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Dr. Paul Anastas is Director of the Green Chemistry Institute, Paul Anastas was formerly the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant. He is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability, such as the books Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. Dr. Anastas, in addition to receiving a number of awards and distinctions, serves on numerous boards, as well as being Special Professor in the University of Nottingham Chemistry Department. |
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Dr. Henry Anderson is the State Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiologist and Chief Medical Officer for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. He is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the UW Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Human Studies. He is president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, is chair of the Integrated Human Exposure Committee of the USEPA Science Advisory Board, serves on that board's Executive Committee and was a member of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee (EDSTAC). Dr. Anderson is a member of the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board and the CDC National Center for Environmental Health, Directors Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Rye Barcott is the President and Founder of Carolina For Kibera. He graduated with a B.A. in Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Triangle Institutes for Security Studies Millenium Fellow and a Burch Fellow. While an undergraduate at UNC, Rye founded Carolina For Kibera (CFK http://cfk.unc.edu) in Kenya with Salim Mohamed and the late Tabitha Atieno Festo, who each shared the conviction that the poor have the solutions to the problems they face. CFK runs a sports program, medical clinic, Binti Pamoja girls center, and waste management program in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. TIME Magazine and the Gates Foundation named CFK a “Hero of Global Health” in 2005. Rye served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and is currently a joint MPA and MBA candidate at Harvard University. He is the co-author of the American Anthropological Association Statement on Ethnic Cleansing and co-editor of Armed Conflict in Africa (Scarecrow, 2003). ABC World News named Rye a “Person of the Year” in 2006.
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Val Beasley, Ph.D. is Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Beasley will participate as a discussant in the plenary roundtable, One World, One Health, One Science, One Education, in the 7th National Conference. After graduation from Purdue, School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Beasley was in small animal practice for six years in coastal New Jersey and western Ohio. After completing a residency and PhD in toxicology at the University of Illinois, he has served as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. Recent studies have focused on heavy metal contaminants and marine mammals; mass die-offs in flamingos including potential roles of metals, algal toxins, and infectious agents; and especially, causes of amphibian declines. Dr. Beasley is also Executive Director of the Envirovet Program in Wildlife and Ecosystem Health, an international educational program that offers an intensive Summer Institute in multiple locations in the USA and southern Africa, and is also affiliated with the Envirovet Baltic program in Northern Europe. |
| Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, is well known in the world of public health as a leader, practitioner and administrator. Benjamin has been the executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002. He came to that post from his position as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he played a key role developing Maryland's bioterrorism plan. Benjamin became secretary of the Maryland health department in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. Benjamin, of Gaithersburg, Md., is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. |
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Gail Bingham is President of RESOLVE, Inc. and has been a practicing mediator for over 28 years, specializing in environment, natural resources, and other public policy issues, with a particular emphasis on water resource issues. Ms. Bingham will moderate a symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Unnatural Causes and Consequences of “Natural” Catastrophes. Ms. Bingham has written extensively about environmental dispute resolution, and conducts negotiation skills training programs. She has served as a mediator for a variety of local, state and federal agencies and private parties on such diverse subjects as: allocation of water rights, endangered species, drinking water regulations, groundwater protection, wetlands, solid waste source reduction, hazardous waste management, oil spill contingency plans, pesticides policy, and local community land use and infrastructure issues. She also is the author of several publications, including: Resolving Environmental Disputes: A Decade of Experience, and Seeking Solutions: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Western Water Issues. She served two, three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
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| Pamela Calvert, Producer/Director "The Beloved Community", is a long-time professional in the field of media and social change. Most recently she co-produced and was the campaign director for "Not in our Town", a PBS series and national outreach initiative of communities coming together to fight hate crimes. She was the national organizing director for Judith Helfand’s 1997 documentary "A Healthy Baby Girl", about the endocrine-disrupting pharmaceutical DES, and she currently serves as development consultant for Literacy for Environmental Justice, addressing toxics remediation and community health in Southeast San Francisco. |
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Professor Audrey R. Chapman holds the Healey Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Prior to coming to the University of Connecticut in July 2006, she served as the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and as the Senior Associate for Ethics for the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. She received a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University and graduate degrees in theology and ethics from New York Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. She is also an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She has worked on a wide range of ethical, human rights, theological, and intellectual property issues related to health, genetic developments, and stem cells. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books and numerous articles and reports. She is currently a member of the University of Connecticut Embryonic Stem Cell Oversight Committee, the John Dempsey Hospital Ethics Committee, the Gladstein Human Rights Committee, and the Executive Committee for the University of Connecticut Program on Science and Human Rights. In addition, she serves on the Expert Genomics Advisory Panel of the Connecticut Department of Public Health and co-chairs its Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Subcommittee and is a member of the State of Connecticut Stem Cell Ethics Working Group. She also is a member of the Committee on Medical Humanities of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Board of the Society of Christian Ethics. |
| Rita Colwell, MD, is Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as a Board Member of NCSE. Dr. Colwell will discuss the connections among environmental quality, wildlife health, and human health as a moderator of the first conference plenary roundtable. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues for both the developed and developing world. Dr. Colwell served as the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation from 1998-2004. As NSF Director, she served as Co-chair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Colwell has been awarded 40 honorary degrees from higher education institutions. |
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Charles Demas began his career as a water-quality hydrologist with the USGS Louisiana District in 1974 after graduating from Cornell University and Humboldt State University. During his career he has worked on several water-quality and sediment projects on the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers and a toxics study of the Calcasieu River. He served as the District QW Specialist from 1986 to 2003, acting SE Regional Biologist from 1990 to 1992, and the Acadian-Pontchartrain NAWQA study chief from 1997 to 1999. He has been a member of the USGS sediment action committee and was the USGS representative on the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project for 2 years. He has been the Director of the USGS Louisiana Water Science Center since 1999.
