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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers and Panelists and Workshop Planning Committee Members
Pages 67-82

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From page 67...
... Since joining CDC in 2005, Mr. Burel has been responsible for a number of critical, agency-wide efforts, including coordinating the Public Health Integrated Business Services High Performing Organization, chairing the Epidemiology and Laboratory Branchsponsored Hiring Workgroup, and chairing the Management Council Contracting Strategy Committee.
From page 68...
... Following her residency training in preventive medicine from the Loma Linda University Medical Center, she spent two years with the Loma Linda University Preventive Medicine Faculty Group before joining the Fairfax County Health Department in 1999. Pamela Blackwell, R.N., is the director of the Center for Emergency Preparedness & Response for Cobb & Douglas Public Health in Georgia.
From page 69...
... . His portfolio includes the state public health practice program areas of infectious and emerging diseases, immunization, environmental health, and public health preparedness and security, including pandemic influenza preparedness.
From page 70...
... Courtney served as director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the Baltimore City Health Department, where she provided oversight of the city's responses to public health emergencies. Earlier, she worked on surge capacity and pandemic influenza planning with the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security.
From page 71...
... Prior to joining OptumHealth in 2009, she was deputy director of emergency preparedness for the City of Minneapolis, where she led the development and implementation of the postal plan for dispensing countermeasures. She also held the positions of Minnesota metro regional preparedness coordinator and public health emergency preparedness coordinator with Anoka County Community Health and Environmental Services, MN.
From page 72...
... and a member of the Red Cross National Critical Response Team. He coauthored the Foundations of Disaster Mental Health and Psychological First Aid training curriculums, which are nationally recognized and required training for all Red Cross disaster mental health volunteers.
From page 73...
... Since 2005, Mr. Klein has been a speaker at a variety of national, regional, and intrastate presentations on public health preparedness sponsored by the CDC Public Health Law Program, NACCHO, ASTHO, and others.
From page 74...
... She is responsible for ensuring the Minnesota Department of Health is ready to respond to emergencies that affect the public's health and that the department's programs and activities are coordinated with local public health agencies, hospitals, and other government and emergency responders.
From page 75...
... and has completed postdoctorate medical training at Walter Reed Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has received medical board certification and has practiced emergency medicine, clinical pharmacology, and occupational medicine.
From page 76...
... Minson was the director of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Preparedness and Response. He previously worked as the medical program coordinator for the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center located at Texas A&M University, and served on the Oil and Gas Industry's Corporate Emergency Response Team.
From page 77...
... Laura Ross, M.P.H., is a health communication specialist in CDC's Division of Strategic National Stockpile. She provides training and technical assistance to state and local public information personnel and other planners preparing for an incident that requires the deployment of SNS assets.
From page 78...
... She leads the team that provides legal advice to HHS/ASPR, and advises on a wide variety of legal issues related to emergency preparedness and response, including authorities available during a declared public health emergency, liability protections for medical countermeasure development and distribution, and authorities to deploy healthcare personnel and assets. Earlier in her HHS career, she advised the National Institutes of Health on legal issues related to biomedical research, including grants administration, human subjects protection, animal welfare, stem cell research, and scientific misconduct.
From page 79...
... He has more than 10 years of experience in advanced public health communications. In the 1990s he led the leading online learning program at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
From page 80...
... . She oversees all operations of the BENS Business Force, providing management support to BENS' six regional public–private partnerships (New Jersey, Georgia, Kansas City, Iowa, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles/Orange County in Southern California)
From page 81...
... . She oversees and manages the Rx Response program, which is an information-sharing forum composed of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, disaster relief agencies, and state/federal government agencies designed to help support the continuing provision of medicines to patients whose health is threatened by a severe public health emergency.


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