Henry D. I. Abarbanel is a professor of physics
in the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and
the Department of Physics at UC San Diego. He received his B. S. in Physics
from the California Institute of Technology in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics
from Princeton University in 1966.
Dr. Abarbanel is a member of UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program. He has
served as chairman of Special Interest Group for Dynamical Systems, Society
of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; chair, University of California–NASA,
Steering Committee for Joint Program in Nonlinear Science; chairman, California
Coordinating Committee for Nonlinear Studies of the University of California;
and is presently the director of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at UC
San Diego and a research physicist at SIO's Marine Physical Laboratory. Dr.
Abarbanel also serves as editor-in-chief for the Springer-Verlag Series in
Nonlinear Science, and was a member of the Office of Naval Research Board
of Visitors in Physics.
Peter A. Andersen is a professor in the School
of Communication, associate director of the International Center for Communications,
and director of research for the Japan-U.S. Telecommunications Research Institute,
all at San Diego State University.
Andersen is also president of the Western
States Communication Association and former editor of the Western Journal
of Communication. He has authored more than 50 journal articles, 30 book
chapters
and 100 convention papers. Recent books include The Handbook of Communication
and Emotion (Academic Press, 1998; coauthored with Laura Guerrero) and
Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (Mayfield Press, 1999). His
research interests
include nonverbal behavior, communication in close relationships, intercultural
communication, and the impact of communication technology.
Steven C. Bankes is founder and chief technologist of Evolving
Logic Associates, which he started in 1997. Prior to that, Bankes was professor
of policy analysis
at the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California. He has also taught
at UC Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology. His research
interests include computational science, modeling and simulation theory and
practice, complex adaptive systems, machine learning and self-organizing systems,
and agent-based simulation of social systems.
Bankes received his B.S. in Engineering
and Information Science from the California Institute of Technology, and
his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado. He
is an
editorial collaborator for the
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and a reviewer for the
journals Information
Society, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and BioSystems.
Eli Berman is an associate professor
of economics at UC San Diego. His research interests include labor economics,
environmental economics,
applied microeconomics, and political economics
and culture.
Recent work focuses on the internal economies
of radical religious organizations. Past work on ultra-Orthodox
Jews, the rationality of suicide attackers, and the incidence of radical Islam
can be found at http://econ.ucsd.edu/%7Eelberman.
Berman has an M.A. in economics from Hebrew
University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
He was a National Bureau of Economic Research Sloan Fellow in 1999.
Before joining UC San Diego, he taught at both Rice and Boston University.
Samuel Bozzette is senior natural scientist
at RAND. His expertise is in infectious diseases, particularly HIV and agents
of bioterrorism and biowarfare. He is also interested in health outcomes research
and clinical decision making. Dr. Bozzette holds an M.D. from the University
of Rochester, a M.Phil, and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate
School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Bozzette currently directs the Health Services Research Unit and the Center for Patient-Oriented Research at the VA San Diego, and is a research director for the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in HIV/AIDS. He is co-principal investigator of the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study, which is assessing costs, access, and quality of care in the first nationally representative study of HIV-positive individuals.
Dr. Bozzette is affiliated with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America; a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigations and the American Association of Physicians; and a participant on many local, national, and international boards and committees.
Cathryn Campbell is a partner
in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery
LLP. She serves as head of the
firm’s San Diego Intellectual Property practice, is head of the firm’s
Life Sciences IP practice and is co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences
Group. She concentrates her practice on biotechnology patent law and has extensive
experience in developing patent portfolio strategies, negotiating and drafting
license agreements, and preparing patentability, validity, infringement and
freedom to operate opinions. Prior
to joining McDermott, Campbell was a founding partner of Campbell & Flores,
LLP, a law firm specializing in biotechnology intellectual
property.
Campbell has spoken and written extensively
on scientific and legal issues relevant to the biotechnology industry. Her
chapter on “Licensing in The Biotechnology Industry” recently appeared
in the book Licensing Best Practices (John Wiley, 2002). She has been
an invited speaker at dozens of national and international conferences. She
is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), and has served
on
its board of trustees, as vice president for the Western region,
and has chaired the San Diego chapter. She also is a member of the Licensing
Executives Society International, and chaired its biotechnology committee.
In addition,
she serves on the board of editors of the Biotechnology Law Review.
Campbell sits on various boards, including the advisory board to the Dean
of Biological
Sciences (UCSD), the USD School of Law Board of Visitors, and The Law Library
Justice Foundation, and Athena, the executive women’s organization of
the UC San Diego. She also is active in
numerous
civic organizations.
Campbell has a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.S. in paleobiology.