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| Roger-Mark De Souza is the technical director for population, health and environment at the Population Reference Bureau. He directs strategic planning, technical oversight, fundraising and outreach for PRB’s environmental program. For more than a decade, he has led teams of researchers, community leaders, and communication specialists to promote evidence-based policy-making, program development and public participation on population, health and environmental issues in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. De Souza formerly worked at the World Resources Institute and the Pan American Development Foundation. He holds a master’s in development policy from George Washington University and a post-graduate degree in international relations from the University of the West Indies. |
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Leslie Dierauf, VMD, is the Director of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Dierauf will serve as a moderator in a symposium on the cultural, socio-economic, and ecological determinants of avian influenza and its spread. Dr. Dierauf is a wildlife veterinarian and conservation biologist, who has worked in Federal Service since 1990, first as a science advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and then for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducting habitat conservation planning in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Currently, she serves on the Consortium for Conservation Medicine's Executive Committee, the SeaDoc Society Advisory Board, the University of California - Davis' Wildlife Health Center Board, the U.S. Animal Health Association's Executive Board, the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Fish and Wildlife Health Committee, USGS's Human Health Coordinating Committee, and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Partnership and Collaboration Team.
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Robert H. Donkers has been counselor for environmental affairs at the European Commission Delegation in Washington DC since October 18, 2003. From April 1999 until his current appointment, he served as deputy head and head of the Chemicals Unit in the Directorate General Environment in Brussels, where his responsibilities included coordinating the development of a new EU chemical policy and legislative framework (aka REACH). He was also the chief EU negotiator on the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS). Before joining the Commission in 1990, Mr. Donkers held several positions in the Dutch administration including deputy director for International Environmental Affairs in the Environment Ministry and EU environment counselor for the Netherlands in Bruessels. He holds a master’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public and international law from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Peter Dykstra is an Executive Producer at CNN, with responsibility for coverage of Science, Technology, Space, Environment, and Weather.He joined the network in 1991, and was part of the team that won an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1993 Mississippi River Floods. He has also produced award-winning and award-nominated documentaries for CNN Presents, the network’s acclaimed documentary series, and for TV Asahi of Japan.He also supervises a staff of eight meteorologists who produce and appear on weathercasts for CNN, CNN International, Headline News, and CNN’s Pipeline broadband video service. The four networks combine for nearly 25,000 weathercasts per year.Dykstra received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University, and is a former national Board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. He is on the Advisory Committee of the Ted Scripps Fellowship at Colorado University’s School of Journalism; and serves as a Judge for the Oakes Environmental Journalism Awards at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and recently concluded a three-year term on the Awards Panel of the National Academies Communication Awards, based at the National Academy of Sciences.
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Robert Engelman is Vice President for Research at Population Action International (PAI), a Washington-based policy research and advocacy organization that seeks an early end to population growth through assuring the right of all people to sexual and reproductive health. He has written extensively on population’s connections to environmental change, economic growth and civil conflict. His book Intending Eden: Women, Nature, and the Future of Population will be published in 2008 by Island Press. A former newspaper reporter specializing on science and the environment, Engelman chairs the board of the Center for a New American Dream, a non-governmental organization working to reduce consumption of natural resources in North America. Engelman’s writing has been published in Nature, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
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Gary Erbeck is the Director of the Department of Environmental Health for the County of San Diego. He is a member and Past President of both the California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health (CCDEH) and the California Association of Environmental Health Administrators. As the Director of a local environmental health agency, Mr. Erbeck has developed many innovative environmental public health programs in the areas of food safety, vector borne disease, clean water and environmental health program outcome measurements. In 2005 the California Environmental Health Association awarded Mr. Erbeck the Vince Dunham Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in environmental public health. In 2005 the National Environmental Health Association awarded Mr. Erbeck a President’s Citation for his work on behalf of environmental public health in California. In 2006 the State of California presented Mr. Erbeck with the Beverlee A. Meyers award for excellence in public health practice. |
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Henry Falk, MD, MPH, serves as director, Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP), at one of four Coordinating Centers at CDC. Prior to becoming director of CCEHIP, he served as director for both the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) from 2003, when these two entities consolidated to form NCEH/ATSDR, until February, 2004.While at NCEH, Dr. Falk led the center's national effort to prevent and control environment-related diseases, illness, and deaths. He also served NCEH for 14 years as director of the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects. At ATSDR, which was created by the 1980 Superfund legislation, Dr. Falk led the federal agency, whose mission is to protect public health from hazardous releases of toxic substances from 1999 to February 2005.His work includes contributions to the federal responses to Three-Mile Island, Mount St. Helens, Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew, and the September 11th attacks. During the 1980's, Dr. Falk was instrumental in developing the injury prevention programs at CDC. He has also authored or coauthored more than 100 publications in a variety of subjects, including vinyl chloride-induced liver cancer, prevention of lead poisoning, and the health effects of environmental hazards.Doctor Falk earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1968. He received a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1976, and he is board-certified in pediatrics, public health, and general preventive medicine.
