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Appendix A
Committee Biosketches
Gregory B. Baecher (Chair) is the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of
Engineering at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the
reliability of civil infrastructure and risks posed by natural hazards and the
response of infrastructure to those hazards. In recent years, his research has
dealt with dam safety and with the response of levee systems to flooding,
including actuarial issues related to flood and other natural hazard insur-
ance. He has also worked on quantitative methods in facilities manage-
ment, especially federally owned facilities, and on information technology
applications to facilities management. Dr. Baecher was elected to the Na-
tional Academy of Engineering in 2006 for his work in the development,
explication, and implementation of probabilistic- and reliability-based ap-
proaches to geotechnical and water-resources engineering. He is a recipient
of the Commander’s Award for Public Service from the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers and a recipient of the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award and
State-of-the-Art Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is
co-author of Reliability and Statistics in Geotechnical Engineering (2003),
Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety (2004), and Protection of Civil Infra-
structure from Acts of Terrorism (2006). Dr. Baecher received his Ph.D.
and M.Sc. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his
B.S.C.E. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Thomas W. Armstrong retired in 2008 from his position as senior scientific
associate in the Exposure Sciences Group of ExxonMobil Biomedical Sci-
ences, Inc., where he had worked since 1989. Dr. Armstrong also worked
with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center as the lead investi-
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gator on exposure assessment for epidemiological investigations of poten-
tially benzene-related or other occupational exposure-related hematopoietic
diseases in Shanghai, China. Dr. Armstrong spent 9 years working for the
Linde Group as the manager of loss control in the gases division and as a
manager of safety and industrial hygiene. He conducted research on quan-
titative risk-assessment models for inhalation exposure to Legionella and
remains professionally active on that topic. He has recently contributed to
publications on mathematical models to estimate exposures to hazardous
materials and on methods of exposure reconstruction. He was a member of
the Society for Risk Analysis and remains an active member of the Ameri-
can Industrial Hygiene Association. The American Board of Industrial
Hygiene has certified him as an industrial hygienist. Dr. Armstrong received
his Ph.D. in environmental engineering and M.S. in environmental health
from Drexel University.
Richard E. Breitmeyer was appointed director of the California Animal
Health and Food Safety Laboratory System in November 2010. Oper-
ating under the administration of the University of California at Davis
(UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine, the laboratory system is the
backbone of California’s animal disease surveillance and detection system
and is used to safeguard human and animal health from naturally occurring
or intentionally introduced animal diseases by rapidly and reliably diagnos-
ing diseases found in animals. Before joining UC Davis, Dr. Breitmeyer had
a 26-year career with the California Department of Food and Agriculture
(CDFA), serving as California’s state veterinarian from 1993 to 2010. As
state veterinarian, he had the statutory authority to quarantine domestic
animals or food to protect the health and safety of animals and the public.
From 1993 to 2004, Dr. Breitmeyer also served as the director of Animal
Health and Food Safety Services and oversaw an annual budget of $30
million and 250 employees engaged in programs for animal health, milk
and dairy foods control, meat and poultry inspection, and livestock identi-
fication. Before joining CDFA, he was a private practitioner in Humboldt
and San Luis Obispo counties. Dr. Breitmeyer is an active member of many
state and national organizations and is the immediate past president of the
United States Animal Health Association. He also served for 10 years on
the Secretary of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee for Foreign Animal and
Poultry Diseases. Dr. Breitmeyer received his D.V.M. and M.P.V.M. degrees
from UC Davis, and he conducted his undergraduate studies at California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Corrie C. Brown is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. Her
research includes the study of pathogenesis of infectious disease in food-
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producing animals through the use of immunohistochemistry and in situ hy-
bridization. She is active in the fields of emerging diseases and international
veterinary medicine and serves as coordinator of international activities for
the College of Veterinary Medicine. Before joining the University of Georgia
in 1996, she worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plum
Island Foreign Animal Disease Center for 10 years, conducting pathogenesis
studies on many foreign animal diseases. Her bench research at the Univer-
sity of Georgia has focused on poultry diseases, and she works closely with
the USDA facility in Athens that is dedicated to foreign diseases of poultry.
In educational research, she has several grants to promote national animal
health infrastructure in developing nations. Dr. Brown is a Diplomate of
the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. She has published or
presented more than 250 scientific papers and has testified before Congress
on issues involving agroterrorism. Dr. Brown has served on many indus-
trial and federal panels and has been a technical consultant to numerous
foreign governments on issues involving infectious diseases and animal
health infrastructure. She received her Ph.D. in veterinary pathology with
a specialization in infectious diseases from the University of California at
Davis and her D.V.M. from the University of Guelph.
