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Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Pages 57-66

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... She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and her pulmonary and critical care medicine 57
From page 58...
... Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, and the National Association of Social Workers Science in Society Journalism Book Award.
From page 59...
... Danita Koehler, M.D., is the rural medical director for Tanana Chiefs Conference, a tribal consortium of 42 villages spread over a vast geographical area of interior Alaska, many of which are not connected by a road system and most of which are hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital. Her interest in crisis standards of care arises from early experiences in the wartorn refugee camps on the Thai–Cambodian border following the Pol-Pot genocide and famine of the late 1970s, and from a lifetime of working in remote Alaska community hospitals or village community health centers, where prolonged emergency and critical care services are necessary due to limited air medevac services and extreme weather conditions.
From page 60...
... Dr. Little has directed and provided austere care with the National Disaster Medical System Disaster Medical Assistance Team CO-2 and was the chief medical officer for the former weapons of mass destruction response team National Medical Response Team Central.
From page 61...
... Since joining CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2011, he has participated in infectious disease investigations and outbreak responses including CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) responses, such as the 2013 H7N9 influenza, 2014 MERS-CoV, 2014–2016 Ebola, 2016–2017 Zika, and 2017 hurricane EOC responses.
From page 62...
... He currently serves as chair, Local Health Department Executive Advisory Group; chair, Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Task Force; cochair, Public Health Committee of the Illinois Terrorism Task Force; and as a member of the Board of Directors for Illinois 2-1-1. For the past 6 years, he has served on the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Directors of Public Health Preparedness Executive Committee for Department of Health and Human Services Regions 3 & 5.
From page 63...
... She completed her surgical residency and fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and at the Hammersmith Hospital at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, respectively. Judy Seaberg, R.N., P.H.N., M.S., MNCEM, has worked in public health emergency preparedness for several years and is currently the health care preparedness program manager at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
From page 64...
... Dr. Toner has authored scores of scholarly papers and government reports on health care and pandemic preparedness, and he has organized numerous meetings of national leaders on the topics of hospital preparedness, pandemic influenza, emerging infectious diseases, mass-casualty disasters, biosecurity, biosurveillance, and nuclear preparedness.
From page 65...
... He is a Maryland licensed certified social worker–clinical, a Maryland certified clinical social work supervisor, and a National Board of Public Health Examiners-certified public health professional. He has deployed or held national-level leadership roles in more than 50 domestic disaster, public health emergency, unaccompanied alien children influx, and programmatic crisis events.


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