Biographies

Veteran Political and Public Health Leaders
Medical, Public Health, and Disaster Experts
Community Leaders and Special Population Advocates
News Media, Public Affairs, and Risk Communications Experts

  
Medical, Public Health, and Disaster Experts

Kenneth D. Bloem, MPH, Health Management & Policy Consultant; former top executive at Georgetown, Stanford, Chicago, & Boston University Medical Centers; former CEO, Advisory Board Company

Brian W. Flynn, EdD, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress & Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University; former Rear Admiral/Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service

Thomas V. Inglesby, MD, COO & Deputy Director, UPMC Center for Biosecurity; former Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Civilian Biodefense Center; Infectious Disease Clinician, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Linda Morris, BSN, RN, Director, Community Health & Youth, Greater Kansas City American Red Cross (GKC-ARC); former Community Health Nurse Manager, GKC-ARC

Ann E. Norwood, MD, COL MC, USA, Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University

Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, Chair; Senior Fellow, UPMC Center for Biosecurity; Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; former Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Civilian Biodefense Center

Kathleen Tierney, PhD, Director, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center; Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Kenneth D. Bloem
Mr. Bloem has served in leadership positions at four of the nation's leading academic medical centers. He served as CEO of Georgetown University Medical Center, which included the medical school, nursing school, teaching hospital, and faculty group practice; CEO of Stanford University Hospital; Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics; and Associate Vice President for Health Affairs at Boston University. In the corporate health sector, Mr. Bloem served as CEO of the Advisory Board Company, a for-profit strategy and research membership company that served more than 2,000 of the world's leading service 3 organizations and fortune 1,000 companies. Mr. Bloem is currently a board member of a number of medium- and early-stage health companies.

Brian W. Flynn, EdD
Dr. Flynn is a consultant, writer, trainer, and speaker who specializes in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the psychosocial aspects of large-scale emergencies and disasters. Dr. Flynn also serves as an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Flynn has served in an advisory capacity during several notable incidents, including the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11. Dr. Flynn left federal service in 2002 as a Rear Admiral/Assistant Surgeon General in the United States 4 Public Health Service, where he directly operated or supervised operation of the federal government's domestic disaster mental health program (including terrorism).

Thomas V. Inglesby, MD
Dr. Inglesby is the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In 1998, he was one of the founding members of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies. In addition to overseeing programs underway at the Center for Biosecurity, Dr. Inglesby has published numerous articles relating to the medical and public health management of biological weapons, serves as Coeditor-in-Chief of the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, and is a special editor of the section "Confronting Biological Weapons" for 5 the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. A board-certified internist and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Inglesby is a member of the medical staff at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Linda Morris, BSN, RN
Ms. Morris is Director, Community Health and Youth, American Red Cross, Greater Kansas City Chapter. She is charged with oversight of Community Health and Youth programs and activities, supervising program managers and volunteers, managing the Home Care: Skills for the Family Caregiver program, providing technical guidance for disaster preparedness and community health promotion, and serving on community 7 health and disaster committees. Prior to her appointment as director, Ms. Morris worked as a community health nurse manager for the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Red Cross, during which time she managed community health programs, including influenza vaccination, HIV/AIDS education, and community health screening. She began her career as a staff/charge nurse, providing primary hemodialysis patient care and routine charge nurse coverage.

Colonel Ann E. Norwood, MD
Dr. Norwood is Senior Advisor for Public Health Risk Communication, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services. She is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Chair for the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Services in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Norwood is the current Chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster. Her professional expertise is in the realm of the psychological aspects of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and she has addressed the audiences of numerous esteemed organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Neurology. Prior to her tenure at the university, Dr. Norwood was the Chief of Psychiatry at Darnall Army Community Hospital at Fort Hood, Texas.

Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, Committee Chair
Dr. Schoch-Spana is a medical anthropologist and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In 1998, she was one of the founding members of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies. Dr. Schoch-Spana has led research, education, and advocacy efforts to encourage greater consideration by authorities of the general public's capacity to confront biological attacks constructively—a realm she has termed "the people's role in biodefense." Dr. Schoch- Spana organized the 2003 national leadership summit, The Public as an Asset, Not a Problem, and she currently chairs the Working Group on 'Governance Dilemmas' in Bioterrorism Response. Dr. Schoch-Spana is Principal Investigator for a national study of public communication experiences during the anthrax attacks and has served as a technical advisor to the Ad Council's national campaign on emergency preparedness, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the Sloan Foundation.

Kathleen Tierney, PhD
Dr. Tierney is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to moving to the University of Colorado, Dr. Tierney was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. She has more than 25 years of experience in the disaster field and has studied many disaster events, including major earthquakes in California and Japan, floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes Hugo and Andrew. Since September 11, she has been directing a study on the organizational and community response in New York following the attacks on the World Trade Center. Dr. Tierney is a member of a multi-university team that is conducting research on how advanced information technology can be used to improve the ability of local governments to respond to major disaster events, including those resulting from terrorist attacks.

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