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Appendix A: Biographical Information of Committee and Staff
Pages 81-90

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From page 81...
... He currently serves as Chairman of the International Nuclear Safety Group, chartered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Co-Chairman of the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee. He was formerly President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and now serves as a member of the Council of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From page 82...
... VARMUS (NAS/NAM) , M.D., co-recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1989 for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, joined the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medical College as the Lewis Thomas University Professor on April 1, 2015, when he also became a Senior Associate Member of the New York Genome Center.
From page 83...
... For 27 years, Ms. Chrysler provided legal services to Michigan's state health department regarding communicable disease, immunization, environmental public health, public health research, privacy, health information exchange, and emergency legal preparedness and response.
From page 84...
... DAVID FIDLER is the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and is one of the world's leading experts on international law and global health. His books in this area include Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law (Stanford University Press, 2008)
From page 85...
... He has been involved in numerous international programs as a manager or advisor and has supported a number of efforts in the UK, Greece, and Israel and has authored numerous papers and presentations on topics ranging from biological model development and biotechnology research to emergency response training and suicide bombing.
From page 86...
... Army Medical Research and Development Command with assignments at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and several overseas duty stations.
From page 87...
... His honors include the following: Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Japanese Human Science Foundation Visiting Professor, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons Visiting Bruenn Professor, American Society of Microbiology Foundation Lecturer, Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Global Infectious Disease, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Lecturer of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology, John Courage Professor National University of Singapore, Kinyoun Lecturer National Institutes of Health, Fellow of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Association of American Physicians, Oxford University Simonyi Lecturer, and recipient of the Villanova University Mendel Medal. In 2016 he received the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, the top science honor in China for his contributions to the advancement of science in the country.
From page 88...
... Mazza divided her time between the National Academies and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served as a senior policy analyst responsible for issues associated with a Presidential Review Directive on the government-­ niversity research partnership. Before joining the National Acad u emies, Dr.
From page 89...
... She is a member of the Honor Roll of Women in International Security, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Global Agenda Council on Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons of the World Economic Forum. She is also a fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
From page 90...
... Her current research focus is in energy and climate issues as they relate to human psychology, world history, and American society and culture.


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