IOM’s) Committee to Evaluate R&D Needs for Improved Civilian Medi-
cal Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorism Incidents, as consulting
fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Emerging
Threat and Opportunities and at the Board of Visitors of the National
Interagency Civil-Military Institute, and as an advisor to the U.S. Capitol
Police and the U.S. Marine Corps’ Chemical-Biological Incident Response
Force. He served on the faculty of the Northeastern University Paramedic
Program, and he codirected the first two postgraduate courses in trauma
management at the Longwood Area Trauma Center of the Harvard Medi-
cal School. Mr. Hauer was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve attached to
the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC. He has an
M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a bachelor’s
degree from New York University.
Douglas Havron, RN, B.S.N., M.S., CEN, CEM, is the administrative
director for the Southeast Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council and
the Regional Hospital Preparedness Council. His responsibilities include
the administrative leadership of the Hospital Preparedness Program for the
Houston Metro area and surrounding counties. His experience includes
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EMS, inner-city Level 1 trauma center management, hospital administra-
tion, and regional hospital preparedness leadership. He has more than 15
years of experience in disaster preparedness and response, and he served as
one of Houston’s medical operations chiefs for the Catastrophic Medical
Operations Center during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He has a B.S.N.
from the University of Texas–El Paso and an M.S. in emergency manage-
ment from Touro University.
Patricia Hawes, RN, B.S.N., COHN, is the emergency manager for Suburban
Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where she has helped lead the hospital to
be named one of the top five most highly prepared trauma hospitals in the
nation by the National Foundation for Trauma Care in conjunction with
CDC. She is on the leadership board of the Bethesda Hospital’s Emergency
Preparedness Partnership, which is composed of the National Institutes of
Health Clinical Center, the National Naval Medical Center, the National
Library of Medicine, and Suburban Hospital. Ms. Hawes is the vice chair
of the National Capital Region-Health and Medical Programmatic work-
group, where she represents the interests of Maryland hospitals. Ms. Hawes
was also a contributing author of the National Capital Regional Surge
Plan. She designs and participates in a yearly regional collaborative multi-
agency exercise that tests hospital surge preparedness. Ms. Hawes is a
registered nurse with more than 20 years experience in trauma care and
cardiothoracic intensive care and is certified in occupational health, having
obtained her B.S.N. from Jacksonville University.
Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of public health
at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College, an associate attending phy-
sician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the director of the new
Preparedness Modeling Initiative for CDC. Since 2000 he has led a number
of federally funded projects to develop improved tools and logistics for
mass prophylaxis, bioterrorism response, and health system preparedness
for surge capacity. His research team’s models are available on the websites
of HHS and the American Hospital Association, and they are used by states
across the United States for preparedness planning. One of three academic
researchers to serve on the Anthrax Modeling Working Group of the HHS
Secretary’s Council on Public Health Emergency Preparedness, he has lec-
tured and given satellite and web broadcasts for the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality and CDC on mass prophylaxis and the physician’s
role in bioterrorism response. Dr. Hupert is codirector of Cornell’s Institute
for Disease and Disaster Preparedness, whose mission is to advance the
field of computational public health by applying engineering approaches
to a range of public health response logistics problems ranging from U.S.
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emergency preparedness to scale-up of HIV/acquired immune deficiency
syndrome treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Amy Hideko kaji, M.D., Ph.D., is board certified in emergency medicine
and acts as the medical director for the Harbor-UCLA South Bay Disaster
Resource Center. She performed a disaster medicine and research fellowship
at the UCLA School of Public Health, where she obtained both an M.P.H.
and a Ph.D. in epidemiology. The focus of her dissertation was the assess-
ment of hospital disaster preparedness and surge capacity in Los Angeles
County. As such, she is knowledgeable about the management of mass
casualty incidents and disaster response. As the medical director of 1 of
13 regional centers of excellence in disaster preparedness in Los Angeles
County, she is actively engaged in coordinating disaster drills and classes as
well as in stockpiling pharmaceuticals and supplies. She is also an assistant
clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Ann R. knebel (Captain, U.S. Public Health Service), RN, D.N.Sc., FAAN,
is a registered nurse with a D.N.Sc. in pulmonary critical care. For the past
16 years she has served as an officer in the Public Health Service Commis-
sioned Corps. Currently she is deputy director for preparedness planning
with HHS in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response (ASPR). In this capacity, she is responsible for the develop-
ment of programs to enhance preparedness integration across the local/
state/regional and federal tiers of response. In the 6 years Dr. Knebel has
worked for ASPR (formerly the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public
Health and Emergency Preparedness [OPHEP]), she has been instrumental
in advancing various preparedness planning and surge capacity initiatives.
