Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies Workshop Summary (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers, Panelists, Workshop Planning Committee, Forum Members, and Staff
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers, Panelists, Workshop Planning Committee, Forum Members, and Staff
Pages 67-112
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(Workshop Co-Chair) , is the senior medical officer for Strategic Initiatives at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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He previously worked as the medical program coordinator for the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center located at Texas A&M University, and served on the Oil and Gas Industry's Corporate Emergency Response Team. He also held the position of director of emergency management and medical review for Harris County, TX.
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Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) and is responsible for CDC's public health emergency preparedness and emergency response activities.
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Ms. Blackwell has 35 years of experience in emergency medicine and trauma care and served as the state trauma director for Georgia in the Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
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. His portfolio includes the state public health practice program areas of infectious and emerging diseases, immunization, environmental health, injury prevention, and public health preparedness and security, including pandemic influenza preparedness.
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Stephanie Dulin (Planning Committee Member) , is chief of the Program Preparedness Branch, Division of Strategic National Stockpile, CDC.
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In this role he coordinates public health emergency preparedness efforts with community-wide emergency planning.
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Her extensive background and expertise in food science and nutrition is instrumental in building and enhancing the association's proactive efforts in food safety and nutrition, as well as addressing important regulatory and technical issues facing the nation's 900,000 restaurants. The mission of the Regulatory Affairs Department is to advise and represent the association and its membership on health and safety legislative and regulatory issues impacting the restaurant industry.
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(Planning Committee Member) , is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Health Policy and Management.
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in Local Government Management from Indiana University– Bloomington, and has completed coursework in Emergency Management from FEMA's Emergency Management Institute. Jack Herrmann, M.S.Ed., N.C.C., L.M.H.C., is the senior advisor for public health preparedness at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, which represents the approximately 3,000 local public health departments across the country.
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John's University School of Law. Christopher Hoff is the emergency response coordinator for the Kane County Health Department in Aurora, IL.
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, Public Health Preparedness Division. He first joined the organization as the SNS Coordinator for Dallas County and has worked on bioterrorism preparedness and response planning since 2005.
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In 2001 he began collaboration with both New York City's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and Department of Health to provide critical computer simulation expertise to the city in development of specific emergency response protocols for bioterrorism.
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, serves as senior advisor for pandemic preparedness partnerships in the Influenza Coordination Unit at CDC. The unit is responsible for all aspects of CDC's pandemic influenza preparedness activities.
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She was one of CDC's senior authors of the recently released pandemic Community Mitigation Guidance. Her team has produced numerous checklists and tools for businesses and educational, health, faith, and communitybased organizations to use for pandemic influenza planning and preparedness.
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In 2004, she was selected as an Extraordinary Women Engineer. In 2005, she received the INFORMS Pierskalla award for research excellence in health care and management science for her work on emergency response and planning, large-scale prophylaxis dispensing, and resource allocation for bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreaks.
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Robert P Mauskapf, M.P.A., represents the Virginia Department of Health on Virginia's Emergency Response Team, Virginia's Preparedness Working Group, and The Governor's Secure Commonwealth Panel.
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He served as a member of the White House National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Writing and Implementation Team. He has served as the chief medical officer of the VA's Southeast Network since 1996.
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. She oversees and manages the Rx Response program, which is an information-sharing forum composed of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, disaster relief agencies, and state and federal government agencies that help support the continuing provision of medicines to patients whose health is threatened by a severe public health emergency.
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Dr. Neff has worked in bioterrorism preparedness and emergency response since 2003.
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Prior to joining the Department of Public Health, Dr. Robbins served as a health scientist and emergency response/technical advisory unit pharmacist for the CDC SNS Program.
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Since 2002, he has been involved in many of CVS/pharmacy's emergency response plans, ranging from a single-store issue to large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. He joined CVS in 2002 as manager of pharmacy operations, a position that involved managing all day-to-day pharmacy operations, including communications, policy and procedures, training programs, and assisting in the development of pharmacy labor standards.
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He has also held several management positions with Wal-Mart Information Systems Division, managed his own business continuity consulting practice, and managed a network of disaster recovery hot sites during his career. Jim has been a speaker at numerous industry forums on emergency management issues, including the National Emergency Management Association, the National Hurricane Conference, numerous State Homeland Security Conferences, and the Rollins School of Public Health.
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WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE Lynne Kidder, M.A., (Workshop Co-Chair) , see Speaker bio.
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Beauchesne worked for the National Governors Association for 10 years. She held a variety of positions, from policy analyst in the Natural Resources Division to program director of emergency management and environment.
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Emergency Medical Services and was the medical director for the West Michigan Metropolitan Medical Response System, the Kent County Medical Reserve Corps, and the Michigan Region 6 Bioterrorism Preparedness Consortium. He has been active in local, regional, state, and national domestic preparedness activities for many years.
