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Appendix E: Forum Member Biographies
Pages 511-538

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... and Joan M Merigan Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, California.
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... and M.D. degrees from Stanford University and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of Washington, infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, and preventive medicine at CDC.
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... King was instrumental in obtaining funds for the construction of a $60 million Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health; he initi ated the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the college, he served as the campus leader in food safety, and he had oversight for the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.
From page 514...
... He served as president of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Col leges from 1999 to 2000 and was the vice-chair for the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues from 2000 to 2004. He has served on four NAS committees, including chairing the National Academies' Committee on Assess ing the Nation's Framework for Addressing Animal Diseases.
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... Naval Academy in 1991 and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995 and completed his internal medicine and infectious diseases training at the National Naval Medi cal Center, the President's hospital in Bethesda. His main scientific interests are infectious diseases surveillance strategies in developing settings, optimizing out break response, public health capacity building, and tropical medicine training.
From page 516...
... Breeze, BVMS, Ph.D., MRCVS, is currently Bio-Security Deputy Program Director, Global Security Directorate, Office of Strategic Outcomes, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and serves on the senior management team of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Defense Directorate. He received his veterinary degree in 1968 and his Ph.D.
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... Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.,2 is the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York. He is Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and served as Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 2000 to 2006.
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... Subsequently, he completed internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York, New York. Later he completed subspecialty training in infectious diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
From page 519...
... He completed a fellowship in general internal medicine and emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and infectious disease subspecialty training at the University of Washington. After several years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service program where he was assigned to the National Center for Infectious Diseases, and the CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency program.
From page 520...
... . He is a Fellow of the IDSA and of the American College of Physicians; a member of the IDSA's National and Global Public Health Committee and Pandemic Influenza Task Force; and is past chair of the IDSA's Bioemergencies Task Force.
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... As a junior officer he spent 5 years in Special Operations, frequently deploying overseas to include participation in Operations Ernest Will, Desert Shield, and Provide Comfort. His assignments have included Preventive Medicine Residency Program Director, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)
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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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... 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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... ; the International Society for Infectious Diseases (1996–1998) ; the PanAmerican Infec tious Diseases Association; the International Federation for Tropical Medicine (2005–2008)
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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 as sistant director-general for Health Security Environment and Representative of the director-general for Polio Eradication at WHO.
From page 526...
... He is a member of the IOM; he was awarded the 2004 Award for Excellence of the 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 Fel low of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.
From page 527...
... 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 the CDC and the American Medical Association, since its inception. Since 2000 Mr.
From page 528...
... He currently is a member of the Steering Committee of the NIAID/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, as well as multiple NIAID Safety Monitoring Committees. He also serves as the consultant to the U.S.
From page 529...
... 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.
From page 530...
... She served on IDSA's Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee and currently serves on the society's National and Global Public Health Committee. In addition to her CDC position, she serves as clinical associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases)
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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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... John C Pottage, Jr., M.D.,7 has been vice president for Global Clinical Development in the Infectious Disease Medicine Development Center at GlaxoS mithKline since 2007.
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... In addition, he is currently heading the Emerging Pathogens Initia tive for the VA. He has received commendations from the undersecretary for health for the VA and the secretary of VA for his work in the Infectious Diseases Program for the VA.
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... He served his residency at the Northwestern University School of Medicine and his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine.
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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 masters 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.
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... from the University of Wisconsin and completed an internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston (now Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center)
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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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