She undertook
advanced research at King’s College, Cambridge University, from
1975 to 1977. She is admitted
to practice law in the states of California and Washington, before the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for
the Ninth and Federal Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern
and Central Districts of California.
Linda R. Cohen is professor of economics
at UC Irvine, and professor
of social science and law at the University of Southern California in
Los Angeles. She is currently on sabbatical as a Gilbert White Visiting Fellow,
Resources for the Future. She was previously chair of the Department
of Economics at UC Irvine, where she has taught in various capacities with
increasing
responsibility since 1987.
Previously,
Cohen held positions
at the Rand Corporation, the Brookings Institute, and Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government. She has been the Olin Visiting Professor
in Law and Economics at the University of Southern California Law School in
1993 and 1998. Cohen has written many articles and co-authored books
on federal research and technology policy and legislative and judicial
institutions
that support research and innovation. She is currently a member of the
editorial board of Public Choice, the Board of Directors of the Western
Economics Association,
the California Energy Commission's Advisory Panel for the Public Interest
Energy Research Program, the California Council for Science and Technology,
and the National Research Council Committee on Prospective Benefits of
DOE’s
R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy.
Cohen has a A.B. in
mathematics from UC Berkeley, and received
her Ph.D. in social sciences from the California Institute of Technology.
Peter
Cowhey holds a joint appointment as dean of the Graduate School
of International Relations and Pacific Studies and director of the Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His major fields of research are international
political economy, comparative foreign policy, and international relations
theory. In 1994, Cowhey took leave from UC San Diego to join the Federal Communications
Commission. In 1997, he became the chief of the International Bureau of the
FCC, where he was in charge of all policy and licensing for international telecommunications
services, including all satellite issues and licensing for the FCC. Prior to
becoming bureau chief he was the commission's senior counselor for International
Economic and Competition Policy.
Cowhey’s current research includes the political determinants of foreign
policy, the reorganization of the global communications and information industries,
and the future of foreign trade and investment rules in the Pacific Rim. His
extensive research and writings on international telecommunications markets
and regulation have been supported by such research institutes as the World
Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise Institute,
the Brookings Institution, the Markle Foundation, and the Twentieth-Century
Fund. His books include The Problems of Plenty: Energy Policy and International
Politics; When Countries Talk: International Trade in Telecommunications Services (with
J. Aronson); Managing
the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances (with J. Aronson);
and Structure
and Policy in Japan and United States (co-edited with Mathew McCubbins).
Thomas A. Dillon has had over twenty-five years
of experience in the management of research, technology development, and
advanced engineering. He has administered a national laboratory with a staffing
of 3,800 and energy programs with an annual budget of $4 billion. For the
past fourteen years he has managed complex advanced technology programs in
successful private sector business units.
Dillon is group senior vice president of SAIC, Technology Analysis and
Applications Group. This $100 million/year unit of SAIC includes
400 people with nationally recognized excellence in Homeland Security technologies,
state and local IT support, thermal analysis and simulation, hypersonic flow
technology, missile defense systems, probabilistic risk assessments, special
weapons simulation, disaster mitigation technology, electro-optics/infrared,
intelligence analysis, fusion technology, logistics technology, and renewable
energy technology.
Previously, Dillon was vice
president of General Atomic’s Defense Division, where
he directed GA’s successful initiative
to apply energy technology developed over its thirty-year history to national
security programs. As the U.S. Department of Energy’s principal deputy
assistant secretary for nuclear energy, he managed Federal nuclear energy
programs with an annual
budget of $4 billion. Technology development programs included liquid metal
and gas reactors, laser enrichment of uranium, long-term disposal of nuclear
waste, and naval propulsion reactors.
Richard Feinberg is professor of international
political economy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific
Studies (IR/PS), at UC San Diego. He is an authority on U.S.
foreign
policy,
multilateral
institutions,
and summitry.
He is an expert on trade and investment, globalization, democratization,
and non-governmental organizations.
Feinberg also serves as director of the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center, dedicated to research,
scholarly exchange, and public education on subjects of interests to APEC
member countries.
He is co-director of the Leadership Council on Inter-American Summitry,
a blue-ribbon council that evaluates progress in U.S.-Latin American relations.
He is also
the coordinator of the APEC International Assessment Network (APIAN), a
pan-Pacific
coalition of experts that monitors and evaluates APEC’s performance.
