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Thomas V. Inglesby, MD
Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
Senior Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Professional Biography

Dr. Inglesby is Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director of the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC and Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He is an infectious diseases physician by training.

Dr. Inglesby is Coeditor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. He has authored a number of widely cited publications on anthrax, smallpox, plague, and on a range of biosecurity issues including medicine and hospital preparedness, scientific research strategy, pandemic response, and national security. He is a principal editor of the JAMA book entitled Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management.

Dr. Inglesby was a principal designer, author, and controller of the widely recognized Atlantic Storm exercise of 2005 and of the Dark Winter smallpox exercise of 2001.

He has served in advisory and consultative capacities for government, scientific organizations, and academia on issues related to biosecurity—providing briefings for officials in the Administration, Congressional members and staff; serving on committees of the Defense Science Board and the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences; and serving in advisory capacities to CDC, NIH, HHS, DHS, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).  

Prior to the establishment of the Center for Biosecurity in 2003, Dr. Inglesby was one of the founding members of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, where he served as Deputy Director from 2001 to 2003. He was also a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1999 to 2003.

Dr. Inglesby is board certified in Infectious Diseases. He received a BA from Georgetown University and an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as Assistant Chief of Service in the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine in 1996–1997.