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Symposium Program

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introduction - Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider 9:15-10:45 Session I - Unfinished Business: Facing the Dual Threat of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Disease

• U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (D) Connecticut
  Question and answer session
• Coffee Break
• U.S. Representative Christopher Cox (R) California
  Question and answer session

10:45-11:45 Session II - Countermeasures and Responses to Bioterror and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Realistic Assessment of National Preparedness and Next Steps

Panel Discussion - Preparedness and Response: Where are we? Where do we need to go? How do we get there?
Moderated by Tara O'Toole, MD, MPH
President & CEO, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Panelists:

• Richard Falkenrath, PhD
  Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  Former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Assistant to the President
• Elin A. Gursky, ScD
  Principal Deputy for Biodefense, National Strategies Support Directorate, ANSER
• James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM
  Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Executive Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health
• Michael McDonald, DrPH
  President, Global Health Initiatives
• Randall Murch, PhD
  Associate Director for Research Program Development, Virginia Tech
• George Poste, DVM, PhD, DSc
  Director, Arizona Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

11:45-12:30 Session III - Preparing for the Inevitable: a New Paradigm for Security and Health

• U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R) North Carolina
  Question and answer session
• U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) New York
  Question and answer session

Summary and Conclusions
Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, PhD
Pfizer Medical Humanities Scholar in Residence, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Public Policy Institute and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

12:30 Adjourn

Event Sponsors:

• Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
• Center for Law & the Public's Health at Georgetown & Johns Hopkins University
• Virginia Tech, Office of the National Capital Region
• Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Featuring

Monday, March 3, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm

Frederic de Hoffmann Auditorium, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

TSN Signature Series

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