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Appendix F: Committee Biographical Sketches
Appendix F: Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 409-416
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, Hon FRSPH, Hon FFPH (Chair) , has served as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002.
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Dr. Cannons has been involved in national security special events requiring additional public health preparedness and response, including Super Bowls and the Republican National Convention in August 2012.
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in 1984, and his primary expertise involves the design, management, and operation of research vivaria in support of laboratory ani als used in biomedical research and teaching. This specialty of veteri m nary medicine required years of postdoctoral training and the successful passing of the ACLAM board certification examination.
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He is on the faculty of the National Ebola Training and Education Center and also on the national faculty of the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshops. He was recently appointed to the American College of Emergency Physician's Epidemic Expert Panel.
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Results of her work are applied for disaster preparedness planning, structural design, land-use planning, seismic hazard assessment, and public education about earthquakes. Kirk Pawlowski, M.Arch., received his master of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 1984 and is an academic health and life sciences architect practioner, a former principal at the Portland, Oregon–Seattle, Washington firm SRG Partnership, and a former university architect.
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As chair of the 100th Anni ersary Earthquake Conference in San Francisco in April 2006, he v shared the stage with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein in an internationally covered event that brought the nation to think proactively about earthquake danger. He served as the chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings Standards Committee, completing both ASCE 31 and ASCE 41 standards for the evaluation and rehabilitation of existing buildings that are used worldwide.
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Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Prior to his appointment at FIU in 2006, he held numerous academic and administrative appointments, including director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Emory University School of Medicine, and chancellor and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and public health at Louisiana State University (LSU)
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Today she teaches two courses about disasters and emergency response and continues to give seminars and presentations to audiences ranging from veterinarians to members of the general public. "Animal Issues in Disasters" is an online course that provides general information about the impacts of disasters on animals and whose course assignments require students to undertake personal planning and disaster preparedness actions.
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