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U.S. Medicine Institute For Health Studies with DoD/GEIS & The Annapolis Center

Present an interactive forum for invited policy makers in government and industry

Disease Surveillance, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security

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December 4, 2001
J.W. Marriott Hotel, Salon II
1331 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C
Moderator: Stephen C. Joseph, MD, USMI Senior Scholar,
former Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), former New York City Commissioner of Health
Remarks: Charles S. Abell, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)

8:30 - 10:15 AM DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND BIOTERRORISM

Panelists:

• Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, VP for Biological Programs, The NT Initiative; former Asst. Secretary of Health, Dept. of HHS; former New York City Commissioner of Health
• Scott Lillibridge, MD, Special Assistant to the Secretary for National Security, Dept. of HHS
• Joxel Garcia, MD, MBA, Commissioner, State of Connecticut Department of Public Health
• Col. Patrick Kelley, MC, USA, Director, DoD/GEIS (Global Emerging Infections Surveillance System)

10:15 - 10:45 AM Break

10:45 - 12:00 Noon EXPECTATIONS AND OBSTACLES IN SURVEILLANCE

Panelists:

• Lawrence Gostin, JD, Professor of Law, Georgetown University, & Law and Ethics Editor, JAMA
• Julian Orenstein, MD, Attending ER physician, Fairfax INOVA Hospital
• Latanya Sweeney, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
• BG Walter Busbee, USA Ret., Counterproliferation Business Area Executive, Johns Hopkins, APL
• Dianne Murphy, MD, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA

12:00 - 1:00 PM Buffet Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 PM SURVEILLANCE FACT AND FUTURE: WHAT'S OUT THERE?

Panelists:

• John Loonsk, MD, Associate Director for Informatics, CDC
• Richard Hopkins, MD, MSPH, SAIC Corp., former State Epidemiologist, Florida Department of Health
• George Anderson, MajGen, MC, USAF Ret., USMI Sr. Fellow, past President, American College of Preventive Medicine
• Michael M. Wagner, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof of Medicine and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 - 3:00 PM REVIEW AND SUMMARY

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