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Appendix L: Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies
Appendix L: Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies
Pages 287-317
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He received the Bailey K Ashford Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1983, and the Squibb Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1984.
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Army Medical Research and Development Command, directing the Hepatitis Laboratory at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1983, serving first as Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and then Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine.
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GAIL H CASSELL, Ph.D., is Vice President, Infectious Diseases Research, Drug Discovery Research, and Clinical Investigation at Eli Lilly & Company.
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He graduated from Harvard College and attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by internal medicine, hematology, oncology, and infectious diseases training at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California Los Angeles, where he was also chief medical resident. He received his master's of public health from the University of Minnesota.
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He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and, among several honors, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. RENU GUPTA, M.D., is Vice President and Head, U.S.
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Heilman has contributed articles on vaccine design and development to many scientific journals and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the World Health Organization in this area. She is also a member of several professional societies, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Society of Virology.
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He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an Assistant Surgeon General in the Public Health Service.
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. COLONEL PATRICK KELLEY, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., is Director of the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections System and the Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)
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LYNN MARKS, M.D., is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He was on faculty at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases department focusing on patient care, teaching and research.
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He has published more than 240 articles and abstracts on various emerging infectious disease problems and is the author of the best selling book, Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe. He is past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
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Before joining Wyeth, Dr. Shlaes was professor of medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and chief of the Infectious Diseases Section and the Clinical Microbiology Unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
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He was president of the Infectious Disease Society of America in 19961997. He was also a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Microbial Threats to Health (1991-1992~.
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She is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Academy of Microbiology. She has received awards for benchmark epidemiological investigations of Legionnaire's disease, cholera in Latin America, drug-resistant tuberculosis, hantavirus in the western United States, and diphtheria in the former Soviet Union.
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Dr. Arnon received his undergraduate, public health, and medical degrees from Harvard University and in 1989 was elected directly to fellowship in the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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He is a founding member of the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense of the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a member of the bioterrorism subcommittee of the Emerging Infections Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Infectious Disease Committee of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
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She was formerly the deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases and led CDC's efforts to respond to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Board-certified in pediatrics and internal medicine, she also serves on the American Society of Microbiology's Committee on Public Health and is a member of the American Epidemiological Society and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Dr. Dennis received his master's of public health from Harvard University and was a resident in preventive medicine and Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at CDC.
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He also maintains clinical appointments in pediatrics, emergency medicine, and preventive medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Colonel Eitzen holds a dual appointment as Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
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Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
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He has patents filed for both the development of an attenuated strain of Bacillus anthracis for production of a recombinant anthrax vaccine and an improved recombinant F 1 -V fusion protein vaccine against plague. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and has served as a member of their Committee on Emerging Infections and BioDefense.
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His training included service in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a fellowship in infectious diseases. He is board-certified in internal medicine and in preventive medicine.
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She is a member of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, Board of Scientific Counselors.
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Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) based in Fort Detrick, Maryland, where he advises the Commander of USAMRIID on the development and coordination of research programs directed at prevention, treatment, and surveillance of infectious disease threats.
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Committee on Healthcare Safety, chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Disaster Medicine Task Force, the American College of Emergency Physicians liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Association of EMS Physicians Standards and Practice Committee, a California Senate appointment as the California Medical Association representative to the State Emergency Medical Services Commission, the California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission, Advance Directive Subcommittee, the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems EMS/Trauma Committee, and the London Ambulance Service Accreditation Ambulance Standards Working Group.
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In 1999, Dr. Layne organized a meeting under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering to discuss infectious disease threats such as influenza, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and HIV and consider new approaches against them.
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She is board-certified in infectious disease and internal medicine, and holds a M.Sc. in clinical tropical medicine.
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He had been Chief of Special Pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Formerly chief of the Disease Assessment Division at USAMRIID, he has worked in the field of infectious diseases for three decades with the CDC, the U.S.
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Over the course of his career he has served as Senior Assistant Surgeon, Epidemic Intelligence Service, USPHS, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and as associate chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania.
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Army Medical Department where he pursued a career in infectious disease research, retiring as a major general. Military assignments included Director, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Commander, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, and Commander, U.S.
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His previous assignments include associate professor and vice chair, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, and chief medical officer, PHS Office of Emergency Preparedness. His disaster response experience includes deployments to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, mass migrations, and terrorist bombings.
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MARJAN NAJAFI, M.P.H., is a research associate for the Forum on Emerging Infections in the Board on Global Health. She has also worked with the IOM committee that produced Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000.
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