Ebola in Dallas: Important names to know in the battle

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Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins is leading the county's response to the Ebola crisis.

Bill Hethcock

Staff Writer- Dallas Business Journal

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News that a nurse who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for the virus added a name to a lengthening cast of people in the unfolding story about the disease and its impact on Dallas. Here’s who’s who to help you keep track:
• Thomas Eric Duncan — Liberian national who flew to Dallas days after apparently contracting Ebola. He was the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S.
• Nina Pham — A nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas who reported a low-grade fever after treating Duncan and is believed to be the first known transmission of Ebola in the United States. She was considered to be at low risk for contracting the disease, but was one of 18 hospital staff members who were told to check their temperatures twice daily.
• Thomas Frieden — Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
• Rick Perry — Texas governor, who has overseen the state's response to Duncan's case.
• David Lakey — Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
• Clay Jenkins — Dallas County judge.
• Zach Thompson — Director of Dallas County Health & Human Services, who has overseen the county’s response to Ebola.
• Mike Rawlings — Mayor of Dallas.
• Barclay E. Berdan — CEO of Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served.
• Jim Berg — Interim president and chief operating officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
• Cole Edmonson — Chief nursing officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
• Dr. Aurora Estevez — Chief medical officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
• Dr. Dan Varga — Chief clinical officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
• Louise Troh — Fiancee of Duncan and the renter of the apartment in which Duncan stayed while he was showing Ebola symptoms and contagious.
• Sgt. Michael Monnig — Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who thought he might have Ebola and was taken by ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He later tested negative.
• Dr. Kent Brantly — Fort Worth doctor who contracted Ebola while working as medical director for Samaritan's Purse Ebola Care Center in Monrovia, Liberia. He was the first patient to be brought home to the United States and the first treated with the experimental drug ZMapp.

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