Highlights include assisting the Greek Ministry of Health to prepare for
the 2004 Summer Olympics and a 9-month detail with the New York City
Office of Emergency Management to develop bioterrorism plans. During
the response to the 2005 and 2008 hurricane seasons, Dr. Knebel worked as
the plans section chief on the HHS Emergency Management Team, helping
to plan the federal public health and medical response and recovery. Prior
to joining ASPR, Dr. Knebel served in both the intramural and extramural
programs at the National Institutes of Health. She is a fellow of the Ameri-
can Academy of Nursing.
kathleen “Cass” kaufman has been the director of the Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health’s radiation management program since 1990.
Radiation management staff inspect all users of X-ray machines or radio-
active materials to ensure compliance with California and federal laws and
regulations, and they respond to radiation emergencies. Los Angeles County
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has been proactive in preparing to respond to a deliberate radiation event
by providing training to fire departments, hospitals, and law enforcement
and by acquiring specialized equipment to detect, assess, and respond to
an event. In addition to programmatic leadership, Ms. Kaufman has direct
experience in responding to radiation emergencies. Ms. Kaufman has served
on many national committees and is on the Conference of Radiation Control
Program Directors’ Committee that wrote the Handbook for Responding to
a Radiological Dispersal Device. She currently serves on the National Coun-
cil on Radiation Protection committee that is writing a report to address
key decisions that decision makers will need to make after a radiologic
or nuclear event. Ms. Kaufman has a degree in radiological sciences from
George Washington University in Washington, DC, and has taken numerous
courses and participated in many exercises over the course of her career.
Carl E. Lindgren, NREMT-P, is a 28-year veteran of the Arlington County
Fire Department in Virginia. He currently holds the rank of fire/EMS
battalion chief with overall responsibility for EMS in North Arlington.
Mr. Lindgren was part of the inaugural National Medical Response Team
(NMRT) that later became the DC-NMRT. The majority of Mr. Lindgren’s
career was spent as a field EMS supervisor. During the 9/11 attack of the
Pentagon (located in Arlington), Mr. Lindgren served as the treatment
unit leader the day of the attack. After 9/11, Mr. Lindgren was assigned
to be one of two operations training officers with a strong focus on EMS
during a WMD event. His next assignment, in 2002, was to the county’s
newly expanded Office of Emergency Management. He was responsible for
instructing county staff on the new emergency operations plan, along with
responsibility for the county’s Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation
Program. Participants included the Pentagon and United States Northern
Command as well as the county’s partners across the National Capital
Region, with a focus on exercising, developing, and evaluating the region’s
capabilities. He was part of two Emergency Management Assistance Com-
pact EOC deployments, one to Hurricane Charlie in Charlotte, Florida, and
the second as the first EOC team to assemble and begin EOC operations
in the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, for which he served as
the Emergency Services Branch director. Mr. Lindgren has spoken on EMS,
WMDs, public health, and emergency management across the globe. He
received his AAS in emergency medicine in 1980 from Northern Virginia
Community College as one of the early nationally registered paramedics in
the state of Virginia.
Jill A. Lipoti, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in environmental science from
Rutgers University. She is the director of the Division of Environmental
Safety and Health in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Pro-
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tection. She has responsibility for radiation protection, chemical release
prevention, lab certification and quality assurance, pollution prevention,
and right to know. Dr. Lipoti served as a member of the board of direc-
tors and as chairperson for the Conference of Radiation Control Program
Directors (CRCPD). In 2000 she received the Gerald S. Parker Award of
Merit, CRCPD’s highest award. She served as chair of the Radiation Advi-
sory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) and serves on its executive committee. Dr. Lipoti
has served on the Food and Drug Administration’s Technical Electronic
Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee. She was elected to the
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement in 2002,
where she has served on the board of directors and the budget and finance
committee. Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Panel on Public
Policy and Scientific Committee 6-2, Radiation Exposure of the U.S. Popu-
lation. Dr. Lipoti participated in the Improvised Nuclear Device Exercise
conducted in New Jersey in November 2007.
