CIDER Summit 2010
"Advances in the Control and
Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
June 24 - 25, 2010
Doubletree Hotel Santa Ana/Orange County Airport
Santa Ana, CA
Speaker Biographies
Speaker Name: Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH
Job Title: Principal Investigator & Executive Director
Company: UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness
Email Address: aragon@berkeley.edu
Telephone: (510) 643-4935
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Workshop # 1- Public Health & Emergency Project Management
Dr. Aragón is Principal Investigator & Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness (CIDER) --- a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) and a CDC Preparedness & Emergency Response Research Center (PERRC). Before CIDER, he was Deputy County Health Officer at the San Francisco Department of Public Health for 8 years. He directed communicable disease control, bioterrorism preparedness, and community health epidemiology. At UC Berkeley CIDER, programmatic areas include infectious disease emergency readiness, emergency management sciences, epidemiology preparedness and informatics, and preparedness and emergency response research. He teaches courses in infectious disease epidemiology and control, outbreak investigations, public health preparedness and emergency response, and applied epidemiology using R. He is developer and maintainer of 'epitools' --- an R package for epidemiologic computing and graphics. His formal training was in primary care internal medicine (UCSF), clinical infectious diseases (UCSF), and epidemiology (DrPH, UC Berkeley). He maintains a medical epidemiology resource website at www.medepi.com.
Speaker Name: Michael Ascher, M.D., FACP
Job Title: Senior Medical Advisor
Company: California Emergency Management Agency
Email Address: michael.ascher@calema.ca.gov
Telephone: (925) 285-6078
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: BioPortal for Laboratory Situational Awareness
Dr. Ascher, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools, trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease and Immunology at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. He has thirty years of experience in a variety of environments; basic and clinical research on biothreat diseases in the Army, research and practice in infectious disease/academic medicine at UC Irvine, laboratory and epidemiologic practice and research at the State of California public health laboratory. From 2001 to 2003, he served as laboratory consultant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington and subsequently at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. From 2003-2007, he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on host response biomarkers of infection. In October 2007, he retired from LLNL and now works part-time at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine on the BioPortal information-sharing infrastructure focused on global foot and mouth disease surveillance. He served on the NRC committee on Biological Threats to Agricultural Plants and Animals. He also serves as the Senior Medical Advisor to the State of California Emergency Management Agency. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and has over 100 publications.
Speaker Name: Roger Baxter, MD, FACP
Job Title: Co-Director
Company: Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center
Email Address: roger.baxter@kp.org
Telephone: (510) 267-7529
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Pandemic Influenza - Vaccine Effectivenes
Roger Baxter is currently the co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, a research group in Oakland, California. The Vaccine Study Center does vaccine research in collaboration with industry, NIH, and the CDC, and is the only organization represented in both the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) and Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) projects in the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office. The Vaccine Study Center utilizes the population of the Kaiser Permanente medical care organization, with a membership of almost 3.3 million. Dr. Baxter is also an internist and practicing Infectious Diseases specialist with The Permanente Medical Group in Oakland California. His current interests and expertise include Influenza vaccine effectiveness, Guillain-Barré syndrome as a vaccine-related event, vaccine hesitancy, and new methodologies for observational studies of vaccine safety.
Speaker Name: Megan Coffee, MD, PhD
Job Title: Infectious Disease Fellow
Company: UC San Francisco & UC Berkeley CIDER
Email Address: megan.coffee@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (510) 642-9343
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Post-Disaster Infectious Diseases--Field Report from Haiti Earthquake
Megan Coffee is working on mathematical models of influenza and HIV. She is interested in creating computer simulations of pandemic influenza interventions, particularly vaccination in pregnancy. She is also working on assessing the potential impact of increased HIV treatment, especially in primary infection, on disease spread. She received her BA in chemistry from Harvard University. She was initially interested in pharmaceutical design for infectious disease, but became fascinated by the underlying dynamics of infectious disease spread. She, then, moved to England to study mathematical modeling of infectious disease at Oxford University. There, she trained with Geoff Garnett, now at Imperial University, on models of HIV epidemic spread in southern Africa. This work focused on the role migration and other STDs played in the burgeoning epidemics in South Africa and Zimbabwe. She received her DPhil (PhD) from Oxford and then, returned to Harvard, completing her MD in 2005. She subsequently completed her medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has now completed her clinical year of infectious disease fellowship and is working as a research fellow.