Feinberg has authored more than 150 articles and books. His book, Summitry
in the Americas: A Progress Report, provides the first in-depth analysis
of how U.S. foreign policy is made. Other publications include The Intemperate
Zone: The Third World Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy and Subsidizing
Success: The
Export-Import Bank in the U.S. Economy. He served as special assistant
to President Clinton for National Security Affairs and senior director of
the
National Security
Council’s (NSC) Office of Inter-American Affairs. While at the NSC,
Feinberg was a principal architect of the 1994 Summit of the Americas in
Miami. He previously
served as president of the Inter-American Dialogue, executive vice president
of the Overseas Development Council, and has held positions on the policy
planning staff of the U.S. Department of State and in the Office of International
Affairs
in the U.S. Treasury Department.
Michael A. Friedman, M.D., is president and
chief executive officer of City of Hope Hospital. He previously served
as acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); as
rear admiral and assistant
surgeon general in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; as associate
director of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program at the National Cancer
Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health. Before that, he was an associate
professor and director of the Clinical Research Program for hematology and
oncology at UC San Francisco.
Dr. Friedman has
received numerous commendations, including the Surgeon General’s Medallion
in 1999. Most recently, Friedman held the position of senior vice president
of Research and Development, Medical and Public Policy, for Pharmacia Corporation.
In addition,
he served as chief medical officer for Biomedical Preparedness at the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America in response to the events of September
11, 2001.
Friedman's professional activities at the local and
national level have included appointments to various posts in the
American Society of Clinical Oncology, as well as memberships in the American
Association
for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Federation for Clinical
Research and the Western Society for Clinical Investigation. His scholarly
activities
include authorship of several book chapters and more than 150 scientific
articles in such prestigious journals as the Journal of the American
Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Science,
The Lancet,
and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Friedman
received a B.A. magna cum laude from Tulane University and
his medical degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical
School.
He completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University
and the
National Cancer Institute, and is board-certified in Internal Medicine
and Medical Oncology.
Dr. Frank Garland is the director
of science planning at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego,
California.
NHRC is the major epidemiologic research center in the Department of Defense.
Dr. Garland and his research team are active in epidemiologic research in
the military and also in the area of primary cancer prevention.
One of Dr. Garland’s accomplishments during the past few years has
been to develop and serve as Program Manager for a new initiative in cancer
research, the Department of Defense/Hollings Cancer Center Coastal Cancer
Control Program. This is a DoD collaborative program with the Medical University
of South Carolina, Hollings Cancer Center, and the University of California
San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Garland’s research team participated in an
investigation of a childhood acute lymphoid leukemia cluster in Fallon, Nevada,
at the request of the Nevada State Department of Health and Environment.
Dr. Garland and his research colleagues are also internationally
recognized for advancing the hypothesis that grew out of his research on
military populations suggesting that use of sunscreens with inadequate blocking
of UVA is associated with increased risk of melanoma.
Michele Ginsberg is the chief of
the division of Community Epidemiology for the HHSA San Diego County. Community
Epidemiology conducts disease surveillance, investigation, and intervention
on communicable diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and intentional health
threats.
Dr. Ginsberg is an adjunct clinical professor in the departments
of Medicine and Family Medicine and adjunct professor in the San Diego
State School of Public
Health.
Dr. Ginsberg has conducted investigations of
AIDS/ HIV epidemiology and transmission in diverse populations,
Hepatitis A in Mexican-American youth,
prevalence of lead poisoning in homeless children, and
factors influencing use of health care.
Michael J. Heller teaches in the Departments
of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UC San
Diego. His experience includes working as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern
University,
supervising the DNA Technology Group at Amoco Corporation, and
serving as the director of molecular biology at Molecular Biosystems, Inc.
Heller received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Colorado State University.
In 1987 he was elected president and chief operating officer at Integrated
DNA Technologies. He was also a co-founder and chief technical officer
at Nanogen, Inc., located in San Diego, California and the principal inventor
of Nanogen’s microelectronic-based DNA chip technology. His experience
includes many areas of biotechnology, with particular expertise in DNA
molecular diagnostics and fluorescent/optoelectronic based detection technologies.
Dr. Heller’s most recent work involved the development of integrated
DNA chip devices and systems for genomic and biomedical research and clinical
diagnostic applications.
Heller’s current research involves work on the next
generation of DNA array devices, lab-on-a-chip devices, integrated
bioanalysis systems, and enabling nanotechnology. His achievements
in DNA research have been recognized with a $2 million NIST Advanced Technology
Program award for an integrated microelectronic
DNA diagnostic system project and with a Bode Technology Group award for
his
project “DNA Finger-printing Using Microelectronic Devices.”
Dalibor Hodko is director of
advanced research at Nanogen, Inc., a leading
supplier of molecular diagnostic tests. Prior to this, he was senior research
scientist at Lynntech, Inc., in College Station, Texas.