John Mackinney, M.S., M.P.H., is a senior policy advisor and deputy direc-
tor for nuclear and radiological policy in the Department of Homeland
Security, where he coordinates interdepartmental and interagency programs
and policies in radiological and nuclear terrorism prevention and response.
Mr. MacKinney has 20 years of experience in radiation science and policy
in areas including nuclear facility decommissioning, radiological risk assess-
ment, standards and regulations, research and development, and nuclear/
radiological homeland security science and policy. He previously worked
at EPA’s National Homeland Security Research Center, where he led a team
of researchers investigating scientific solutions for radiological dispersal
device (RDD) and IND attack response and recovery. Mr. MacKinney
has served as an expert consultant to the World Bank on environmental
radiological issues and on a number of senior-level White House work-
ing groups, including the Homeland Security Council (HSC) Scenarios
Writing Group, the National Security Council/HSC Counterproliferation
Technology Coordination Committee, the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) RDD/IND Working Group, and the OSTP Nuclear Defense
Research and Development/Response and Recovery Working Group. He
holds a B.S. in geology from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois), an M.S.
in geophysics from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.P.H. from the
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Mr. MacKinney is certi-
fied in risk assessment and risk policy through the Risk Sciences and Public
Policy Institute. His current interests are science, technology, programs and
policy for nuclear and radiological terrorism prevention, and consequences
management.
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Carmen T. Maher (Commander, U.S. Public Health Service), B.S.N., M.A.,
RN, RAC, is a senior nurse officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Com-
missioned Corps and currently serves as a regulatory policy analyst in the
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Counterterrorism and
Emerging Threats in the Office of the Commissioner. Commander Maher
collaborates with senior agency staff in developing and updating agency
and interagency counterterrorism and chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear consequence management and mitigation policies and plans. Prior
to joining FDA, Commander Maher was assigned to the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Microbiology and Infectious
Diseases, as a lead regulatory officer for pre-clinical and early clinical devel-
opment of vaccines and therapeutics to prevent or treat illnesses caused by
smallpox, anthrax, and influenza disease agents. As a federal first responder,
Commander Maher has assisted state and local response efforts and was
an active member of the PHS-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, serving
on its leadership cadre for 2 years. Commander Maher earned her M.A. in
national security and strategic studies with highest distinction from the U.S.
Naval War College, Rhode Island. She earned her B.S.N. and her associate
degree in life sciences from the University of Puerto Rico. She holds a Regu-
latory Affairs Certification in U.S. health care products regulations.
John Mercier (Colonel, U.S. Army), Ph.D., PE, DABR, is the lead DoD
subject matter expert for nuclear weapons effects on humans. His current
work includes mass casualty care and protective actions following an urban
nuclear detonation. He currently serves at the Armed Forces Radiobiology
Research Institute as institute nuclear consultant and director emeritus of
the Military Medical Operations Directorate, with oversight of the Medical
Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course, the Medical Radiobiology Advisory
Team, and radiological safety operations for institute nuclear and radiation
facilities. Previous duties have included serving as radiological consultant to
the Multinational Corps-Iraq, NATO senior umpire for the Sampling and
Identification of Radiological Agents, leader of the U.S. Army Radiological
Advisory Medical Team, chief of Health Physics at the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, and chairman of DoD’s Nuclear Weapons Effects Human
Response Panel. Colonel Mercier is a licensed nuclear engineer, nuclear
plant senior reactor operator, and medical physicist. He is also board certi-
fied in diagnostic radiological physics and medical nuclear physics. Colonel
Mercier has nearly 30 years of military service, he holds a Bronze Star from
his combat tour with the XVIII Airborne Corps, and his military retirement
has been approved for 2009.