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Timothy Fields, Jr. is the Senior Vice President of Tetra Tech EM Inc. – Reston, VA. Mr. Fields directs the firm’s site assessment and remediation work in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense (DoD), other Federal agencies, state and local governments, the private sector and international markets. This work includes support of programs to evaluate innovative treatment and disposal practices, assess methods for cleanup of contaminated military range properties, analyze and remediate anthrax contamination, and conduct emergency response and long-term site remediation work throughout the United States and overseas. A particular focus for Mr. Fields in the past 13 years has been working with industry, government, and affected communities to address environmental justice and community revitalization issues. He earned his M.S. at George Washington University in Operations Research and B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Industrial Engineering.
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Dr. Evangeline Franklin, MD, MPH, before joining Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Franklin was with University MEDNET, a multispeciality physician group practice affiliated with University Hospitals Health System, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1989. While there, she was Director of the Immediate Care Department, an urgent care practice of 65,000 annual visits where she practiced full time. In addition, she was administrative director of occupational medicine and ancillary services, medical director of the Call Center, chair of the Clinical Practices Council and a member of the Operations Group and Executive Staff. Before that, she was assistant medical director at Cleveland Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr. Franklin is a member of the American College of Physician Executives, American Group Practice Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association, American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Health Services Research.
Dr. Franklin earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Princeton University and her medical degree and master’s degree in public health from Yale University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester. |
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Milton Friend, Ph.D., is Director Emeritus of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Dr. Friend will chair a session on the ecology of water and health, and is a member of the conference planning committee. Dr. Friend has had a distinguished career in government service that has encompassed national and international issues on wildlife health, biology and conservation. Dr. Friend served as Executive Director of the Salton Sea Science Committee from 1998 to 2002, to develop and oversee the science program for the Salton Sea Restoration Project. His many honors and awards include the Department of the Interior´s Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Awards.
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Howard Frumkin, MD, is the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frumkin will deliver the keynote address on the first day of the conference. Prior to joining NCEH, Dr. Frumkin served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School, in Atlanta. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. He founded the Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic at The Emory Clinic and directed it from 1991 to 2000. |
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Arthur J. Gibson, Vice President, Environment, Health & Safety – Baxter International Inc. has spent 29 years in several areas of manufacturing operations developing a diversified experience in management. Prior to joining Baxter, Art was Corporate Vice President of EHS at The Home Depot. Prior to that, Art served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Environment, Health, Safety, Security and Workers’ Compensation for the R.R. Donnelley Corporation from 1996-2004. Prior to his tenure with R.R. Donnelley, Art was with the Grumman Corporation, where he was the Corporate Director of Environmental, Health, Safety, Medical Services and Energy. Art started his career in 1976 as an aeronautical design engineer at Grumman Aerospace Corporation As the Vice President of Environment, Health & Safety with Baxter International, Art is responsible for leading the strategy, planning processes and day-to-day functional operations of the Environmental, Health & Safety organization globally. Art holds Bachelor’s degrees in American Foreign Policy and Aeronautical Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA in International Finance from Long Island University and he completed the Senior Executive program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Art is an active member of the Environmental, Health & Safety industry. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF). Art also is Chairman of the Environmental Council of the Conference Board.
