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Appendix B: Speaker and Planning Committee Biosketches
Pages 97-126

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From page 97...
... H Chan School of Public Health program on health reform, and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Corporate Innovation program.
From page 98...
... He was the first chief medical officer of the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, Tampa, Florida; trauma medical director at the University of Florida, Gainesville; and director of the award-winning U.S. Army Trauma Training Center, Miami, Florida.
From page 99...
... Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe is undersecretary of homeland security and homeland security advisor to the governor of Massachusetts. She is an accomplished senior government leader and advisor with more than 20 years of executive leader­ship and public policy experience in homeland security, public safety, emergency management, and public health preparedness.
From page 100...
... In these roles, he oversaw development and implementation of policy on national preparedness, national security and emergency preparedness communications, and medical and public health preparedness for natural and manmade biological incidents.
From page 101...
... He has built the Foundation into a leading voice in health philanthropy and public health practice. An awardwinning epidemiologist with 10 years of experience working in the health departments of Philadelphia, Texas, and Georgia, Brian brings a unique perspective to the philanthropic sector that allows him to shape and implement visionary and practical initiatives and partnerships and bring together research and practice to improve public health.
From page 102...
... Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats and a past member of NAM's Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness.
From page 103...
... He worked for the CDC as a medical epidemiologist in the Divisions of Tuberculosis Elimination and HIV/AIDS Special Studies Branch before assuming his current position. Christina Farrell serves as the first deputy commissioner of the New York City Emergency Management Department.
From page 104...
... She has been integral to many OCR civil rights initiatives over the years and OCR implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule.
From page 105...
... Gaynor was designated as the acting secretary of homeland security where he oversaw the Federal Emergency Management Administration's (FEMA's) first ever operational response to a nationwide pandemic while simultaneously responding to a record number of disasters.
From page 106...
... Gigi Gronvall, Ph.D., is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training.
From page 107...
... He practices emergency medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital, northern Virginia's Level I trauma center, and recently completed 7 years as cochair of the National Academy of Medicine's Forum on ­Medical and Public Health Preparedness. Melissa Harvey, M.S.P.H., B.S.N., R.N., is the assistant vice president for Enterprise Emergency Operations for HCA Healthcare, the nation's l­argest
From page 108...
... In this role, she oversaw the department's emergency care, electronic health records, and health security portfolios. During the COVID-19 response, she was detailed to the Federal Emergency Management Administration/ Department of Health and Human Services (FEMA-HHS)
From page 109...
... Khaldun was the Baltimore City Health Department's chief medical officer, where she expanded and modernized the department's clinical services. She has held previous positions as the director of the Center for Injury Prevention and
From page 110...
... Dr. Khan's professional career has focused on health security, global health, and emerging infectious diseases.
From page 111...
... At Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, he was professor of dermatology, medicine, and public health as well as director of cancer prevention and control. Lisa Koonin, Dr.P.H., M.N., M.P.H., is the founder of Health Preparedness Partners, LLC, a company that helps businesses, health departments, health care facilities, and other organizations prepare for a health emergency to protect their organization, workforce, customers, and communities.
From page 112...
... He also worked for over 12 years in a county health department in Washington State as director of public health nursing while also serving as the Health Department director for 7 years. He has been serving as the incident commander for the Cowlitz Tribes' health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been serving as the public health official for that response.
From page 113...
... Navy and subsequently at UNMC, Dr. Lawler's work has spanned a broad array of research, policy, and field activities related to emerging and highconsequence infectious diseases, medical and public health preparedness, pandemic and outbreak response, and global health.
From page 114...
... Her current efforts focus on the sustainability of the biodefense industrial base and the public–private partnerships that are vital to national and global health security as well as the bioeconomy. These issues are especially relevant to the challenges our nation and the world faces in addressing threats such as COVID-19 and the surety and security of medical supply chains.
From page 115...
... Prior to leading the IMD, Dr. McKinney served as the deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response at the Chicago Department of Public Health, where she oversaw the emergency preparedness efforts for the department and coordinated those efforts within the larger spectrum of the City of Chicago's public safety activities, in addition to overseeing the department's Division of Women and Children's Health.
From page 116...
... She is also a professor of epidemiology and t­ he i­naugural director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, she focuses on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience.
From page 117...
... He trained as a resident and chief resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer and Preventive Medicine Resident at the CDC, and as an infectious disease ­fellow at the University of Utah. Winfred Rawls is the director of preparedness and evaluation at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
From page 118...
... Before joining CFA, Dr. Rivers worked as a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From page 119...
... in July 2020. Tara Kirk Sell, Ph.D., is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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... Mr. Serino was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's eighth deputy administrator in October 2009 and served until 2014.
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... He started his formal public health journey in 2003 as chief medical officer at Galveston County's Health District before joining HCPH. Under his leadership, HCPH won numerous national awards, including recognition as Local Health Department of the Year in 2016.
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... Ronald M Stewart, M.D., is a tenured professor of surgery and anesthesia, and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
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... She is also an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) , and is UCSF Global Health Sciences affiliate faculty.
From page 124...
... He has also served as president of both the Association of State and Terri­ torial Health Officials and the National Association of County and City Health Officials. Anne Zink, M.D., FACEP, grew up in Colorado and moved through her training from college in Philadelphia to medical school at Stanford and then residency at the University of Utah.
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... He is a professor of surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine and adjunct professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University. He is a practicing acute care surgeon and has additional specialty training in critical care and hospice and palliative medicine.


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