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Executive Profile

Ambitious public health and research professional who creates strategic alliances with partner organization leaders to effectively align with and support key mission objectives. Develops and motivates skilled, high performance teams with a "can do" team spirit. History of large portfolio management of global health engagements, population-based epidemiology, infectious disease surveillance, capacity building, and research. Prolific peer-reviewed publisher.

Skill Highlights
  • Leadership/communication skills
  • Large portfolio management skills
  • Customer-oriented
  • Diplomatic
  • Self-motivated and hard working
  • Team-builder
Core Accomplishments
  • Built large customer-oriented teams in health surveillance, global biosurveillance, respiratory disease surveillance, and arbovirology
  • Principal Investigator on many studies, including a Phase 2/3 FDA randomized clinical trial of the oral adenovirus vaccine, successfully re-acquiring this vaccine for the health of military recruits
  • Established Steering Committees, charters, and sustainment agreements for $50M annual GEIS program with 8 laboratories throughout the world
  • Close ties and working relationships with the WHO, CDC, HHS, DHS, USAIR, and many other US interagencies.
  • Talented teacher and mentor
  • On-site reviews of DoD infectious disease surveillance in Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, Cambodia, Ghana, Thailand, Republic of Georgia, Peru
Professional Experience
Director 06/2011 to Current Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Silver Spring, MD
  • Annual budget of $75M: responsible for all aspects of implementation
  • Responsible for local team of 85 military and contract staff; internationally, network supports in excess of 2,000 individuals
  • Tasked as lead for the Global Health Security Agenda for the Military Health System by Dr. Woodson, ASD(HA)
  • Responsible for the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System and portfolio of initiatives in over 60 countries
  • Implements the Defense Medical Surveillance System: A database containing over 2.5 billion records, creating more than 1,200 annual analytic reports for the Department of Defense
  • Responsible for the DoD Serum Repository, containing over 55.5 million serial serum samples on over 10 million active duty and reserve military service members; repository used for 30-50 research studies annually
  • Established a “Division of Integrated Biosurveillance” to address growing biosurveillance priorities in the DoD and USG with production of many Event-Based products
Director 06/2008 to 05/2011 Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response Silver Spring, MD
  • Annual budget of $50M: responsible for all aspects of implementation
  • Orchestrated a global emerging infections network of surveillance, capacity building, training, and research involving 50-70 countries in any given year
  • Implemented a “sustainment” funding process with the DoD overseas labs
  • Considered in excess of 300 proposals each year for GEIS surveillance or capacity building projects
Deputy Director 06/2001 to 05/2008 Naval Health Research Center San Diego, CA
  • Responsible for team of 50+ military and contract staff
  • Conducted respiratory disease surveillance at 8 military recruit training centers
  • Established and conducted shipboard respiratory illness surveillance on large-platform US ships
  • Established collaboration with CDC “BIDS” (Border Infectious Disease Surveillance) program for febrile respiratory illness surveillance along the US-Mexico border
  • Conducted numerous outbreak investigations of respiratory or skin infection origin in military populations
Head, Department of Virology 09/1997 to 05/2001 Naval Medical Research Center Detachment Lima, Peru
  • Conducted surveillance and research studies in 8 countries of South America
  • Surveillance and research topics included: HIV seroprevalence; HLTV-1 seroprevalence; 4-country protocol for acute febrile illness surveillance (battery of arboviral infections); febrile respiratory illness surveillance (contributed to northern hemisphere influenza vaccine composition); capacity building projects in engaged countries
  • Worked with Ministries of Health, Ministries of Defense, Epidemiologic groups, Academic institutions, and Laboratory assets of all engaged countries
Research Medical Officer 06/1992 to 07/1995 Navy Experimental Diving Unit Panama City, FL
  • Navy Diver and Physician treating diving illnesses with hyperbaric
  • Developed and conducted numerous human use protocols for the Navy diving community
Education
Preventive Medicine Residency 1996 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda , MD
M.T.M.&H.: Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1995 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD
M.D.: Medicine 1990 University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, MD
Publications

Over 100 Peer-Reviewed publications on topics of HIV, arboviruses, respiratory pathogens and surveillance, influenza, global surveillance, capacity building and 2 chapters "Respiratory Infections in Military Recruits" (2006) and "Contributions of Military Public Health Surveillance to Global Public Health" (In Production).

Skills

Public Health; health surveillance; global capacity building; research design; portfolio management; infectious disease surveillance

Additional Information
  • MEDICAL LICENSURE Board of Medical Examiners, State of Arizona. State license # 20269; DEA # BR9392983; BOARD CERTIFICATION ACPM 22 January 1999; recertified January 2009
  • HONORS AND AWARDS Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA); Wilkerson Award for Research Excellence, 2006 and 2008; numerous personal Military awards available upon request
Professional Affiliations

Infectious Disease Society of America (FELLOW: FIDSA); Institutes of Medicine Forum of Microbial Threats (2008-present); The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) Steering Committee Member; DoD Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program (2010-Present)

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center
  • Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response
  • Naval Health Research Center
  • Naval Medical Research Center Detachment
  • Navy Experimental Diving Unit

School Attended

  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • University of Texas Health Science Center

Job Titles Held:

  • Director
  • Deputy Director
  • Head, Department of Virology
  • Research Medical Officer

Degrees

  • Preventive Medicine Residency 1996
    M.T.M.&H. : Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1995
    M.D. : Medicine 1990

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