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Elizabeth Ablah, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Kansas-Wichita School of Medicine
Daniel Barnett, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor,
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Jennifer L Chan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Edbert B. Hsu, MD, MPH
Director of Training, Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness
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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
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Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s
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Commander, US Public Health Service, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, National Disaster Medical System, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services
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Associate Professor of Surgery, University of South Florida Health
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Cham E. Dallas, PhD
Director, Institute for Health Management in Mass Destruction Defense, University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia
Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lewis R. Goldfrank, MD
Herbert W. Adams Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University
John L. Hick, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota
James G. Hodge, Jr, JD, LLM
Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics, Director, Public Health Law and Policy Program, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Gabor Kelen, MD, FRCP(C), FACEP
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic
Betty Pfferbaum, MD, JD
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University
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RADM, US Public Health Service-retired, Senior Partner, Martin, Blanck, and Associates
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M. Finster Chair in Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Columbia University,
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Raymond E. Swienton, MD, FACEP
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, US Department of Health
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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, Disaster and Emergency Communication Research Unit, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
John Brownstein, PhD
Clinical and Public Health Informatics, Children's Hospital Boston
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Director of Trauma & Pediatric Surgical Services, Harlem Hospital
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Chair, American College of Chest Physicians Disaster Response NetWork
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Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution
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Chief, Division of General Surgery, Shands Jacksonville Medical Center
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Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical International Nursing, Columbia
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Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services
E. Brooke Lerner, PhD
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
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Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
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Craig H. Llewellyn, MD, MPH, MSTMH, FACPM
Emeritus Professor of Military Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Preventive Medicine & Surgery, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
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Associate Dean, Clinical Sciences, William Carey University
Anthony Macintyre, MD
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John Mutter, PhD
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Kobi Peleg, PhD, MPH
Director, Israel National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine
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Louis Rowitz, PhD
Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University
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Joseph Scanlon
Professor Emeritus and Director, Emergency Communications Research Unit,
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R. Tom Sizemore III, MD
Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations,
US Department of Health and Human Services
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Director of Strategic Technologies, National Center for Disaster Preparedness,
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Deputy Assistant Secretary, Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency
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Michael Christian, MD, FRCP(C)
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Research Group on Disaster Medicine, Free University of Brussels
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Laboratory for Cancer Epidemiology, Research Center for Radiation Medicine,
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Director, National Center for Health Statistics and Information, Ministry
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San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Foundation, University “Life and
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Bhabha Atomic Research Center Hospital Mumbai, India
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