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Speaker Biographies
Joel Ackelsberg, M.D., M.P.H., is a medical epidemiologist and Bioter-
rorism Surveillance Coordinator for the New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene’s (NYC DOHMH’s) Bureau of Communica-
ble Disease (BCD). After completing the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) in 2000,
Dr. Ackelsberg came to NYC DOHMH as Medical Director of the
Emergency Readiness and Response Unit, which coordinated key aspects
of the agency’s biological emergency preparedness and response plan-
ning. At various times during the past decade, he has overseen develop-
ment and evolution of NYC DOHMH’s Health Alert Network; hospital
public health emergency preparedness activities; surveillance and epide-
miologic response planning for biological emergencies locally and re-
gionally; planning and readiness for joint investigations with local and
federal law enforcement of suspected or confirmed biological threat
agent incidents; and coordination of biodetection (e.g., BioWatch) activi-
ties, including management of projects that specifically addressed biose-
curity in the NYC subway and commuter rail systems. These activities
have included significant participation in interagency efforts to coordi-
nate planning at all government levels. Most recently, Dr. Ackelsberg
has coordinated the development of NYC DOHMH’s biological threat
agent response plan, including biological incident and functional annex-
es. Dr. Ackelsberg has taken part in all NYC DOHMH emergency re-
sponses to suspected or confirmed biological incidents over the past
decade, including anthrax, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),
and pandemic influenza. He is a member of NYC’s Joint Terrorism Task
Force. Dr. Ackelsberg received his medical and public health degrees
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from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed an inter-
nal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and followed that with subspecialty training in infectious
diseases at the University Medical Center/Cooper Hospital in Camden,
New Jersey. He completed his 2-year EIS fellowship with the New York
State Department of Health (Albany, New York) in its Bureau of Com-
municable Disease Control.
Joseph Annelli, D.V.M., M.S., is currently the Senior Advisor for Agri-
culture and Health Systems, or “One Health Coordinator” for short, lo-
cated in the Office of the Deputy Administrator for Veterinary Services
(VS) at the Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he leads their One
Health Coordination Office and assists VS and USDA in implementing
the One Health principles of applying an interdisciplinary approach and
joint strategies to resolve issues at the human-animal-ecosystem interface
to improve both human and animal health. The core of Dr. Anelli’s work
involves providing senior level leadership and coordination for USDA,
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and VS’s One
Health Working Groups. These working groups are responsible for coor-
dinating strategic policy, plans and actions for all USDA agencies and
offices as they relate to the interrelationships of the human-animal-
ecosystem interface and its impact on agriculture and public health. Prior
to this, Dr. Annelli was Director of Emergency Programs for VS when he
and his staff activated National Disaster Medical System resources to
assist in an avian influenza outbreak in Virginia and deployed 350 veter-
inarians to the United Kingdom to assist with a major foot and mouth
disease outbreak. He was also instrumental in rewriting ESF-11 of the
National Response Plan to include care of pets in disasters. At the begin-
ning of the global concerns for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza
and the possibility of an emerging pandemic, Dr. Annelli was detailed to
the Office of the Secretary as liaison to the White House Homeland Se-
curity Council on Avian Influenza issues for USDA, and also served as
Director of the International Avian Influenza Coordination Center before
returning to VS in his current position. He was ideally positioned to con-
tinue in this role through the 2009-H1N1 influenza pandemic, building
upon the networks and partnerships developed through the National
Strategy for Pandemic Influenza and the response to highly pathogenic
H5N1 avian influenza. Dr. Annelli attended veterinary school at Araneta
University in the Philippines and completed his studies at the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville and received his second master’s degree in
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veterinary epidemiology and public health at the University of Minneso-
ta. His first master’s degree is in ecology and oceanography from Long
Island University’s C.W. Post Campus in Greenvale, New York.