Speaker Name: Adam Crawley, MPH (c)
Job Title: Research Associate
Company: UC Berkeley CIDER
Email Address: adam.w.crawley@gmail.com
Telephone: (510) 642-9875
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Workshop # 3 - Unveiling of the APC IDER & PIVI Toolkits
Adam Crawley is a graduate student researcher at CIDER. He is currently working in coordination with the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Advanced Practice Center (APC) on the Pandemic Influenza Vaccination Implementation (PIVI) toolkit. Adam received his B.A. from the University of Rhode Island and is currently pursuing his MPH in Infectious Disease & Vaccinology at UC Berkeley. Before joining CIDER, Adam worked in the Center for Emergency Preparedness & Response at the Rhode Island Department of Health as a pandemic influenza emergency planner, where he took part in the department's emergency response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Adam's primary interests are in infectious disease epidemiology and infectious disease preparedness.
Speaker Name: Mary desVignes-Kendrick, MD, MPH, FAAP
Job Title: Research Scientist
Company: National Center for Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Email Address: mdkendrick@srph.tamhsc.edu
Telephone: (713) 677-7430
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Conducting Infectious Disease Surveillance in Post-Disaster Shelters
Dr. Mary desVignes-Kendrick joined the faculty of Texas A&M University, School of Rural Public Health in 2007 and serves as Research Scientist with the National Center for Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response. Prior to joining the Texas A&M faculty, she served as Deputy Director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness, and Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. Prior to this position, Dr. desVignes-Kendrick was the health authority and Director of the City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services, a position she held for twelve years.
Dr. desVignes-Kendrick completed her undergraduate degree with majors in Biology and Spanish at New York University, her medical degree at Meharry Medical College, pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and Master of Public Health degree at the University Of Texas School Of Public Health in Houston. Dr. desVignes-Kendrick is board certified in pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is actively involved in public health issues at the local, state and national level.
Speaker Name: Douglas Frye, MD, MPH, FACPM
Job Title: Director, HIV Epidemiology Program
Company: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Email Address: dfrye@ph.lacounty.gov
Telephone: (213) 351-8190
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Update on HIV
Douglas Frye, MD, MPH has served as Director of the HIV Epidemiology Program, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, since April 2006. In this capacity, he directs a county program of some 60 personnel and manages ten state and federal grants with a budget of $6 million. Since 2002, Dr. Frye has served as the Medical Director and Surveillance Coordinator for the HIV Epidemiology Program. His duties as HIV surveillance Coordinator included overseeing the reporting of HIV and AIDS for LA County, with the second largest HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality among all local jurisdictions in the nation. Research study topics include HIV risk factors among transgendered women, methamphetamine use among persons living with AIDS, mortality from AIDS among race/ethnicities, validation of American Indian race among HIV/AIDS surveillance cases and Factors Associated with Late HIV Testing for Latino Diagnosed with AIDS in Los Angeles County.
Since 2004, Frye has been an active member of the HIV Subcommittee of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), having served as workgroup vice-chair from 2004-2006.
Prior to his tenure at the HIV Epidemiology Program, DR. Frye directed the Food and Water Safety Unit for Los Angeles County’s Acute Communicable Disease Control from August 2000 to March 2002. As such, he oversaw the surveillance for, and outbreak investigations of, food borne and waterborne diseases among LA County’s ten million residents.
Speaker Name: Debra Gilliss, MD, MPH
Job Title: Chief, Disease Investigations Section, Infectious Diseases Branch
Company: California Department of Public Health
Email Address: Debra.Gillis@cdph.ca.gov
Telephone: (510) 620-3434
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Going Rogue
Dr. Debra Gilliss is the Chief of the Disease investigations Section in the Infectious Diseases Branch in the California Department of Public Health. She attended the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and was a Preventive Medicine Resident with the California Department of Public Health assigned to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She has been with the California Department of Public Health since 1995 and has participated in the response to the SARS and H1N1 outbreaks as well as foodborne, waterborne and environmental outbreak investigations.
Speaker Name: Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, MD, MPH
Job Title: Medical Director
Company: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Email Address: jgunzenhauser@ph.lacounty.gov
Telephone: (213) 989-7236
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Consequential Epidemiology
Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser was born in Pennsylvania and completed his undergraduate training at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY. He then matriculated directly into the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Medical School in Bethesda, MD. After graduation, Jeff completed the General Preventive Medicine residency at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and received a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley. During his career as a public health physician in the United States Army, Jeff held a wide variety of assignments, including preventive medicine and public health work at the community level, leading investigations and research related to respiratory disease control, directing a preventive medicine service at a medical center, serving as a program director of a public health residency program, and providing epidemiologic support to Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. In August 2001, he was assigned to the Pentagon and served as the Army Surgeon General's Preventive Medicine staff officer during the Pentagon attacks and Afghan and Iraqi wars, during which time he oversaw Army communicable disease control, immunization, and surveillance programs. Jeff joined Public Health in Los Angeles County in September 2003. He is currently the Medical Director for the Department and leads the Quality Improvement Division.
