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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers and Panelists
Pages 117-134

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From page 117...
... He previously was the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 1999 to 2002, following 4 years as its deputy secretary for public health services. For the past 20 years he has been actively practicing public health at the local, state, and national levels with expertise in the areas of emergency preparedness, administration, and infectious diseases.
From page 118...
... Margolis was the associate director of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, a nonprofit organization that serves as the national certification agency for nearly 300,000 emergency medical services professionals.
From page 119...
... degree from Brandeis University, her master's degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and her medical degree with research distinction from the University of Miami School of Medicine. She completed pediatric residency training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and primary care sports medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
From page 120...
... of the Department of Homeland Security/National Biosurveillance Integration Center's National Collaborative for Biopreparedness and has served as the PI of the National Quality Forum's Regionalization of Emergency Medical Care Services Framework Project, the Co-PI of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response's Rapid Assessment of Acute Illness and Injury to Enhance the U.S. Response to Public Health Emergencies project, and the associate director of the National Institutes of Health U.S.
From page 121...
... Garret Dawkins, M.B.A., is the Director of Transitions of Care and Public Health Services at Surescripts, the nation's largest clinical health information network. He was previously director of solutions management at Allscripts where he led Allscripts' Meaningful Use Stage 2 Public Health Reporting Solutions and Patient Engagement Portfolio.
From page 122...
... Prior to that, he was president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans and senior vice president and the initial director of the Health Care Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1995 and 1996 he served at HHS as deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation/health and then as acting assistant secretary for planning and evaluation.
From page 123...
... From 2000 to 2001, she served as chief of staff of that office, and from 1998 to 2001, as deputy assistant secretary of defense for military assistance to civil authorities, developing policies that shaped the role of the National Guard and Reserve components in supporting homeland security, disaster preparedness, and national disaster response capabilities,
From page 124...
... Dr. Gamache's research focuses on the application of public health data analysis in the areas of public health assessment and evaluation, policy development, data systems integration, strategic planning, quality improvement, and public health preparedness activities.
From page 125...
... Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H., is a primary care internal medicine specialist and a researcher in public health emergency response and medical decision making. He is an associate professor of public health and medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
From page 126...
... at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. She served as senior editor for Health Services Research and on editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous journals.
From page 127...
... In addition to his clinical work in the pediatric intensive care unit at UC Davis, he directs the pediatric telemedicine program in the Center for Health and Technology and is very active in research in pediatric quality of care and telemedicine, particularly among acutely ill and injured children.
From page 128...
... Martin is on the Executive Committee of the Boston Healthcare Preparedness Coalition, which is an emergency preparedness collaboration among public health, emergency medical services, health care, and public safety entities. She has a diverse set of experiences in emergency management, intelligence, and homeland security.
From page 129...
... Miller, Ph.D., is the trauma system administrator at the Mississippi State Department of Health. In this position, he provides administrative oversight of the Mississippi Trauma Care System, consisting of 83 hospitals and 56 emergency medical services providers, organized in seven Trauma Care Regions.
From page 130...
... Since then he has built numerous interactive mapping applications covering topics from the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, laboratory strengthening in east Africa, disaster response in Haiti, New York City, and the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act by primary care health clinics across the United States.
From page 131...
... Lisa Tofil, J.D., is a partner in Holland & Knight's Public Policy & Regulation Group, where her practice is focused on federal relations and policy in health care, emergency medical services, and transportation issues. She provides strategic planning, advocacy, and legal assistance to clients on a broad range of legislative and regulatory matters.
From page 132...
... Matthew Zavadsky, MS-HSA, EMT, is the public affairs director at MedStar Mobile Healthcare, the exclusive emergency and nonemergency emergency medical services provider for Fort Worth and 14 surrounding cities in North Texas. MedStar provides advanced life
From page 133...
... Mr. Zavadsky is a frequent speaker at national conferences and has done consulting in numerous emergency medical services (EMS)


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