Isaac Ashkenazi, M.D., is an international expert on disaster manage-
ment and leadership, community resilience, and mass casualty events
with both extensive professional and academic experience. He is consid-
ered one of the world’s foremost experts in medical preparedness for
complex emergencies and disasters. Dr. Ashkenazi is the Director of the
Urban Terrorism Preparedness Project at the National Preparedness
Leadership Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health, a joint program
of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of
Government. He is also a Professor of Disaster Medicine at Ben-Gurion
University in Israel and a consultant to Harvard University, CDC, the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. De-
partment of Homeland Security (DHS), and other national and interna-
tional agencies. Dr. Ashkenazi is the former head of the Medical
Services and Supply Center for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and
served as the Surgeon General for the IDF Home Front Command. He
received his M.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew Universi-
ty in Jerusalem and, in 1982, Dr. Ashkenazi volunteered to the para-
trooper forces in the IDF as a military doctor. After 4 years of intensive
military training, treating wounded soldiers and working under fire, Dr.
Ashkenazi started his residency in ophthalmology at Sheba Medical Cen-
ter. In 1992, he received a license to practice ophthalmology, from the
Israeli Medical Association. One year later, he received his M.Sc. in oph-
thalmology, summa cum laude, from the Faculty of Medicine at Tel-
Aviv University. In 2000, he went on a sabbatical to Boston, Massachu-
setts, where he received an M.P.A. (master of public administration)
from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Subsequently he received a master’s degree (summa cum laude) in na-
tional security from Haifa University. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Ashke-
nazi has become increasingly interested in disaster management and has
served in humanitarian missions in Asia, Africa, South America, and Eu-
rope. He has given courses in disaster medicine, disaster management,
crisis leadership, urban terrorism, preparedness and response for mass
casualty events, and individual and community resilience. He has pub-
lished more than two hundred papers in medical and scientific journals,
and presented his work in the United States, South America, Africa, Eu-
rope, Asia, and Middle East countries. In the last 15 years, Dr. Ashkenazi
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has received Presidential Medals of Honor for Humanitarian Assistance
from Turkey and Greece; the President of Rwanda; the Jewish Commu-
nity in France, Turkey, Italy, and the United States; and the UJC.
Christopher Braden, M.D., is a medical epidemiologist at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He currently serves as the
Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseas-
es. Previously, Dr. Braden has served as the Associate Director for Sci-
ence in the Division of Parasitic Diseases, and Chief, Outbreak Response
and Surveillance within the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Di-
vision of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. Dr. Braden also
served as a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Tuberculosis Elim-
ination. Dr. Braden earned his B.S. at Cornell University and M.D. at the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He completed his intern-
ship and residency in internal medicine then fellowship in infectious dis-
eases at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
He went onto become an Epidemic Intelligence Officer at CDC in 1993.
He is a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, a mem-
ber of the American Society for Microbiology, and an associate editor for
the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. His major areas of interest in-
clude molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, infectious diseases
surveillance and outbreak investigation, and national programs in food
and water safety.
Cory M. Bryant, Ph.D., currently leads food defense international out-
reach efforts and intentional contamination regulatory development un-
der the Food Safety Modernization Act. In 2009, he served as an
outbreak response coordinator and Acting Team Leader of the Center for
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s (CFSAN’s) emergency response
team. Prior to joining FDA (2003-2008), Dr. Bryant held the position of
Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
in Washington, DC. Focus areas included scientific review, allergen
cross-contamination control, and food defense. From 2000 to 2003, he
served as a research investigator with International Flavors and Fra-
grances in Union Beach, New Jersey, where his research yielded five
patents for encapsulation systems. Dr. Bryant holds B.S. and M.S. de-
grees in food science from Purdue University and a doctorate in food
science from the University of Massachusetts. He was awarded a Certifi-
cate in International Food Law from Michigan State University in 2006.
