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Understanding the Threat of Bioterrorism | Welcome and Symposium Introduction | Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies [Published proceedings]
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| Keynote Address | Donna E. Shalala
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services [Published proceedings]
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I. Reality of the Threat — Why Is There Concern Now? Introduction and Chair
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| David Siegrist
The Potomac Institute
[Published proceedings • Slides] | | Russia and Iraq |  | Christopher Davis, OBE, DPhil
Consultant in Pharmaceutical Medicine and Applied Physiology
Director, The ORAQ Consultancy Ltd.
[Published proceedings • Slides]
| | U.S. Militia Movement |  | Jessica Stern, PhD
Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Formerly with the National Security Council
[Published proceedings • Slides]
| | Aum Shinrikyo | 
| Kyle Olson, MPA
Special Projects Manager, Research Planning, Inc.
[Published proceedings • Slides]
| | Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism |  | Jason Pate, PhD
Monterey Institute for International Studies (substituted for Jonathan Tucker)
[Published proceedings • Slides]
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II. Which Biological Threat Agents Are of Highest Concern? | Creating the Threat List | 
| Colonel Gerald W. Parker, DVM, PhD
Director, U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases
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| | Epidemiology of Bioterrorism | 
| Major Julie Pavlin, MD, MPH
Chief of Field Studies, Division of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Former Assistant Chief, Operational Medicine Division, U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases
[Published proceedings • Slides] | | Smallpox | 
| Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
[Published proceedings • Slides]
| | Anthrax | Colonel Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Operational Medicine,
U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases
[Published proceedings • Slides]
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III. Biological Terrorism - What Could Happen Here? | Anthrax: A Possible Case History |  | Thomas V. Inglesby, MD
Fellow, Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
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IV. Perceptions from the Hill and the Governor's Mansion | View from the Hill |  | S. Anthony McCann
Staff Assistant, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, House Appropriations Committee
[Published proceedings]
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| Dinner Speaker |  | Richard Clarke
National Coordinator, Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-Terrorism, National Security Council
[Published proceedings] |
February 17, 1999
Responding to Bioterrorism I. Scenario - An Intentional Smallpox Epidemic [Published scenario] [Slides for all four panels] Tara J. O'Toole, M.D., M.P.H.
Chair: Donald Henderson
Moderator: George Strait, ABC News Panel 1: Threat Intelligence and Diagnosis of Smallpox [slides] Emergency Department: Gregory Moran, MD
Infectious Disease: John G. Bartlett, MD
Hospital: Julie Gerbelding, MD
City Emergency Management: Jerome H. Hauer, MPH
State Health Laboratory: Michael Ascher, MD, FACP
State Health Department: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Governor's Office: Arne Carlson
FBI: Robert M. Blitzer
Panel 2: Early Response [slides] Emergency Department: Gregory Moran, MD
Hospital: Julie Gerbelding, MD
City Emergency Management: Jerome H. Hauer, MPH
State Health Department: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
FBI: Robert M. Blitzer
CDC: Scott R. Lillibridge, MD
Media: Joanne Rodgers
Panel 3: Quarantine and Vaccination [slides] Hospital: Trish Perl, MD, MPH
City Emergency Management: Jerome H. Hauer, MPH
State Health Department: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Office of Emergency Preparedness: Robert F. Knouss, MD
CDC: Scott R. Lillibridge, MD
Mental Health: Robert DeMartino, MD
Media: Joanne Rodgers
Legal: Terry O'Brien, JD
Panel 4: The Epidemic Expands and Final Discussion [slides] Emergency Department: Gregory Moran, MD
Infectious Disease: John G. Bartlett, MD
Hospital: Julie Gerbelding, MD and Trish Perl, MD, MPH
City Emergency Management: Jerome H. Hauer, MPH
State Health Laboratory: Michael Ascher, MD, FACP
State Health Department: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Governor's Office: Arne Carlson
FBI: Robert M. Blitzer
CDC: Scott R. Lillibridge, MD
Office of Emergency Preparedness: Robert F. Knouss, MD
Media: Joanne Rodgers
II. Reprise | Applying Lessons Learned | 
| John G. Bartlett, MD
Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
Professor of Medicine and Chief for the Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
[Published proceedings • Slides]
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III. Working Lunch: Special Issues - Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals | Introduction and Chair | 
| James M. Hughes, MD
Director of The National Center of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Published proceedings] | | FDA |  | Kathryn C. Zoon, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
[Published proceedings • Slides]
| | Vaccines | 
| Philip K. Russell, MD
Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
Former Director, U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases
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| Concluding Remarks: Where Do We Go from Here? | Margaret A. Hamburg, MD
Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services
[Published proceedings]
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