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Appendix 1: Project Steering Committee Members

As noted in Section 1, development of the Mass Evacuation Transportation Model was one task in a larger project to support development of a national strategy for the design, development, and implementation of an interagency mass patient and evacuee movement, regulating and tracking system. A project steering committee was convened to inform this project. The meetings focused on both of the overall goals of the project—that is, development the model and development of recommendations for a National Mass Patient and Evacuee Movement, Regulating, and Tracking System.

The persons listed below attended at least one of the three day-long meetings held on December 1, 2005, April 12, 2006, and October 27, 2006.

Name Association
Sally Phillips
(Project Officer)
Director, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Research Program
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
F. Christy Music Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
U.S. Department of Defense
Knox Andress Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System
Brad Austin Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Janet Benini Senior Advisor, Intelligence Security and Emergency Response
U.S. Department of Transportation
Kathryn Brinsfield Associate Medical Director
Boston Emergency Medical Services
Stephen Cantrill Department of Emergency Medicine
Denver Health Medical Center
Michael Feeser Office of Policy, Plans and Preparedness
Department of Veterans Affairs
Edward Gabriel Director of Crisis Management
Walt Disney Corporation
Derek Goldstein Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dan Hanfling Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine
Inova Health System
Scott Henderson Manager, Web and Applications Development
Northrop Grumman Force Health Protection
Nathaniel Hupert Department of Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Ann Knebel Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Harry Koerner Operations Support Center Manager
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Bill Kormos Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Force Health Protection & Readiness
Department of Defense
James Lawler Director for Biodefense Policy
Homeland Security Council
Deborah Levy Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Teresa Lustig Science and Technology Directorate
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Leonard Marcus National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Harvard School of Public Health
Michael Meit Department of Health Policy " Evaluation
NORC at the University of Chicago
Vincent Mercadante Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency Response
U.S. Department of Transportation
David Persse Department of Health and Human Services
City of Houston
Mark Roupas Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
Department of Defense
Bill Savage Research Computing Division
RTI International
James Sims Emergency Preparedness Department
City of Los Angeles
Arlene Stephenson Springfield Hospital Center
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Jennifer Todd Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Scott Wetterhall Health Security & Systems Research
RTI International

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