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Jere Dick, D.V.M., is the Associate Deputy Administrator (ADA) and
Chief of U.S. Field Operations for the Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS). In this critical position,
he leads APHIS’s effort to protect, sustain, and improve the productivity,
marketability, and health of the nation’s animals, animal products, and
biologics. Moreover, Dr. Dick plays an integral role in protecting the
nation from the introduction of dangerous and costly pests and disease by
cooperating closely with states, foreign governments, industry, and other
organizations to ensure that APHIS fulfills its vital mission of safeguard-
ing American agriculture. Before becoming the ADA for Field Opera-
tions, Dr. Dick served as the ADA for National Animal Health Programs
and Policy (NAHPP) Staff. His responsibilities included oversight of all
of VS’s disease control and eradication programs. Prior to that, he served
in several management positions in the eastern region, up to and includ-
ing director. Dr. Dick possesses the field experience that is necessary to
balance his perspectives: he has served as Area Veterinarian in Charge,
Area Epidemiologist, and Field Veterinary Medical Officer in the past, as
well as Incident Commander and Regional Incident Commander on two
different disease eradication campaigns. Dr. Dick began his VS career as
a field Veterinary Medical Officer in Helena, Montana, in 1988, after
owning and operating two private veterinary practices in the State of
Washington for nearly 10 years.
Joseph Gibson, Ph.D., designs and directs studies and program evalua-
tions; designs and implements analytic systems and tools for use for the
Marion County Public Health Department (MCHD) and the community;
collaborates in research with faculty at several universities; and directs
the Epidemiology group in similar work. His experience includes leading
research teams for creating new lines of research, running a multi-
million-dollar study, serving as scientific lead on a variety of projects,
and creating an outcomes tracking and reporting system for disease man-
agement programs in 12 disease states for clients representing 9,400,000
lives. Dr. Gibson’s areas of expertise include maternal and child health
issues, access to health care among Medicaid and uninsured populations,
schizophrenia, medical and pharmacy claims database analyses regarding
both health care costs and utilization, and secondary data analysis. Much
of Dr. Gibson’s focus has been on public health informatics and prepared-
ness. He has also developed an increasingly broad, standardized analytic
system of datasets and tools within MCHD, and introduced a user-friendly
analysis tool that is gaining enthusiastic use among MCHD administrators.
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He has experience is programming and development of systems ranging
from a real time, mainframe processing system for huge volumes of phar-
macy claims to simple web-based information systems.
Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, M.S. (standing committee), is president and
chief executive officer of LEG Inc., a consulting firm providing strategic
advice and counsel in domestic and national security, global energy issues,
counterterrorism, crisis and consequence management, strategic planning
and assessment, and homeland security. Since 2003, Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty
served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of USEC
Inc., a leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear
power plants. In that role, she was responsible for USEC’s day-to-day
operations. In 1998, Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty joined the White House Na-
tional Security Council (NSC) staff, as director for combating terrorism,
overseeing and coordinating U.S. government activities to deter, disrupt,
prevent, and respond fully to conventional, chemical, biological, radio-
logical, and nuclear terrorist attacks. Prior to joining the White House
NSC staff, Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty served for 6 years as the U.S. Depart-
ment of Energy’s (DOE’s) Director, Office of Emergency Response,
leading efforts for emergency preparedness and technical/operational
emergency response to all radiological or nuclear events, and as Acting
Director, Office of Weapons Surety, responsible for the safety and secu-
rity of the country’s nuclear weapons program. Prior to DOE, she served
as a professional staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Committee on Energy and Commerce. Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty began her
professional career as a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty holds a master’s degree in health
physics and a bachelor of science degree, both from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. She serves as a Director of Independence Federal
Savings Bank, Federation of American Scientists and Boys and Girls
Club of Greater Washington, DC. She is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, Advisory Board of Scripps Institution of Oceanogra-
phy, Economic Club of Washington, DC, and Washington Institute of
Foreign Affairs. Mrs. Gordon-Hagerty has been named to Fortune Mag-
azine’s “Most Powerful Women” in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Matthew Hepburn, M.D., is an active duty U.S. Army infectious dis-
eases physician, currently serving on detail to the National Security Staff.