Joseph S. Newton is the recipient of the 2006 Medal of Valor for the State of
Illinois and is a decorated firefighter/paramedic who works for the Chicago
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Fire Department and neighboring suburb of Westmont, Illinois. His edu-
cational background includes Illinois State Paramedic, Firefighter II, Fire-
fighter III, Hazmat Operations including Computer-Aided Management of
Emergency Operations training, EMT Lead Instructor, Fire/EMS Instructor
I, and Instructor II, among other various certificates and training, such as
emergency response to terrorism, rescue dive, advanced cardiac life support,
pediatric education for prehospital professionals, and international trauma
life support. In his duties with the Chicago Fire Department, Mr. Newton
is a paramedic assigned to the Operations Division, and he is currently
detailed to Fire Academy South/EMS Training where, as an instructor, he
has held a direct supervisory role in the training of all new fire and EMS
hires for the past 4 years. He is also a field training officer responsible for
District 1 Operations, consisting of approximately 1,000 department mem-
bers. District 1 encompasses the downtown metropolitan area of Chicago,
including 22 engine companies, 11 truck companies, 1 squad company, Air
Sea Rescue, 13 ambulance companies (3 BLS, 10 ALS), Hazardous Materials
Team 511, Fire Prevention Bureau, Training Division, Headquarters, Air
Mask (Support Services), Special Events Response Teams, Public Education,
Internal Affairs, and the Photo Unit. Mr. Newton has trained to work as
a liaison for the Chicago Fire Department Tactical Operations Intelligence
Center and has had hands-on experience as a member of small special
operations disaster deployment teams consisting of 30 members. He has
also been tasked with the management and deployment of on-scene field
resources for large-scale special events, ranging from 20,000 to 1.2 million
civilian participants, held inside and outside of the City of Chicago.
Ann E. Norwood (Colonel-Retired, U.S. Army), M.D., is senior associate
at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Center for Biosecurity in
Baltimore, Maryland. She received her A.B. in psychobiology from Vassar
College and her M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Norwood completed her resi-
dency in psychiatry at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco,
California. She was the chief of psychiatry at Darnall Army Community
Hospital, Ft. Hood, Texas, before her appointment as an assistant profes-
sor at USUHS in 1988. Dr. Norwood held a number of positions while at
USUHS, including associate chair and a 6-month term as acting chair of
the Department of Psychiatry. In 2003 she was assigned to Walter Reed
Army Medical Center with duty at HHS as a senior advisor on risk com-
munication to OPHEP. Dr. Norwood retired from the Army Medical Corps
as a colonel and joined HHS as a civilian in 2004. Her final position in the
former OPHEP (now ASPR) was as a senior policy analyst in the Office of
Preparedness and Emergency Operations/Office of Preparedness Planning.
Dr. Norwood is a former chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s
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Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster. She is an associate edi-
tor of the peer-reviewed journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense
Strategy, Practice, and Science. She has coedited four books and published
numerous articles and chapters on the behavioral health aspects of trauma
associated with war, terrorism, and disasters, as well as the unique stresses
associated with military service. Her other professional interests include
crisis communication, resilience, and mass fatality management.
Jeanine Prud’homme is a certified industrial hygienist who serves as the
assistant commissioner for the New York City (NYC) Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene’s Bureau of Environmental Emergency Pre-
paredness and Response (BEEPR) and who has overseen the agency’s Office
of Radiological Health. With the NYC Fire Department, Ms. Prud’homme
serves as the cochair of the NYC Police Department’s Securing the Cities
Radiological Response and Recovery Subcommittee. BEEPR’s responsibili-
ties include all hazards field and technical planning and response to envi-
ronmental public health incidents. Within the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, she plays a major role in the planning and mitigation of
biological and radiological incidents in NYC.
Irwin Redlener, M.D., FAAP, is associate dean, professor of clinical pub-
lic health, and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness
at Columbia University. Dr. Redlener speaks and writes extensively on
national disaster preparedness policies, pandemic influenza, the threat of
terrorism in the United States, and related issues. He is also president and
cofounder of the Children’s Health Fund and has expertise in health care
systems, crisis response, and public policy with respect to access to health
care for underserved populations. Dr. Redlener, a pediatrician, has worked
extensively in the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina, where he helped
establish ongoing medical and public health programs. He also organized
medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade
Center attacks of 9/11 and has had disaster management leadership experi-
ence internationally and nationally. Dr. Redlener is the author of Americans
at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can
Do Now, published in August 2006.
