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Planning Committee Biographies
Scott A. Mugno, J.D. (Co-chair) is the Vice President, Safety and Vehi-
cle Maintenance at FedEx Ground. Mr. Mugno and his department of
200 employees focus to create a safe work environment for all employ-
ees, contractors, and the public, eliminating accidents and injuries while
maintaining regulatory compliance. They are responsible for ensuring all
equipment meets Department of Transportation requirements and is op-
erational to service the transportation needs of the company. They man-
age fuel inventory reconciliation, retail pricing, and administration of a
fleet retail fuel card. Mr. Mugno has been in the environmental, health,
safety, or transportation arenas for more than 20 years. He joined FedEx
Express as a senior attorney in the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Depart-
ment. He was promoted to the position of Managing Director, Safety,
Health and Fire Prevention, where he worked in Memphis before accept-
ing his current position at FedEx Ground in Pittsburgh. Prior to FedEx,
Mr. Mugno was division counsel at Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s
Waste Isolation Division and deputy staff judge advocate for the Eastern
Region U.S. Army Military Traffic Management command. He has held
other legal positions in the Army JAG Corps and in private-practice law
firms. Mr. Mugno regularly represents FedEx at various trade and safety
association and committee meetings and is a frequent speaker before
those and other groups.
William F. Raub, Ph.D. (Co-chair), retired in January 2009 after more
than 42 years in the employ of the Federal Government, primarily the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Current activities
include advising the U.S. Postal Service on public health emergency pre-
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paredness, advising HHS on vaccine safety infrastructure, serving as Ad-
junct Staff for the RAND Corporation, serving on the Science Advisory
Board of George Mason University, and performing volunteer work for
St. John’s Church, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dr. Raub held a wide variety
of positions within the federal government, including Science Advisor to
the Secretary, HHS (1995-2009); Science Advisor to the Administrator
of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (1992-1995);
Special Assistant within the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
Executive Office of the President of the United States (1991-1992); Act-
ing Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (1989-1991); and Depu-
ty Director, NIH (1986-1991). Dr. Raub received numerous awards,
including the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award, the
Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, the HHS Distinguished
Service Award, the American Medical Association’s Nathan Davis
Award, and the Society of Research Administrators’ Award for Distin-
guished Contribution to Research Administration.
James W. Buehler, M.D., is the director of the Public Health Surveil-
lance Program Office (PHSPO) at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). From 1981 to 2002, Dr. Buehler served as a medical
epidemiologist in the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) at CDC, where
he worked in general field epidemiology, maternal and child health,
HIV/AIDS prevention, and, for a short period in 2001, anthrax. His work
in public health surveillance has spanned analysis, methods development,
surveillance system design and management, assurance of ethical prac-
tice, and linkage of surveillance and other scientific evidence to program
management, policy development, and community-based prevention
planning. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the Epidemiology Department
at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where he
focused on the role of epidemiology in public health preparedness and
response programs and on the emerging field of public health systems
research. In 2009, he returned to CDC to contribute to surveillance of
pandemic H1N1 influenza. Since 2010, he has served as the Director of
PHSPO, which is responsible for managing several national surveillance
systems, including the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System,
BioSense, and the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, and
for providing a focal point at CDC for advancing surveillance science
and practice in support of public health programs.
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Joseph Kielman, Ph.D., serves as Science Advisor in the Science and
Technology Directorate (S&T) at the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), where he is the Chief Scientist for the Infrastructure Protection
and Disaster Management Division (IDD) and also Chief of its Visuali-
zation Analytics Technologies Branch. He also manages two Centers of
Excellence for the S&T Office of University Programs. Dr. Kielman es-
tablished and directs the National Visualization and Analytics Center;
manages the Precision Information Environments program; and oversees
joint programs with the National Science Foundation (FODAVA), De-
fence Research and Development Canada, and the German BMBF. Im-
mediately prior to joining DHS, Dr. Kielman worked for 20 years at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he was successively Chief
of the Advanced Technology Group in the Engineering Section, Chief of
Research and Development for the Technical Services Division, and
Chief Scientist and also Chief Architect at the Information Resources
Division. His work at the FBI included development of advanced infor-
mation collection and surveillance systems, microelectronic and micro-
mechanical design capabilities, advanced computer architectures, and
information processing and analysis technologies. Dr. Kielman has an
undergraduate degree in physics and graduate degrees in biophysics and
did postdoctoral work in genetics. In 2006 he was awarded the Presiden-
tial Rank of Meritorious Senior Professional.