Barry
Jagoda, director of communications for International
Relations, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences at UC San Diego,
is an Emmy-award winning journalist with service as a writer, editor, and
senior producer at CBS News
and NBC
News. A founding contributing editor of Texas Monthly magazine,
Jagoda is a liberal arts graduate of the University of Texas and has an M.S.
in journalism
from Columbia University.
Television advisor to Jimmy Carter in his 1976 campaign for the Presidency,
Jagoda was special assistant to the president for Media and Public Affairs
during the Carter administration. In this role he served as liaison to the
television and radio networks and was also principal White House contact
for the National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities and the United States
Information Agency. Jagoda and his staff coordinated government-wide federal
communications policy and served as the staffing unit for selection of the
chairman and commissioners of the FCC and other federal agencies.
A long-time media relations specialist, Jagoda was assistant to the president
of George Washington University and director of news and public affairs at
that institution. In his career he has also worked as a top public relations
executive in the technology and telecommunications arenas. Prior to assuming
his current post, Jagoda was an
international correspondent for the Washington Times, spending extended
periods producing reports on politics, business and culture from various
countries
around the globe.
Peter Katona is associate professor
of clinical medicine at UC Los Angeles and has a pending appointment in the
UCLA School of Engineering. His expertise is
clinical infectious disease, viral diseases, syndromic surveillance, and
biological threats. He has published several review articles on biological
terrorism preparedness and is currently editing a book on a global networked
approach to counter-terrorism.
Dr. Katona received his B.A. at Cornell University and his M.D. at the
University of Florida. He also served as an EIS Officer at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Katona sits on numerous committees, including the Los Angeles County
Department of Health Services CDC Bioterrorism Advisory Committee for Public
Health
Preparedness and Response, the Bioterrorism Work Group Committee for the
Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Los Angeles County Task Force
on Preparedness for Bioterrorism, the Hospital Association of Southern California
and Emergency Medical Services Task Force on Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness,
and the Los Angeles County Homeland Security Advisory Council. He is co-founder
of Biological Threat Mitigation (BTM), a bioterror consulting firm and is
an adjunct member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s
Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group.
Michael J. Kleeman is an independent
consultant working in the technology and health related areas. During the last
two years he served
as the chief technology officer for Catenas, a network of professional services
firms, and Aerie Networks, a new long-distance provider in the United States.
Previously he was a senior technology partner in a global consulting firm,
specializing in the telecommunications, Internet and computer/information areas.
Kleeman
has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications and information systems
related business strategy, technology design, economic analysis and complex
project management. He has also worked on the design and implementation of
networks for voice and data communications, including carrier and private
networks, in both domestic and international arenas. He has extensive industry
expertise
in the technology/computer, commercial, government, financial, and health
areas, both as a consultant and as an operating manager. His background includes
work
for local and inter-exchange carriers, network and computer hardware and
software vendors, user organizations, and national agencies. Kleeman has
been the
lead designer and project manager for numerous telecommunications projects,
for a wide range of user, carrier, and vendor organizations.
In addition to these specific activities he has worked with numerous clients
on new business strategy (especially new market entry or product launch),
technology planning, LBO/restructuring of technology firms, contingent planning
in dynamic markets, and international communications.
Margaret E. Kosal has nearly
ten years of direct experience working with molecular recognition materials
(the fundamental science underlying how molecules interact
specifically with other molecules, like sensors and detectors), including the
invention of a new family of catalytically-active, porous materials (like molecule-scale
'beach sieves' that separate based on size, shape, and chemical properties).
Throughout her career, she has been involved in research from
design of oligo-peptide de novo proteins (building pieces of enzymes 'from
scratch') to proteinacious microspheres with biomedical uses (blood substitutes
and image contrast agents) to single-bubble sonoluminescence (changing sound
into light).
Kosal received a bachelor’s degree with honors in chemistry
from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in
chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For her doctorate,
she
investigated the synthesis and the ensuing behavior of solid-state porphyrinic
nanoporous networks: organic “zeolites,” resulting in the publication
of seven papers and a book chapter. Her dissertation work was recognized
by the Society of Porphyrin and Phthalocyanines as recipient of the 2001
Student
Award.
Kosal, along with three colleagues, founded ChemSensing, Inc., a high-tech
start-up sensor company in early 2001. She co-led the research and development
of colorimetric sensors—an electronic nose: SmellSeeing(TM) and an
electronic tongue: TasteSeeing(TM)—spearheading efforts toward the
real-world application of this technology. She initiated independently,
supervised, and successfully
directed research and development of novel sensor systems for nitroaromatic
explosives vapors (for example, TNT) and neuroactive compounds in liquids;
designed a program to detect bacteriological biological weapons agents
via detection
of fingerprint enzymatic metabolites; and collaborated on sensor development
for chemical weapons agents, simulants and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs).
