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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Planning Committee Members, Invited Speakers, and Panelists
Pages 125-162

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... Dr. Phillips joined the AHRQ staff in 2002 as director of the Bioterrorism Preparedness Research Program, now the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program.
From page 126...
... He oversaw the Division of Public Health and Environmental Laboratories; Division of Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Health; Division of Local Health Practice and Regional Systems Development; Division of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response; and the Office of Animal Welfare. During his tenure, Mr.
From page 127...
... from Boston University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and her emergency medical services (EMS)
From page 128...
... Dr. Duchin trained in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital followed by a fellowship in general internal medicine and emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
From page 129...
... Since 1999, when the World Trade Organization Ministerial came to Seattle, he has been working to strengthen the ties among public health, clinicians, and the healthcare delivery system and to improve the response of the healthcare system and clinicians to public health emergencies, including biological terrorism and pandemic influenza. He is active in local, regional, and national preparedness planning activities for communicable disease emergencies, recently including pandemic influenza.
From page 130...
... In the course of his duties, he has developed many of the DoD's medical policies and guidance regarding pandemic influenza, including the DoD's recent policy for prioritizing delivery of medical care during pandemics and other public health emergencies of national significance. He also serves as the DoD representative on a number of national pandemic and seasonal influenza planning committees.
From page 131...
... He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI, and an Emergency Medicine Residency at George Washington/Georgetown University Hospitals. He is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University and an invited member of the George Mason University School of Public Policy Advisory Board.
From page 132...
... and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota. He serves as the associate medical director for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services and medical director for emergency preparedness at HCMC.
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... In the 5 years Dr. Knebel has worked for ASPR (formerly the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness)
From page 134...
... in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. Anthony Macintyre, M.D., is a board-certified Emergency Physician and associate professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University.
From page 135...
... Tia Powell, M.D., is director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and a faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She served from 2004 to 2008 as executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law and from 1992 to 1998 as director of clinical ethics at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in NYC.
From page 136...
... As a registered nurse and director of emergency departments and trauma centers across California for many years, Ms. Starling has broad experience in healthcare delivery, financing and budget, emergency medical services, ambulatory care services, quality management, and disaster preparedness.
From page 137...
... As a medical director in North Carolina EMS, he manages 800 firefighters, EMTs, and rescue personnel and over 20 agencies. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, a Regional Level I Trauma Center and Burn Center.
From page 138...
... Knox Andress, R.N., FAEN, is the director of emergency preparedness and education for the Louisiana Poison Center, within the Department of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
From page 139...
... Ms. Archer served for 10 years as the director of emergency medical services at the Indiana Convention Center and RCA Dome.
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... Examples include her testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the growing crisis of drug abuse among children, her chapter on emergency treatment of head injuries in the National Medical Students Handbook of Emergency Medicine, and her speech on "Women in Organized Medicine" to the Congress of Neurosurgery.
From page 141...
... He is an internist specializing in pulmonary and critical care medicine, and he has additional clinical expertise in home care and end-of-life care. His career interest in medical ethics has focused on ethical health care practices, clinical and organizational ethics consultation, and ethics education.
From page 142...
... Kathryn Brinsfield, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch. Richard Callis, M.S., is deputy chief consultant for planning and operations with the Emergency Management Strategic Health Care Group at the VA.
From page 143...
... Stephen Cantrill, M.D., FACEP, see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch. Timothy Conley, EMT-P, is the Director of Preparedness and Planning for the Village of Western Springs Department of Fire/EMS Services and Emergency Management.
From page 144...
... William Fales, M.D., FACEP, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Michigan State University–Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. He has been a practicing emergency physician at Kalamazoo's two hospitals since 1993.
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... She served on the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services in 2000–2006. She was instrumental in the process that led Kentucky to achieve trauma system legislation in 2008.
From page 146...
... Among his numerous committee activities, he is the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics District II Committee on Emergency Medical Services for Children, chair of the NYC Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness for Children, and founding president of the New York Society for Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He has published extensively in the field of Emergency Medical Services for Children, and serves as a consultant to the NYC and NYS Departments of Health, as well as to federal programs such as the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
From page 147...
... During his career he completed his medical training in internal medicine at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco and later critical care medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He also studied disaster preparedness and medical response during a one-year fellowship with the HHS Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (now ASPR)
From page 148...
... LTC(P) Wayne Hachey, D.O., M.P.H., see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch.
From page 149...
... John L Hick, M.D., see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch.
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... As chair of Delaware Public Health and Medical Ethics Advisory Group, he is working on incorporating ethics into the prioritization of scarce resources and the development of an altered standard of care. He is also division head of EMS/Disaster Medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, and practices clinically as an emergency medicine attending physician.
From page 151...
... Health Department, a position she has held since 2008. From 2002 to 2008, she was deputy commissioner for emergency preparedness and response at the Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
From page 152...
... Kristi L Koenig, M.D., FACEP, is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of homeland security, disaster and emergency medicine, emergency management, and emergency medical services.
From page 153...
... Koenig for a 5-year term as national director of the Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare Group and principal advisor on Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine to the Under Secretary for Health where she led emergency management for the nation's largest integrated healthcare system. She concurrently held a position as clinical professor of emergency medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
From page 154...
... CAPT Deborah Levy, Ph.D., M.P.H., see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch. Marianne Lorini, M.B.A., has served as the president and CEO of the Akron Regional Hospital Association (ARHA)
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... When he retired as the medical director of the Emergency Department at Dekalb Medical Center in 2002, he became the medical director for the Office of EMS/Trauma in the Georgia Division of Public Health. Currently serving as the preparedness director in the Georgia Division of Public Health, he has oversight responsibility for EMS, trauma, injury prevention, and emergency preparedness.
From page 156...
... In February 2006, Mr. Patrick was selected as the emergency medical services director and public health and hospital preparedness director for the state of Utah.
From page 157...
... Tia Powell, M.D., see Workshop Planning Committee biosketch. Michael J
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... His experience includes EMS system development, disaster medical services planning and operations, public health program administration, and primary care clinic management. He currently serves as the chief of the Disaster Medical Services Division of the California Emergency Medical Services Authority.
From page 159...
... Ms. Sellers oversees activities related to certificate of need, managed care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, community benefit, innovation, emergency preparedness, and other policy and regulatory issues impacting hospitals.
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... She also serves as the Principal Investigator in the development of the Model State Emergency Medical Services System document for the nation and Model EMS Legislation.
From page 161...
... Ms. Upton serves on many emergency preparedness planning groups and committees at the local, state, and national levels.
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... Mr. Wiedrich joined the Department of Health in 1984 as a program representative for the Division of Emergency Medical Services and was appointed director in 1988.


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