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Chair and Speaker Biographies

Bioterrorism: Home Land Defense: The Next Steps

 

Javed Ali
Mr. Ali is a Senior Analyst with Research Planning, Inc.

Michael S. Ascher, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Ascher is the Chief of the Viral and Ricketsial Disease Laboratory of the California Department of Health Services. He is also a Lecturer in the School of Public Health of the University of California, Berkeley.

Salvatore R. Bosco, Ph.D.
Dr. Bosco is the Manager for Bioterrorism Protection Programs for the US Dept of Agriculture.

Dr. Roger Breeze
Dr. Breeze is currently the Associate Administrator of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service.

John Celentano, M.D.
Dr. Celentano is currently the Disaster Medical Officer for the County of Los Angeles Emergency Medical Services Agency and is responsible for the Los Angeles MMRS project, NMRT West, and the Los Angeles DMAT CA-9.

Peter Chalk, Ph.D.
Dr. Chalk is a Policy Analyst working in the Project Air Force (PAF) and NDRI divisions of the RAND Corporation, Washington DC.

Cynthia P. Conlon, CPP
Ms. Conlon, is the Corporate Director of Security at the RAND Corporation and is the Chairman of the Board of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS).

Maurice Eisenstein
Mr. Eisenstein is a Resident Consultant for the RAND Corporation and is a charter member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group.

Shirley L. Fannin, M.D.
Dr. Fannin is Director of Disease Control Programs in the Public Health Programs and Services, Department of Health Service for the County of Los Angeles and is a member of the Terrorism Early Warning Group.

Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Dr. Fielding is Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County and is a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA.

Benjamin C. Garrett, Ph.D.
Dr. Garrett is Chief Scientist, Chemical/Biological Warfare Defense, with the non-profit Battelle Memorial Institute.

Jerry L. Harper
Mr. Harper retired in January 1999 as the Undersheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Brian K. Houghton
Mr. Houghton is a Doctoral Fellow of the RAND Graduate School located at RAND and is a member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group.

Jeffrey A. Isaacson, Ph.D.
Dr. Isaacson is Vice President and Director of the National Security Research Division (NSRD) of the RAND Corporation.

Brian Michael Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins a Special Advisor to the International Chamber of Commerce and a Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation.

Miriam E. John, Ph.D.
Dr. Mim John is Vice President of Sandia National Laboratories' California Division.

CAPT. Christopher Jones N.P.
CAPT Jones is a Emergency Coordinator for Region IX of the U.S. Public Health Service and serves as a Federal Liaison to 13 cities under the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act.

Dallas Jones
Mr. Jones is the Director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES).

Ali S. Khan, M.D.
Dr. Khan is currently the Deputy Director, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert A. Kellison
Robert A. Kellison is a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Scott Layne, M.D.
Dr. Layne is an associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Dr. Joshua Lederberg is Sackler Foundation scholar at the Rockefeller University in New York City. He currently serves on the Defense Science Board, the Threat Reduction Advisory Panel, the CNO's Executive Panel, the Technical Advisory Group for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and chairs a panel of consultants to the USMC ChemBio-Incident Response Force.

Scott Lewis
Mr. Lewis is a Health Program Specialist and Senior Information Officer of the California Department of Health Services.

Fred Milanovich, Ph.D.
Dr. Milanovich is Program Leader of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Chemical/Biological Nonproliferation Program within the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Directorate.

Randall S. Murch, Ph.D.
Dr. Murch is Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office.

William C. Patrick, III
Mr. Patrick is the President of Biothreat Assessments.

Chief John Penido
Chief Penido is the Chief of the San Marino Fire Department, President of the Los Angeles Fire Chiefs' Association, and member of the Terrorism Early Warning Group.

Carol Peterson, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Peterson is the Medical Epidemiologist in the Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Peterson currently heads ACDC's Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response team.

Joseph F. Pilat, Ph.D.
Dr. Pilat works in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ellen Raber
Ellen Raber is the Deputy Department Head of the Environmental Protection Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Gary W. Richter, Ph.D.
Dr. Richter is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of Sandia National Laboratories.

Gary C. Salzman, Ph.D.
Dr. Salzman is the Lead Project Leader for the DOE Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
Dr. Sathyavagiswaran is the Los Angeles County Coroner and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pathology, USC School of Medicine, and Clinical Associate Professor in Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine.

Annette Sobel, M.D.
Dr. Sobel is the Advisor for Civil Support to the Air National Guard and is at Sandia National Laboratories.

Suzanne Spaulding
Ms. Spaulding is the Executive Director of the National Commission on Terrorism.

Sergeant John P. Sullivan
Sergeant Sullivan of Los Angeles Sheriff's is currently assigned to the Emergency Operations Bureau where he coordinates terrorism response programs. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Operational Area Terrorism Working Group and Terrorism Early Warning Group.

John Vitko, Jr., Ph.D.
Dr. Vitko is a Director of Exploratory Systems and Development at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA.

Michael A. Wermuth
Mr. Wermuth is a Senior Policy Analyst with the RAND Corporation and is the RAND project director for work in connection with the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction.

James R. Wilburn, Ph.D.
Dr. Wilburn is Dean of the newly formed School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is also Professor of Strategy in the Pepperdine University School of Business and Management.

David Wilson
Mr. Wilson is the Unit Chief of the FBI's Hazardous Materials Response Unit.