Mark T. Hernandez is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmen-
tal, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
His research interests lie at the cusp of molecular biology and civil engineer-
ing, focusing on the characterization and control of biological air pollution,
both natural and anthropogenic. His recent work has focused on engineer-
ing disinfection systems for airborne bacteria and viruses and on tracking
bioaerosols through natural weather patterns and catastrophic events (such
as Hurricane Katrina). He is a registered professional civil engineer and an
active technical consultant in the commercial waste-treatment and indus-
trial hygiene sectors. Dr. Hernandez serves as an editor of Aerosol Science
and Technology and is the director of the Colorado Diversity Initiative. He
received his Ph.D. and M.S. in environmental engineering and his B.S. in
civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ahsan Kareem is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering and the
director of the NatHaz Modeling Laboratory at the University of Notre
Dame. His research uses computer models and laboratory and full-scale
experiments to study the dynamic effects of environmental loads under
winds, waves, and earthquakes to understand and predict the impact of
natural hazards on the constructed environment, and to develop mitiga-
tion strategies that enhance the performance and safety of structures. He
is a former president of the American Association for Wind Engineering
and past editor-in-chief of the international journal Wind and Structures.
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Dr. Kareem is the recipient of the Alan G. Davenport Medal presented by
the International Association for Wind Engineering in recognition of his
distinguished achievement in dynamic wind effects on structures and of
the Robert H. Scanlan Medal for outstanding contributions to the study of
aeroelasticity/aerodynamics and wind-load effects on structural design and
the Jack E. Cermak Medal in recognition of his contributions to the under-
standing of wind effects on structures from the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Kareem was elected to the National Academy of En-
gineering in 2009 for his contributions to analyses and designs to account
for wind effects on tall buildings, long-span bridges, and other structures.
In 2010, he was elected a foreign fellow of the Indian National Academy
of Engineering and elected a distinguished member of ASCE for his knowl-
edge and eminence in the field of wind engineering, structural engineering,
and engineering mechanics; for his contributions to the ASCE Wind Loads
Standards; and for his development of Web-based technologies and design
tools for practice. Dr. Kareem received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from
Colorado State University, M.Sc. in civil engineering from the University
of Hawaii, and B.Sc. in civil engineering from West Pakistan University of
Engineering and Technology.
Brendan McCluskey was appointed executive director of the Office of
Emergency Management and Occupational Health and Safety at the Uni-
versity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in 2006 and
directs security for the university’s biosafety level 3 laboratories. He had
previously been deputy director of the Center for BioDefense (2001–2004)
and acting director of the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and
Explosive Center for Training and Research (2004–2006) at the univer-
sity. He has served as a member of the New Jersey Governor’s Task Force
on Campus Safety since 2007. Mr. McCluskey is a certified emergency
manager and serves as chair of the Universities and Colleges Caucus of
the International Association of Emergency Managers. In 2002, he was
appointed an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sci-
ences at UMDNJ, where he teaches courses on bioterrorism, weapons of
mass destruction, and homeland security. Until 2009, Mr. McCluskey was
also an assistant professor at Kean University, where he taught courses in
public administration, bioterrorism, and public health policy. He received
his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law and his B.A. and M.P.A.
from Kean University.
Ali Mosleh holds the Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering Chair
and is the director of the Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of
Maryland. He conducts research on methods for probabilistic risk analysis
(PRA) and reliability of complex systems. He has made many contributions
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in diverse fields of theory and application, including Bayesian methods of
inference with uncertain evidence; analysis of data and expert judgment;
treatment of model uncertainty; risk and reliability of hybrid systems of
hardware, human, and software; methods and tools for dynamic PRA;
cognitive models for human reliability analysis; and models of the influence
of organizational factors on system reliability and safety. Dr. Mosleh has
led numerous projects on reliability, risk, safety, and security assessments
for the aerospace, nuclear, chemical, and information systems industries. In
2004, Dr. Mosleh was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S.
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, a position in which he continues
to serve in the administration of President Barack Obama. He is an elected
member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Society
for Risk Analysis, recipient of several scientific achievement awards, and
a consultant and technical adviser to national and international organiza-
tions. Dr. Mosleh received his Ph.D. in nuclear science and engineering from
the University of California at Los Angeles.
