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Appendix B: Committee Member, Presenter, and Staff Member Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Member, Presenter, and Staff Member Biographies
Pages 61-76
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Her current areas of focus include planning and response for biological, chemical, radiological, and natural disaster incidents. She serves as the lead for the EPIDESK Unit position in the MDHHS Community Health Emergency Coordination Center and has responded to such incidents as severe acute respiratory syndrome, 2009 influenza pandemic, Middle East respiratory syndrome, mbridge oil spill, Ebola, Flint water contamination, and hepatitis A outE break.
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He worked as an internal dosimetrist at the Argonne National Laboratory for 1.5 years and has worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Internal Dosimetry Team member since October 2003. He has been a member of the Task Group on Dose Calculations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection since 1995, a member of the International Commission on Radiological Protection Committee 2 from 2013 to 2017, and is currently a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
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Andrei Cheshyk, PhD, presenter, is the head of the Department of the State Register of Belorussian Persons Exposed to Radiation due to the Chernobyl Accident of Belarus in The Republican Research Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology. The main directions of scientific activity are collection and analysis of medical and dosimetry information on people affected by the Chernobyl disaster, public health and health care of the health of the population residing in the areas affected by the Chernobyl accident, scientific and epidemiological analysis of health indicators of the population affected by the Chernobyl accident, and the study of the structure, nature, dynamics, morbidity and disability trends, and outcomes of the diseases within the population affected by the Chernobyl accident.
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Dr. Grant was the program co-chair for the 2018 Conference on Radiation and Health in Chicago, Illinois, and was recently nominated to be a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
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Dr. Iddins has been deployed overseas to examine and consult on patients with radiation injuries secondary to radiotherapy overdose errors for the International Atomic Energy/Pan American Health Organization Radiation Assistance Network.
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He received his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a board certified industrial hygienist. He has spent more than two decades operating, researching, and advising in the field of medical and public health response to terrorism.
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She earned an MS in radiation health physics from Oregon State University. Meghan McGinty, PhD, MPH, MBA, committee member and session moderator, is a faculty associate in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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McGinty has prepared for, responded to, and conducted research to improve national resilience to disasters and public health emergencies. She served as director of continuity of operations planning at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she was responsible for developing plans to sustain essential public health services in the event of a disaster.
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Since 1981, he has been part of the DOE Radiological Assistance Program as a team captain/team scientist and has been involved in developing r adiological emergency response plans and procedures, as well as participating in a wide range of radiological and nuclear exercises and field deployments. During the Fukushima crisis, he was deployed in Japan as an assessment scientist with the DOE response team that was measuring the environmental consequences of the radioactive material released from the damaged nuclear power plants.
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Andrew "Andy" Pickett, MS, panelist, is currently the director of the B ureau of Public Health Preparedness with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, having been appointed to the position in April 2015. In this role, he oversees the implementation of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Hospital Preparedness Program federal cooperative agreements, and manages public health and medical preparedness and response efforts across the commonwealth.
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She is the chair of the Cabinet ffice O Behavioural Science Expert Group for the National Risk Assessment and National Security Risk Assessment. She maintains membership on various working groups and committees including the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies; the Cabinet Office Community Resilience Programme Steering Group; the Home Office Science Advisory Council; the Home Office, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism Science, Technology, Analysis and Research Programme Challenge Board; the Cabinet Office Community Resilience Programme Steering Group; the Cabinet Office Practitioner Guidance Advisory Group; and Public Health England's Emergency Response Development Group's Psychosocial and Behavioural Issues Sub-Group.
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He has led NCDP's use of GISs in combination with wireless data collection methods utilizing centralized server applications in both offline and online scenarios. Koichi Tanigawa, presenter, is the vice president of Fukushima Medical University and the director at Fukushima Global Medical Science Center.
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-funded Prevention Research Center Network, which includes 26 academic institutions around the nation. She has served on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees and as an advisor to CDC on population health surveillance issues.
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As an internationally recognized expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency preparedness, she has served as senior scientist to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
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2018 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence and has been a member of several NAM committees including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Standing Committee for the Strategic National Stockpile, the CDC Committee on Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, and the CDC/ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Committee on the Use of Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care.
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Dr. Yeskey also served as the Medical Policy Advisor to Federal Emergency Management Agency Operations prior to retiring from the USPHS.
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