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Proceedings
OPENING SPEAKER |
Harvey Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Director: Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Rubin has extensive experience in the fields of clinical medicine and medical research, computational and systems biology, strategic threat research, medical school administration, as well as institute and multi-organizational directing and management.
Dr. Rubin received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and his M.D. from Columbia University in 1976. Dr. Rubin joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and became Professor of Medicine in 1998 He also serves as the course director for the Wilderness Medicine elective, and was the faculty councilor for AOA and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Medicine from 2001 to 2004.
Dr Rubin is the founder and Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) at the University of Pennsylvania. The mission of (ISTAR) is global, addressing intentional as well as unintentional issues of threat.
Dr. Rubin's research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, and DARPA. In addition to his work on the basic biology of the disease, he has extended the investigations to mathematical modeling of complex biological systems. His research has resulted in approximately 80 peer-reviewed papers chapters or reviews.
Dr. Rubin served on a number of national and international scientific review panels including the NIH, NSF, NASA Intelligent Systems Program, DARPA, and The Medical Research Council, South Africa. He organized and chaired the recent NSF Conference on Advanced Computation Inspired by Biology that resulted in a funded program at the NSF and chaired a session at the NSF workshop on Models of Thought Processes, Insights Toward Chemical Systems in June 2004. He recently chaired the session on Patient Modeling at the NSF workshop on High Confidence Medical Devises and Software Systems.
He is a consultant to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of DHS for Infrastructure Protection. Last year he was appointed to the newly formed National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
In October 2005, the Mayor of Philadelphia appointed Dr. Rubin and Mr. Pedro Ramos Managing Director of the City as Co-Chairs of the City of Philadelphia Emergency Preparedness Review Committee (EPRC). The EPRC consists of private and public stakeholders as well as City personnel with primary emergency management responsibilities. The charge to the EPRC is to evaluate the City's existing emergency medical, evacuation, and business continuity plans, including conducting a thorough analysis of the potential catastrophic threats the City faces and to recommend measures to deter as well as respond to those threats. The full report was delivered to the Mayor of Philadelphia on June 30, 2006 and is now posted on the City of Philadelphia webpage.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
Mark Schweiker
President & CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
MARK SCHWEIKER is President & CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, which is the premier voice for business in the region. Mr. Schweiker has focused the 11-county region’s attention and energy on regional growth and economic development, and supports that vision while representing an organization that is 5,000-members strong.
With his leadership, the Chamber completed an initial $16 million development campaign and created Select Greater Philadelphia to brand and market the Greater Philadelphia region to a national and international audience as a first-tier place to do business.
Mark Schweiker’s aggressive economy building agenda is a natural continuation of the policies he pursued as the 44th Governor of Pennsylvania. His Administration is also remembered as because Gov. Schweiker led one of the most successful mine rescues in national history when he oversaw a 77-hour operation in Quecreek in western Pennsylvania that saved nine coal miners. “Nine for nine” was his happy announcement to a thrilled world.
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PANELISTS |
Bruce Boyle
Senior Strategist, Alta Communications
Bruce Boyle is a senior consultant at Alta Communications. He began his communications career as a journalist at The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the San Diego Union. For more than 20 years he has been providing crisis communications and reputation management consulting to some of the country's largest corporations. Bruce has provided counsel, training and crisis communications management for a variety of industries, including chemical, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and education companies. His recent work includes serving as the media/communications representative for anti-terrorist exercises conducted by NFC Global LLC. He attended the Temple University School of Journalism after serving as a demolition expert in Vietnam.
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Dr. Jerry Brashear
ASME Innovative Technologies Institute, LLC
Dr. Brashear is currently directing the development of a sector-specific guidance for implementing Risk Analysis and Management for critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP) in the water and wastewater sectors and is developing the framework for a regional, RAMCAP-based process for risk management for metropolitan areas. He has more than 35 years' experience as an expert consultant, researcher and entrepreneur and in the areas of critical infrastructure protection, strategic and operational planning and, risk, economic and policy analysis. He led the National Capital Region Project, a six-university consortium headquartered at the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program at George Mason University School of Law, which evaluated and advanced risk management of critical infrastructure in the Washington, DC, region. Previously, he founded and directed a center for risk management R&D at The University of Texas at Austin. He has served as a key advisor to government and industry executives on risk management, R&D and energy policy related to the oil and gas industries. Both a subject matter expert and management executive, Dr. Brashear served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Oil and Gas Practice at ICF Consulting and founded The Brashear Group, LLC. Dr. Brashear received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an AB magna cum laude from Princeton University.