Stephen M. Ostroff is the acting physician general for the Pennsylvania
Department of Health. In this role, he partners with public health profes-
sionals on matters related to department programs and executive branch
agencies and reviews standards and practices of medicine in the jurisdic-
tion of the department. Dr. Ostroff acts as the primary adviser on medical
issues to both the secretary of health and the governor and represents the
department before the General Assembly, the press, medical professionals,
and community and citizens groups. In addition to functioning as the acting
physician general, he has been the director of the Bureau of Epidemiology
since 2007. Before his retirement from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Ostroff was the assistant surgeon general and
deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases from 2002
to 2005, where he coordinated activities related to outbreak investigations,
antimicrobial resistance, and bioterrorism. From 2001 to 2003, he served as
acting director of CDC’s Select Agents program, and from 2001 to 2005, he
served as president of the Department of Defense Armed Forces Epidemiol-
ogy Board. Dr. Ostroff is also the immediate past president of the Council
of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and serves on CDC’s Healthcare
Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. During his career, he has
authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on emerging
infectious diseases and has testified before Congress on a number of occa-
sions. Dr. Ostroff received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine and completed residencies in internal medicine at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and in preventive medicine
at CDC.
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Philip L. Paarlberg is a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue Uni-
versity. His research interests include the economic impacts of livestock
disease outbreaks, and he is a coauthor of several articles related to the
potential revenue and welfare impacts of a foot-and-mouth disease out-
break in the United States. His teaching responsibilities cover agricultural
policy and international trade. He has had extensive experience in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS)
from 1977 to 1985, where he analyzed international trade policy issues.
In 1991–1992, Dr. Paarlberg was a visiting professor at the University of
Goettingen. His awards include a USDA Superior Service Award, an award
for superior research from ERS, an American Agricultural Economics As-
sociation award for his Ph.D. thesis, and an award for outstanding journal
article for 2003 from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. Dr.
Paarlberg received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in agricultural economics and
B.A. in history from Purdue University.
Timothy C. Reluga is an assistant professor of mathematics and biology at
Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the description, un-
derstanding, and prediction of the dynamics of biological systems. His core
research interest is in population biology, but his work also encompasses
topics in evolutionary biology, immunology, epidemiology, and computer
science. His most recent work has focused on incorporating social and
behavioral factors into theories of infectious disease dynamics and man-
agement and on using mathematical models to predict the biological and
ecological transmission process of disease. He served on the National Re-
search Council Committee to Review the Health and Safety Risks of High
Biocontainment Laboratories at Fort Detrick. Dr. Reluga received his Ph.D.
in applied mathematics from the University of Washington and his B.S. in
biology and mathematics from Tufts University.
Joseph V. Rodricks is a founding principal of ENVIRON and a visiting
professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He
is an internationally recognized expert in the field of toxicology and risk
analysis. Since 1980, Dr. Rodricks has consulted for hundreds of manu-
facturers, government agencies, and the World Health Organization in the
evaluation of health risks associated with human exposure to chemical
substances. His experience includes chemical products and contaminants
in foods, food ingredients, air, water, hazardous wastes, the workplace,
consumer products, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products. Dr.
Rodricks was formerly deputy associate commissioner for health affairs and
a toxicologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1965–1980). He
has served on 25 boards and committees of the National Research Council
and the Institute of Medicine, including the committees that produced the
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seminal works Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the
Process (1983) and Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment
(2009). He has more than 200 publications on toxicology and risk analysis
and is the author of Calculated Risks (Cambridge University Press), a non-
technical introduction to toxicology and risk analysis that is now available
in a fully revised and updated second edition, for which he won an award
from the American Medical Writers Association. Dr. Rodricks received his
Ph.D. in biochemistry and M.S. in organic chemistry from the University
of Maryland and his B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
James A. Roth is the Clarence Hartley Covault Distinguished Professor
in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
of the College of Veterinary Medicine of Iowa State University. He is the
director of the Center for Food Security and Public Health of Iowa State
University and an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology of
the College of Public Health of the University of Iowa. Dr. Roth’s research
interests are in evaluating cell-mediated immunity to bovine and porcine
infectious agents and vaccines and in developing a recombinant vaccine for
Nipah virus. He has testified before Congress on biosecurity preparedness
and efforts to address bioterrorism. Dr. Roth serves on the National Science
Advisory Board for Biosecurity, and has served on the Interagency Weapons
of Mass Destruction Counter Measures Working Group Animal Pathogen
Research and Development Subgroup, and the White House Office of Sci-
ence and Technology Policy Blue Ribbon Panel on the Threat of Biological
Terrorism Directed Against Livestock. He is a Diplomate of the American
College of Veterinary Microbiologists. Dr. Roth received his Ph.D. and M.S.
in veterinary microbiology, and his D.V.M. from Iowa State University.
