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Committee Biographies
Linda Hawes Clever, M.D. (Co-Chair), is a specialist in internal medi-
cine and occupational medicine. She attended undergraduate and medical
school at Stanford University and did postdoctoral training at Stanford and
the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a member
of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences;
clinical professor of medicine at UCSF; associate dean for alumni affairs at
the Stanford University School of Medicine; and founding chair and senior
physician of the Division of Occupational Health at California Pacific
Medical Center. She is also the founding president of RENEW, a not-for-profit
aimed at helping devoted people maintain and regain enthusiasm, effec-
tiveness, and purpose as they resolve the competing imperatives of work
and life. Her husband is an internist as is their daughter, who is on the fa-
culty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Clever served on the
Stanford University Board of Trustees for 14 years and was editor of the
Western Journal of Medicine; she also chaired the board of the public
broadcasting station KQED. Dr. Clever speaks nationally and internation-
ally and has many publications on topics including health promotion,
occupational health, personal and institutional renewal, volunteerism, and
leadership. Her book, The Fatigue Prescription: Four Ways to Renewing
Your Energy, Health, and Life, was published in 2010.
M. E. Bonnie Rogers, Dr.P.H., COHN-S, LNCC, FAAN (Co-Chair),
is an associate professor of nursing and public health and director of the
North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research
Center and the Occupational Health Nursing Program at the University
of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill. Dr. Rogers re-
ceived her diploma in nursing from the Washington Hospital Center
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School of Nursing, Washington, DC; her baccalaureate in nursing from
George Mason University School of Nursing, Fairfax, Virginia; and her
master of public health degree and doctorate in public health from the
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr.
Rogers was a visiting scholar at the Hasting Center in New York and is
an ethics consultant. Dr. Rogers serves as chairperson of the NIOSH Na-
tional Occupational Research Agenda Liaison Committee. She has
served on numerous IOM committees including the IOM Standing
Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and
Health. Dr. Rogers is past president of the American Association of Oc-
cupational Health Nurses and the Association of Occupational and Envi-
ronmental Clinics. She is currently Vice President of the International
Commission on Occupational Health.
Edie Alfano-Sobsey, Ph.D., MT(ASCP), is currently a public health
epidemiologist with Wake County Human Services in North Carolina.
She recently served as an industrial hygienist, epidemiologist, and team
leader of the NC Public Health Regional Surveillance Team 4. In this
position, she was successful in creating and leading new initiatives in
public health preparedness. These include developing the environmental
sampling protocol for bioterrorism agents used by North Carolina public
health and first responders, implementing and evaluating respiratory pro-
tection programs in health care agencies, developing and assisting with
preparedness plans, creating training in epidemiology and outbreak in-
vestigation for local health departments, and coordinating exercises to
test local and state preparedness plans. Dr. Alfano-Sobsey’s other areas
of expertise include infectious disease epidemiology, medical laboratory
sciences (specializing in microbiology), and environmental health
sciences, with peer-reviewed publications in these areas. She holds a
doctor of philosophy in infectious disease epidemiology and a master of
science in public health in environmental sciences, both from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a certified medical
technologist and clinical laboratory scientist.
Barbara DeBaun, R.N., M.S.N., CIC, has more than 30 years of expe-
rience in the field of infection prevention and control. She is currently an
improvement advisor for Cynosure Healthcare Consultants. Prior to this
role she supported BEACON, the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative
where she provided vision and leadership in the development, implemen-
tation, and facilitation of performance improvement initiatives for the 38
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participating medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously,
she was the director of patient safety and infection control at California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Before that she directed
the infection control programs at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Fran-
cisco and the VA Hospital in the Bronx, New York. She is a certified
infection control practitioner and holds a bachelor's degree in nursing
from Pace University in New York and a master of science degree in
nursing from San Francisco State University. She is adjunct faculty at
Dominican University California. She is an active member of the Asso-
ciation for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Ms. DeBaun currently serves as the chair of the 2012 APIC Annual Con-
ference Committee and is a member of the APIC Education Committee
and the APIC Practice Guidance Council. She is the APIC liaison to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hospital Infection Control
Practices Advisory Committee. She has lectured nationally and interna-
tionally on a variety of patient safety and infection control topics and has
published more than a dozen articles and several book chapters. In 2008,
she was selected as Infection Control Today’s Educator of the Year. Ms.
DeBaun is a member of the IOM Standing Committee on Personal Pro-
tective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health.