Dr. Hepburn’s prior assignments have included two assignments at the
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
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(USAMRIID) directing domestic and international clinical studies, Chief
Medical Officer at Level II clinic in Camp Taji (Iraq), and liaison officer
to Defence Science and Technology Laboratories (United Kingdom).
Prior to these assignments, Dr. Hepburn was stationed at Brooke Army
Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston Texas for residency training in in-
ternal medicine, chief residency, and fellowship training in infectious
diseases. Dr. Hepburn received his medical degree from Duke University.
Selwyn Jamison is currently serving as the Program Manager for Bioter-
rorism Prevention in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He provides the FBI position dur-
ing Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), subIPC, and working group
level meetings and ensures their equities and interests are represented.
He comes to the FBI from Science Applications International Corpora-
tion (SAIC) where he provided subject matter expertise, thought leader-
ship, and strategic planning to support a wide range of actions in support
of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) primarily in the area
of national nuclear weapons accident and incident response policy, plan-
ning, requirements, training, and interagency coordination, with specific
expertise in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD). Prior to
that position he served over 20 years in the U.S. Army.
Bob Kadlec, M.D., spent 26 years as a career officer and physician in
the U.S. Air Force serving in several senior positions in the White
House, the U.S. Senate and the Department of Defense (DOD). Most
recently, Dr. Kadlec served as the Special Assistant to the President and
Senior Director for Biodefense Policy on the Homeland Security Coun-
cil. He also served as staff director for Senator Richard Burr’s sub-
committee on bioterrorism and public health in the 109th Congress. In
this capacity, he was instrumental in drafting the Pandemic and All-
Hazard Preparedness Bill that was signed into law. Dr. Kadlec also pre-
viously served at the White House from 2002 to 2005 as a director for
biodefense on the Homeland Security Council where he was responsible
for conducting the biodefense end-to-end assessment, which culminated
in drafting the National Biodefense Policy for the 21st Century. Dr. Kadlec
holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Air Force Academy, doc-
torate of medicine, and master’s of tropical medicine and hygiene from the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and master’s degree
in national security studies from Georgetown University.
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Donald Kautter, Jr., M.S., began his career as a project microbiologist
at the National Food Processors Association, (NFPA). His government
career began 16 years ago with the Food and Drug Administration’s
(FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), where
he held several positions. In his first, as a Consumer Safety Officer, Mr.
Kautter provided technical support to the Division of Field Programs
Director in establishing hazard analysis and critical control points
(HACCP) concepts in Agency programs; provided technical assistance in
the development of model HACCP systems for Agency programs, initia-
tives, and regulations; technical support for the Agency in food microbi-
ology and thermal processing policies, standards, procedures, and
guidelines, and acted as primary reviewer of regulatory compliance ac-
tivities and microbial issues submitted to FDA. His most recent post at
CFSAN was as Deputy Director, Office of Compliance (OC), where he
also served as one of the focal points between the Center and the field
through interaction with the Office of Regulatory Affairs and the Office
of Enforcements. Prior to his position in OC, Mr. Kautter served as the
team leader of CFSAN’s Food Defense Oversight Team, where he pro-
vided technical support in establishing food defense concepts in Agency
programs; oversight and leadership in the development of vulnerability
assessments for Agency programs. He was also the primary coordinator
of the FDA portion of the DHS document, “National Infrastructure Pro-
tection Plan” (NIPP). He was selected to lead the FDA portion of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)/Department of Agriculture (USDA) joint initiative, the Strategic
Partnership Program on Agroterrorism, for its first year. In this role, Mr.
Kautter collaborated with private industry and the states to assess vulner-
abilities in the food supply and promote potential mitigation strategies.
He left FDA briefly in 2010 for the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Ser-
vice (FSIS), where he was a senior food defense analyst, in charge of
numerous vulnerability assessments of FSIS-regulated foods, as well as a
senior technical subject matter expert on intentional contamination of
food products. He returned to CFSAN this year as CORE’s Manager on
the Prevention side. Mr. Kautter holds a B.S. in biology from George
Mason University, and an M.S. in food microbiology from the University
of Maryland.
