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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 87-102

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From page 87...
... Backer is a founding member of the Wilderness Medical Society and a fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. He also is medical consultant for an international adventure travel company and is an expert in field water disinfection and infectious diseases of travelers.
From page 88...
... Elizabeth Lee Daugherty Biddison, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Chief Wellness Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is Associate Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a Contributing Scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
From page 89...
... Dr. Daugherty Biddison completed her undergraduate studies in journalism at Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, and received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, cum laude.
From page 90...
... from Boston University, and her doctorate of executive nursing practice from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a past Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow where her research was the role of the Chief Nurse in integrated health care systems. While fostering nursing research within an interdisciplinary, professional practice model, Dr.
From page 91...
... Gina earned her Master's of Public Health in health behavior and health education from the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Public Health and her Bachelor's degree in social psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. Brian Garibaldi, M.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, where he attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
From page 92...
... Before earning his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he spent a year studying flamenco and classical guitar in Spain as part of the John Finley Fellowship from Harvard College. Andrew Garrett, M.D., M.P.H., is the academic section chief for Emergency Health Operations and is an associate professor at George Washington University's School for Medicine and Health Sciences.
From page 93...
... Professor Koch was the Special Advisor and Senior Attorney to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, the state's bioethics commission, where she crafted policy and guidance related to pandemic preparedness and crisis standards of care, human subjects research, and surrogate decision-making. Following law school, she practiced in the intellectual property litigation practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
From page 94...
... A graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, he completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in infectious diseases and critical care medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. Following fellowship, he served at the Naval Medical Research Unit No.
From page 95...
... Dr. Meyer is also responsible for building and leading a best-in-class Value Based Care Program by leveraging Mass General Brigham's health insurance organization -- AllWays Health Partners -- and the Population Health Management initiatives across Mass General Brigham's academic medical centers, community hospitals, primary care physicians and ambulatory care and urgent care sites.
From page 96...
... His research interests include the identification of optimal education strategies to enhance individual and team performance in the intensive care unit. Robert Onders, M.D., J.D., joined the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in 2015 and currently serves as the administrator of the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC)
From page 97...
... Persad was an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he was affiliated with the Berman Institute of Bioethics and served on the School's Institutional Review Board, and was a junior faculty fellow at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He clerked for the Hon.
From page 98...
... Rowen has served as Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and in 2015 was also appointed as CNO for the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus.
From page 99...
... The Summit, supported by strategic partners from nine national nursing organizations and seven collaborating organizations, developed a Blueprint for 21st Century Nursing Ethics. The Blueprint highlights recommendations for clinical practice, education, policy and research and has been a catalyst for strategic action coinciding with the American Nurses Association 2015 designation of the "Year of Ethics." Dr.
From page 100...
... She is interested in research, advocacy, and policy development that reduces health disparities, addresses bias, racism, and other structural determinants of health and promotes social justice. Her current research involves evaluating disparities in research enrollment and participation, the use of medico-legal partnerships to address the social determinants of health, and understanding public perceptions of brain death.
From page 101...
... He has several ongoing NIH-funded studies. He has published widely using both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the process of surrogate decision making in intensive care units.


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