Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Committee Biosketches
Appendix A: Committee Biosketches
Pages 93-102
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He has also worked on quantitative methods in facilities management, especially federally owned facilities, and on information technology applications to facilities management.
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Operating under the administration of the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine, the laboratory system is the backbone of California's animal disease surveillance and detection system and is used to safeguard human and animal health from naturally occurring or intentionally introduced animal diseases by rapidly and reliably diagnosing diseases found in animals.
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Dr. Brown has served on many industrial and federal panels and has been a technical consultant to numerous foreign governments on issues involving infectious diseases and animal health infrastructure.
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In 2010, he was elected a foreign fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and elected a distinguished member of ASCE for his knowledge and eminence in the field of wind engineering, structural engineering, and engineering mechanics; for his contributions to the ASCE Wind Loads Standards; and for his development of Web-based technologies and design tools for practice.
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, Dr. Ostroff was the assistant surgeon general and deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases from 2002 to 2005, where he coordinated activities related to outbreak investigations, antimicrobial resistance, and bioterrorism.
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His awards include a USDA Superior Service Award, an award for superior research from ERS, an American Agricultural Economics Association award for his Ph.D. thesis, and an award for outstanding journal article for 2003 from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
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Dr. Roth serves on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, and has served on the Interagency Weapons of Mass Destruction Counter Measures Working Group Animal Pathogen Research and Development Subgroup, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blue Ribbon Panel on the Threat of Biological Terrorism Directed Against Livestock.
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His interests during the last 40 years of professional teaching, research, and service have included clinical medicine and clinical epidemiology, primarily related to infectious diseases of livestock, new methods for diagnostic epidemiology, and modeling and developing disease control and surveillance systems. His clinical practice focused mainly on provision of herd health programs and service to the dairy industry.
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He has developed and delivered numerous educational programs directed at training producers, veterinarians, county emergency managers, and first responders in how to react to foreign animal disease disasters. He completed his training at the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Plum Island.
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