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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 143-150

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From page 143...
... Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers During an Influenza Pandemic and on the IOM Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. He is currently working as a consultant to the Veterans Administration's North Florida/South Georgia Center for Occupational Safety and Infectious Disease (on the Advisory Board and assisting on an upcoming clinical study of influenza)
From page 144...
... , where she represents manufacturers of equipment and technologies as well as service providers for the refuse and recycling industry. Prior to joining WASTEC, she was the vice president and technical director for the International Safety Equipment Association, where she managed the voluntary standards-setting and technical activities of 13 product groups representing suppliers of safety and health equipment.
From page 145...
... From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Burgel served as clinical director of the Community Occupational Health Project, funded by both the California Wellness Foundation and the California Endowment to provide education, outreach, and free weekly clinical services to low-wage immigrant workers in Alameda County.
From page 146...
... Alexander Isakov, M.D., M.P.H., is the founding director of the Emory University Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, which reports to the university president and serves as the center for Emory's enterprise-wide planning for and coordinated response to catastrophic events. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine, and directs Emory's Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, whose faculty provides medical oversight for 9-1-1 ground and air ambulance responders in the City of Atlanta/Fulton County, Georgia.
From page 147...
... and National Research Council committees, including the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers During an Influenza Pandemic, the IOM Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health, and the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design. He received his B.Tech.
From page 148...
... Dr. Johnson is an AIHA Fellow; a member of the NFPA Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment; a member of the NFPA Respiratory Protection Equipment Committee; a board member of the International Society for Respiratory Protection and Americas Section; chair of the AIHA/ANSI Z88 Secretariat for Respiratory Protection; and a member and vice chair of the AIHA Respirator Committee.
From page 149...
... He is a member of the ANSI A10 American National Standards Committee on Safety in Construction and Demolition Operations and the ANSI Z10 American National Standards Committee on Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. He is a co-principal investigator of the NIOSH National Construction Research Center, and is actively engaged in issues related to personal protective technologies in construction.
From page 150...
... He worked for the Coast Guard on approval of lifesaving equipment beginning in 1977. His work included oversight of research and development projects dealing with all aspects of PFD performance, computer modeling of the in-water performance of PFDs, development of mannequins for evaluation of the rough-water performance of PFDs, and operational reliability of inflatable PFDs when used by recreational boaters.


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