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Appendix G: Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies
Appendix G: Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies
Pages 287-313
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Ashford Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1983, and the Squibb Award of the Infectious Diseases Society 287
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of the U.S.-Tapan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program, and recently chaired an Institute of Medicine study committee related to vaccines for the protection of the military against naturally occurring infectious disease threats. DAVID ACHESON, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S.
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GAIL H CASSELL, Ph.D., is Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly & Company.
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He completed his internal medicine residency in 1983 and infectious diseases fellowship in 1988 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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After joining the FDA commissioner's office, he has worked closely with several centers and helped coordinate FDA's response to the antimicrobial resistance problem. He was co-chair of a recently formed federal interagency task force which developed the national Public Health Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance.
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She was also Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, where she conducted research on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.
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Heilman has contributed articles on vaccine design and development to many scientific journals and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and WHO in this area. She is also a member of several professional societies, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Society of Virology.
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from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.D. from Wake Forest University, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and completed practical epidemiology training in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
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Colonel Kelley has extensive experience leading military infectious disease studies and in managing domestic and international public health surveillance efforts. He has spoken before professional audiences in over 15 countries and has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific papers and book chapters on a variety of infectious disease and preventive medicine topics.
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He has a keen interest in international health and was co-chair of a previous Institute of Medicine Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health (1990-1992) and currently is co-chair of the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century.
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He has published more than 240 articles and abstracts on various emerging infectious disease problems and is the author of the best selling book, Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe. He is past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
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Shiaes was professor of medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and chief of the Infectious Diseases Section and the Clinical Microbiology Unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His major research interest has been the mechanisms and epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, in which area he has published widely.
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Dr. Zeilinger serves as the senior advisor and manager of the infectious disease strategic objective team which encompasses four sub-teams: malaria, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, and surveillance.
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He is also co-chair of the U.S. Federal Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance and clinical assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.
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Dr. Elliott directs research projects for students in the Master of Public Health and the Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency programs in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
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He did his postgraduate training at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is boardcertified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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She then proceeded to a lecturership in Toxicology at the University of California, Riverside, followed by a Royal Society Research Fellowship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to her current post, she was Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Director of Biosciences research at Cardiff University.
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Dr. Levy is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America, and the American Academy of Microbiology.
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He has represented the FDA in numerous bilateral initiatives with various governments, including those of Canada, Great Britain, Singapore, Germany, France, Taiwan, and Australia, along with the European Commission. His prior professional experience includes working as a clinical worker in a refugee camp in Bangladesh; head of pediatric infectious diseases at East Tennessee Children's Hospital in Knoxville; and Medical Director at Abbott Laboratories where he was in a senior leadership position on the multidisciplinary, global team responsible for the worldwide development of a new antimicrobial (clarithromycin)
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She was Chairperson of the Long Term Care Committee of the Society for Health Care Epidemiology of America from 1994 to 2002, and was previously secretary of this organization. She has also served as President of the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society, member of the Board of the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association, and of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation, and is previous co-chair and founder of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program.
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She undertook undergraduate and graduate training in pharmacy and microbiology at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where she studied the antibiotic resistance and virulence of fecal Escherichia coli. Since then, she has continued to research the antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis of E
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. He is currently Director of the USAID-funded Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus)
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Dr. Schentag has authored or co-authored more than 260 publications and serves or has served on the editorial boards of the journals Pharmacotherapy, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Pharmaceutical Research, and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
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Award and the Selman A Waksman Award of the American Society for Microbiology, in recognition of contributions to the field of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and received an Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases in 1998 at The Rockefeller University.
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She is a Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. She was co-organizer of a Workshop on Epidemiologic Methods and Approaches for Food Safety and, recently, a co-chair for a research colloquium for the American Academy of Micro-biology on the "Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on Agriculture: A Critical Scientific Assessment." She is author of the book (Mosby, Inc.)
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Medal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Lincei Golgi Medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.
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LAURIE A SPINELLI is a project assistant for the Forum on Emerging Infections in the Board on Global Health.
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