Editor-in-Chief
James J. James, MD, DrPH, MHA
Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, American
Medical Association
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Italo Subbarao, DO, MBA
Director, Public Health Readiness Office, American Medical Association
Associate Editors
David M. Abramson, PhD, MPH
Acting Director of Research, National Center for Disaster Preparedness,
Columbia University
Edbert B. Hsu, MD, MPH
Director of Training, Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness
and Response
David Markenson, MD, FAAP, EMT-P
Director, Center for Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College
Frederick C. Nucifora Jr, DO, PhD, MHS
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH
Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
Lewis Rubinson, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Advisor for Healthcare Preparedness and Response, Interagency
Policy Agreement, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Raymond E. Swienton, MD, FACEP
Co-Director of EMS, Disaster Medicine and Homeland Security Section, University
of Texas Southwestern
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, CPNP
Program Director, Disaster Nursing and Strategic Initiatives, Center for
Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, University of Rochester
Editorial Board
John Armstrong, MD, FACS, FCCP
Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Florida Health Science Center
Frederick M. Burkle Jr, MD, MPH, DTM, FAAP, FACEP
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School of Public
Health
Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Director, Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Yale School of Public
Health
Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN
Director, Center for Health Policy, Columbia University School of Nursing
Gabor Kelen, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas D. Kirsch, MD, MPH, FACEP
Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University
William Lanier, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic
Scott Lillibridge, MD
Assistant Dean and Director, Global Health and Security Program, Texas
A&M Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health
Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Eric K. Noji, MD, MPH
Senior Policy Advisor for Global Health Security, Center for Health Transformation,
The Gingrich Group
Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACP, FCCM
Riggs Family Chair in Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Irwin Redlener, MD
Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University
Charles L. Rice, MD
President, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public
Health
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Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH
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Nellie Bristol, BA
Freelance Journalist, Health Policy
David Marcozzi, MD, FACEP
Director, Emergency Care Coordinating Center, Office of Preparedness and
Emergency Operations, US Department of Health and Human Services
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Ronald D. Fricker Jr, PhD
Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Guohua Li, MD, DrPH
M. Finster Chair in Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Columbia University,
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Michael A. Stoto, PhD
Professor, Health Services Administration and Population Health, Georgetown
University School of Nursing and Health Studies
AMA Editorial Management
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Janet Thron, MPH
Managing Editor
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Erik Auf der Heide, MD, MPH, FACEP
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, US Department of Health
and Human Services
Joseph A. Barbera, MD
Co-director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The
George Washington University
Donna F. Barbisch, DrHA, MPH
Director, Institute for Global and Regional Readiness
Steven M. Becker, PhD
Director, Community Resilience and Disaster Management Program, University
of Alabama at Birmingham
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Richard E. Besser, MD
Director, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency
Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John Brownstein, PhD
Clinical and Public Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital Boston
Arthur Cooper, MD, MS, FACS, FAAP, FCCM
Director of Trauma & Pediatric Surgical Services, Harlem Hospital
Center
Cham E. Dallas, PhD
Director, Institute for Health Management in Mass Destruction Defense,
University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia
Asha Devereaux, MD, MPH
Chair, American College of Chest Physicians Disaster Response NetWork
Edward Eitzen, MD, MPH
Senior Partner, Biodefense and Public Health Programs, Martin, Blanck
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Mikael Eliasson, MD, PhD
Strategic Marketing Leader, General Medicine, GE Healthcare
Joshua Epstein, PhD
Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution
J. Christopher Farmer, MD, FCCM
Associate Dean, Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Eric Frykberg, MD
Chief, Division of General Surgery, Shands Jacksonville Medical Center
Sandra Gadson, MD
Immediate Past President, National Medical Association
Richard Garfield, RN, DrPH
Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical International Nursing, Columbia
University
Jeffrey Hammond MD, MPH
Director, Trauma Center, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
D.A. Henderson, MD, MPH
Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
John Hick, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota
James G. Hodge Jr, JD, LLM
Executive Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
David Joyner, MD
Vice Chairman/CMO, Salus Healthcare International
Howard Koh, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health
David Lakey, MD
Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services
E. Brooke Lerner, PhD
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
Jonathan Links, PhD
Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Darrell E. Lovins, DO, MPH, FACOFP
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Pikeville College School of Osteopathic
Medicine
Anthony Macintyre, MD
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk
Management, The George Washington University
John Mutter, PhD
Professor of International and Public Affairs, The Earth Institute at
Columbia University
Kobi Peleg, PhD, MPH
Director, Israel National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine
Cheryl Peterson, RN, MSN
Senior Policy Fellow, American Nurses Association
Steven J. Phillips, MD
Disaster Information Management Research Center, National Library of Medicine,
US Department of Health and Human Services
Louis Rowitz, PhD
Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University
of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph Scanlon
Professor Emeritus and Director, Emergency Communications Research Unit,
Carleton University
R. Tom Sizemore III, MD
Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations,
US Department of Health and Human Services
Robert Ursano, MD
Professor/Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences
Jeb Weisman, PhD
Director of Strategic Technologies, National Center for Disaster Preparedness,
Columbia University
Kevin Yeskey, MD
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency
Operations, US Department of Health and Human Services
Global Committee
Michael Christian, MD, FRCP(C)
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Herman Delooz, MD, PhD, FCCM, FCEM(dist.)
Research Group on Disaster Medicine, Free University of Brussels
Natalia Gudzenko, MD
Laboratory for Cancer Epidemiology, Research Center for Radiation Medicine,
Ukraine
Keqin Rao, MD, MPH
Director, National Center for Health Statistics and Information, Ministry
of Health, People’s Republic of China
Alessandra Rossodivita, MD, EMDM
San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Foundation, University “Life and
Health,” Milan
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