Peter R. Jutro, Ph.D., Deputy Director for Science and Policy, National Homeland Security Research Center, EPA

Dr. Jutro is Deputy Director for Science and Policy of EPA’s National Homeland Security Research Center, the group responsible for research needed to provide the science and technology for EPA’s homeland security mandates. These fall primarily in the areas of CBRN decontamination, water protection, and risk assessment. From 1995 - 2005, while an active research scientist, he also served as Counselor for Environment and Security to seven EPA Administrators and Acting Administrators. He is a member of several science advisory and intergovernmental groups, and currently serves as Chair of the intergovernmental Civil Applications Committee which oversees federal policy for the civilian scientific and technical use of classified remotely sensed data. He was founding Director of the EPA Global Change Research Program, and a founding member of the US Global Change Research Program. He has been involved in risk-based scientific issues for more than 30 years.

Dr. Jutro received his PhD from Cornell University, for research on the geography of infectious disease and natural pharmaceuticals, chemical ecology, and conservation, and then joined the faculty. In 1996, he was elected as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a U.S. Congressional Science and Environment Fellow, and subsequently served on the professional staff of the House Committee on Public Works, now the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. While there, he specialized in disaster, health, and environmental issues, and was most closely involved in the writing of the Clean Water Act. Dr. Jutro works on a number of international environmental issues, and from 1988 -1992, was a U.S. negotiator for the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Biological Diversity. Outside federal service, he served from 1996-2002 on the Board of Directors of the Center for Native Lands, a non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization that helped indigenous peoples in various parts of the world protect their cultural and biological heritage.

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

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

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

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

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 Parners, 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 (NDIA)

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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