From
June 2002 through May 2003, Kosal was a visiting scholar at Northwestern
University’s Feinburg School of Medicine. In August 2003, Kosal
joined the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies to
pursue technical security studies and analysis in the areas of emerging
chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation, including nanotechnology.
In September 2003, she moved to Stanford University's Center for International
Security and Cooperation.
Leslie Lenert, M.D., is a professor in the UCSD School of Medicine
and chief of the Laboratory for the Study of Patients' Preferences in the VA
San Diego
Healthcare System. In addition to his medical background, Lenert received an
M.S. from Stanford University in biomedical informatics. He is also the principal
investigator on the School of Medicine's joint project with the VA and Cal-(IT)².
WIISARD (Wireless
Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters)
is one of several projects at the intersection of medical science, wireless communications
and information technology that constitute medical informatics. In his capacity
as associate director, Lenert oversees all institute activities in this emerging
field.
Michael May received his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Whitman College in 1944 and his Ph. D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1952. He spent most of his career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), serving as director of the laboratory from 1965 to 1971. His research work there centered on nuclear explosion theory; nuclear weapons design; radiation transfer; and astrophysics and general relativity. In addition, Professor May taught graduate science courses in the Department of Applied Science at Livermore, a part of the School of Engineering of the University of California at Davis. In the eighties, Professor May designed and managed an in-house advanced research program at the laboratory structured to provide opportunities for research into new areas of relevance in the Department of Energy's main areas of responsibility. He retired from LLNL in 1988.
Starting in 1972, Professor May became involved in strategic arms control. May served as a technical representative on the Threshold Test Ban Treaty negotiating team in Moscow in 1974, then as a member of the U.S. delegation to SALT, in Geneva from 1974 to 1976. He has continued to work on arms control through advisory committees to government and through his own academic publications.
May became associated with Stanford University in 1990, Since then his work has focused on two areas, nuclear weapons policy issues and the extent and impact of energy growth in East Asia, especially in China. For the past several years, May and collaborators have studied China's electricity sector at the provincial level. May served as co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation in Stanford's Institute of International Studies from 1993 though 1999, during which time he initiated or collaborated on a number of new projects bridging the science and security areas.
Professor May has been a member of the Defense Science Board and other government
advisory groups, chairing studies on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons
systems, the utility of lasers in space, and other matters. He was a trustee
of the Rand Corporation (1972–93) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Committee on International Security and Arms Control (1985–95). Professor May received the Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Award in 1979; its Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 1975; the Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award in 1970; and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Whitman College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Dr. Susan McGuinness is pharmacy librarian for the Biomedical
Library, responsible for liaison between the Biomedical Library and
the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is also
responsible for reference services and development of the library
collections to support the teaching and research activities of the
school.
McGuinness earned her B.S. in chemistry from State University
of New York, Oneonta; her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from
Colorado State University; and her M.L.S. from Emporia State University. From
1997–2000, she was a research associate in the Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences at the University of Colorado and health resource coordinator at the
University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center Office of School Health.
Prior to coming
to UCSD, McGuinness was library manager at Westwood College in Denver. She
is currently serving as secretary-treasurer of the Pharmacy and Drug Information
Section
of the
Medical Library Association.
The Honorable M. Margaret McKeown was
appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by
President Clinton
and was confirmed by
the United States Senate in 1998. Before her appointment to the bench,
she was a partner in the Seattle and Washington, D.C., offices of the Perkins
Cole law firm, where
her practice focused on complex litigation, intellectual property, antitrust,
and trade regulation. The Seattle-King County Bar Association
honored her with its Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award and she was named
by the National Law Journal as one of “the 50 Most Influential Women
Lawyers” in the United States.
McKeown is a 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of
Wyoming and earned her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center
in 1975. She was
a White House Fellow in 1980–1981, serving as special assistant to
the Secretary of the Interior and special assistant at the
White House. In 1993, she was a Japan Society Leadership Fellow.
McKeown serves on the Judicial Conference of the United States Codes
of Conduct Committee, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Executive Committee,
and the board of the American Judicature Society. She is a member of the
ABA Commission for Revision of the Model Judicial Code, the American Law
Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the
Welsh Chapter of the American Inns of Court. She previously served as president
of the Federal Bar Association of the Western District of Washington, a
lawyer representative to the Judicial Conference of the Ninth Circuit,
a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, co-president of Washington
Women Lawyers, a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates
and as a trustee of the Seattle-King County Bar Association.
McKeown has been active in community and civic affairs and served
for many years on the National Board of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.,
the YMCA of Greater Seattle, the Executive Committees of the Corporate
Council for the Arts, and the Washington Council on International Trade.