Robert Kravinsky is a Defense policy analyst in the Office of the Secre-
tary of Defense (OSD). Most recently he served as the Principal Director
for Rule of Law and International Humanitarian Policy, providing strate-
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gic direction on a broad array of national security issues including mass
atrocity prevention, international criminal justice, rule of law doctrine,
and promoting good governance through security cooperation. Prior to
that position, he served as a Senior Advisor at a leading non-profit think
tank, the Project on National Security Reform, formulating strategic di-
rection for the project and advising on matters of national security policy.
In that capacity, he led a study effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the
National Counterterrorism Center’s interagency planning capability. Pri-
or to that position, Mr. Kravinsky served as the Director of Strategic
Planning for Homeland Defense in OSD, overseeing homeland defense
equities in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the National Implementa-
tion Plan for Counterterrorism, the National Response Framework, and
other national strategies.
Leslie Lenert, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informat-
ics at the University of Utah. After completing medical school at Univer-
sity of California Los Angeles, Internal Medicine residency at University
of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and fellowship training in Clini-
cal Pharmacology and Medical Informatics at Stanford University, Dr.
Lenert was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford
University School of Medicine. In 1997, he moved to University of Cali-
fornia San Diego, where he was promoted to Professor of Medicine, and
was an Associate Director of the California Institute for Telecommunica-
tions and Information Technology. In 2007, Dr. Lenert became the
founding Director of the National Center for Public Health Informatics at
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As the head of a
650-person Center with a $110M budget, he led CDC efforts to develop
national electronic disease surveillance systems and to integrate public
health information systems into the Nationwide Health Information Net-
work. In September 2010, Dr. Lenert joined the Department of Medicine
at the University of Utah, where he is working to integrate population
health strategies to specialty and primary care practices. The author of
more than 120 publications, Dr. Lenert is currently involved in research
on the informatics solutions for population health care, wireless electron-
ic health records systems for first responders, and patient empowerment
through computers in clinical relationships. Dr. Lenert is Fellow of the
American College of Medical Informatics; a past member of the Board
of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA);
a member of the editorial boards of JAMIA, the Journal of Biomedical
Informatics, and the International Journal of Medical Informatics; and
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has served on study sections for Agency for Health Research and Quality
and the National Library of Medicine. He has won awards for his re-
search work from the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the
American Federation for Clinical Research, and AMIA.
Jean-Marie Maillard, M.D., M.Sc., joined the North Carolina Depart-
ment of Health and Human Sciences’ (NC DHHS’s) Division of Public
Health in 1992. He served as medical epidemiologist for disease control
and surveillance in the Communicable Disease Branch from 1992 to
2002, then was in charge of epidemiology and surveillance capacity
building from 2002 to 2008, and became director of the Medical Consul-
tation Unit of the Communicable Disease Branch in 2008. Prior to join-
ing the NC DHHS, he was external consultant for the World Bank in four
consultations in Madagascar in 1990-1991; Regional Medical Officer in
Botswana for 4 years (1986-1989), and District Medical Officer in Saint
Lucia for 18 months (1983-1984). Both of these assignments were under
bilateral government agreements. Dr. Maillard received his M.D. in Par-
is, France, in 1983, his M.Sc. in epidemiology from the London, UK,
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992, and his North Caroli-
na M.D. license in 1999. He is board certified in public health and pre-
ventive medicine since 2004.
Peter Purcell, M.B.A., has responsibility for Technology for the Board
of Governors’ Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation. Over his
35-year career, Mr. Purcell has held executive positions in technology
and retail banking. He started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, where he held successive technology positions of increasing re-
sponsibility.
