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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Panelists
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Panelists
Pages 138-159
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Adams has managed large-scale emergency responses and led CDC's rapid field response teams in the aftermath of events such as 9/11. He has served CDC in a variety of leadership roles for 20 years in contingency response programs as well as in public health efforts as varied as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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He has been directly involved in various emergency response activations of the State Emergency Operations Center and has served as a Public Health Agency representative and a Public Health Branch coordinator. In addition, Dr.
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Dr. Barbera created and teaches mastersand doctoral-level academic courses in emergency management and has completed multiple applied research projects focusing on health and medical systems in emergency response.
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The branch comprised the Division of Public Health and Environmental Laboratories; the Division of Epidemiology, Occupational, and Environmental Health; the Division of Local Health Practice and Regional Systems Development; the Division of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response; and the Office of Animal Welfare. During his tenure Mr.
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He serves as a medical officer for the Disaster Medical Assistance Team CA-6 and is an assistant clinical professor in emergency medicine working at San Francisco General Hospital. Prior to his current position Dr.
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He supported the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Homeland Security Operations Center as a radiological emergency response subject matter expert. He also facilitated the department's research, development, test, and evaluation process to improve emergency response through better capabilities, protocols, and standards.
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Prior to taking this position he was an associate professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University, where he worked full-time for 28 years before leaving to start the institute. He also works as a physician assistant at Fairfax Hospital, a level 1 trauma center in Northern Virginia.
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His publications include recently serving as editor and contributing author for Jane's Mass Casualty Handbook Pre-Hospital Care-Emergency Preparedness and Response. He served as the project manager to assist Arlington County, Virginia, in writing and exercising the Isolation and Quarantine Annex to its Emergency Operations Plan.
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Dan Hanfling, M.D., is the director of Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine for the Inova Health System in Falls Church, Virginia. He is also the state medical director for PHI Air Medical Group-Virginia, the largest private rotor-wing air medevac service in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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He was a founding member and cochairman of the Northern Virginia Emergency Response Coalition and a founding member of the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance. He has been appointed to the Virginia Secure Initiative Health and Medical Subpanel, the Virginia Department of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Advisory Committee, and the Virginia Health and Hospitals Association Hospital Emergency Management Committee.
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He served as the first assistant secretary (acting) of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness at HHS and was responsible for coordinating the country's medical and public health preparedness in response to emergencies, including acts of biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism.
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One of three academic researchers to serve on the Anthrax Modeling Working Group of the HHS Secretary's Council on Public Health Emergency Preparedness, he has lectured and given satellite and web broadcasts for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and CDC on mass prophylaxis and the physician's role in bioterrorism response.
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As the medical director of 1 of 13 regional centers of excellence in disaster preparedness in Los Angeles County, she is actively engaged in coordinating disaster drills and classes as well as in stockpiling pharmaceuticals and supplies. She is also an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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She currently serves on the National Council on Radiation Protection committee that is writing a report to address key decisions that decision makers will need to make after a radiologic or nuclear event.
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John MacKinney, M.S., M.P.H., is a senior policy advisor and deputy director for nuclear and radiological policy in the Department of Homeland Security, where he coordinates interdepartmental and interagency programs and policies in radiological and nuclear terrorism prevention and response.
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His current work includes mass casualty care and protective actions following an urban nuclear detonation. He currently serves at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute as institute nuclear consultant and director emeritus of the Military Medical Operations Directorate, with oversight of the Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course, the Medical Radiobiology Advisory Team, and radiological safety operations for institute nuclear and radiation facilities.
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Her final position in the f ormer OPHEP (now ASPR) was as a senior policy analyst in the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations/Office of Preparedness Planning.
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He also organized medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11 and has had disaster management leadership experience internationally and nationally.
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She is also chair of the Homeland Security Emergency Response 2 Committee that was responsible for the preparation of the Handbook for Responding to a Radiological Dispersal Device -- The First 12 Hours.
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Aashish Shah, M.D., J.D., FACOG, is the regional medical director for Health Service Region 6/5S in the greater Houston, TX, area. Formerly, he served as the senior policy advisor for health and medical preparedness for the Texas Department of State Health Services, where his responsibilities included the evaluation and development of health and medical preparedness policy for the department.
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Louis, Missouri, and her residency and fellowship in emergency medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She practiced as an emergency physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Albany, New York; and in rural Vermont.
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Collaborating Center at Oak Ridge, as well as vice president of Radiation Emergency Medicine at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is board certified in radiation oncology (ABR)
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