She is the past chair and member of the White House Fellows Foundation,
and was the recipient of the 2004 Girl Scout’s “Cool Women” award.
Kate H. Murashige is a partner
at Morrison & Foerster
and co-chair of the firm’s patent group. Murashige has practiced law
since 1977. Her practice focuses on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries,
and she is a member of the AAAS committee
on Scientific Freedom and
Responsibility.
Murashige was formerly president of
the Peninsula Intellectual Property Law Association, and a member of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office Biotechnology Institute Board. She
was a member of the former National Biotechnology Policy Board for NIH,
and
is a past chairperson of the Biotechnology Committee of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association. She has been an invited speaker at the Human
Genome Conference on patent matters and has been an advisor on gene patenting
to the
OTA. She has spoken before Members of Congress and their staffs regarding
the Human Genome Project. She was chosen as one of the Best Lawyers in Washington
by her peers.
Murashige received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis
in 1956, her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1962, and her J.D. summa cum laude from
Santa Clara
University School of Law in 1977. She has taught college chemistry
and was chair of the Physical Sciences Department at the College of San Mateo
for six years.
Kit Pogliano is associate professor of biology at UCSD. She
received her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
at Harvard Medical School and was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral
fellow at Harvard University. She is a recipient of the Searle Scholar and
Beckman Young Investigator awards.
Robert Powell is Robson Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley.
He is the author of numerous works on international relations, most recently In the Shadow of
Power: States and Strategies in International Politics (Princeton U. Press, 1999). Powell's current research focuses on the study of continuing conflicts throughout the world. He is an expert on the application of game theory to nuclear deterrence.
Dr. William
Charles Priedhorsky has been on the staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory
since 1978, and was honored to be named a Laboratory Fellow in 1997. He is chief
scientist in the International, Space, and Response Division. Of special interest
are new technologies to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, whether
nuclear, chemical, or biological.
After joining Los Alamos, Priedhorsky developed x-ray diagnostics for laser
fusion research, and discovered copious hard x-rays from CO2 laser-plasma interaction.
In 1981, he joined the Space Astronomy and Astrophysics group, and began research
into long-term variability on cosmic x-ray sources. From 1995 to 1999, he was
lead project leader for Proliferation Detection Technology, responsible for
a set of projects in active and passive remote sensing, and also responsible
for the laboratory’s efforts in Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat.
From 1999 to 2003 he was chief scientist in the Nonproliferation and International
Security Division, responsible for the health of basic and applied research
in the areas of space science, proliferation detection, treaty monitoring,
nuclear safeguards, and international technologies; since then, he has been
chief scientist in the successor International, Space, and Response Division.
In his astrophysical research, Priedhorsky has concentrated on study of x-ray
binary systems. These are peculiar double stars in which matter is converted
to energy at a prodigious rate as it falls in the gravitational well of a collapsed
star. Priedhorsky and colleagues discovered of quasi-periodic oscillations
in the brightest x-ray source in the sky, Sco X-1. He also shared in the discovery
of the 11-minute binary period of 4U1820-30, the closest binary system in the
sky.
Priedhorsky received a B.A. in physics from Whitman College in 1973, and a
Ph.D. in physics, specializing in x-ray astronomy, from the California Institute
of Technology in 1978. He is an avid outdoorsman and fly fisherman, and is
president of the Los Alamos Mountaineers.
Don Prosnitz is deputy director for strategic
plans for the
Homeland Security Organization (HSO) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
In this position, he is responsible for guiding the LLNL’s strategy
for providing comprehensive solutions, integrating threat, vulnerability, and
tradeoff
analyses,
advanced
technologies,
field-demonstrated prototypes, and operational capabilities to assist federal,
state, local, and private entities in defending against catastrophic terrorism.
In 1996, Prosnitz was
detailed for four months to the office of Nonproliferation and National
Security at the Department of Energy (DOE), where he provided
technical support for the office’s programs and helped formulate DOE’s
Chemical and
Biological National Security Program. Upon his return to LLNL, he was named
chief scientist of the laboratory’s Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and
International Security (NAI) Directorate. In this position, he catalyzed the
development of
new NAI
programs in biological defense and in information operations and assurance.
In
1999, Prosnitz was named chief science and technology advisor for the Department
of Justice (DOJ) by Attorney General Janet Reno. In this newly created position,
he
was responsible for coordinating technology policy among the DOJ’s component
agencies (including FBI, INS, DEA, USMS, BOP) and with state and local law
enforcement entities on science and technology projects and programs. He also
served as a DOJ liaison to the scientific community. He returned to LLNL in
2003.
Prosnitz was born and raised in Roslyn, New York. He graduated summa cum
laude from Yale University in 1970 with a degree in engineering and applied science.
