BioDefense 2010 Conference Agenda

7:30-8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast, sponsored by Homeland Security Outlook

8:30-8:40 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks by Sareth Neak, CEO, Homeland Security Outlook and Dr. Paula Smith, Director, Catastrophic Planning Management Institute

8:40-9:20 am

Keynote Speaker: Col. Randall Larsen (Ret. USAF), Former Executive Director of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, “WMD Commission Report Card and Update”

9:20-9:50 am

Jeffrey W. Runge, MD, FACEP, Former Chief Medical Officer, DHS, “Who’s in Charge? Creating a National Plan”

9:50-10:20 am

Networking Break

10:20-10:50 am

Margaret Jo Velardo, PhD, Director of Research, Homeland Security Institute, “A Systems Thinking Approach to an Integrated Biodefense Enterprise”

10:50-11:50 am

Panel: Military Civil Support

• Moderator: Anthony S. Mangeri, MPA, CPM, Manager, Fire & Emergency Service Outreach, American Military University
• Gary Cecchine, Ph.D., Biology/Public Policy, Natural Scientist, RAND
• Dr. William J. Parker III, Biodefense and Critical Infrastructure Expert, “Infrastructure Vulnerability on a National Level”

11:50-1:00 pm

Keynote Lunch, Robert R. Hooks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for WMD and Biodefense , Office of Health Affairs, DHS

1:00-2:00 pm

 Panel:Technological Innovations in BioDefense

• Moderator: Richard Cooper, Chairman, Homeland Security Division, National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
• Dr. David McWhorter, Principal, Catalyst Partners, "Practice Lead for Homeland Security Technology Assessments, Catalyst Partners"
• Thomas R. Austin, Ph.D., Manager CBRNE Countermeasures Programs, The Boeing Company
• M. Allen Northrup, Ph.D., President & CEO, Microfluidic Systems Inc.

2:00-3:30 pm

Panel: Situational Awareness

• Daniel Marc Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP, Acting Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, CDC
• John H. Bridges III, former Incident Commander for Anthrax Response and Mitigation, US Postal Service, 2001 to 2004
• Jennifer Nuzzo, Associate, UPMC Center for Bio-Security
• Michael J. Fischer, Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Maryland Department of Transportation
• Tina Gabbrielli, Director of the Office of Risk Management and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:30-3:45 pm

Networking Break

3:45-4:45 pm

Panel: Communications and Behavior

• Moderator: Jeff Robertson, Former Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• Tim Tinker, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Dr. Brian Flynn, Former Assistant Surgeon General, US Public Health Service “Integrating Psychosocial Factors in Effective Crisis Communication for Biological Incidents”
• Joanne Cox, Deputy Chief, Emergency Risk Communication Branch, CDC

4:45-5:45 pm

Networking Reception, sponsored by TBD

7:30-8:00 am

Continental Breakfast, sponsored by Homeland Security Outlook

8:00-8:30 am

Keynote Speaker: Congressional Representative TBA

8:30-9:00 am

Pietro D. Marghella, CEM, FACCP, Former Director of Medical Contingency Operations, OSD, “We Have to Get it Right – Planning for Catastrophic Events”

9:00-9:30 am

Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH, Senior Principal Researcher, Paul O'Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis, RAND Corporation, “Surge Capacity”

9:30-10:00 am

Michael Luke, DAFC, Command Agreements Manager, Mortuary Affairs Officer, Logistics Planning,NORAD-USNORTHCOM “Mass Fatalities Management”

10:15-10:30 am

Networking Break

10:30-11:00 am

Dave Gruber, Deputy Commissioner of Health (Preparedness and Response), State of New Jersey, “State Government Response: Network-Centric Health Care Response Initiative”

11:30-12:30 pm

Group Lunch, sponsored by Homeland Security Outlook

12:30-1:45 pm

Panel: Medical Countermeasures: Stockpiling, Distribution and Preparedness

• Moderator: Pietro D. Marghella, CEM, FACCP,Former Director of Medical Contingency Operations, OSD
• Daniel Marc Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP, Acting Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, CDC
• Col. Gerald Parker (Ret. USA), Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency, DHHS
• Thomas K. Zink, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Biosecurity, Saint Louis University, “Project EQUIPP: Equal Immunization Policies and Practices”

1:45-2:15 pm

Dr. Joseph Tricarico, Jr., Esq., "Legal Preparedness: A Necessity Too Often Neglected"

2:15-2:45 pm

C. Randal Mullett, Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs for Con-way Inc.,  “Anticipated Bio-Terrorism Affects on the Transportation System / Case Study of Pandemic Flu Planning and Implementation”

2:45-3:15 pm

Penny J. Hitchcock, D.V.M., M.S., Chief Scientist, Chemical and Biological Early Detection (BioWatch), Systems Program Office, Tauri Group, “Detection of Biological Agents”

3:15-3:30 pm

Networking Break

3:30-4:00 pm

Dr. Peter R. Jutro, Deputy Director for Science and Policy, National Homeland Security Research Center, EPA, “Decontamination Science”

4:00-4:30 pm

Glen D. Gilmore, Former Mayor of Hamilton Township, New Jersey, “Leadership in an Anthrax Attack”

4:30-4:45 pm

Closing Remarks by Dr. Paula Smith, Director, Catastrophic Planning Management Institute, and Adjournment