Dori B. Reissman (Captain, U.S. Public Health Service), M.D., M.P.H.,
has been providing leadership and vision to integrate health, safety, and
resiliency into incident management strategies for emergency responders
and address organizational dynamics affecting traumatic stress for work-
ers in hazardous occupations. Contributions include emergency response
service, expert consultation, applied behavioral research, and policy guid-
ance. She initiated efforts to address community resiliency as a public health
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protection strategy as well as to address organizational and workforce
resilience at CDC, and she has supported numerous public health missions
in response to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. She was commis-
sioned as a medical officer in the Public Health Service in 1997, when she
joined CDC as an epidemic intelligence officer. Dr. Reissman completed
residency training in occupational and environmental medicine in 1997,
including an M.P.H. at the University of Illinois. Previously, she had com-
pleted residency training in psychiatry and provided psychiatric consulta-
tion services in private and faculty-based practices in addition to teaching
and supervisory positions in university-affiliated hospitals. Dr. Reissman
was chief of the emergency psychiatric services at St. Vincent’s Hospital and
Medical Center of New York when the 1993 World Trade Center bomb-
ing incident occurred. She received a medical degree from Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, New York, in 1984. Prior to her medical training,
Dr. Reissman obtained a B.S. in environmental sciences from Cook College,
Rutgers University, in New Jersey, and an M.A. in pharmacology and toxi-
cology from Columbia University in New York.
Alan L. Remick is the consequence management program manager for the
Office of Emergency Response, National Nuclear Security Administration
(NNSA). Mr. Remick has more than 25 years of technical and program
management experience in emergency response. Prior to working for the
Department of Energy (DOE) NNSA, he managed the nuclear emergency
monitoring and assessment program at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. At
DOE/NNSA, he manages the Consequence Management Program, which
provides expert technical advice and assistance from the DOE/NNSA
complex in response to radiological accidents, lost or stolen radioactive
materials, and acts of nuclear terrorism. He received a B.S. in nuclear engi-
neering from Kansas State University.
Adela Salame-Alfie, Ph.D., is the assistant director of the Division of
Environmental Health Investigation in the New York State Department
of Health (NYSDOH). Prior to that appointment she was the direc-
tor of the Bureau of Environmental Radiation Protection at NYSDOH.
Dr. Salame-Alfie is the current chair-elect of the Conference of Radiation
Control Program Directors. She is also chair of the Homeland Security
Emergency Response 2 Committee that was responsible for the preparation
of the Handbook for Responding to a Radiological Dispersal Device—The
First Hours. Dr. Salame-Alfie is a member of the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurements’ (NCRP’s) Scientific Committee
SC4-2, “Population Monitoring and Decontamination Following a Nuclear
or Radiological Incident,” and is also a member of the American Society
for Testing and Materials’ E54.2 committee that developed the Standard
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Practice for Radiological Emergency Response. Dr. Salame-Alfie received
her M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York.
Aashish Shah, M.D., J.D., FACOG, is the regional medical director for
Health Service Region 6/5S in the greater Houston, TX, area. Formerly, he
served as the senior policy advisor for health and medical preparedness for
the Texas Department of State Health Services, where his responsibilities
included the evaluation and development of health and medical prepared-
ness policy for the department. In addition, he is the associate director
of public health preparedness at the University of Texas School of Public
Health Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness. He previ-
ously served as the chief physician for public health preparedness at the
City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services. As a board-
certified obstetrician-gynecologist and a fellow of the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Shah has had experience in both
private and public health sectors. He began his career in private practice
in League City, Texas. He then worked at the University of Texas Medical
Branch Women’s HealthCare Group and was a clinical assistant professor.
