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Appendix D: Forum Members, Speakers, and Staff Biographies
Pages 390-412

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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 of America in 1984.
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... After completing internships in general surgery and medicine, he continued his postdoctoral training in Manchester, England, as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. He subsequently was a Wellcome Trust Training Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the New England Medical Center and at the Wellcome Research Unit in Vellore, India.
From page 392...
... She is active in the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Epidemiologic Society, and she currently serves on the Policy and Scientific Affairs Board of the American Society of Microbiology. She also consults with the Nuclear Threat Initiative on reduction of the threat of biologic weapons.
From page 393...
... government foreign policy concerns regarding international health, and coordinates the Department's interactions with the nongovernmental community. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine's Forum on Infectious Diseases, and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
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... She has also served as an advisor on infectious diseases and indirect costs of research to the White House Office on Science and Technology and was previously Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From page 395...
... He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and, among several honors, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. EDUARDO GOTUZZO, M.D., is Principal Professor and Director at the Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humbolt," Universidad Peruana Cayetan Heredia (UPCH)
From page 396...
... In 1986, she came to NIAID as the influenza and viral respiratory diseases program officer in DMID and, in 1988, she was appointed chief of the respiratory diseases branch where she coordinated the development of acellular pertussis vaccines. She joined the Division of AIDS as Deputy Director in 1997 and was responsible for developing the Innovation Grant
From page 397...
... He became Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases in 1992. The center is currently working to address domestic and global challenges posed by emerging infectious diseases and the threat of bioterrorism.
From page 398...
... In 1979, he moved to Tufts Medical School and New England Medical Center in Boston, to found the Division of Geographic Medicine, which focused on the molecular and cellular biology of tropical infectious disease. In 1986, he integrated the clinical infectious diseases program into the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, continuing as Division Chief until 1998.
From page 399...
... He later directed the Infectious Disease Division and HIV unit at the Naval Medical Center at Portsmouth, VA, from 1996­ 1996. In 1999 he worked for the Disease Surveillance Program (in affiliation with DoD-GEIS)
From page 400...
... . He currently serves as a Section Editor of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases and was formerly an Editor-in-Chief of the Pasteur Institute's journal Research in Virology.
From page 401...
... He was awarded the rank of Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999 for services to medicine and for the advancement of biotechnology. He has published over 350 scientific papers, co-edited 15 books on cancer, biotechnology, and infectious diseases and serves on the editorial boards of multiple technical journals.
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... Dr. Roselle has received commendations from the Cincinnati Medical Center Director, the Under Secretary for Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for his work in the infectious diseases program for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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... Dr. Bell is a member of the FDA Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee and the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Committee on National and Global Public Health.
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... His medical training included residency at Boston Children's Hospital, the Epidemic Intelligence Service Program at CDC, and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Rochester.
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... He is an editor of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal's special section on vaccines and has been a reviewer for over a dozen medical journals. He also served as a medical advisor to Encyclopedia Britannica.
From page 406...
... pneumoniae and on the role of host immunity in determining interactions among strains of this organism. At Harvard he teaches courses in the Epidemiology Department on mathematical modeling of disease transmission and on methods for infectious disease epidemiology.
From page 407...
... Dr. Longini is also working with the NIH and the CDC on mathematical and statistical models for the control of a possible bioterrorist attack with an infectious agent such as smallpox, and other natural infectious disease threats such as pandemic influenza and SARS.
From page 408...
... He is doctorally trained in epidemiology, board certified in infection control, and has worked in public health, for more than 22 years spanning a wide range of subject areas including bioterrorism, asthma, influenza control, environmental health and infectious disease epidemiology. He has served as President of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and as President of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
From page 409...
... Dr. Swayne is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Avian Pathologists, World Veterinary Poultry Association, and U.S.
From page 410...
... She has conducted research and published on issues that include biological and nuclear weapons control, foreign aid, health in developing countries, poverty and public assistance, and the Arab-Israeli peace process. ELIZABETH KITCHENS, Ph.D., is a Research Associate for IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats.
From page 411...
... In November 2003, she joined the staff of the Forum on Microbial Threats in the Board on Global Health at IOM. Previously, Ms.


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