He
was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and received a Ph.D. in
physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
Prosnitz has served on
numerous government panels and is a member of many professional and academic
societies,
including Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the American Association
for
the Advancement of Science. In 2002, he was named a Fellow of the American
Physical Society.
Daniel B. Rodriguez has been dean
of the University of San Diego School of Law since July 1998. From 1988 to
1998, Rodriguez was a professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley.
He teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, state and local government
law, political theories of law/law and theories
of politics, state and local finance, constitutional law, and legislation.
Rodriguez has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University (1993 and 2002), a visiting professor at the McGeorge School of
Law Government Affairs Program (1995), a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics
at the University of Virginia School of Law (1993) and a visiting professor
at the Free University of Amsterdam (1991 and 1992).
Rodriguez earned his J.D. cum laude in 1987 at Harvard Law School, where he
was Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review. He served as judicial
law clerk for the Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
(1987–88). He also is an alumnus of California State University, Long Beach,
where he earned the highest honors as outstanding graduate in the School of
Social and Behavioral Sciences in 1984.
Lawrence Scheinman is Distinguished Professor
of International Policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
emeritus professor, Cornell University, and adjunct professor, Georgetown University.
He also has been a member of the tenured faculties at the University of Michigan
and UC Los Angeles. His government service includes appointment as assistant
director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, responsible for Non-Proliferation
and Regional Arms Control during the Clinton Administration, and earlier appointments
in the Department of Energy, Department of State and Energy Research and Development
Administration. He also served for two years as special assistant to Director
General Hans Blix at the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Scheinman
has published extensively on nuclear proliferation, arms control, safeguards,
international relations and international organization. He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and of the State Department Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Advisory Board. He is admitted to practice before the Bar of the State of New
York.
Dr. Alessandro Sette is currently a member
of of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and head of its Division
of Vaccine Discovery. He also chairs the institute's initiative for Emerging
Infectious
Diseases and Biodefense. Dr. Sette's research
focus is on developing disease intervention strategies based on the specificity
of immune responses.
Dr. Sette graduated in Biological Sciences with a maximum
cum laude degree from the University of Rome. He began his postdoctoral work
at the Laboratory of
Pathology, C.R.E. Casaccia, Rome. He remained there for five years before
continuing his postdoctoral work at the National Jewish Center for Immunology
and Respiratory
Medicine in Denver, Colorado.
In 1988, Dr. Sette left Colorado to join with
Howard Grey, M.D. at the newly founded biotechnology company, Cytel, in
La Jolla, California, and was also appointed as an adjunct assistant professor
in Immunology at The Scripps Research Institute. He became director of
immunology
at Cytel in 1994, a position he held until he left in 1997 to found Epimmune,
where he served both as vice president of research and chief scientific officer.
He joined LIAI in 2002.
Dr. Sette is an editorial board member and peer review consultant for
numerous publications and is recognized as an Institute for
Scientific Information highly cited investigator.
Mark Smolinski, M.D., M.P.H., is
senior program officer, biological programs, at NTI. Before coming to NTI,
Smolinski was a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine of
the
National Academies
of Science and study director for Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection,
and Response. He is a physician and expert in medical epidemiology and public
health.
Smolinski has served in various senior positions in the federal,
state and local governments, including senior advisor to the U.S. Assistant
Secretary for Health and Surgeon General, and epidemic intelligence officer
for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Palmer Taylor is
the founding dean of the Pharmacy School and associate vice
chancellor for health sciences at UC San Diego.
Taylor, who also holds the Sandra and Monroe Trout Chair in Pharmacology, is
a respected scientist and Institute of Medicine member whose laboratory focuses
on the structure, function and gene expression of receptors and enzymes involved
in neurotransmission.
Taylor joined the UCSD Department of Medicine faculty in 1970 and has been
chair of the UCSD Department of Pharmacology since its inception in 1987. His
department
is ranked first in the nation among state-supported schools in research dollars
generated per faculty member, second among all departments in citations per
publication, and third in the National Research Council ranking of graduate
programs in pharmacology.
Jessica
Wallack is assistant professor in the Graduate
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego.
She received her doctorate in political economy from the Stanford University
Graduate
School of Business and her B.A. magna cum laude in political science
from Harvard University.
Wallack's research interests include policymaking under uncertainty and
the politics and economics of development and integration with international
markets. She has co-edited a forthcoming book on the interaction of federalism,
economic reform, and globalization and has published several articles on
various topics in macro political economy.
Her regional focus is Latin America and India.
Wallack has worked for the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank,
and the Asian Development Bank prior to coming to UC San Diego.
