Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents: Interim Report on Current Capabilities (1998)

Location:

Members Room

National Academy of Sciences

2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.

6:30 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

(Bias/conflict of interest discussion will take place over dessert and coffee)

• Kenneth Shine, President, Institute of Medicine

• Valerie Setlow, Director, Division of Health Sciences Policy

Location:

The Cecil and Ida Green Bldg., Rm. 104

2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.

(next door to the Holiday Inn)

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Committee Members and Speakers)

8:30

Welcome and Introduction

• Peter Rosen, Committee Chair

9:00

Office of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services

• Robert Knouss, Director

• Kevin Tonat, Special Assistant to the Director

District of Columbia Metropolitan Medical Strike Team

• Edward Plaugher, Team Chief and Chief Arlington Fire Department

10:15

Break

10:30

US Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF)

• Captain Robert Carnes, USN, Biosciences Director, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab

• Lieutenant Commander Al Churilla, USN, Naval Medical Research Institute

11:30

US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (ICD)

• Colonel James Little, USA, Commander

• Colonel Gary Hurst, USA

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (RIID)

• Colonel David Franz, USA, Commander

• Lieutenant Colonel Edward Eitzen, USA

• Lieutenant Colonel Eric Henschel, USA

2:30

Department of Energy Chemical Biological Counterproliferation Program

• William Shuler, Director

• Page Stoutland

3:30

Break

3:45

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Joseph E. McDade, Associate Director for Laboratory Science, National Center for Infectious Diseases

• Richard Jackson, Director, National Center for Environmental Health

4:45

Technical Support Working Group

• Jeffrey M. David, National Program Manager

5:15

Adjourn

Location:

The Cecil and Ida Green Bldg., Rm. 104

2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Committee Members and Speakers)

8:30

Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

• Stephen Morse, Program Manager, Advanced Diagnostics

• John Silva, Program Manager, Accelerated Consequence Management

• Shaun Jones, Program Manager, Pathogen Countermeasures

9:30

Joint Program Office for Biological Defense

• Colonel David Danley, Deputy Joint Program Manager

10:00 a.m.

US Army Chemical and Biological Defence Command (CBDCOM)

• Wade Kuhlmann, Team Leader, Respiratory and Collective Protection, US Army Engineering Research and Development Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground

• Ngai Wong, Technical Area Manager, Contamination Avoidance, US Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground

11:30

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

• Harry Holloway, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences

12:00 p.m.

Lunch and Close of Open Session

1:00

Interim report and future committee action

4:00

Adjourn