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Appendix B: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 59-72
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coordinating productive interactions among SCEC scientists and with partners in science, engineering, risk management, government, business, and education; (2) managing activities that increase earthquake knowledge and science literacy at all educational levels; (3)
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He is a wellknown author and lecturer on leadership and on the future challenges for the fire and emergency services community and has coauthored two firstresponder emergency medical textbooks as well as an innovative textbook for the basic training of firefighters. He developed several innovative programs such as the Fire Service Leadership Partnership Program, an internation ally recognized labormanagement relations program, and the National Fire Service Near Miss Reporting System.
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barbara Childs-Pair is the former director of the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and the home land security adviser for the National Capital Region. In that role, she developed play books and protective action guides for the mayor of the District of Columbia, cabinet officials, and elected officials.
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The division is responsible for coordinating the city's multidisciplinary response to emergencies, developing emergency plans, managing the city's exercise program and public preparedness programs. The Emergency Medical Services Agency, also housed in the division, is responsible for regulatory oversight of the city's Emergency Medical Services System and medical planning for disasters.
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As a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) public affairs officer, he has worked on more than 24 presidentially declared disasters, including the floods in the Midwest in 1993; the Northridge earthquake in California in 1994; the flood in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1997; Hurricane Floyd in 1999; the Colorado wildfires in 2002; and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Dr. Lindell has served as an adjunct faculty member for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Emergency Training Center, lecturing on disaster psychology and public response to warning.
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Mr. Mulhare is responsible for developing and maintaining a compre hensive and integrated emergency management program utilizing an allhazard approach to the coordination and management of risk assess ment, emergency management, disaster planning, and continuity of oper ations planning and response activities.
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Workgroup, a 501c3 public charity that provides a com prehensive software tool facilitating the process for small businesses and nonprofit organizations to create and then implement improved disaster readiness plans; the president of the Contingency Planning and Recovery Management group; and a member of the board of the Cascadia Regional Earthquake Workgroup. She received her B.A.
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National Academies, Church World Services, the National Weather Service Training Center, and various state offices of emergency management. Her work has been published in the Journal of Emergency Management, Disaster Management, Disasters, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Sociological Focus, and Humanity and Society.
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Her focus on the need to implement sustained readi ness education was instrumental in forming a coalition of the country's top emergency managers, now known as the Top Eight. Her emergency management and homeland security perspectives have been broadened as a result of her membership in the Washingtonbased organization Business Executives for National Security.
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Department of State grant to train Russian government officials in effective crisis communication. His work on communication risk and crisis man agement has appeared in the Handbook of Crisis and Risk Communication, International Encyclopedia of Communication, Journal of Health Communica tion Research, Communication Yearbook, Handbook of Public Relations, Public Relations Review, Communication Studies, Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Change Management, Management Communication Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Health Promotion and Practice, and Communication Research Reports and in several edited collections and proceedings.
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He is a member of the University of Delaware Research Council and an active participant in the International Research Com mittee on Disasters. His primary research interests include international aspects of disasters, social networks, disaster researcher and practitioner integration, warnings and protective action, human behavioral response to disasters, effects of organizational design, and patterns of association in multiorganizational networks.
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Peter White began his professional career as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where he tried felony cases and later specialized in complex criminal investigations using eavesdropping and other electronic surveillance. He joined the wireless industry in 1995 as a director with AT&T Wireless Services and has held numerous legal and external affairs positions since that time.
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the University of Maryland's Center of Excellence, as well as a California household telephone survey on earthquake preparedness.
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