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Appendix C: Workshop Agenda
Pages 123-134

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... by 2018 and enabling day-to-day environmental surveillance that would be of value to the public health and medical community. Workshop Objectives:  Develop an understanding of the nature of the biothreat and the role of biodetection.
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... Welcome, Introductions, and Meeting Objectives WILLIAM RAUB, Chair, Workshop Planning Committee Science Advisor to the Secretary (Retired) Department of Health and Human Services SALLY PHILLIPS Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting)
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... Current BioWatch Program, Technology, and Autonomous Detection MICHAEL V WALTER Detection Branch Chief BioWatch Program Manager Office of Health Affairs Department of Homeland Security 20 Minutes for Discussion (specific to the BioWatch Program and alternative technologies for autonomous detection)
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... MCKINNEY Deputy Commissioner Bureau of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response Division of Women & Children's Health Chicago Department of Public Health Rapporteur: BETH MALDIN MORGENTHAU Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Policy, Community Resilience and Response Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioned Paper Writer: SANDRA SMOLE Director Division of Molecular Diagnostics and Virology Bureau of Laboratory Sciences Massachusetts Department of Public Health Panel: UMAIR A SHAH Executive Director Local Health Authority Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services
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... SESSION III: REVIEW OF POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE BIOWATCH PROGRAM Session Objectives: Explore the potential use of four families of technology for the BioWatch Program: (1) nucleic acid signatures, (2)
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... Panel: State of the Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Immunoassays and Protein Signatures Moderator: WILLIAM RAUB, Chair, Workshop Planning Committee Science Advisor to the Secretary (Retired) Department of Health and Human Services
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... Panel: AMY ALTMAN Vice President Biodefense and Food Safety Luminex Corporation TED OLSEN Chief Executive Officer and President PathSensors, Inc. ANDREW BARTKO Principal Scientist Battelle Memorial Institute DAVID HANLON Director Business Development and Strategic Collaborations Quanterix 5:00 p.m.
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... 9:00 a.m. Panel: State of the Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Genomic Sequencing Moderator: RITA COLWELL Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Rapporteur: ERIC EISENSTADT Independent Technical Consultant Commissioned Paper Writers: CHRIS DETTER Bio-Threat/Bio-Defense Program Director Emerging Threats Program Office Global Security and Bioscience Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
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... Panel: State of the Art for Autonomous Detection Systems Using Mass Spectrometry Moderator: DONALD PROSNITZ Independent Consultant Rapporteur: CHARLES KOLB President and Chief Executive Officer Aerodyne Research, Inc. Commissioned Paper Writers: A
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... 1:30 p.m. Panel of Rapporteurs Moderator: WILLIAM RAUB, Chair, Workshop Planning Committee Science Advisor to the Secretary (Retired)
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... ERIC EISENSTADT Independent Technical Consultant 3:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks WILLIAM RAUB, Chair, Workshop Planning Committee Science Advisor to the Secretary (Retired)
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