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Jack Cherry
Rohm & Haas
Mr. Jack Cherry is the Director of the Corporate Global EHS & Sustainability Process Systems Group for the Rohm and Haas Company (RandH) headquartered in Philadelphia, PA and he has also been recognized as a RandH Distinguished EHS Engineer. His Corporate group provides global EHS & SD Management System and Responsible Care® (RC) services to businesses, sites and senior management. He has been a RandH employee for over thirty-four years and holds baccalaureate degrees in both Chemistry (Davidson College) and Chemical Engineering (North Carolina State University).
For over twelve years of his Rohm and Haas (RandH) career, Mr. Cherry worked in technical sales & marketing and manufacturing areas within the Company's major business units. However most of his work experience has been in EHS areas in both international and USA based assignments. He is a qualified RandH EHS compliance and management systems and ISO 14001 lead auditor and has led or participated in over 100 audits of chemical sites worldwide. He has worked extensively with the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in the development and delivery of the Responsible Care Management System (RCMS®) and Verifications (MSV®). He is a member of the ACC's RC Team and was recently honored as the ACC's Member Company's Responsible Care Leader of the Year (2005). He is the author of articles on the Business value of MSV® and RandH's Business Tailored (BTMSV©) processes. He is an Adjunct Professor for La Salle University (PA) and is the proud to have five beautiful grandchildren.
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John Domzalski
Drexel University
John has held a range of executive and senior leadership positions in public health and was the Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia from Febuary, 2002, until his retirement from government service in July, 2005. A leader in the area of public health preparedness and emergency response, the capacity of the Department of Public Health to lead on bioterrorism preparedness city-wide was greatly enhanced during his tenure. He is a proponent of local and regional preparedness planning that involves health systems, utilities, transportation, the business community and all other critical components of local and regional infrastructure. He has a Juris Doctor degree from Temple University and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Pittsburgh. In August, 2006, he was an invited participant in a symposium on Science and Engineering Principles Applied to the Control of Hyper communicable Diseases held in Seoul, Korea.
He is a research professor at Drexel University in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems and the National Center for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Civilian Medical Response (CI MERC) at Drexel.
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Scott Heffentrager, CPP
PJM
Scott Heffentrager, CPP is the Physical Security Manager at PJM Interconnection. PJM manages the flow of wholesale electricity over more than 55,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines to 13 states and the District of Columbia. In addition to ensuring the reliable supply of electricity for its utility, generation supplier, transmission owner and energy marketing customers, PJM operates the largest wholesale electricity market in the world. PJM's generating capacity is currently 170,807 MW, serving 50+ million over 186,000 square miles.
Prior to assuming a position at PJM, Mr. Heffentrager held positions in the criminal justice and law enforcement communities.
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Mike Keen
Philadelphia Fire Department
Lieut. Keen is a veteran of 37 years in the Fire Department. Twenty-one
years were spent in Center City. While away from Center City he trained
at the Philadelphia International Airport in Aircraft Rescue and
Firefighting for three years and then one year in the Frankford section
of the City.
As a field firefighter and officer he fought many large fires including
the Meridian, Gulf and Atlantic Refineries and the Harrison Court fire
(The Gallery).
He was appointed High-Rise Officer in the Fire Code Unit in 1993.
He was designated lead Fire Department Inspector in the new
construction and complete renovation of all high-rise buildings since
1994. Working closely with Building Inspectors from the Department of
Licenses and Inspections he shared the responsibility to "sign-off" on
Certificates of Occupancy.
He was a member of the 3 man inspection team for the city mandated
"High Rise Survey" of all high-rise buildings.
Lieut. Keen is Penna., New Jersey, National Fire Protection Assn.
(NFPA), and Uniform Construction Code (UCC) certified in Fire
Inspection, Fire Code Official, Building Code Official and Fire
Protection Specialist. He is working towards the designation, Certified
Master Code Official. Lieut. Keen also holds certifications from the
National and American Fire Sprinkler Assns. The National and American
Fire Alarm Assns.and the Engineers Club of Philadelphia.