Teresa Quitugua, Ph.D., currently serves as the Acting Director for the
National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) within the Department
of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Office of Health Affairs. She leads a
multidisciplinary team in coordination of interagency biosurveillance in-
formation sharing across the National Biosurveillance Integration System
(NBIS) interagency community in accordance with Presidential Directives
and Public Law. Dr. Quitugua previously worked as the Director of the
Molecular Mycobacteriology Laboratory for the Texas Department of
Health and as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio (UTHSCSA). In these positions, she coordinated public health
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and research interactions with private and public health care providers
and laboratories at city, regional, state, national, and international levels
for clinical and molecular epidemiologic investigations of tuberculosis.
She also directed the development of tuberculosis (TB) and Valley Fever
vaccine, pathogenesis, and immunology studies; molecular TB drug sus-
ceptibility testing methods; and new TB genotyping methods. Dr.
Quitugua also served as a member of the Infection and Immunity editori-
al board and as chair of the UTHSCSA Institutional Biosafety Commit-
tee. Dr. Teresa Quitugua earned her B.S. in microbiology from the
University of Illinois in 1990 and her Ph.D. in microbiology from the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1996.
Stephen C. Redd, M.D., Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General,
U.S. Public Health Service, is Director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Influenza Coordination Unit. The unit was
formed in 2006 to provide a central focus for pandemic influenza prepa-
rations at CDC. Dr. Redd was responsible for developing plans for pan-
demic response, exercising those plans, tracking progress in developing
specific capabilities needed for an influenza pandemic, and communi-
cating progress in these capabilities. In April 2009, shortly after the
H1N1 virus was identified, Dr. Redd was appointed Incident Command-
er of CDC’s H1N1 pandemic influenza response, providing daily direc-
tion to all of CDC’s pandemic response efforts from detecting the virus
through the H1N1 vaccination program. More than 3,300 CDC staff par-
ticipated in the response during the 11-month activation of CDC Emer-
gency Operations Center. Dr. Redd joined CDC in 1985 as an Epidemic
Intelligence Service Officer, following clinical training. He has published
widely in the control of respiratory diseases, malaria control, measles
epidemiology and elimination, environmental health, and asthma. Dr.
Redd has received numerous awards including the Public Health Service
Distinguished Service Medal for leading CDC’s pandemic response and
the Charles Shepard Award, an annual award for the outstanding manu-
script published by CDC authors. Dr. Redd received his undergraduate
degree from Princeton University and his medical degree from Emory
University. He trained in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
and practices internal medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital and the
Cherokee Indian Hospital.
Kevin Russell, M.D., graduated from University of Texas Health Sci-
ence Center San Antonio Medical School in 1990; after a family practice
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internship he was accepted into the Navy Undersea Medicine program.
He was stationed in Panama City, Florida, at the Experimental Diving
Unit where he worked in diving medicine research from 1991 to 1995.
After a preventive medicine residency with a master’s degree in tropical
medicine and hygiene, CAPT Russell was transferred to Lima, Peru,
where he became head of the Virology Laboratory. His portfolio includ-
ed febrile illness (largely arboviral in origin) and HIV surveillance stud-
ies in eight different countries of South America, as well as prospective
dengue transmission studies. In 2001 he moved back to the United States
and became the Director of the Respiratory Disease Laboratory at the
Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California. Febrile respira-
tory illness surveillance in recruits of all services was expanded into
shipboard populations, Mexican border populations, support for out-
breaks, and deployed settings. Validation and integration of new and
emerging advanced diagnostic capabilities, using the archives of speci-
mens maintained at the laboratory, became a priority. Projects expanded
in 2006 to clinical trials support as CAPT Russell became the Principal
Investigator for the Navy site in the FDA Phase 3 adenovirus vaccines
trial, and more recently to support the Phase 4 post-marketing trial of the
recently Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved ACAM2000
Smallpox vaccine. In July of 2008, CAPT Russell assumed the responsi-
bilities of Director, Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections
Surveillance and Response System (DOD-GEIS), and Deputy Director,
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC). He is tasked with
the responsibility of melding the GEIS network into the attributes of the
AFHSC; his priorities have been standardization, greater affiliations with
world militaries, and continuing to introduce scientific rigor into the
network. CAPT Russell assumed the duties of Director, Armed Forces
Health Surveillance Center in June 2011. His priorities have expanded to
explore ways to provide an even more comprehensive product for the
military community that the AFHSC serves.