Lee H. Thompson is the director of institutional biocontainment resources
and an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston (UTMB). As the director of institutional biocontain-
ment at UTMB, he oversees the physical operations of the biosafety level
3 and 4 (BSL-3 and BSL-4) facilities, develops policies and procedures
relevant to safety for the facilities, and provides guidance on facility con-
struction and renovation projects. He has also monitored the construction
and commissioning activities for the BSL-4 facility at UTMB. Before his
appointment at UTMB, he was invited by the Canadian minister of health
to serve as the chief of safety and environmental services for the Canadian
Science Centre for Human and Animal Health in Winnipeg. In that role, he
provided advice on construction and commissioning of the BSL-3, BSL-3Ag,
and BSL-4 facilities and developed the standard operating procedures for
activation, operation and maintenance, safety, and training. Mr. Thompson
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has also served as an invited design and biosafety consultant for a number
of BSL-4 laboratories, including those at the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and at the Rocky Moun-
tain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. Before retiring from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, he was microbiologist and safety director in the
arthropod-borne animal disease research laboratory with the Agricultural
Research Service, where he conducted research on insect-transmitted viral
diseases of ruminants and was responsible for biological safety, facility de-
sign, operation, and security in containment. Mr. Thompson received his
B.S. in microbiology from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.
Mark C. Thurmond is professor emeritus of veterinary epidemiology in
the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology in the School of Veterinary
Medicine at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis). He remains
involved part-time as the co-director of the Center for Animal Disease
Modeling and Surveillance and co-director of the Foot-and-Mouth Dis-
ease Surveillance and Modeling Laboratory, where he continues to pursue
his research interests in infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance,
particularly as related to foot-and-mouth disease. His interests during the
last 40 years of professional teaching, research, and service have included
clinical medicine and clinical epidemiology, primarily related to infectious
diseases of livestock, new methods for diagnostic epidemiology, and mod-
eling and developing disease control and surveillance systems. His clinical
practice focused mainly on provision of herd health programs and service
to the dairy industry. Dr. Thurmond received his Ph.D. in dairy science and
epidemiology from the University of Florida and his D.V.M. and M.P.V.M.
from UC Davis.
Akula Venkatram is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University
of California, Riverside, where he has been since 1993. Dr. Venkatram’s
research interests include the comprehensive modeling of systems governing
air quality, theoretical aspects of small-scale dispersion, the application of
micrometeorology to dispersion problems, and the development of simpli-
fied models for complex systems. His research group has conducted several
field studies to collect data to develop dispersion models applicable to ur-
ban areas. Dr. Venkatram has led the development of comprehensive long-
range transport models, including the Acid Deposition and Oxidant Model
(ADOM), the Visibility and Haze in the Western Atmosphere (VISHWA)
model, and the Simplified Ozone Modeling System (SOMS). He was a
member of the committee that developed the American Meteorological
Society–Environmental Protection Agency (AMS/EPA) Regulatory Model
(AERMOD), which has replaced ISC as EPA’s regulatory model. He now
serves on an EPA committee that is charged with overseeing the improve-
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ment of AERMOD. Dr. Venkatram served on the Advisory Council of
the South Coast Air Quality Management District (1993–1997) and was
a member of the Risk Assessment Advisory Committee of the California
EPA. He is currently the chair of the Airport Modeling Advisory Commit-
tee appointed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Dr. Venkatram is a
former vice president of air sciences at ENSR Consulting and Engineering.
He served as a research scientist in the Atmospheric Environment Service,
Canada, for a year before joining the Ontario Ministry of the Environment,
Toronto. Dr. Venkatram received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from
Purdue University and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology in Madras, India.
Patrick M. Webb is the director of swine health programs at the National
Pork Board, which he joined in 2005. He is responsible for the Pork Check-
off’s efforts in animal identification, pre-harvest traceability, and foreign
animal disease planning, preparedness, and response. Earlier, Dr. Webb
worked as a private veterinary practitioner in a food animal practice in
rural Iowa. He has also worked for Iowa’s Department of Agriculture and
Land Stewardship as a foreign animal disease program coordinator, where
he developed the department’s emergency preparedness plan for animal
disease disasters. Throughout his career, Dr. Webb has worked extensively
on emergency preparedness and planning at the local, state, and federal
levels. He has developed and delivered numerous educational programs
directed at training producers, veterinarians, county emergency managers,
and first responders in how to react to foreign animal disease disasters. He
completed his training at the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Labora-
tory at Plum Island. Dr. Webb is a member of the American Association
of Swine Veterinarians, the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, and the
American Veterinary Medical Association. He received his D.V.M. and B.S.
in animal science from Iowa State University.
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