Penny J. Hitchcock, DVM, MS, Tauri Group

Dr. Hitchcock is Chief Scientist in the BioWatch Program at the ChemBio Early Detection Systems Program Office. In addition, she is Science Advisor for the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center. She has advanced training ininfectious diseases, public health, reproductive health, environmental toxicology, and pathology.

Dr. Hitchcock’s research and policy interests focus on reducing the risk and impact of infectious diseases outbreaks of public health significance, particularly acts of bioterrorism, by limiting the morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs.

Prior to re‐joining the BioWatch Team as a staff member of the Tauri Group in 2008, she was a Senior Associate at Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2004 to2008. There she worked on biosecurity policies in global disease surveillance, indoor air quality, drinking water systems, and seasonal and pandemic influenza preparedness. From 2001 to 2004 she was a technical staff member and group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a research focus and management responsibilities in the areas of forensics, biosurveillance, consequence management of the BioWatch early detection system, and the biosecurity of drinking water. She led the Los Alamos team that drafted the Federal BioWatch Guidance Documents in 2004. From 1991−2001 she served as Chief of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In June 2001, Dr. Hitchcock was given the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s Achievement Award for her leadership and advocacy for STD research and for STD prevention and control programs.

Dr. Hitchcock served as Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee’s School of Medicine after beginning her scientific career at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories, where she worked on the molecular pathogenesis of sexually transmitted bacterial infections.

She received an MS and a DVM from Washington State University.

Keynote Speakers

Col. Randall Larsen (Ret. USAF), Former Executive Director of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

Dr. Jeffrey Runge, Former Chief Medical Officer, DHS

Robert Hooks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for WMD and Biodefense, Office of Health Affairs

Guest Speakers

Tina Gabbrielli, Director of the Office of Risk Management and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Peter Jutro, Deputy Director for Science and Policy, National Homeland Security Research Center, EPA

Daniel Marc Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP, Acting Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, CDC

Pietro D. Marghella, Former Director of Medical Contingency Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Joanne Cox, Deputy Chief, Emergency Risk Communication Branch, CDC

Dr. Brian Flynn, Former Assistant Surgeon General, US Public Health Service

Gerald W. Parker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dave Gruber, Deputy Commissioner of Health (Preparedness and Response), State of New Jersey

Michael J. Fischer, Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Maryland Department of Transportation

John H. Bridges III, Former Incident Commander for Anthrax Response and Mitigation, US Postal Service, 2001 to 2004

Glen D. Gilmore, Responded to anthrax attack as Former Mayor of Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Gary Cecchine, Ph.D., Biology/Public Policy, Natural Scientist, RAND

Jeff Robertson, Former Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Dr. William J. Parker III, Biodefense and Critical Infrastructure Expert

Thomas R. Austin, Ph.D., Manager CBRNE Countermeasures Programs, The Boeing Company

C. Randal Mullett, Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs for Con-way Inc.

Michael Luke, Command Agreements Manager, Mortuary Affairs Officer, Logistics Planning,NORAD-USNORTHCOM

Margaret Jo Velardo, PhD, Director of Research, Homeland Security Institute

Dr. David McWhorter, Principal, Catalyst Partners, LLC

Jennifer Nuzzo, Associate, UPMC Center for Bio-Security

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

Dr. Thomas K. Zink, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Biosecurity, Saint Louis University

Dr. Joseph Tricarico, Jr., Esq., Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

Richard Cooper, Chairman, Homeland Security Division, National Defense Industrial Association

Anthony S. Mangeri, MPA, CPM, Assistant Professor School of Public Safety & Health American Military University

M. Allen Northrup, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Microfluidic Systems

Tim Tinker, MPH, DrPH, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

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