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J. Paul Gilman,Director of the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Previously, he served as Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He also worked at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he had oversight responsibilities for the Department of Energy (DOE) and all other science agencies, and at DOE, where he advised the Secretary of Energy on scientific and technical matters. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Gilman was the executive director of the Life Sciences and Agriculture divisions of the National Research Council (NRC). He has also served as a member of the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Gilman earned his Ph.D. degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology from The Johns Hopkins University. |
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Lynn Goldman, MD,has joint appointments in Health Policy and Management and Epidemiology as a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Goldman will serve as moderator for a symposium on decisionmaking in the real world in the conference. In 1993, Dr. Goldman was appointed to serve as Assistant Administrator (AA) for the EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, serving in that position for more than five years. She was responsible for the nation's pesticide, toxic substances and pollution prevention laws. Dr. Goldman has served on numerous boards and expert committees, including the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee, and committees for the National Research Council. She currently is Vice Chair of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences. |
| Bernard D. Goldstein, MD, is Dean Emeritus of the University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health. Dr. Goldstein will chair a roundtable on “systems thinking” at the conference, and is a member of the conference planning committee. An environmental toxicologist, his research interests have focused largely on the concept of biological markers in the field of risk assessment. Prior to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Goldstein was Chairman of the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he directed the largest academic environmental and occupational health program in the U.S. -- the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. He also has served as an officer with the U.S. Public Health Service and as Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
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Audrey R. Gotsch, DrPH, CHES, is dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) - School of Public Health, sponsored by UMDNJ in cooperation with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and New Jersey Institute of Technology, and director, Public Education and Risk Communication Division, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. She has been involved in the design, implementation, evaluation and replication of an environmental and occupational health information program that includes an environmental health sciences curriculum to provide critical thinking skills for youth in K-12th grades, which has been implemented by school districts in 27 states as well as internationally. Elements of the program have received the Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Community Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the National Environmental Education Achievement Award from the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation; and the 2006 Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the CEFPI Foundation and Charitable Trust. Dr. Gotsch currently serves as president, Council on Education for Public Health; External Advisory Board, University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center; Chair, Board of Directors, National Center for Health Education; and Chair, UMDNJ Pandemic Influenza Task Force. Dr. Gotsch formerly served as member, Board of Scientific Councilors, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC; and president, American Public Health Association (APHA). |
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Joseph Graziano, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Graziano will present his research on arsenic in the conference roundtable on environmental quality, wildlife health, and human health. Dr. Graziano’s research career has been devoted to understanding the consequences of exposure to metals, both on the molecular and population levels. Dr. Graziano has been a faculty member at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University since 1979, and was Chairman of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health from 1991-2002, when he became Associate Dean. In 2000, Dr. Graziano became the founding director of the Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP). He previously served as a toxicology consultant to the World Health Organization and the World Bank, and has received numerous awards for his research. In 2002, he was voted Teacher of the Year at the Mailman School of Public Health.
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| Francesca T. Grifo, Ph.D., came to UCS in 2005 from Columbia University where she directed the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation graduate policy workshop and ran the Science Teachers Environmental Education Program. Prior to that, she was director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and a curator of the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Grifo edited and contributed to the books Biodiversity and Human Health and The Living Planet in Crisis; biodiversity science and policy. In addition to her scholarly work, Dr. Grifo was the manager of the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program at the National Institutes of Health. She was also a senior program officer for Central and Eastern European for the Biodiversity Support Program, a consortium of the World Resources Institute, the Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund; and an AAAS Fellow in the Office of Research at the Agency for International Development. Francesca earned her PhD in botany from Cornell, and a BA in biology from Smith College. She currently holds adjunct appointments at Columbia and Georgetown. |
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| Kristen Grimm has extensive experience conceiving, implementing and managing strategic communications campaigns. She is president of Spitfire Strategies, which provides communications solutions to support positive social change. Prior to Spitfire, she was a fellow at the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), where she worked on issues including banning landmines, reforming the death penalty and criminal justice systems, and reducing the threat of nuclear war. Before her fellowship, Grimm was the president and chief operating officer of Fenton Communications where she oversaw a professional staff of 65, as well as managed client accounts including The Justice Project, Align Technology, World Wildlife Fund, the Aspen Institute, NRDC, and Youth Service America. While at Fenton, she wrote NOW HEAR THIS: The Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications (with generous support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation). More than 10,000 copies of the booklet were distributed in the nonprofit and foundation sectors. In 1999, she won the Silver Anvil for her work on SeaWeb’s ‘Give Swordfish a Break’ campaign, which successfully mobilized hundreds of chefs across the country to stop serving swordfish until the U.S. government adopted a sustainable fisheries management plan. Prior to Fenton, Grimm was a senior account executive with Millennium Communications Group where her clients included: The Benton Foundation, California Nurses Association, Public Allies, and Rock the Vote. |
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Carol J. Henry, Ph.D. Vice President, Industry Performance Programs, at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), with executive management responsibility for ACC’s four public service performance programs: Responsible Careâ, Long-Range Research Initiative (LRI), CHEMTREC®, and Economics and Statistics. Dr. Henry has held senior management positions in the private sector and in federal and state governments. She has served as a member of several science advisory boards and committees to the US government, including those at Environmental Protection Agency and the National Research Council. A board-certified toxicologist, Dr. Henry also is a past president of the American College of Toxicology. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from University of Minnesota and a Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. |
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Hon S. Ip, Ph. D., is a microbiologist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, where he directs the team that is responsible for much of the testing for the Department of Interior for the surveillance of migratory birds for the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. For more than twenty years, Dr. Ip has worked in the area of wildlife health and wildlife infectious diseases, with a publication record that spans from parasitology to virology. Dr. Ip also has interests in molecular biology, molecular regulation of development and diagnostic technologies. He holds a number of US and international patents on diagnostic molecular biology and has held senior positions in the biotechnology arena. Dr. Ip has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Toronto and a Doctoral degree from the Rockefeller University. |
| Richard J. Jackson, MD, is Professor of Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Jackson will moderate a plenary roundtable discussion, One World, One Health, One Science, One Education at the conference. He has served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, most recently as the State Health Officer under Governor Schwarzenegger. For nine years he was Director of the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta.While in California he carried out investigations that led to strengthening of farm worker health protection, food safety and child health. His work led to the establishment of the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws that removed the licenses for a series of dangerous pesticides. In the Federal Government at CDC, he worked for the addition of folic acid to food to prevent birth defects, established the national asthma epidemiology and control programs, and oversaw the childhood lead poisoning prevention programs. He instituted the current federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He was the US lead under several US government efforts around health and environment in Russia, including radiation threats, one of which led to the addition of iodine to salt there and the prevention of many cases of retardation. In the late 1990s he was the CDC leader in establishing the US National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters—which was activated on September 11, 2001. |
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Sharon Kemerer, MSN, is a certified occupational health nurse specialist who is certified in case management. Kemerer has been a healthcare professional for more than 30 years and has held management positions in occupational health since 1985. Prior to joining Baxter, she was the executive director of the American Board for Occupational Health (OH) Nurses, the body that certifies OH nurses in the United States.
