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Committee and Staff Biographies
COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Lewis R. Goldfrank, M.D., Chair, is director of emergency medicine, New
York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Medical Center. He is the
medical director of the New York City Poison Control Center. Dr.
Goldfrank served as president of the Society of Academic Emergency
Medicine and chaired the American Board of Emergency Medicine's
Subboard on Medical Toxicology. He is coeditor of the Agency for Toxic
Substances Disease Registry's Medical Guidelines for Managing Hazmat In-
cidents and senior editor of Goldirank's Toxicologic Emergencies, a standard
text in medical toxicology. Dr. Goldfrank previously served as the chair
of the Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response
System Program and as a member of the Committee on Research and De-
velopment Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical
and Biological Terrorism Incidents. Dr. Goldfrank is a member of the
Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Gerard A. lacobs, Ph.D., is the director of the Disaster Mental Health
Institute at the University of South Dakota. He is also an officer of the
American Red Cross Disaster Services Human Resources (the national
disaster team) and the Red Cross Aviation Incident Response Team, and
served as the Red Cross national consultant for dsaster mental health from
1992 to 2000. His disaster responses have ranged from the impact of an oil
fire in a remote rural community to the terrorist attack on the World Trade
Center on September 11, 2001, as well as numerous aviation and natural
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disasters. Dr. lacobs was a member of the American Psychological
Association's (APA's) Advisory Committee for the national Disaster Re-
sponse Network and also served as a member of the APA's national task
force to study the responses to the Oklahoma City bombing. In addition,
Dr. lacobs serves as a consultant to the International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Dr. lacobs is an author of the World
Health Organization's (WHO's) Tool for the Rapid Assessment of Mental
Health Needs of Refugees, Displaced and Other Populations Affected by
Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations: A Community-Oriented Assess-
ment.
Carol S. North, M.D., M.P.E., is a board-certified psychiatrist and pro-
fessor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis, Missouri. She serves as director of consultation-liaison psychiatry
and director of emergency psychiatry at Washington University/Barnes-
lewish Hospital in St. Louis. Dr. North is a psychiatric epidemiologist
who has specialized in the mental health effects of disasters and terror-
ism for 15 years. She and her team have accumulated a systematic data-
base on more than 2,000 victims of a dozen major disasters in the United
States and internationally, including the Oklahoma City bombing and
the bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa. Data from these stud-
ies have provided direction and practical guidance to policymakers and
mental health workers designing interventions after other disasters. In
1993, Dr. North led regional efforts in eastern Missouri to provide mental
health relief after the Great Midwestern Floods. She testified to the U.S.
Senate about the mental health effects of the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon and has consulted for the Food and Drug
Administration on pharmaceutical indications for posttraumatic stress
disorder.
Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., M.P.H., is the medical director and state epide-
miologist for the Iowa Department of Public Health. Yearly, for the past
10 years, she has conducted week-long epidemiologic training courses in
Europe, and she teaches regularly at the University of Iowa, Des Moines
University (Medicine and Health Sciences), Iowa State University, and
other educational institutes around Iowa. She has expertise in clinical
microbiology (MT(ASCP)) and infectious disease epidemiology. Dr.
Quinlisk serves, or has served, on several national advisory committees
including the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Marine Corps Chemical/
Biological Incident Response Force, the Department of Defense's Panel to
Assess the Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Acts Involving
Weapons of Mass Destruction (the Gilmore Commission), and as presi-
dent of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Re-
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cently, she testified before two congressional subcommittees on public
health aspects of terrorism and served as a member on the IOM Commit-
tee on Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century.
Robert l. Ursano, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and
chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services Uni-
versity of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, where he is also direc-
tor of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Ursano is widely
published in areas including the psychological effects of terrorism,
bioterrorism, traumatic events, and disasters and combat. He and his
team have served as consultants and completed studies on numerous di-
sasters, disaster rescue workers, motor vehicle accident victims, family
violence, and Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Gulf War veterans. He was a
national consultant for planning clinical care responses and research pro-
grams following the September 11th terrorist attacks. Dr. Ursano is a
member of the Advisory Board of the National Partnership for Workplace
Mental Health (American Psychiatric Association), the Scientific Advisory
Board on Bioterrorism of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, and the Advisory
Board of the Center on Terrorism of the University of Oklahoma School of
Medicine.
