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Appendix E: Forum Member Biographies
Pages 541-566

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... , completed his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, served as a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology at Stanford University, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1994.
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... (Vice-Chair) , is professor of medicine and public health at Emory University's School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, serving as director of the Emory Program in Global Infectious Diseases, executive director of the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biological Threats, and senior advisor to the Emory Center for Global Safe Water.
From page 543...
... King leads the Center's activities for surveillance, diagnostics, disease investigations, epidemiology, research, public education, policy development, and diseases prevention and control programs. NCZVED also focuses on water-borne, food-borne, vectorborne, and zoonotic diseases of public health concern, which also include most of CDC's select and bioterrorism agents, neglected tropical diseases, and emerging zoonoses.
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... Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, leading research focused on understanding basic mechanisms of viral diseases causing hemorrhagic fever and development of medical countermeasures. He received postdoctoral training in molecular virology at the University of Alabama
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... In 2001 she went to her current position at Emory University, directing a center focused on emerging infectious diseases and other urgent threats to health, including terrorism. She has also consulted with the biologic program of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and is most recognized for her work in infectious diseases and disease surveillance.
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... In 1987, he was appointed Director of the USDA's Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility for research and diagnosis of the world's most dangerous livestock diseases.
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... Peter Daszak, Ph.D., is President of EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust) , a U.S.-based organization that conducts research and field programs on global health and conservation.
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... His work is funded by the John E Fogarty International Center of NIH, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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... . He is a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)
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... Feinberg and colleagues were engaged in the preclinical development and evaluation of novel vaccines for HIV and other infectious diseases and in basic research studies focused on revealing fundamental aspects of the pathogenesis of AIDS.
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... Dr. Feinberg has earned board certification in internal medicine; he is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Association of American Physicians, and the recipient of an Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award from the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and an Innovation in Clinical Research Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
From page 552...
... He is an active clinician and teacher who is board certified in internal medicine, oncology, and infectious diseases and is staff physician and infectious diseases consultant at the National Naval and Walter Reed Army Medical Centers.
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... He was an honorary member of the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases (2008) , the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2002)
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... Heymann, M.D., is currently Chair of the Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom; Professor and Chair, infectious disease epidemiology, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and Head of the Global Health Security Programme at Chatham House, London. Until April 2009, he was Assistant Director-General for Health Security Environment and Representative of the director-general for Polio Eradication at WHO.
From page 555...
... He is a member of the IOM; he was awarded the 2004 Award for Excellence of American Public Health Association, the 2005 Donald Mackay Award from the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the 2007 Heinz Award on the Human Condition. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to global public health, and he was recently elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.
From page 556...
... The departments he led during that time included Public Health Sales and Marketing, Public Relations, Public Affairs, New Product Marketing, and Business Intelligence. He has been a member of the IOM Forum on Microbial Threats since 2005 and has been a Steering Committee member of the Influenza Summit, which is jointly sponsored by CDC and the American Medical Association, since its inception.
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... He has worked in the laboratory and in the field in Latin America, Africa, and Asia on basic and clinical infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS research. From 1998 to 2003, he was Associate Director for International Research and Director of the Fogarty International Center at NIH.
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... She trained in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She joined CDC in 1980 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, working in the Hospital Infections Program.
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... Dr. Miller is a reviewer for nine journals, including the Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Lancet, and the Journal of the American Public Health Association.
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... . He was a founding Section Editor of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases and was formerly an Editor-in-Chief of the Pasteur Institute's journal Research in Virology.
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... From 2007–2010 he was vice president for Global Clinical Development in the Infectious Disease Medicine Development Center at GlaxoSmithKline. Previ ously he was senior vice president and chief medical officer at Achillion Pharmaceuticals in New Haven, Connecticut.
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... Gary A Roselle, M.D., is Program Director for Infectious Diseases for the VA Central Office in Washington, DC, as well as the Chief of the Medical Service at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.
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... 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 in tropical medicine and hygiene, he was transferred to Lima, Peru, where he became head of the Virology Laboratory.
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... The ICLS is designed to promote best practices and codes of conduct for safety and security in relation to biological risks. Terence Taylor also served as the vice president, Global Health and Security, at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
From page 565...
... Currently, Dr. Trostle leads the USAID Infectious Disease Surveillance Initiative as well as the Avian Influenza Unit.
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... ; and Editor of the volume New and Emerging Infectious Diseases (Medical Clinics of North America) published in 2008.


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