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Appendix B: Workshop Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Workshop Speaker Biographies
Pages 171-188
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He has served on U.S. government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of botulism and anthrax in mass casualty settings and the system of care for infectious disease emergencies and as an external adviser to New York City Health and Hospital Emergency Management Highly Infectious Disease training program, as well as a Federal Emergency Management Agency working group on nuclear disaster recovery.
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Dr. Adalja completed two fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh -- one in infectious diseases, for which he served as chief fellow, and one in critical care medicine.
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Bettencourt was elected to the board of directors at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She serves on the American Burn Association's Organization and Delivery of Burn Care Committee and is national faculty for the Advanced Burn Life Support Course.
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as the weapon of mass destruction emergency response and consequence management program manager for Science and Technology's emergency preparedness and response portfolio. He supported the Federal Emergency Management Agency and DHS's Operaions Center as a radiological emergency response subject-matter t expert.
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For more than 6 years, she has fulfilled this role for program devel opment and continuous quality improvement for Disaster Health Services at national headquarters. As a Disaster Health Services manager/chief with the Red Cross, she has been on 17 national deployments, most recently to the 2017 Florida Hurricane Irma response plus supporting response operations in California, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Texas, and the U.S.
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In that capacity, he manages the atmospheric modeling, aerial radiation measurements, and radiation emergency medicine portfolios for the office. He also serves as a federal team leader for teams deployed in re sponse to a radiological or nuclear incident.
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Dr. James is board certified in general preventive medicine, earned a doctorate in medicine at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, and a aster's in health care administration from Baylor University. Previously, he m was director of the American Medical Association Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, which oversaw the development and deployment of the National Disaster Life Support suite of courses (more than 110,000 medical and public health personnel trained)
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Dr. Jeng became a recognized leader in the American burn community over two decades in diverse areas, including burn shock, end points of burn shock resuscitation, laser applications in burn care, laser Doppler velocimetry and microvascular analysis, the National Burn Reposi tory and data mining, data standards for burn care software, contingency planning for mass burn casualties, interface between the burn care com munity, the American Burn Association, and key components of the federal government, nationwide situational awareness of burn care assets, uniform practice guidelines in burn care, and burn care under austere conditions.
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The office leads r the nation in preventing, responding to, and recovering from the adverse health effects of man-made and naturally occurring disasters and public health emergencies. As such, the office coordinates interagency activities be tween HHS, other federal agencies, and state and local officials responsible for emergency preparedness and the protection of the civilian population from public health emergencies.
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Currently, he is an associate professor at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the director of the International Toxicol ogy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Emory University. He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a guest re searcher at the National Center for Environmental Health at CDC, where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radia tion.
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As adjutant general, he oversees the training and readiness of 5,500 soldiers and airmen of the Hawaii National Guard. He also serves as the director of Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, provides direct support to the Office of Veterans Services, and is the Home land Security adviser to the governor.
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He has expertise in applied risk sciences, policy analysis and development, nuclear and radiological issues, WMD counterterrorism policy and strategy, and WMD terrorism response. He advises and supports the CWMD assistant secretary and other department leadership in all matters related to nuclear and radiological policy, especially nuclear terrorism prevention, counter errorism, deterrence, and response.
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NDMS has multiple types of teams that support public health and medical needs during disasters, including Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, Disaster Mortuary Response Teams, and National Veterinary Response Teams. The program also han dles federal patient movement, mass fatality management, and definitive care through NDMS hospitals.
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Previously the director of isaster preparedness and response at the National Critical Care and d Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Australia, he led the development of the government of Australia's Australian Medical Assistance Team and its field hospitals and disaster response capacity. He helped design training programs for disaster response teams and wrote the Australia national trauma and burns plans.
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RADM Orsega began her career in the USPHS Commissioned Corps in 1989 in the Junior Com missioned Student Externship Program. At that time, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was unfolding, RADM Orsega continued to advance her nursing and scientific knowledge with an emphasis on education and is recognized as a subject matter expert in realm of HIV/AIDS global research, advanced nursing practice, health diplomacy, and disaster response.
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In his current position, he serves as radiation subject matter expert and CDC spokesperson for technical and public health issues related to environmental radiation and nuclear/radiological emergency response. Previously, Dr.
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In 2002, Mr. Williams joined the newly formed Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response program and became its deputy director in 2007.
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He has been board certified in emergency medicine for more than 30 years. James Young has been the Radiological Emergency Preparedness program manager for the State of North Carolina since 2014.
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