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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 85-96
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Dr. Brinsfield left Boston as an associate professor at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health with 13 years of experience as an attending physician at Boston City Hospital/Boston Medical Center. She worked for Boston EMS as director of research, training and quality improvements, medical director for special operations, and associate medical director. She chaired the American College of Emergency Physicians' Disaster Committee, co-chaired the Massachusetts State Surge Committee, assisted in the creation of the Massachusetts Alternate Standards of Care Committee, and was the commander of the Massachusetts-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and a supervisory medical officer for the International Medical and Surgical Response Team, which responded to the September 11 attacks.
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At DHS, he established the DHS Public Safety Actionable Assay program and the Stakeholder Panel for Agent Detection Assays to develop voluntary consensus standards for the validation of biothreat detection technologies.
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Navy in 1984 as a research chemist in the Research Department at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) , China Lake, C alifornia.
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in environmental health degrees from Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan. Emily Gabriel, M.P.H., started her career in public health at the Boston Public Health Commission, directing the city's Metropolitan Medical Response System out of Boston Emergency Medical Services.
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Ms. GordonHagerty serves as chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Health Threats and Workforce Resilience, and as a member of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Global Security Strategic Advisory Group and the University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean's Advisory Board.
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In addition, she was the deputy director for Blood Services, while also being the department head for Transfusion Services and the department head for the Blood Donor Center at what was then the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
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from the University of Arizona. Philip Newton serves as the policy advisor for Biological Preparedness, Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense (DoD)
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In these roles he is an expert advisor and chief consultant to GAO, Congress, and other federal agencies and government programs on advanced analytics and cutting-edge science and technology, key highly specialized national and international systems, engineering policies, best practices, and original research studies in the fields of engineering, computer, and the physical and biological sciences. His goal is to ensure efficient, effective, and economical use of science and technology in government programs.
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Romanosky has actively supported state health department emergency preparedness planning and response for public health emergencies. He has been involved with several recognized achievements, including (1)
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Romanosky has been actively involved with emergency medical services as a jurisdictional medical director, assistant medical director for one of the nation's first Tactical Emergency Medical Services Teams, weapons of mass destruction and emergency response subject-matter expert, and instructor for the State Department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program as well as an instructor in advanced cardiac life support, advanced trauma life support, and pediatric life support programs. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Vitko has conducted basic and applied research in support of defense and energy programs; led a major portion of Sandia's Strategic Defense Programs in the 1980s; been the technical director of a multilaboratory Department of Energy (DOE) program on the use of unmanned aerospace vehicles for climate research in the 1990s; played a formative role in many advanced detection technology programs at Sandia, ranging from lidars to a handheld suite of chromatography labs known as µChemLab; led all of Sandia's biological and chemical defense programs; served as coordinator for the Detection Thrust Area of DOE's multilaboratory Chemical and Biological Non-Proliferation Program; and was the DOE representative to the multiagency ChemBio Detection Roadmapping Committee.
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In her current role, she oversees her department's emergency response programs, including the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program, Pandemic Influenza Program, Urban Area Security Initiative grant projects, and risk communication. Additionally, she is the chair of the Long Beach BioWatch Advisory Committee.
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