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Appendix C: Committee, Participant, and Staff Biographies
Pages 113-136

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... Callahan has extensive knowledge of biological laboratories in Africa and Asia. He has directed multiple USAID and World Bank-funded projects in Africa and Asia and served as program manager and emergency clinical consult physician for a United States Department of State non-proliferation and biological threat reduction and redirection effort in former biological weapons facilities in Russia.
From page 114...
... Chua, Teck-Mean Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association, Malaysia Dr. Chua has experience working for the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on laboratory capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region.
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... Dr. Daudioso serves on SNL's Institutional Biosafety Committee and is an active member of the American Biological Safety Association.
From page 116...
... and he held leadership positions during a 23-year career as a United States Army officer in the medical research and development command, with assignments in Brazil, Panama, and at various locations in the United States, including the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. He is a member of various professional organizations, has published over 200 scientific articles and book chapters, and is well recognized as an expert in viral diseases, biodefense, and global health.
From page 117...
... Reed is an active member of multiple regional and national biosafety associations and regularly participates in their annual meetings. These associations include the biological safety associations of America (ABSA)
From page 118...
... , a three-year old professional association that seeks to congregate practitioners of biological safety, promote biosafety and biosecurity as a discipline through awareness, and to facilitate the sharing of biosafety and biosecurity information in the African region. He is also a member of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)
From page 119...
... , at the Department of Disease Assessment of the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (Fort Detrick, United States) , at the Central Public Health Laboratory in London, UK, and at the National Laboratory of Microbiology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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... Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) , United States As the deputy program manager for the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, Mr.
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... She is the head of the Laboratory of Hemorrhagic Fevers at the Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides at the Russian Academy Medical Sciences. She has been in this position since 2006.
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... In 20002002, he worked as a research fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology Division of the Infectious Diseases Department at the University of Utah, School of Medicine, United States. He is a member of the steering committee of the EU-FP7 project "International Network for Capacity Building for the Control of Emerging Viral Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases," and a partner of the European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents project.
From page 123...
... His main fields of research encompass several domains of viral disease epidemiology and virus ecology, including vector transmitted viral diseases, viral hemorrhagic fevers, emerging viral diseases and the study of domains of disease emergence. Since the late 70s, he has been leading international teams of researchers from his own institute and institution partners in developing countries.
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... Khan, Erum Pakistan Biological Safety Association and Aga Khan University Hospital Erum Kahn is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology & Microbiology at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan and the president of the Pakistan Biological Safety Association. She also acts as the head of clinical microbiology in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology and is a
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... This work was done at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Australia.
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... , the Korean Biological Safety Association, and APBA.
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... Colonel Lyons publishes work in peer-reviewed scientific journals and represents the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at national and international scientific and policy meetings. He is an attending physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center.
From page 128...
... Cooperative Biological Engagement Program supporting partners around the world in the sustainable implementation of risk-based laboratory biosafety and biosecurity practices. She has also served as a principal member of the technical staff in the International Biological Threat Reduction Program (IBTR)
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... . He is a member of the Russian Biotechnology Association; the American Society for Virology; the Russian Society of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists, and Parasitologists; the American Society for Virology; AAAS; the American Biosafety Association; the European Biosafety Association; and the Filovirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
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... Sumi is the focal point for the Department of State's efforts on United States initiatives on the International Health Regulations and laboratory capacity. Before beginning at the State Department, Sumi performed research spanning the areas of infectious diseases, biochemistry, molecular biology, and public health.
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... in Tokyo, Japan in 1997 and has studied viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fevers as well as orthopoxvirus infections. He leads the Department of Virology 1 at NIID.
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... . He is also currently a member of the National Association of Testing Authorities, a member of the American Biological Safety Association, and a member of the Association of Biosafety for Australia and New Zealand.
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... Following graduation, he was a post-graduate student and later a junior researcher and senior researcher at the Laboratory of Hemorrhagic Fevers at the Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow, USSR)
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... He is a member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers, the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) , and the National Fire Protection Association and the co-chair of the Biocontainment Engineering Network of the International Federation of Biosafety Associations.
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... grant and has recently begun to implement this five-year project for the strengthening of laboratory support for HIV/AIDS programs within the Caribbean region. CMLF is currently working with its Caribbean network of laboratory professionals and the International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA)
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... In 2005, Dr. Sharples served as the study director for the preparation of the National Academies' report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which had a major impact on the oversight of stem cell research in the United States.


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