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E-- Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers and Panelists
Pages 81-96

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From page 81...
... He also served as lead public health official and senior officer aboard the USNS Mercy in Indonesia after the tsunami in 2005; Director of Primary Care and Public Health for the Ministry of Health in Iraq from September 2003 to March 2004; consultant to the Pan American Health Organization in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch in 1999; and Medical Director for Project Provide Refuge (joint Department of Defense and HHS Kosovar refugee assistance)
From page 82...
... Dr. Vanderwagen serves on multiple boards of directors covering infectious diseases, disaster medicine, and public health preparedness.
From page 83...
... She is the designated Risk Communicator at Hudson Regional Health Commission, and in that role she works closely with the state and county Public Information Officers to craft and disseminate timely and accurate health messages.
From page 84...
... Ms. Ehnert is responsible for coordinating state and regional planning committees on preparedness activities with Local Health Officers, Indian Health Services, Tribes, County Health, Hospitals, Community Health Centers, Poison Control, and many emergency response partners.
From page 85...
... Dr. Gupta works with various health care and public health organizations at state, national, and international levels to develop, integrate, and measure adherence to various public health initiatives, including those for the underserved and indigent population.
From page 86...
... He serves as an Operational Medical Director for PHI Air Medical, a helicopter emergency medical services (EMS) transport agency, and has responsibilities as a Medical Team Manager for Virginia Task Force One, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
From page 87...
... She was also the acting Executive Director of the Northern California Disaster Preparedness Network, a 5-year funding initiative designed to address emergency preparedness and disaster response for agencies serving multi-ethnic, at-risk, and other diverse communities. The Japanese Central Government has twice brought Ms.
From page 88...
... Pacific Command that provides training to enhance civil military, inter-agency, and nongovernmental organization coordination during international disaster response. From 2005 to 2010, she was Senior Vice President at Business Executives for National Security, where she led the development and nationwide implementation of programs to facilitate resilience-focused public private collaboration.
From page 89...
... He also serves on the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials/NACCHO national Health Security Preparedness Index steering committee. He is a member of the Texas Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue Team, for which he serves as a Task Force Safety Officer and is also a member of the State of Texas Region 2 Type 3 Incident Management Team.
From page 90...
... McKinney serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and as the Coordinator of the School's Online Emergency Preparedness Certificate Program. She also serves as a mentor for the Biomedical Sciences Careers Project at Harvard University, as well as the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Executive Education Program at Harvard University.
From page 91...
... A retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Schenkel has significant leadership experience in a wide range of areas, including law enforcement, organizational structuring and transformation efforts, security planning for public and private facilities, logistical planning and execution, and business administration.
From page 92...
... Dr. Schor's final four duty stations include USU as associate program director of general preventive medicine residency; medical director for humanitarian assistance, disaster response, and international health policy for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations, Pentagon; preventive medicine officer for Headquarters, U.S.
From page 93...
... Mr. Serino attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives in State and Local Government program in 2000, completed the Kennedy School's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative in 2005, and graduated from the Executive Leadership Program, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School.
From page 94...
... He has participated in leadership roles in many domestic and international disaster responses. He received a B.S.N.
From page 95...
... She authored several peer-reviewed articles on medical components of disaster response and planning, and she authored the Disaster Chapter of Emergency Nurses Pediatric Course, 4th edition. She speaks nationally and internationally on coalition building, and developing and integrating medical disaster planning and response.
From page 96...
... She recently served on the IOM Crisis Standards of Care Committee and helped to craft the EMS section of A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. She chaired the planning committee for the IOM Preparedness and Response to a Rural Mass Casualty Incident Workshop.


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