Oisaeng Hong, Ph.D., R.N., is professor in the Department of Commu-
nity Health Systems and director of the Occupational and Environmental
Health Nursing Program at the Northern California Center for Occupa-
tional and Environmental Health at UCSF. Her research focuses on the
health and safety of workers with noise and chemical exposures and of
underserved immigrant worker populations, with an emphasis on com-
munity and workplace-based participatory health interventions. Dr. Hong
is a recognized expert in the prevention occupational hearing loss
through a multidisciplinary hearing protection intervention research
funded by NIOSH, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department
of Homeland Security. Her intervention research adapts the concept of
tailoring to provide information most relevant to individual workers and
incorporates internet and mobile phone applications for wide dissemina-
tion in diverse worker populations. Dr. Hong’s sustained research has
contributed to knowledge development, practice, and policy making na-
tionally and internationally through scholarly publications and presenta-
tions. Dr. Hong received her master of science in nursing from Yon Sei
University (South Korea), her doctorate in nursing from the University of
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Illinois at Chicago, and a postdoctoral fellowship in health promotion
and risk reduction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Leslie M. Israel, D.O., M.P.H., FACOEM, is an associate clinical
professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She
received her internship and residency training at Yale University and is
board-certified in occupational medicine. Dr. Israel serves as the asso-
ciate director of the University of California, Irvine, Occupational Medi-
cine Residency Program and medical director for the University of
California, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Occupa-
tional and Environmental Medicine Clinic. In addition, she is working on
several clinical research projects: Firefighter Occupational Exposures in
collaboration with the Biomonitoring California Program, a NIOSH-
funded Firefighter Obesity Study (FORWARD), and a review of work-
ers’ compensation claims by firefighters for cardiac conditions. She
serves as vice president of the Western Occupational Medicine Associa-
tion (2011) and recently served as the chair for the National Occupation-
al Medicine Residency Program Directors Group (May 1, 2010, to March
25, 2011). Dr. Israel is a member of the IOM Standing Committee on
Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health.
James S. Johnson, Ph.D., CIH, QEP, has worked at the Lawrence Li-
vermore National Laboratory (LLNL) since 1972. His position from
November 2000 was section leader of the Chemical and Biological Safe-
ty Section of the Safety Programs Division. Throughout his career at
LLNL, Dr. Johnson has been involved with respiratory protection and
personal protective equipment as the respiratory program administrator,
research scientist, and division and section manager. He is an American
Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) fellow; a member of the National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Correlating Committee on
Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment; a
member of the NFPA Respiratory Protection Equipment Committee; past
chair of the International Society for Respiratory Protection, Americas
Section; secretariat chair of the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) Z88 for Respiratory Protection; and a member and past chairman
of the AIHA Respirator Committee. He is also a member of the AIHA
Protective Clothing and Equipment Committee and the Emergency
Preparedness and Response Task Force. Dr. Johnson retired from LLNL
on July 1, 2006, and is now a part-time consultant. He has taught a one-
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semester industrial hygiene class at Chabot-Las Positas Community College
since 1982 and a variety of respiratory protection training classes. Dr.
Johnson is a member of the IOM Standing Committee on Personal Pro-
tective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health.
Hernando R. Perez, Ph.D., M.P.H., CIH, is an assistant professor at
the Drexel University School of Public Health. He received his master’s
of public health in environmental and occupational health from Emory
University and his Ph.D. in industrial hygiene from Purdue University.
Dr. Perez is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene
by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and serves as director of
the Drexel School of Public Health’s industrial hygiene consulting ser-
vice. He is also certified in safety by the Board of Certified Safety Pro-
fessionals. His research interests include environmental and occupational
bioaerosol assessment, children’s environmental health, and housing and
health. Dr. Perez served as consultant, facilitator, and report writer to the
Mold Task Force of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. He has also
collaborated with both the Philadelphia Department of Health and the
Philadelphia Housing Authority on their Housing and Urban Development–
funded Healthy Homes Demonstration Projects. Additionally, he has
served as a grant reviewer for internal proposals at NIOSH, as well as a
senior grant reviewer for Round 12 of the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development Lead Hazard Control Grant Program.
Patricia Quinlan, M.P.H., CIH, is an industrial hygienist–senior spe-
cialist in the School of Medicine at UCSF. She also holds an appoint-
ment as a clinical professor of nursing at UCSF School of Nursing. Her
job duties include research, teaching, clinical support work, and commu-
nity service. Over the past 24 years she has been involved with a series
of research projects whose purpose is to better understand the impact of
work and the environment on health—specifically how various agents
may affect the health of workers and members of the public. These stu-
dies have included examining the neurotoxic effects of exposures to sol-
vents and methanol and the pulmonary effects of exposure to agents such
as aerosolized pentamidine and metal fumes. Other research has included
evaluating workers’ exposures for a retrospective colon cancer study, a
study of gradients of health in hospital workers, and occupational expo-
sure assessment for several population-based case-control studies of Par-
kinson’s disease and childhood leukemia. Her current research includes
studies regarding the effects of environmental exposures on subjects with
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asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hypersensitivity
pneumonitis. Ms. Quinlan has served on several advisory committees for
the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, including
the 5155 Air Contaminants Committee and the general advisory commit-
tee. She also is a member of the board of directors of Worksafe, a health
and safety advocacy organization.