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Jerry Keusch, MD, is the Assistant Provost for Global Health at the Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Dean for Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Keusch will moderate a symposium on Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Keusch has been involved in clinical medicine, teaching and research his entire career, most recently as Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the New England Medical Center in Boston, MA. He also served as Director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health and Associate Director for International Research. Dr. Keusch is presently involved in international health research and policy with the NIH, the Institute of Medicine, and the World Health Organization.
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Lonnie King, Ph.D. was appointed dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, effective July 1, 1996, and became the college's 11th dean since it was established by the Michigan legislature in 1910. As dean, he is the chief executive officer for academic programs, research, the teaching hospital, diagnostic center for population and animal health, basic and clinical science departments, and the outreach and continuing education programs. He has brought the Center for Integrative Toxicology to the college and is a designated leader for counter-bioterrorism activities at the college and is involved in re-establishing public health programs at Michigan State University. Prior to this, Dr. King was Administrator for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, inWashington, DC. Before beginning his government career in 1977, Dr. King was in private veterinary practice for seven years in Dayton, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia. As a native of Wooster, Ohio , Dr. King received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from The Ohio State University in 1966 and 1970, respectively. He earned his Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota while on special assignment with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1980. He also received his master's degree in public administration from American University in Washington, DC in 1991. Dr. King has a broad knowledge of animal agriculture and the veterinary profession through his work with other governmental agencies, universities, major livestock and poultry groups, and private practitioners.
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Victoria E. H. Lee is a family physician and a third year Community Medicine resident from Toronto, Canada. She obtained her first degree in Honours Biology and Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Her enthusiasm and dedication to the advancement of EcoHealth principles began at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), while pursuing her medical doctorate. As the International Public Health Director for the International Federation of Medical Students (IFMSA), she was a student leader in promoting EcoHealth on national and international levels. Victoria Lee founded student interest groups in ecosystem health, served as the director of international ecosystem health workshops, has been the chief-coordinator of national and international ecosystem health directed campaigns and meetings, and recently debriefed the Canadian Senate Committee on health impacts of the Environmental Protection Act.Victoria Lee continues to illustrate her commitment to EcoHealth studies by mentoring students, dedicating research in community education and comparative health systems, implementing ecosystem health issues in professional curricula, and through her active collaboration with international organizations such as IFMSA, IDRC, and UNEP. She currently serves as an executive board member of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Her next welcome challenge is to strategically develop policy and health systems analyses for sustainable development. She is looking forward to a multi-faceted career in international health with a special interest in EcoHealth.
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Floyd J. Malveaux, MD, PhD is the Executive Director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN). Dr. Malveaux is a nationally recognized expert on asthma and allergic diseases and the former Dean of the College of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Howard University. Dr. Malveaux led Howard’s participation in several multi-million dollar initiatives to identify and address risk factors that contribute to increased asthma morbidity among inner-city children and to develop effective, community-based interventions to reduce and prevent asthma among at-risk populations. In addition, Malveaux has worked extensively to address health disparities and improve the quality of health care and health outcomes, especially among low-income, urban and underserved populations. Dr. Malveaux is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He is active in numerous professional organizations and is, or has served as, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association; the National Allergy and Infectious Diseases Advisory Council; chairman of the Committee of Underrepresented Minorities, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; the Board of Trustees of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; and the HHS/APHA Steering Committed of the Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. He has held a number of positions with the National Medical Association including member of the Board of Trustees (1988 – 1994) and was first chair of the Allergy/Immunology Section. Dr. Malveaux was founder and president of the Urban Asthma and Allegory Center in Baltimore from 1986 to 1989. Dr. Malveaux is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Vivian B. Allen Foundation Fellowship, the Clemens von Pirquet Research Award from the Georgetown School of Medicine, the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Howard University and the Legacy of Leadership Award from Howard University Hospital.