Speaker Name: Shannon Limjuco, MPH
Job Title: Project Manager
Company: San Francisco Department of Public Health
Email Address: shannon.limjuco@sfdph.org
Telephone: (415) 554-2669
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Workshop # 3 - Unveiling of the APC IDER & PIVI Toolkits
Shannon Limjuco is employed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where she serves as the Program Manager for the San Francisco Bay Area Advanced Practice Center (APC). The San Francisco Bay Area APC serves as a resource for the public health community nationwide by developing and sharing tools and materials that will advance public health preparedness. Prior to her current position, Shannon worked for the New York City Department of Health’s Cardiovascular Disease Prevention unit. Her professional experience also includes time spent as a consultant for a global health communications firm and management of an immunization education program for the American Academy of Pediatrics respectively. Shannon received her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Speaker Name: Wilbert Mason Jr., MD, MPH
Job Title: Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine at USC
Company: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Email Address: wmason@chla.usc.edu
Telephone: (323) 361-2509
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Vaccine Hesitancy: "When Proof Isn't Enough"
Wilbert H. Mason Jr. (M.D., University of California Irvine, 1970; M.P.H. [Epidemiology], University of California Los Angeles, 1995) is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Until recently he was Head of the Division of Infectious Disease but is now Chief Medical Quality Officer at CHLA. His research focus has been in Kawasaki disease and, more recently, the implementation of evidence based medicine through the use of clinical practice guidelines in the hospital setting. He has also been active in the study and promotion of medical safety in pediatrics. He is Immediate Past-President President of Chapter 2, District IX, of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He represents the AAP in the California Immunization Coalition and serves on its Executive Board, Advocacy Committee and Co-Chairs the Emerging Issues Committee.
Speaker Name: Bela T. Matyas, M.D., MPH
Job Title: Chief of the Disease Investigations Section
Company: California Department of Public Health
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Potential Future Directions for Influenza Surveillance
Bela T. Matyas is currently Chief of the Disease Investigations Section of the California Department of Public Health. He previously served for thirteen years as the Medical Director of the Epidemiology Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Prior to that he served for four years as the Medical Director of Disease Control and State Epidemiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDH), after serving for three years as the Chief of Environmental Health Risk Assessment for the RIDH. Dr. Matyas received his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and completed a residency in Occupational Medicine/Preventive Medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he also received a Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology and a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree.
Speaker Name: Norma Martinez-Rubin, MPH, MBA, CHES
Job Title: Public Health Training & Evaluation Specialist
Company: UC Berkeley CIDER
Email Address: nmartinez-rubin@berkeley.edu
Telephone: (510) 643-9312
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Workshop # 3 - Unveiling of the APC IDER & PIVI Toolkits
Norma is the Public Health Training and Evaluation Specialist for the San Francisco Bay Area Advanced Practice Center. She blends formal training in public health and business administration with the experience obtained from a public health career in local health departments, statewide and regional projects, and an independent consultancy in program evaluation. Prior to joining CIDER, her staff responsibilities have included program planning, design, and implementation, contract management, quality improvement, and supervision in county, state, and national projects. She is a former Assistant Director of the University of California’s California-Mexico Health Initiative and of the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. She has coordinated childhood immunization promotion projects for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and managed contracts with community-based organizations. From the late 80s through early 90s, Norma was among the first trainers of HIV antibody test counselors for the County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services where she helped develop the HIV counseling and testing unit. Norma received an M.B.A. from John F. Kennedy University. She earned an M.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health. She is a nationally certified health education specialist and has a certificate in training and human resource development from UC Berkeley Extension. Norma is a member of the City of Pinole’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), a Planning Commissioner with the City of Pinole, a member of the American Evaluation Association, and a former president of the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education (NCSOPHE, 1998).
Speaker Name: Donata Nilsen, MPH, DrPH (c)
Job Title: Research Associate
Company: UC Berkeley CIDER
Email Address: dnilsen@berkeley.edu
Telephone: (510) 643-4922
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Workshop # 2- Public Health Community Emergency Response Training (PH-CERT) Curriculum
Donata Nilsen is a Graduate Student Researcher currently working on a Public Health Module for Community Emergency Response Teams. Prior to this, Donata worked on several tuberculosis projects in conjunction with San Diego State University and as a community educator on bioterrorism and other emergencies for the Council of Community Clinics in San Diego, California.
Prior to her public health track, she worked as a Quality Assurance manager for a biotechnology company in Tustin, CA producing radioisotope labeled monoclonal antibodies for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and other cancers in various stages of clinical trials. Donata received a BS in Biology from the University of California at Irvine, a BS in Microbiology with an emphasis in Medical Technology from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a MPH with an emphasis in Epidemiology from San Diego State University.