Dr. Shah completed his B.A. in biology from the University of Texas in
Austin, his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San
Antonio, and his residency in obstetrics, gynecology, and infertility at the
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston. He recently graduated
from the University of Houston Law Center with an emphasis in health
policy, where he authored HIPAA and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: A
Primer for Disclosure of Protected Health Information to the local Pub-
lic Health Authority. Dr. Shah has had experience working with the state
legislature. As a legislative intern with the Texas Medical Association, he
worked with the House Subcommittee on Public Health to establish the
Council on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
katherine Uraneck, M.D., is the senior medical coordinator for the New
York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Healthcare
Emergency Preparedness Program. Her primary focus areas include radi-
ation incident planning and response, hospital surge capacity, pediatric
preparedness, and mass fatality planning. She has been project manager,
coauthor, and editor of NYC Hospital Guidelines for Responding to a
Contaminating Radiation Incident as well as an active participant in the
New York City Securing the City subcommittee on the city’s response to a
radiation incident. Nationally Dr. Uraneck has participated in the Center
for Biosecurity’s Working Group on Emergency Mass Critical Care, the
CDC Working Group on Radiation Population Monitoring, and the NCRP
Scientific Committee 4-2, “Population Monitoring and Decontamination
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Following a Nuclear or Radiological Incident.” Dr. Uraneck is a board-
certified and residency-trained emergency physician. She completed her
undergraduate degree in biomechanical engineering at Cornell University,
her M.D. at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri,
and her residency and fellowship in emergency medicine at the Medical
College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She practiced as an emergency
physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Albany, New York; and in rural
Vermont. In 2002, Dr. Uraneck completed a master’s degree in journalism
at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Reuben k. Varghese, M.D., M.P.H., promotes disease control and pre-
vention and overall community health as chief of the Public Health Divi-
sion of Arlington County, Virginia. Varghese began his career at a health
maintenance organization, where he served as internist. He served as chief
of the Medical Affairs and Surveillance Branch of the Food Safety and
Inspection Service at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 2004 to
2005. From 2000 to 2002 he was an epidemic intelligence service officer
for CDC. While at CDC, he was part of a team sent to New York City to
monitor latent health effects caused by 9/11—an asset to a community such
as Arlington, which also was directly affected on 9/11. Prior to his work
at USDA, Dr. Varghese was director of the Three Rivers Health District
based in Middlesex County, Virginia, from 2002 to 2004. He received his
M.D. from Brown University and has an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins
University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Michael Welling has served as the director of the Virginia Radioactive
Materials Program (RMP) for 2 years. RMP was created in order for
Virginia to become an agreement state and regulate all radioactive material
in the commonwealth. Prior to this, Mr. Welling worked for the Wisconsin
Radioactive Materials Program for 5 years. Mr. Welling was a nuclear elec-
trician in the U.S. Navy for 6 years. He has a B.A. in business management
from Lakeland College in Wisconsin.
Albert L. Wiley, Jr. (United States Navy Reserve-Retired), M.D., Ph.D.,
FACR, received Board of Nuclear Engineering and postgraduate training
in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University and worked
as a nuclear engineer. He later graduated from medical school at the Uni-
versity of Rochester, followed by an internship in surgery/medicine at the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville and residency training in radiation
oncology and nuclear medicine at Stanford University and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a Ph.D. (major in radiobiology,
minor in nuclear engineering) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In
the U.S. Navy, Dr. Wiley served in the United States and Europe as senior
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medical officer for a major Navy Radiation Accident Response Team; as
medical director of the U.S. Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory, San
Francisco; and as instructor at the Navy Nuclear Training Center, Naval
Air Station North Island, Coronado, California. For most of his career, he
was a professor of radiation oncology and human oncology at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently emeritus professor. He
is also part-time clinical professor of radiation oncology at East Carolina
University. Dr. Wiley is currently the director of the Radiation Emergency
Assistance Center/Training Site and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Collaborating Center at Oak Ridge, as well as vice president of Radiation
Emergency Medicine at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. He is board certified in radiation oncology (ABR), nuclear
medicine (ABNM), medical physics (ABMP, medical health physics), and by
ABSNM (radiation protection). He has served nationally and internation-
ally as a consultant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of
Energy, Department of State, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, HHS, WHO,
and International Atomic Energy Agency.
Richard P. Zuley recently retired from the Chicago Police Department
after almost 37 years of service. During the last 1.5 years of his police
career, Detective Zuley was detailed to the Training Academy, where he
became a state-certified instructor and served as the senior instructor and
one of the developers of Chicago’s highly regarded Terrorism Awareness
and Response Academy. Following his retirement, Mr. Zuley was hired by
the City of Chicago Department of Public Health, where he works as the
senior emergency management coordinator in the Emergency Preparedness
and Response Division. Mr. Zuley’s duties include developing prepared-
ness and response plans, in addition to being the primary CBRNE officer
and the development of an indigenous intelligence fusion section. Earlier
in his career Mr. Zuley was a Marine and still serves as an intelligence
officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Commander Zuley has had extensive
active-duty time including 2 years deployed overseas as part of Operations
Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He was closely involved in the
actual intelligence collection mission and served in a leadership position in
that effort. Mr. Zuley received two Defense Meritorious Service medals for
his efforts in those operations. In addition to his work with the Chicago
Police Department, Mr. Zuley continues to teach terrorism-related classes
through the Chicago Department of Public Health, Department of Home-
land Security, and multiple state agencies. He is a licensed pilot and a gradu-
ate of Dominican University with a degree in political science and history,
and he also did graduate studies at National-Lewis University.