Merrie Spaeth, M.S. (standing committee), is President of Spaeth
Communications, Inc. Her background is in media, government, politics,
business, and the entertainment industry. She is a pioneer in communica-
tion theory and executive training, and acknowledged as one of the
preeminent crisis management strategists in the country. She founded
Dallas-based Spaeth Communications, Inc., in 1987. The firm provides
communication training and consulting for a wide range of companies
and institutions. She is also the founder and president of the Institute for
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Strategic Communications, a not-for-profit foundation devoted to study-
ing and reporting on business communication issues. In the early 1980s,
Ms. Spaeth served as a White House Fellow and worked for FBI Director
William Webster. She served 2 years at the Federal Trade Commission
as Director of Public Affairs, and in 1984 she served as Director of Me-
dia Relations at the White House. During her tenure, she introduced sat-
ellite communications to the White House and launched the electronic
White House News Service. Ms. Spaeth has worked in every area of
print and electronic media. She’s been a radio and television talk show
host, a producer for ABC’s 20/20, and a reporter for many magazines
and papers. Her honors include Glamour’s 10 Outstanding Working
Women of America and the National Council of Women’s Citation of
Accomplishment. A cum laude graduate of Smith College, she holds a
master’s degree from Columbia Business School and was awarded the
school’s Overall Achievement Award.
William F. Stephens, M.S., has managed the advanced practice center at
Tarrant County Public Health for over 7 years in the area of public health
preparedness, informatics, and development of preparedness capacity
and capabilities. His areas of focus have been in biosurveillance system
development and evaluation, and radiological/nuclear disaster prepared-
ness including psychosocial/behavioral and risk communication. He has
also served as a technical advisor for pilot testing and implementation
of an electronic medical records system now in final implementation in
several clinics at Tarrant County Public Health. Under his leadership, the
Tarrant County center has made significant contributions in biosurveillance
systems development, health information exchange for outbreak detection
and situational awareness, and in building health care disaster response
core competencies for all hazards. Mr. Stephens has served on the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) national biosurveillance
advisory subcommittee, as an advisor on medical preparedness for a
nuclear detonation workshop and report sponsored by the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine (IOM), and was a
member of the CDC/Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and
Emergency Response (COTPER) Board of Scientific Counselors from
2007 to 2010. Prior to joining Tarrant County Public Health Mr. Stephens
worked in senior management roles in the scientific/biomedical imaging
industry and in several strategic defense systems programs. He contributed
to product development for the first commercially available digital mam-
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mography systems, and for image sensors used in mapping the human ge-
nome. He holds an M.S. from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Regina Tan, D.V.M., has more than 10 years of public health experience
in preventive medicine and epidemiology, and joined the Food Safety
and Inspection Service (FSIS) from the MITRE Corporation, where her
management of a team of engineers was essential to developing innova-
tive data architecture research and development across the federal
government. Dr. Tan began her career as a Commissioned Corps officer
in the U.S. Public Health Service and worked with the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention (CDC), first as an Epidemic Intelligence
Service Officer then as a Preventive Medicine Fellow. She joined FSIS’s
then–Human Health Sciences Division (now the Applied Epidemiology
Division) as a veterinary epidemiologist in 2003, where she managed the
Consumer Complaint Monitoring System team and hurricane response
components. In 2005, Dr. Tan rejoined CDC, as a liaison with the Armed
Forces Medical Intelligence Center. Dr. Tan has led or served on numer-
ous public health advisory committees, interagency teams and working
groups pertaining to threats to public health. Dr. Tan earned her D.V.M.
and M.S. from Purdue University and her bachelor of science in biology
from the University of Maryland. She is also a Diplomate of the Ameri-
can College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine.
