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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