Nancy E. Wallace, C.S.W., is the founder and president of New Health
Directions, Inc., a company providing Employee Assistance Program con-
sulting services to corporations and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Wallace
is a social worker specializing in employee relations, program develop-
ment, and disaster relief and traumatic stress in the workplace. Ms.
Wallace is also currently working with University Settlement Society of
New York under Project Liberty, a September 11th disaster recovery pro-
gram sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the
Center for Mental Health Services. A frequent speaker and trainer both
globally and throughout the United States, Ms. Wallace also works with
the United Nations (U.N.) in various capacities. For the past 10 years, she
has acted as the Main Representative to the U.N. for the World Federation
for Mental Health, and helped to found the U.N. Non-Governmental Or-
ganizations Committee on Mental Health. Ms. Wallace spent a number of
years working as a corporate officer in the area of employee relations and
also as a community organizer in New York City. She has been involved
in mental health disaster relief efforts during some of the country's worst
disasters, such as Hurricane Andrew, TWA Flight 800, and the September
11th attacks on the World Trade Center. She has provided expert consul-
tation and training on crisis management in natural disasters in both Tai-
wan and the Caribbean.
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Marleen Wong, L.C.S.W., is director of crisis counseling and intervention
services for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is also director of
school crisis and disaster recovery for the National Center for Child Trau-
matic Stress (NCCTS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
Duke University. Since 1974, Ms. Wong has developed and administered
crisis teams and mental health programs for the second-largest school dis-
trict in the United States; after September 11, 2001, she provided compa-
rable services for the NCCTS. Ms. Wong assisted schools as an immediate
on-site consultant for the U.S. Department of Education after the Los An-
geles riots and the Northridge earthquake, the Murrah Federal Building
bombing in Oklahoma City, the Thurston and Columbine High School
shootings, and the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
Internationally, she has advised teacher unions, and school and govern-
ment officials on school disaster recovery after earthquakes in Kobe, la-
pan, and the Peoples' Republic of China. She is author of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice "COPS in Schools" curriculum on mental health
interventions; coauthor of articles on the treatment of traumatized stu-
dents exposed to violence; and lead editor for the lane's Information
Group Handbook on School Safety.
IOM STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Andrew Pope, Ph.D., is acting director of the Board on Neuroscience and
Behavioral Health and director of the Board on Health Sciences Policy at
the Institute of Medicine. With expertise in physiology and biochemistry,
his primary interests focus on environmental and occupational influences
on human health. Dr. Pope's previous research activities focused on the
neuroendocrine and reproductive effects of various environmental sub-
stances on food-producing animals. During his tenure at the National
Academy of Sciences and since 1989 at the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Pope
has directed numerous reports on topics that include injury control, dis-
ability prevention, biologic markers, neurotoxicology, indoor allergens,
and the enhancement of environmental and occupational health content
in medical and nursing school curricula. Most recently, Dr. Pope directed
studies on the National Institutes of Health priority-setting processes,
fluid resuscitation practices in combat casualties, and organ procurement
and transplantation.
Adrienne Stith Butler, Ph.D., is a program officer in the Division of Neu-
roscience and Behavioral Health. She is also currently serving as pro-
gram officer for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Institu-
tional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S.
Health Care Workforce, within the Board on Health Sciences Policy. Pre-
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viously, she served as program officer for the IOM report Unequal Treat-
ment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, also conducted
within the Board on Health Sciences Policy. Prior to working at the Insti-
tute of Medicine, she served as the lames Marshall Public Policy Scholar,
a fellowship sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of So-
cial Issues and the American Psychological Association. In this position,
based in Washington, D.C., she engaged in policy analysis and pursued
legislative issues related to ethnic disparities in health care and health
research, racial profiling, and counseling provisions in the reauthoriza-
tion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Dr. Butler is a clini-
cal psychologist, receiving her doctorate in 1997 from the University of
Vermont. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in adolescent medi-
cine and pediatric psychology at the University of Rochester Medical Cen-
ter in Rochester, New York.
Allison M. Panzer is a research assistant in the Board on Neuroscience
and Behavioral Health. She is also currently serving as the research assis-
tant for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Health Literacy.
Previously, she worked on the IOM report Reducing Suicide: A National
Imperative. Ms. Panzer received her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan
University with course work in psychology, neuroscience, and sociology.
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