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Larry Murillo is Shoshone from Fort Hall, Idaho on his mother’s side and Guamara from Mexico on his father’s side. He is an Assistant Professor for the Oregon Health and Science University and is associated with the One Sky Center. Dr. Murillo is currently developing information to evaluate and plan health programs based on American Indian traditional health practices and epistemology. In October of 2005 he was awarded a two-year grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse Administration to study Native American Health Disparity. He has a joint appointment as an assistant professor in the schools of public health and psychiatry. Larry received his doctoral degree in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interest is Native American culture and how it contributes to public health. He has written a position paper on Native American Cultural Health Care for the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. “Native American Public Health Issues” is a course he taught for three years in the school of public health at Berkeley. Dr. Murillo has worked for over 20 years with various Native American communities as a public health educator and community organizer. His specialized experience includes organizing traditional Native American cultural gatherings related to health, group facilitation, and interpreting information about healing and traditional health practices. As a cultural health educator he has developed health promotion disease prevention programs in the areas of Maternal Child Health, AIDS, Tobacco Education, Diabetes, and Obesity. Using a cultural health model he developed a 10-year plan to prevent obesity. This 10-year obesity prevention plan used a holistic approach to health planning by using a model that included components from medical, fitness, environmental, ethnic nutrition, cultural health practices, epidemiology and media advocacy factors along with the life experience of the Navajo, Hopi and Paiute people in Tuba City, Arizona. Larry has been honored as a keynote speaker at several California Statewide and National Health Conferences. Larry and a group of aerobic volunteers were awarded 4 national awards named after Jim Thorpe for obesity prevention work they accomplished in Tuba City, Arizona. His recently completed dissertation is entitled “American Indian and Alaska Native Traditional Health Practices: Providing a Socio-Cultural Context for Health Care and Implications for Health Disparity. His latest publication is a chapter in the book “Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red.” The chapter is called “Perspectives on Traditional Health Practices.”
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| Mary Nichols, Professor-in-Residence, currently serves as Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment (IoE). Nichols received her B.A. from Cornell University (1966) and her J.D. from Yale Law School (1971). After law school, she served as attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles (1971-74) where she brought the first litigation under the then recently passed Clean Air Act. Nichols was employed by the state of California as the Secretary of Environmental Affairs and the Chair of the Air Resources Board (1974-78), and briefly served as Los Angeles Chief Assistant City Attorney in charge of the civil branch (1978-79) before returning to her previous position at the state (1979-1983). Nichols moved on to private environmental law consultation (1983-88), while serving as campaign manager for Tom Bradley for Governor of California (1985-86). Nichols also took on the role of Director for the People for the American Way (1987-88) before founding the Los Angeles office for Natural Resources Defense Council as senior attorney (1989-93). From 1993-97, Nichols was appointed as Assistant Administrator of Air and Radiation for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She then headed the Environment Now Foundation as Executive Director from 1997-98. Prior to joining UCLA, she served as the California Secretary for Resources (1979-2003) where she was responsible for the State’s activities relating to the management, preservation, and enhancement of its natural resources, and for the oversight of the state’s scenic, cultural, and recreational resources. |
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Ken Olden, Ph.D., is Director Emeritus of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes for Health. Dr. Olden will moderate a symposium on “Guiding Research” at the conference. Dr. Olden is a highly regarded cancer researcher whose 34-year career has included appointments at Harvard University Medical School and the National Cancer Institute. He remains an active researcher/scholar and has published 159 articles and book chapters dealing with cancer biology and environmental health research and policy. Dr. Olden was appointed by President George Bush to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board, and was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine. He is also a recipient of the prestigious City of Medicine Award for “extraordinary achievements in medicine in the public interest,” and was presented the Presidential Meritorious and Executive Rank Awards by President William Clinton. |
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Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, Ph.D., is a Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, Joint Appointment, College of Veterinary Medicine, at University of Minnesota. Her research interests include: Developing a program of research and teaching in infectious diseases, with an emphasis on emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, in collaboration with the School of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, other relevant university colleges and departments, the Minnesota Department of Health, and other partners. She earned her B.Sc. at Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; her D.V.M. at Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; her M.P.V.M. (Masters in Preventive Veterinary Medicine), University of California, Davis, CA; and her Ph.D. (Comparative Pathology: Major in Epidemiology, Minor in Medical Statistics and Parasitology), University of California, Davis, CA.