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LCDR Soo Klein
United States Coast Guard
LCDR Klein served 2 yrs on USCGC DALLAS as a ship driver and the Combat Information Control Officer during the Haitian migration where over 20,000 Haitians fled their country via water. Her next assignment was at the Marine Inspection Office New York where she performed commercial vessel inspections domestically, and in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Marine Safety Office (MSO) Providence was the follow on tour and she was there as an emergency responder during the grounding of barge NORTH CAPE where over 800,000 gallons of oil were discharged into the water. She served at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington DC where she was the regulation project officer for Hazardous Substance Response Plans and was an emergency response liaison with FEMA during the World Trade Center, Columbia Space Shuttle, and the typhoon PONGSWANGA.
In the summer of 2003 she came to Sector Delaware Bay and is the current Chief of Operational Planning and Force Readiness. She oversees all aspects of the Coast Guard's emergency response preparedness in a tri-state area covering all of Delaware, over 50% of Pennsylvania, and approximately 80% of New Jersey. Last year she was one of the Coast Guard's initial emergency responders sent to Louisiana in the aftermath of KATRINA and she has recently been appointed to the national Maritime Transportation System Recovery Assist Team.
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Joe Kunkle
NFC Global, LLC
Joseph Kunkle serves as a security consultant for NFC Global, LLC. He specializes in tailored security plans, disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs designed to minimize the operational impact of critical incidents. Mr. Kunkle has 20 years experience as a military bomb squad commander and on-scene incident commander. His expertise is in terrorism-tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as a hazardous materials technician/instructor. He has performed asset and threat characterization; vulnerability and consequence analysis to develop strategies enhancing emergency management continuity and communications for operations worldwide - including Incident Command System, Unified Command, mutual aid agreements and public and private sector joint emergency planning, training and exercises.
Mr. Kunkle was awarded the Bronze Star Medal (operation Iraqi Freedom) for rendering safe numerous improvised explosive devices targeting US and coalition forces. In addition, he performed post blast investigations, which provided coalition senior leadership and intelligence agencies with valuable information about the tactics, techniques, and procedures being employed by terrorists in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Mike Mullen
AMTRAK
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Captain Walt Smith
Philadelphia Police Department
Domestic Preparedness Division
Captain Walt Smith is 19 year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department and the Commanding Officer Homeland Security. He serves as the Chairman, of the Five County Southeast Pennsylvania Regional Counter Terrorism Taskforce, Law Enforcement Committee consisting of Federal, State and Local law enforcement agencies tasked with the responsibility of terrorism response and prevention.
Capt. Smith is responsible for the prevention and response to potential terrorism related incidents in the City of Philadelphia as well as all Counter Terrorism initiatives, Dignitary Protection Operations, Crisis Negotiations, Mayor's Security and the Philadelphia Police Investigators assigned to the Philadelphia FBI Joint Terrorism Taskforce.
Capt. Smith has written security assessments stressing the importance of building partnerships and increasing employee awareness to deter terrorism surveillance. He has participated in various table top exercises as well as field training exercises in conjunction with FEMA, PEMA, FBI JTTF, and the U.S. Attorney. He has conducted both community and business outreach programs designed to provide best practices in terrorism awareness and prevention. Capt. Smith is member of the Law Enforcement Liaison Council, American Society for Industrial Security, a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Academy, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Physical Security Training program, in addition to the United States Secret Service Dignity Protection training seminar
Capt. Smith is a Pennsylvania State certified Hazardous Materials Technician; a Pennsylvania State certified Training Instructor as well as a member of the FBI Hazardous Materials Response Unit. Capt. Smith has received training from the Department of Homeland Security, in Terrorist bombings, threat and risk assessment, prevention and response to suicide bombings, effective response to Weapons of Mass Destruction incidents and has recently participated in the City of Philadelphia's Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment known as the EPRC report.
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Fire Chief Gary Warren
Baltimore/Washington International Airport Fire & Rescue Dept.
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Dr. Edward M. Weinstein, Ph.D
NFC Global, LLC
Edward Weinstein has worked in force protection, particularly in blast mitigation and explosive screening technologies for more than 12 years. Experience includes design, prototyping, structural analysis, blast data analysis, finite element analyses, shock and vibration tests, and design of explosive screening devices and deployments. He has also worked on blast mitigation of buildings, both remediating existing structures and adapting primary design to incorporate blast resistance.
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Additional bios and panelists forthcoming.
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