Barbara
Walter is
an authority on international security, with an emphasis on internal wars,
conflict termination, and bargaining and cooperation. Her current research
and teaching interests include bargaining failures,self-determination movements
and state building in the aftermath of war. Publications include: Committing
to Peace: The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 2001); "War as a Reputation Problem", International
Organization (forthcoming),"Sabotaging
the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence," with Andrew Kydd, International
Organization, Spring 2002; "The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement," International
Organization, Summer 1997; "Designing Transitions from Violent Civil
War" International
Security, Summer 1999; and Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1999) co-edited with Jack Snyder. She is
currently
working on a book manuscript on reputation and war, and one on strategies
of extremist violence. Walter is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships,
including awards from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Smith Richardson Foundations.
Steven Weber is associate professor of political
science at the University of California, Berkeley; affiliated professor
of the Energy and Resources Group; and an associate with the Berkeley Roundtable
on the International Economy (BRIE). His areas of special interest include
international political economy, political and social change in the “new” economy,
and the political economy of globalization and European integration.
Weber
completed his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1989 and has taught at Stanford, Harvard,
and Berkeley. He has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
For 1992, he served as special consultant to the president of the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He is a consultant
with Global Business Network in Emeryville, California.
Weber’s publications
include Cooperation and Discord in U.S.-Soviet Arms Control (Princeton
University Press); the edited volume Globalization and The European
Political Economy (Columbia University Press); and numerous articles and chapters
in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of trade and finance,
politics of the post-Cold War world, and European integration. His current
research focuses on changes in the business cycle and implications for
firms and governments,
the development of new equity markets in Europe, the evolution of international
organizations, and the political economy of knowledge-based industries and
open-source software models.
Cyndi Wells joined the staff
of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2000. She is a technical
staff member in the Nonproliferation Division, whose work spans across
several divisions at the laboratory. Her work is focused on nonproliferation
of chemical and biological weapons from several different perspectives,
including informing policy, policy analysis, and intelligence analysis.
She is also keenly interested in improving technology for detection of
chemical weapons and heads a basic technical research project in this
area.
Wells is the LANL appointed representative to both the Biological
and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention Interlaboratory
Working Groups of the Department of Energy. As the LANL representative
to these groups, she is responsible for the Laboratory's completion
of the annual Confidence Building Measures. In 2003–2004, she was
a member of the Iraq Survey Group's Chemical Warfare Agent Team, based
in Baghdad.
The Iraq Survey Group is a fact-finding mission into the state of the
weapons
of mass destruction (WMD) programs developed by Iraq under the regime
of Saddam Hussein.
In 1994, Wells received a B.S. with high honors in chemistry and Japanese
from the University of Michigan. In 1999, she received a Ph.D. in physical
chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.
John R. Wetherell has more than eighteen years of experience
in intellectual property law. His counseling experience includes intellectual
property
acquisition, transactional
due diligence, patent infringement and validity analyses, freedom-to-operate
opinions, as well as licensing and strategic counseling. Wetherell’s
patent prosecution experience includes obtaining U.S. and foreign protection
in biotechnology areas such as molecular biology, immunology, nanotechnology,
medical diagnostics, microbiology and pharmacology. He also evaluates intellectual
property portfolios for both companies and investors.
Wetherell received a B.S. in chemistry, and a Ph.D.
in Microbiology/ Immunology, both from the University of Florida, and
a J.D.
from Seton Hall School of Law. He conducted post-doctoral research,
including studies on the humoral and cellular immune responses in periodontal
disease, at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, where he concurrently held
an NIH post-doctoral fellowship and a Young Principal Investigator’s
award. Before becoming an attorney, he gained extensive experience as
a research scientist and manager during his five-year tenure in the biotechnology
industry.
Wetherell is on the UC San Diego faculty,
where he teaches courses in biotechnology patent law, strategy, and related
transactional issues. He has written and lectured extensively for many
organizations and institutions. In addition, he has lectured to a variety
of groups around the world on topics related to patent law.
Dean Wilkening has been
the director of the Science Program at CISAC since 1995. After receiving
his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1982, he spent two years
studying defense policy on a Ford Foundation fellowship at the Center for
Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. In 1983 he joined the staff of the RAND Corporation, where
he held several management positions as a senior researcher in the Engineering
and Applied Sciences and International Policy departments.
From 1985–1994
Dr. Wilkening taught courses on nuclear weapons policy at the University
of California, Los Angeles. His major research interests
include nuclear strategy, ballistic missile defense, chemical and biological
weapons proliferation, and arms control. His most recent publication
is entitled "Ballistic Missile Defense and Strategic Stability" (Adelphi
Paper 334, 2000).
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