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| Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH , is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and also an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He has served as Co-chair for the Health Expert Panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and Lead author on several United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and World Health Organization (WHO) monographs on climate change. He currently is Co-Editor for the journal, Ecohealth: Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Sustainability, and has co-edited a textbook: Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective, published in 2001. Dr. Patz has written over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers addressing the health effects of global environmental change. He has earned medical board certification in both Occupational/Environmental Medicine and Family Medicine and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, he was awarded as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. |
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Mirta Roses Periago, MD, is the Director of the Pan American Health Organization and Regional Director of the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. Dr. Roses will deliver the plenary lecture on the second morning of the conference. Dr. Roses joined the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in 1984 as coordinator of the Epidemiology Unit of the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC) in Trinidad and Tobago, and following many successful roles in the organization, she was elected as Director in September 2002, becoming the first Argentine and first woman to hold that position in the world's oldest health public agency, founded in 1902. Dr. Roses has been the recipient of numerous honors--among them, honorary doctorates from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina and the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. She has also been awarded Ecuador's National Order of Honorato Vásquez with the degree of High Official and Nicaragua's Order of José de Marcoleta and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Order of Liberty. |
| Dr. A. Townsend Peterson,Ph.D, has 20+ years of experience as an ornithologist and biogeographer. His specific interests are threefold. (1) Bird diversity globally – Dr. Peterson co-directs a global program of survey and inventory, followed up by systematic and taxonomic studies to allow new views of bird diversity. These studies have involved work in Mexico, Paraguay, China, and the Philippines, among other countries. (2) Species-level geography – Dr. Peterson has participated in the development of a field that can be termed ecological niche modeling, which uses high-end computational tools and GIS technology to infer the ecological basis for the geographic distributions of species. This work has extended globally, including work with conservation priorities in Mexico, climate change and Canadian butterflies, and many other topics. Finally, (3) Dr. Peterson works with disease-related applications of the geographic tools mentioned above, using novel tools to understand the spatial distributions of pathogens, vectors, and hosts. This work has included studies of Ebola and Marburg viruses, avian influenza, West Nile virus, malaria, dengue, and Chagas disease, among others. Peterson’s laboratory at the University of Kansas includes 8 doctoral students and 2 postdoctoral associates working on diverse aspects of evolutionary biology and biogeography. |
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Lloyd Pinkham , Ph.D., is a Middle School Teacher in Union Gap, Washington. He is a former gifted and talented teacher in science, reading, math, language and art, and a previous Anthropology Professor in Alaska. Dr. Pinkham is an educator of Native Science and Philosophy, ancient traditions and customs, and believes these teach the values of indigenous, inherent knowledge, methods and practices. The central message is: respect and care for the Earth Mother, and, in return, we will also be protected. Dr. Pinkham promotes Native Science, a practice that covers social, economic, natural and wildlife resources and the Universe. He believes that ancient stories and legends handed down through the generations engender values that form the base for a balance of all life. |
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Mark Pokras, DVM, is on the Executive Committee, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, based at Wildlife Trust, an Associate Professor, and Director of the Wildlife Clinic and Center for Conservation Medicine, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Massachusetts. Dr. Mark Pokras has worked in ornithology, marine biology and environmental conservation before graduating from Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine in Massachussetts. He has been recognized for his work in education, wildlife rehabilitation, and wildlife health, and has been published extensively in these areas. As a cofounder of the Center for Conservation Medicine, Dr. Pokras is strongly committed to building cross-disciplinary research and educational bridges to address health and conservation issues. His research interests include surgical anatomy of birds and reptiles, wildlife as indicators of environmental health, and clinical uses of allometric scaling.
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| Christopher Portier, Ph.D. serves as Associate Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for Risk Assessment and Leads the Environmental Systems Biology (ESB) Research Group within the Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology. As Associate Director, Dr. Portier organizes and coordinates all research activities related to risk assessment both within the NIEHS and outside of the NIEHS with grantees and institutional collaborators. As Head of ESB, Dr. Portier conducts research into quantifying and modeling the interactions of mammalian systems with environmental agents. Previously, Dr. Portier was Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program (ETP) at the NIEHS and Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP). Dr. Portier received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of North Carolina in biostatistics. Dr. Portier is an internationally recognized expert in the design and analysis of toxicology data and in risk assessment methodology. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and over 50 book chapters/reports covering such diverse topics as risk assessment, statistics, cancer biology, immunology, development, genetically modified foods and genomics. |
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Katie Redford, Esq., Co-Founder and US Office Director of EarthRights International. Katie is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and served as counsel to plaintiffs in ERI's landmark case Doe v. Unocal. Katie received an echoing green fellowship in 1995 to establish ERI, and since that time has split her time between ERI's Thailand and US offices. In addition to working on ERI's litigation and teaching at the EarthRights Schools in Southeast Asia, Katie currently serves as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University. She has published on various issues associated with human rights and corporate accountability, in addition to co-authoring ERI reports such as In Our Court, Shock and Law, and Total Denial Continues. In 2006, Katie was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow.
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Dr. Denise Reed, Ph.D. is a professor at University of New Orleans. Her research focuses on various aspects of sediment dynamics in coastal wetlands, with emphasis on sediment mobilization and marsh hydrology, both natural and altered, as factors controlling sediment deposition. She has participated in numerous research projects concerning marsh and estuarine sediment dynamics on the Gulf and Pacific coasts of the US as well as in Europe and South America. She has also worked closely with the development of restoration plans in for coastal Louisiana for the last 5 years. She moved to the Department of Geology at the University of New Orleans in 1998 and current research includes sediment dynamics and restoration in Louisiana, the Columbia River estuary and the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. Dr. Reed earned her B.A. in Geography at University of Cambridge, England, 1980 and her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Cambridge, England.