Speaker Name: Shannon Oriola, RN, CIC, COHN
Job Title: Department Lead Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology
Company: Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus
Email Address: shannon.oriola@sharp.com
Telephone: (858) 939-3963
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Healthcare Associated Infections
Shannon Oriola, RN, CIC, COHN is the department lead for Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology at the Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus in San Diego, California. She currently serves as APIC Board of Director and liaison to the APIC Public Policy Committee. She also serves on the California APIC Coordinating Council’s (CACC) Public Policy Committee, on the GERM Commission of the San Diego County Medical Society and has been appointed to serve on the California Department of Health Services SB 739 Healthcare-acquired infection Advisory Committee. She has practiced Infection Prevention and Control for 15 years, has experience in Occupational Health Nursing and as a Safety Officer and is certified in Infection Control and Occupational Health Nursing. Shannon has lectured at the local, state, and national/international levels and has published several articles in infection prevention. She is recognized by the media as a resource for infection prevention having appeared locally on television and quoted nationally in magazine/ journals.
Speaker Name: Matthew Payne, MPA
Job Title: Interim Director, Division of Policy and Strategic Planning
Company: US Department of Health & Human Services - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Email Address: matthew.payne@hhs.gov
Telephone: (202) 205-2477
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: National Health Security Strategy
Matthew Payne joined the Department of Health and Human Services emergency preparedness organization in 1997. Currently, he serves as the Interim Director of the Office of Policy and Planning’s Division of Policy and Strategic Planning. Prior to this role, Mr. Payne served as the Deputy Director for the Office of Policy, Strategic Planning and Communications within the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. In this role, he was responsible for the coordination of Departmental and national policies, the development of the office’s strategic plan and coordination of the office’s strategic communications functions.
In his prior Departmental roles, Mr. Payne served as the Deputy Director for Operations in ASPR’s predecessor organization, the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Mr. Payne has extensive experience in supporting national response efforts to include the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Capitol Hill anthrax attack, the response Hurricane Katrina and most recently the response to the 2009-H1N1 influenza outbreak. Prior to his Federal service, Mr. Payne worked as a Paramedic for a commercial ambulance service in Syracuse, New York.
Speaker Name: Jon Rosenberg, MD
Job Title: Chief, Healthcare Associated Infections Program
Company: California Department of Public Health
Email Address: jon.rosenberg@cdph.ca.gov
Telephone: (510) 620-3427
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Healthcare Associated Infections
Jon Rosenberg MD is currently chief of the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program for the State of California, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Care Quality. In his role, Dr. Rosenberg has responsibility and oversight for statewide activities related to healthcare-associated infections, including management and analysis of California hospital data mandated by law to be reported from hospitals. He is the Principal Investigator for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Healthcare Associated Infections Cooperative Agreement for California. Dr. Rosenberg has been working in public health for 30 years. In 1993, Dr. Rosenberg began work as one of the first state-based healthcare-associated infections resources and has since been the lead for healthcare-associated infections for the Department. He directed the state’s infection control response for SARS and Novel Influenza A H1N1 Virus. He is the principal author on numerous guidelines for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Guidelines/Pages/HAIandIC.aspx). He is a member of SHEA, APIC and CSTE, and serves on the SHEA Public Policy and Governmental Affairs Committee and the CDC working group on Blood, Organ, and Tissue Safety
Speaker Name: Mark Starr, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM
Job Title: Director, Community Health and Clinics
Company: Placer County Health and Human Services Department
Email Address: mstarr@placer.ca.gov
Telephone: (530) 889-7287
CIDER Summit 2010 Presentation Title: Antimicrobial Resistance: Perspectives on the Use of Antimicrobials in Animal Agriculture and Its Public Health Implications
Mark Starr is Director of Community Health and Clinics for Placer County, California. He is responsible for public health (e.g., general communicable diseases; STDs/HIV and TB, public health laboratory, emergency preparedness, public health nursing, MCAH, WIC, CHDP, California Children’s Services, vital records, tobacco control, substance abuse prevention, immunization outreach, and other prevention/education programs), full-service community clinics (e.g., primary care, family planning, travel immunizations), and animal control programs for the County.
He was previously with the Division of Communicable Disease Control of the California Department of Public Health (1995-2007), including a four-year assignment (2003-2006) as Acting Chief of the Division. He was also Chief of the Surveillance and Statistics Section and served as the State Public Health Veterinarian. Prior to that, he was the Chief Epidemiologist for Sacramento County from 1990-1995. Dr. Starr earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) degrees from the University of California, Davis and spent four years in private veterinary practice after graduation before entering public health. He is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (1991) and by the ACVPM’s Epidemiology Specialty (1994).