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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 89-106

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From page 89...
... She has worked at NLM for 30 years, the past 15 years in the area of disaster information management. Her work includes the coordination of tools and resources to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information including disaster health literature, tools and apps for hazmat and CBRN incidents, and disaster information management research.
From page 90...
... He is research director of the Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease program at DPM and chief operating officer and a member of the executive committee of the FDA Sentinel project.
From page 91...
... Burel directs the nation's premier medical materiel preparedness and response organization charged with supply chain management delivering critical medical assets to the site of a national emergency.
From page 92...
... His awards include the Research Scholarship Award of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Founders Grant for Critical Care Research of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the George H.A. Clowes, Jr.
From page 93...
... Cullen worked as the chief medical information officer for the Veterans Health Administration, where she developed a new model for field and community involvement in health IT, as well as supporting and expanding work in multiple areas of health IT, including interoperability and data sharing, standards and terminology, and informatics patient safety. She has worked to develop population health IT software
From page 94...
... Dr. Cullen currently serves as the associate director for the Global Health Informatics Program at Regenstrief Institute, Inc., as well as visiting associate professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
From page 95...
... Dr. Higgs provided leadership for NIH collaborative international infectious disease research, including the Southeast Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network and International Collaborations in Tropical Disease Research Network.
From page 96...
... Until 2011, Ms. Lance served as the clinical director for a local health department where she led a team of public health professionals responsible for all jurisdictional public health education and prevention activities as well as communicable disease, nutrition, and emergency preparedness and response programs.
From page 97...
... She is the principal investigator of an online interoperable information exchange and decision support system for mass dispensing, emergency response, and casualty mitigation. The system integrates disease-spread modeling with response processes and human behavior and offers efficiency and quality assurance in operations and logistics performance.
From page 98...
... Alison Levy, M.P.P., CEM, is the emergency operations manager for Public Health–Seattle and King County, a metropolitan health department serving a diverse jurisdiction of more than 2 million people. As the second in command for the public health preparedness program, she oversees a suite of capabilities, including emergency operations, medical materiel management, MCM dispensing, responder health, volunteer management, and training and exercise.
From page 99...
... Maher is responsible for providing leadership, coordination, and oversight for FDA's national and global health security, counterterrorism, and emerging threat portfolios. She serves as FDA's point of entry on policy and planning matters concerning counterterrorism and emerging threats and collaborates across the U.S.
From page 100...
... She previously served as the director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, which is a leading consumer voice on health privacy and security policy issues, and as the chief operating officer at the National Partnership for Women and Families, where she provided strategic leadership and substantive policy expertise for the partnership's health policy agenda.
From page 101...
... More than 104 acute care hospitals and more than 22,000 physicians participate in the system, which includes inpatient and outpatient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data, and other selected data. To create a sustainable financial model, he helped create the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a not-for-profit corporation.
From page 102...
... Peppercorn, M.D., is a late-stage clinical development leader at GSK. She attained her medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1998 and completed her internal medicine residency and adult infectious diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
From page 103...
... This work was funded by a CDC National Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and ONC. He is also co-principal investigator of the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network Coordinating Center, which is developing standard methods for extracting and using EHR data for multiple uses.
From page 104...
... Nationally, he is noted for his work with designing, developing, and sustaining research data systems for populations with research and EHR data; for design and implementation of health information systems; and for advancing methods in sustainability of data systems. Previously, he was a director of medical informatics at Intermountain Healthcare, where he led Intermountain's clinical decision support efforts and directed its analytic health repository.
From page 105...
... She provides scientific regulatory expertise and programmatic support for CDC's oversight regarding stockpiled MCMs. Among other tasks, she coordinates to ensure that FDA-compliant regulatory mechanisms are in place for the stockpiled MCMs to facilitate their rapid deployment and optimal clinical use during potential public health emergencies involving highconsequence or emerging threats such as pandemic influenza, anthrax, and botulism.


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