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Appendix F: Forum on Microbial Threats Member Biographies
Pages 155-182

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... from Harvard Medical School (1982) , 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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... , is professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and public health (global health)
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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 initiated 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.
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... King directed the development of the agency's National Animal Health Monitoring System. He left APHIS briefly to serve as the director of the Governmental Relations Division of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
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... COL Michael Bell, M.D., joined the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center as the director in April 2015. Prior to joining the agency, COL Bell served as the Global Health Engagement Officer for the U.S.
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... In this capacity, Dr. Borio is responsible for providing leadership, coordination, and oversight for FDA's national and global health security, counterterrorism, and emerging threat portfolios.
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... national security. She also serves as FDA's Acting Deputy Chief Scientist, responsible for providing leadership and coordination for FDA's crosscutting scientific and public health efforts.
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... Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Bureau for Global Health.
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... Dr. Daszak is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats and served on the IOM Committee on Global Surveillance for Emerging Zoonoses, the NRC Committee on the Future of Veterinary Research, and the International Standing Advisory Board of the Australian Biosecurity CRC, and he has advised the Director for Medical Preparedness Policy on the White House National Security Staff on global health issues.
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... Feinberg worked for more than 20 years in both academia and government where he was actively engaged in basic and clinical research, patient care, and health care policy -- with a primary focus on HIV/AIDS pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention research and on the biology of emerging infectious diseases.
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... Dr. Fletcher's research focuses on mechanisms of virulence and insect transmission of plant pathogenic bacteria; on the relationships between human pathogens, such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli, and plants; and on the emerging disciplines of microbial forensics and agricultural biosecurity.
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... She is currently the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Chemical and Biological Terrorism Defense for 2015, and serves on several federal biosecurity advisory panels. Claire Fraser, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
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... Eduardo Gotuzzo, M.D., is principal professor of the Department of Medicine and Director of the "Alexander von Humboldt" Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, and head of the Department of Transmissible Diseases at the Cayetano Heredia Hospital. He is also an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, School of Public Health.
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... , the Pan American Infectious Diseases Association, the International Federation for Tropical Medicine (2005-2008) , and the Peruvian Society of Internal Medicine (1991-1992)
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... The Division supports a wide variety of projects spanning the spectrum from basic biology of human pathogens and their interaction with human hosts, through translational and clinical research, toward the development of new and improved diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines for infectious diseases. As Director, Dr.
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... Heilman has been a pioneer supporting the advancement of women in biomedical careers and serves as a mentor to a number of women within and outside of NIAID. David Heymann, M.D., CBE, is currently Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Chairman of Public Health England, United Kingdom.
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... Dr. Keusch is the recipient of the Oswald Avery and Alexander Fleming Awards and delivered the Society's Maxwell Finland Lecture from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Distinguished Leadership in Global Health Award from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
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... Kortepeter is board certified in infectious diseases and preventive medicine.
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... Delegation to the U.S.–Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program. He has served as chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, was chair of the IOM study committee on a Strategy for Minimizing the Impact of Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases of Military Importance: Vaccine Issues in the U.S.
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... Dr. Lesho also serves as an attending physician in both internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a staff infectious diseases physician at the University of Maryland's R
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... She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Global Health Institute (EPFL, Switzerland)
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... After moving to the Office of Tropical Medicine and International Research at NIAID, he continued to work on international health and science projects in Egypt, India, Israel, and Russia.
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... She completed her residency at Madigan Army Medical Center and is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Her current research interests include innovative disease surveillance methods and infectious disease epidemiology in developing countries.
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... He has received honorary degrees in science, law, and medicine for his research contributions and was honored in 1999 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Commander of the British Empire for his contributions to international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Pathologists, the UK Academy of Medicine; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a former Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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... Gary A Roselle, M.D., FACP, is the Director of the National Infectious Diseases Service for 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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... Mary E Wilson, M.D., is Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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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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