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Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D. is the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science & Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland- College Park. Dr. Salzberg will discuss avian influenza in a plenary roundtable on Strong Connections in the conference. From 1997 to 2005 he was at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, where he was the Senior Director of Bioinformatics, and where he continues to hold an adjunct appointment. His interest in the human genome project motivated him to develop one of the first computational gene-finding systems for the human genome, in the early 1990s. He was part of the teams that analyzed the human genome as well as the genomes of B. burgdorferi (the Lyme disease bacterium), T. pallidum (the syphilis bacterium), M. tuberculosis, V. cholerae, B. anthracis (anthrax), and over 50 more bacterial, viral, and other species, including plants and animals. His recent genomics projects include sequencing and analysis of multiple strains of Bacillus anthracis and of the human influenza A virus. Dr. Salzberg has authored or co-authored two books and over 125 publications in leading scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Bioinformatics, BMC Biology, Journal of Computational Biology, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, and Applied Bioinformatics. He has co-chaired the Third (1999) through the Eighth (2005) Conferences on Computational Genomics. |
| Kathy Sessions is the Coordinator and founding staffer (since 1999) of the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN). HEFN is a network of grantmakers working at the intersection of environment and health; it is a sponsored project of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD). Sessions is a Trustee and Secretary of the Barbara Smith Fund. From 2002–2004 Sessions also coordinated the Climate & Energy Funders Group, another CGBD-sponsored funder group. She has worked on issues of sustainable development and civil society for the //--> U.N. Association of the USA, the U.N. Development Programme, the Aspen Institute, Leaders in Environment and Development, and other nongovernmental organizations. She holds an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, with a focus in international relations and development studies (1990), and an A.B., magna cum laude, in social studies from Harvard University (1983). |
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| Peggy Shepard, is Executive Director and Co-Founder of West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. Ms. Shepard will be a discussant in a roundtable on systems thinking at the conference. A recipient of the 10th Annual Heinz Award for the Environment, she is a former District Leader, who represented West Harlem from 1985 to 1993, and served as President of the National Women’s Political Caucus-Manhattan from 1993-1997. From 2001-2003, Ms. Shepard served as the first female chair of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and is co-chair of the Northeast Environmental Justice Network. |
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Barbara Smisko has twenty years of experience in environmental, health and safety and is the Director of National Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) at Kaiser Permanente. Her areas of expertise include environmental management, injury and illness prevention and management, industrial hygiene management, EH&S training and recruiting. In her role as Director NEH&S, Barbara is responsible for Environmental Stewardship. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Barbara was hired as part of the first Corporate Environmental Safety department at United Airlines, where she was a Senior Staff Representative - Environmental Compliance. Prior to United Airlines, Barbara worked in consulting for six years, first with IT Corporation, coordinating their regional EH&S Training programs, and then with ENSR Consulting and Engineering as a project manager. She has an M.S. in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco, an M.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a B.S. in Education from Southern Illinois University, complemented by a Certificate of Hazardous Material Management from the University of California. Barbara is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Professional in Disability Management (CPDM), Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certified Professional In Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) and a Certified Healthcare Environmental Manager (HEM).
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Terry Tamminen, Special Advisor for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and author of “Lives Per Gallon: The True Costs of Our Oil Addiction ”, helped Arnold Schwarzenegger win the historic recall election and become Governor of California. Tamminen became Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency in November 2003 and was promoted to Cabinet Secretary, Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, in December 2004. During his tenure with Governor Schwarzenegger, Tamminen helped launch some of the most progressive, successful, and laudable sustainable energy initiatives in the country. The environmental changes he implemented have left California a cleaner, healthier state with a cutting edge reputation for policies that work for the good of the land and its citizens. In August 2006, Tamminen left the Schwarzenegger administration to focus on Lives Per Gallon. |
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John Warner, Ph.D., is Professor of Plastics Engineering and Community Health and Sustainability, and the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Dr. Warner will participate in a roundtable entitled “One World, One Health, One Science, One Education.” Prior to his position at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Dr. Warner worked at the Polaroid Corporation for nine years, and then started the world’s first Green Chemistry Ph.D. program at University of Massachusetts, Boston. Dr. Warner received The 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from President Bush. His recent patents in semiconductor design, biodegradable plastics and personal care products are examples of how green chemistry principles can be incorporated into commercially relevant applications. Dr. Warner is co-author of the book Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice and serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington DC.
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Diane W. Wood is President of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF), a nonprofit committed to providing objective environmental information to help Americans live better everyday. Diane Wood has over 25 years experience dedicated to conservation and environmental education both nationally and internationally. She worked at the World Wildlife Fund for 15 years as Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, where she developed and managed an $18 million conservation program, and as Vice President for Research and Development, where Ms. Wood established WWF’s Center for Conservation Innovation. Before joining NEETF, Diane Wood was the Executive Director of the Center for a New American Dream. Ms. Wood’s experience in environmental education spans the formal and non-formal education sectors and includes K-12 curriculum development, nature interpretation, conservation education, sustainability education and natural resources extension. As a Peace Corp Volunteer she developed environmental education programs for Paraguay. Ms. Wood co-authored the Peace Corps manual “Developing Conservation Education Programs in Developing Countries.” Ms. Wood has been a consultant to the US Department of Agriculture, US Peace Corps and US Agency for International Development, and has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the President’s Enterprise of the Americas board for ten years. Ms. Wood has a Masters in Science and Environmental Education from Cornell University. |
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