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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Pages 109-122

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From page 109...
... He oversaw hospital emergency preparedness and directed federal medical emergency assets during heightened external threats to the region. As the chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's)
From page 110...
... Prior to her work at DCPS, Ms. Bias-Robinson served as the vice president for financial stability and community impact for United Way Worldwide and in various roles at the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House, including the director of community services at the Administration for Children and Families, the associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, and an executive assistant to the chief of staff to President George W
From page 111...
... He has held leadership positions as the Family Service Center director, Community Service Center director, Youth Program director, and commanding officer of a Transition Team. In his previous position while serving on active duty in the Marine Corps, he was responsible for all fiscal, administrative, and management duties for an agency with a budget in excess of $14 million annually.
From page 112...
... In this capacity, she oversees the disaster human service emergency management mission for the agency and the department. OHSEPR's primary responsibilities include preparing human and social services programs and providers for disaster incidents; overseeing coordinated delivery of disaster human services case management; developing a disaster and applied science agenda for human services; support
From page 113...
... Previously, she worked for HHS's Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the Division of Recovery, where she served as the Health and Social Services Recovery field coordinator for federal interagency coordination following Superstorm Sandy in New York and the lead for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
From page 114...
... Dr. Markenson serves as the chief medical officer for training series, the chair of the National Scientific Advisory Council for the American Red Cross, and the chair of the Evidence-Based Group for Health for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
From page 115...
... His career has been dedicated to improving hospital and health system quality, improving the approach to pediatric care, disaster medicine and health care emergency management, and advancing emergency medical services and emergency medicine. Leanne McCallum is the task force coordinator of the Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force.
From page 116...
... She has a primary focus on bridging the gap between the emergency preparedness, response, and recovery industry and child care programs. She also develops and delivers emergency preparedness training and technical assistance to child care resource and referral teams and child care program staff across the nation.
From page 117...
... Dr. Peek helped create the Federal Emergency Management Agency's P-1000, Safer, Stronger, Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety, which is the first comprehensive, natural hazards–focused school safety guidance for the nation.
From page 118...
... She is a leader committed to providing opportunities so that all children and youth in Puerto Rico can develop to their full potential. From being a middle school teacher through the Teach for America program to the director of development and community relations in a school in Harlem, New York, to leading federal policy efforts around child welfare and youth mental health, she has more than 15 years of experience working for children and youth and promoting public policy and education research.
From page 119...
... Ms. Sabrsula earned her master's degree in applied developmental psychology and postgraduate work in schoolbuilding leadership, and she has presented on various topics related to early childhood special education and young children with develop­mental disabilities for community-based programs, school districts, local early intervention councils, and in support of the professional development of early intervention and preschool educational staff as well as family-focused trainings and workshops.
From page 120...
... He deployed for the National Disaster Medical System and the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as a reserve officer to Hurricane Katrina, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Southeast Tsunami, and most recently he deployed for the National Disaster Medical System for the ­COVID-19 Quarantine at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Laura Stough, Ph.D., is the assistant director at the Center on Disability and Development, an associate professor of educational psychology, and a faculty fellow at the Hazards Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University.
From page 121...
... Presently, he contributes to a variety of disaster-related research at NCDP, including community resilience and child-focused preparedness, evaluating the unanticipated consequences of pandemic flu, determining racially and ethnically appropriate emergency messaging, analyzing the long-term disaster resiliency and recovery issues in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina, and the measurement and mapping of social vulnerability and the role of place and space in disaster recovery.


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