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In 1993, he received NACCHO's Award for Excellence in Environmental Health and was a co-recipient of the First Annual Jim Parker Memorial Award for Washington state's systematic incorporation of core functions in its public health system. In 2002, he again was a co-recipient of the Jim Parker Memorial Award for work in developing Washington State's public health performance measurements.
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External Affairs and Program Development responsibilities include developing relationships with organizations representing the elderly, consumers and patient advocacy groups, as well as public health education outreach programs. He also is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sun Safety Alliance, an organization focused on educating the public about safe sun safety practices as a means to prevent skin cancer, a disease that kills one person every hour.
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dealing with issues of terrorism: civilian medical response to chemical and biological terrorism; metropolitan medical response teams and preparedness for terrorism; and the psychological consequences of terrorism. Educated at Clark University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the University of Brussels, Belgium, he graduated from the University of Brussels Medical School in 1970.
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He is currently serving on IOM's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, and has served on several other IOM and IOM/NRC committees: training physicians for public health careers; measures to enhance the effectiveness of CDC quarantine station expansion plan for U.S. ports of entry; evaluation of the metropolitan medical response systems program; and research and development needs for improved civilian medical response to chemical or biological terrorism incidents.
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Besser, M.D., see Speaker bio. Kathryn Brinsfield, M.D., M.P.H., is the Medical Director, Operational Medicine, Office of Health Affairs, in the Department of Homeland Security.
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Jeffrey Duchin, M.D., is chief of the Communicable Disease Control, Epidemiology & Immunization Section for Public Health – Seattle & King County, Washington, and associate professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. He holds appointments as adjunct associate professor in the schools of Public Health and Community Medicine and Health Services, and Faculty, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice.
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Since 1999, when the World Trade Organization Ministerial came to Seattle, he has been actively working to strengthen the ties between public health, clinicians and the health care delivery system and to improve the response of the health care system and clinicians to public health emergencies, including biological terrorism and pandemic influenza. He is active in local, regional and national preparedness planning activities for communicable disease emergencies, recently including pandemic influenza.
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James, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.H.A., is the director of the American Medical Association's (AMA's) Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Response.
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Johnson, Jr., M.S., U.S.C.G., retired Vice Admiral became the deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in April 2006 after serving as commander, Pacific Area of the U.S.
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degree in business management and economics, and is a nationally registered paramedic. Robert Kadlec, M.D., M.T.M.&H., M.A., is the special assistant to the President for homeland security and senior director for biological defense policy in the White House Homeland Security Council.
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. His primary role is to provide overall institute coordination for product development of medical countermeasures against bioterror threats.
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In 1993, he received NACCHO's Award for Excellence in Environmental Health and was a co-recipient of the First Annual Jim Parker Memorial Award for Washington State's systematic incorporation of core functions in its public health system. In 2002, he again was a co-recipient of the Jim Parker Memorial Award for work in developing Washington State's public health performance measurements.
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She did her postgraduate training at the University of Cincinnati, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. Erin Mullen, R.Ph., Ph.D., see Speaker bio.
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Phillips was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and Health Policy Analyst for Senator Tom Harkin for 2 years. She brought a wealth of expertise in the area of multidisciplinary education, patient safety legislative initiatives, and curriculum with health professions education to her role at AHRQ.
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He is also the department's first chief medical officer, for which he serves as the principal advisor to the secretary for public health and medical issues across the department. He is board certified in emergency medicine and holds the title of clinical professor of emergency medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Prior to this, he practiced and taught emergency medicine as assistant chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. He was also the director of the Carolinas Center for Injury Prevention and Control, where he spearheaded injury prevention initiatives that were national in scope.
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The Washington office is office is the Joint Commission's interface with the federal government and with public policy issues, such as patient safety, building a national health information infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and quality of care. It is also the office concerned with Medicare and Medicaid oversight of quality and its relationship to private sector accreditation; relationships with the Department of Defense; the Veterans' Administration; and the Public Health Service agencies.
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There she established programs to communicate health services research findings to a wide array of professional and public audiences. She established the agency's first health information dissemination program to bring practical information gleaned from health services research into the hands of consumers and their families, and to have more health services research information indexed into the National Library of Medicine.
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Since joining the Board on Health Sciences Policy, he has been a program officer on multiple IOM studies, including Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem, The National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: 2007 Amendments, and Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems. He is currently serving as director of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, the Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders Forum, and as a co-study director on the National Academy of Sciences Human Embryonic Stem Cells Research Advisory Committee.
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She is currently serving as a Board on Health Sciences Policy intern at the IOM to work on preparedness activities. She is also a medical student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and she will fulfill the remainder of her M.D.
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