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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 213-220
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Only four of the 22 R&D items in the inventory are focused on biological agent decontamination; two items pertain to both chemical and biological agents; and 13 focus on chemical agents. Thirty-six percent of the products being researched are potentially applicable to human decontamination; the remainder focus solely on decon of inanimate objects.
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He previously served on the NRC Committee on Toxicology's Panel on Anticholinergic Compounds and the Chemical Weapons Stockpile Assessment Panel. Georges C
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DeAtley, B.S., P.A., is Director of the Emergency Medical Services Program, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Health Care Sciences Program, and CoDirector for Hazmat Medical Services, George Washington University. He is also Deputy Medical Director, Flight Medic and SWAT Medic, Fairfax County Police; Medical Specialist, Metropolitan Medical Strike Team DC-1 (PHS-sponsored NBC responders in Washington, D.C., area)
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This position follows a distinguished career of more than 20 years as a scientist in Army medical research and development, culminating in his service as Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.
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He was involved as a member of the teams that investigated outbreaks of Rift Valley fever, Lassa fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever, and other often fatal hemorrhagic diseases caused by viruses that have bioterrorism potential. He also has expertise in diagnosis and rapid identification of human-pathogenic viruses carried by arthropods and rodents, and he cochaired in 1992 the Institute of Medicine's study on emerging infections.
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Manning spent 25 years in the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, serving in positions that included Director of Neuropsychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Chief Research Psychologist for the Army Medical Department.
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220 CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM CoxielIa burnetii Rickettsia prowozekii Rickettsia rickettsii Cocciclioicles immitis Abrin Aflatoxins BotuTinum toxins Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin Conotoxins DiacetoxyscirpenoT Ricin Saxitoxin Shigatoxin Staphylococcal enterotoxins Tekodotoxin T-2 toxin FUNGI TOXINS
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