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Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 22-27
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Bloem is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, and he is the former CEO of the Georgetown University Medical Center. He has a health care background that spans thirty years and includes senior management leadership at three renowned academic health centers, experience as an international health a~ninistrator/epidemiologist, and appointments to a number of national, university and corporate boards.
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LaPorte was appointed in August 1999 to serve as Director of the Emergency Management Agency for the city of Washington, DC. He administers the city's comprehensive emergency response plan, which includes coordinating emergency services, training emergency 23
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Professor Lindell recently served as a Visiting Scientist for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and currently he directs HRRC staff performing hurricane hazard analysis and evacuation planning for the Texas Gulf coast. He has made over 120 presentations before scientific societies and short courses for emergency planners, as well as being an invited participant in workshops on risk communication and emergency management in this country and abroad.
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He has served on other NRC committees including the Committee on Flood Insurance Studies, the Committee on Water Resources Research Review, the Committee on a Levee Policy for the National Flood Insurance Program, the Committee on Managing Coastal Erosion, and the Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Plan. He also has chaired the NRC Committees on Options to Preserve the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin, and he is a current member of the Water Science and Technology Board.
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Shoaf is the Research Director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. Her research interests include disaster impacts on physical injuries, agency utilization in disasters, international health, public health impact of disasters, program planning and evaluation, and health in the Latino community.
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Her recent publications include Disasters, Collective Behavior, and Social Organization (co-edited with Russell Dynes) , a book chapter describing how businesses were affected by the 1993 Midwest Floods in Disaster Management in the US and Canada, and an analysis of collective behavior during the , O · .
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