Rob Housman
Rob Housman is a partner with Book Hill Partners, a government relations, public affairs, business strategies firm headquartered in Washington, DC. He served as Assistant Director for Strategic Planning in the White House Drug Czar's office during the Clinton Administration. He also served as Executive Director of the Cyber Secure Institute, a research and advocacy organization dedicated to driving advances in cyber security. Rob is an adjunct professor of Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism at the University of Maryland, University College. He previously taught National Security for Syracuse University's top-rated Maxwell School and international law for the American University Law School. He is a co-author of the Homeland Security Law Handbook (Government Institutes Press).
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Keynote Speakers
Colonel Randall J. Larsen, USAF (Ret), became the executive director of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism in April 2009. The commission, led by former Senators Bob Graham (D-FL) and Jim Talent (R-MO), issued its final report in January 2010. Senators, Graham, Talent and Col Larsen recently formed the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center.
New! Jeffrey W. Runge, MD, FACEP, Former Chief Medical Officer, DHS
Dr. Runge has decades of clinical, research, leadership and administrative experience. In addition to seven years as the head of two government agencies with as many as 1000 employees and contractors under his direction, he brings nearly 30 years of experience as an emergency medicine physician. Until 2001 he practiced and taught in North Carolina’s busiest emergency department and trauma center, while performing research in injury prevention, trauma care, and emergency service delivery.
Speakers
Margaret "Jo" Velardo, PhD, Fellow, HSOA Directorate. Homeland Security Institute.
Thomas Cunningham, NAHERC Coordinator for USDA
Thomas V. Inglesby, MD, CEO and Director, UPMC Center for Bio-Security
Jeff Robertson, Risk and Crisis Communications Specialist, Former Assistant Commissioner of CBP for Public Affairs
Dr. Paula Smith, Director, CPMI
Douglas Kinney, CPMI
Maryellen Maymarian, Attorney
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