Richard C. Larson, Ph.D., is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) Mitsui Professor in the Engineering Systems Division. He is
founding director of the Center for Engineering System Fundamentals.
He has focused on operations research as applied to services industries,
primarily in the fields of criminal justice, technology-enabled education,
urban service systems, queueing, logistics, workforce planning, and
planning for and response to disasters. He is Past-President of
INFORMS, INstitute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an
INFORMS Founding Fellow, and a recipient of the INFORMS Presi-
dent’s Award, Lanchester Prize and Kimball Medal. From 1995 to mid-
2003, Dr. Larson served as Director of MIT’s CAES, Center for
Advanced Educational Services. He was founder, with Glenn Strehle, of
MIT World (http://mitworld.mit.edu). He is founding Director of LINC
(http://linc.mit.edu), Learning International Networks Consortium, an
MIT-based international project that has held five international symposia
and sponsored a number of initiatives in Africa, China and the Middle
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East. With Elizabeth Murray, he recently started LINC’s newest and
largest initiative, BLOSSOMS, Blended Learning Open Source Science
or Math Studies (http://blossoms.mit.edu).
Mark E. Teachman, D.V.M., is Director for Interagency Coordination
in the National Center for Animal Health Emergency Management,
which resides in the Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS). He
leads a team of subject-matter expert liaisons that are either imbedded in
another federal agency or liaise with other agencies as needed. These
subject-matter experts are focused on identifying assets (people, teams,
information, or other tools) that can be used to support a response to an
animal health emergency. They also provide the agencies they liaise with
appropriate information about National Center for Animal Health Emer-
gency Management (NCAHEM) activities and animal health emergency
response requirements. Dr. Teachman graduated from Michigan State
University, College of Veterinary Medicine, in 1984. From 1984 until
joining the federal government, Dr. Teachman was in private practice
and involved in a family computer business. In 1988, he joined the
USDA, APHIS, VS, and was assigned to APHIS, VS Headquarters on
the Import-Export Staff working animal import issues. He worked on
trade related issues on the Import-Export Staff for three years before
transferring to the Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH)
in Fort Collins, Colorado. At CEAH, Dr. Teachman focused on infor-
mation management, epidemiology, and animal production food safety
for 3 years. In 1997, he returned to APHIS, to work for the VS, Emer-
gency Management & Diagnostics (EM&D) Staff in Riverdale, Mary-
land. Dr. Teachman focused on long-range strategic planning, liaison, or
outreach activities to explain APHIS response actions or recruit re-
sources to help in a global response, and defining information manage-
ment strategies for animal health emergency management community.
As a Staff Officer on EM&D, he developed, implemented, and partici-
pated in many international and national exercises to evaluate and im-
prove the nation’s ability to respond to animal health emergencies. Some
of the groups he exercised with over the years include the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS),
Department of Defense (DOD), various states, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, and Mexico. He also promoted the use of modeling tools such as
APHIS, VS’s North American Animal Disease Spread Model to support
animal health emergency management-response planning, and was inti-
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mately involved in an interagency working group to develop a long term
vision for research and development of animal disease spread models.
Michael M. Wagner, M.D., Ph.D. (P.I.), is an Associate Professor of
Biomedical Informatics (primary appointment) and of Intelligent Sys-
tems (secondary) at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wagner is the Di-
rector of the Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS)
Laboratory of the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the Universi-
ty of Pittsburgh. He obtained a B.S. in biology from the State University
of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1975, an M.D. from the New
York University (NYU) School of Medicine in 1979, and a Ph.D. in arti-
ficial intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. Dr. Wag-
ner’s primary research interest is informatics in public health. Since
1999, he has been developing information technology to detect out-
breaks. He has served as principal investigator on several large grants
involving the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU) to develop and deploy advanced methods of biosurveillance. He
was chief editor and a principle contributor to Handbook of
Biosurveillance. At present, Dr. Wagner is principal investigator on a
grant entitled “Decision Making in Biosurveillance,” and of the Universi-
ty of Pittsburgh’s Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics,
funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr.
Wagner has served on two Defense Science Boards (2001, 2002) in the
areas of intelligence for biological warfare and on defense against bio-
logical attacks. The Defense Science Boards advise the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the Secretary of Defense about science priorities for the De-
partment of Defense (DOD). After the Anthrax attacks of October 2001,
Dr. Wagner testified before the House Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, Subcommittee on Hearing of the Oversight and Investigations
(November 1, 2001), and, with Dr. Andrew Moore, briefed President
Bush, Secretary Thompson, and Governor Ridge on the RODS research
(February 5, 2002).
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