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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 101-112
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In that capacity, he provided leadership and strategic management over programs involving emerging infectious diseases and outbreak response, reportable communicable disease prevention and control, environmental health initiatives involving occupational safety and health, air and water quality, lead poisoning prevention, food security and climate health.
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Brown has also served as lead scientist in several experimental programs related to subway air flow and dispersion including systemwide transport and dispersion experiments in Washington, DC, and Boston conducted from 2007 to 2012 and he more recently co-led a major experimental effort in New York City in 2016. Wayne Bryden, Ph.D., obtained M.S.
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. He is the associate director of the UNLV Public Health Laboratory, the director of the Pollen Monitoring Laboratory, and codirector of the Emerging Diseases Laboratory at UNLV.
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She served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the subcommittee staff director and as senior professional staff at the Committee on Homeland Security.
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Detection Quality Assurance Program, which supports the DHS BioWatch program, the National Guard Bureau Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team, as well as Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal CBRNE sampling and analysis programs sponsored by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD)
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As director of the Signature Science Forensic Laboratory in Austin, Texas, Dr. Kadavy is also responsible for the oversight and technical defensibility of human DNA operations, including obtaining and retaining American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors laboratory accreditation.
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She has been responsible for leading multiple emergency response efforts, including Chicago's 2014-2015 Ebola response; the operational response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, which was successful in vaccinating nearly 100,000 residents over a 6-week timeframe; as well as CDPH's participation in the 2012 NATO Summit response and the 2010 Haiti Earthquake response.
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He is responsible for the CDC's Laboratory Response Network (LRN) , infectious disease emergency response coordination, and Emerging Infections Epidemiology and Laboratory capacity programs, Health Economics and Modeling Unit, and Arctic Investigations Program.
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She has participated in numerous studies collaborating with federal partners such as the CDC, Environmental Protection Agency, and DHS to validate assays to detect Category A biothreat agents and has worked with local, state, and national partners to establish and maintain a strong National Laboratory Response Network to identify biothreats and emerging infectious disease agents. In addition, she is an active member of the American Society of Microbiology and has served as a Counselor for Public Health Division Y
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Rakeman serves as the chair of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Infectious Diseases Committee, is the APHL liaison to the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, and has been actively involved as an advisor and advocate for fellowship and leadership training programs in public health laboratory science.
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patents issued or pending related to airborne biological threat detection. He has extensive operational experience of deployed early warning biological monitoring architectures that have millions of hours of cumulative operational runtime.
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Walter was a staff senior scientist and headed the Technology Special Project Team for the DoD Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense. He has also held positions with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and Texaco, Inc.
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