SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Tony D. Hinson, P.E., serves as the Associate Director for Engineering Policy and served as the Director of Engineering and Technology and the Deputy Chief Engineer for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). NAVFAC is responsible for the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of structures and facilities comprising the Naval Shore Establishment. Mr. Hinson provides the interdisciplinary engineering policy, guidance, and consultation for the Command. He also provides direction, management and leadership in formulating policies and guidance related to research, development, testing and evaluation, design, and engineering support of the Navy’s facilities.

Mr. Hinson has led initiatives to apply antiterrorist and security concepts to planning, design, construction, and operation of Navy and Department of Defense facilities. These initiatives resulted in the creation and implementation of Command and Tri-Service policy and training, the development of design guidance and criteria, and design and construction of more secure facilities. Mr. Hinson currently is chairman of the Physical Security and Hazard Mitigation Committee of the Federal Facilities Council (FFC), Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (NRC). He was an agency liaison to the NRC committee that authored The Protection of Federal Buildings Against Terrorism, in 1988.

Mr. Hinson received a bachelor of science in civil engineering from North Carolina State University, graduated from The U. S. Naval War College, received a master of public administration from The American University, and received a master of science in management from Salve Regina University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana and South Carolina and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Society of Logistics Engineers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the American Planning Association, and the American Society for Public Administration.

His honors and awards include: CHI EPSILON, National Honorary Civil Engineering Fraternity; Who's Who in Engineering; Naval Facilities Engineering Command Engineer of the Year; the Facilities Engineering Award of Excellence by the Society of Logistics Engineers; the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Medal; numerous Navy Merit Awards; and a Special Services Act from the Combined Federal Campaign.

Eric K. Noji, M.D., M.P.H., is associate director for Bio-Emergency Preparedness and Response within the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Since September 11, 2001, he has been on detail from CDC as senior medical advisor to the White House Office of Homeland Security. Before joining CDC he was chief of the Emergency Health Intelligence Unit in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Department of Emergency and Humanitarian Action in Geneva, Switzerland responsible for assessing the needs of and monitoring the health of refugee, displaced, and emergency-affected populations around the world. Prior to working at WHO, Dr. Noji was Chief of the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at the Centers for Disease Control responsible for coordinating the CDC's medical and public health response to international requests for assistance for disasters, and other humanitarian crises (e.g., refugee and displaced population situations). From 1990-1995, he was Chief of the Disaster Assessment and Epidemiology Section in the Centers for Disease Control's Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects responsible for investigating acute health effects of natural and man-made disasters.

Dr. Noji completed his studies in biology at Stanford University, and received his medical degree at the University of Rochester. He subsequently completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago and his public health degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. For the six years prior to coming to the CDC, he was a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an attending emergency physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His major area of academic interest concerns the medical and health response to natural, biological and technological disasters including refugee crises, complex humanitarian emergencies and terrorism. Current research interests include the development of methods to rapidly assess healthcare needs in disasters, the development of casualty estimation models for

different types of disasters, and epidemiological studies of injuries, illnesses, and medical response to several recent natural and technological disasters, and humanitarian crises (e.g., refugees and displaced populations). Dr. Noji is the author or co-author of more than 130 scientific articles and publications on disaster medicine, disaster epidemiology, refugees and complex humanitarian emergencies including the Public Health Consequences of Disasters (Oxford University Press, 1997). In addition to his responsibilities at CDC, he serves as a member of several national and international committees for disaster and emergency medical services. Dr. Noji is a Captain (O-6) in the Commissioned Officer Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Anthony Macintyre, MD is a board certified emergency physician and assistant professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. His academic career has focused on medical emergency preparedness at various levels. In particular, he has helped develop a mass decontamination capability for the George Washington University Hospital (key concepts recently published in Journal of the American Medical Association) and has served as a medical advisor and coordinator for the federally sponsored Bio-terrorism exercise, TOPOFF 2000 held in Denver, Colorado last year. Dr. Macintyre has served as the medical director for Fairfax County’s Urban Search and Rescue team since 1995. His work with the team has involved deployments to the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City (1995), the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi (1998), the terrorist attack at the Pentagon (2001), and to several international earthquakes.

John A. Barrett is the program director, building protection, at the Battelle Memorial Institute. He has more than 15 years of chemical and biological (CB) protection technology advancement, product development, and application experience that he has applied to develop and lead Battelle’s CB building and infrastructure protection program. Throughout his career, he has focused on the advancement of CB defense and protection technologies for the U.S. Army, the Joint Services, and over the last few years, counterterrorism, domestic preparedness, and homeland security applications. He has been technically involved in many aspects of CB protection, including CB detection, collective and physical protection, CB decontamination, and smoke and obscurants. Today he leads Battelle’s efforts in applying CB and other protection technologies and equipment to government and commercial building and infrastructure assets to provide protection in the event of a CB terrorist incident.

Mr. Barrett holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Catholic University of America, a MBA from Loyola College of Maryland, and a M.S. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Dennis Reutter, Ph.D., has served as the chief of the Forensic Analytical Laboratory at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Forensic Analytical Center, of the Soldier Biological Chemical Command of the U.S. Army since 1994. The U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command provides support in three main areas of defense: research, development and acquisition; emergency preparedness and response; and safe, secure chemical weapons storage, remediation and demilitarization. Dr. Reutter has also held a number of positions at the Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center, including chief of sampling and analysis team; treaty verification research and development team; and chief of the Chemometric and Biometric Modeling Branch. He was a group leader for Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Research at the Army’s Chemical Systems Laboratory, a research chemist and instructor in forensic sciences at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a research chemist at the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Reutter holds a bachelor of science in chemistry and physics from Alma College and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Duke University.

Raymond Mackay, Ph.D., is the director, research and technology, at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center of the U.S. Army. He is also the Army representative to the Joint Services Technical Panel on Chemical Biological Defense. During his career, Dr. Mackay has served as the director of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing, acting director of research, chief of the detection technology division, and chief of the chemical division research directorate of the Chemical Research Development and Engineering Center at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. He is a professor of chemistry at Clarkson University and previously taught at Drexel University. Dr. Mackay has produced more than 80 publications in reviewed journals, and 50 reports and government publications. He has a B.S. in chemistry from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Richard G. Little is director of the Division of Infrastructure of the National Research Council (NRC) where he develops and directs a program of studies in building and infrastructure research and maintains outreach and liaison with federal agencies, the legislative branch, and affiliated organizations. He is currently managing the activities of an expert committee charged with the review and assessment of physical approaches, research needs, and technology transfer strategies to improve the performance of buildings and facilities from the effects of terrorist bombings and other hostile activities. In 1999, in response to a Senate request, he organized a workshop on the role of the National Academies in critical infrastructure protection. He has participated in a Department of Defense working group to develop strategies for the use of underground facilities for the protection of vital systems and co-edited, The Use of Underground Facilities for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure. He has directed NRC study activities, participated in workshops and panels, and written several papers dealing with blast-effects mitigation and critical infrastructure protection. Mr. Little has more than 25 years experience in the planning, management, and policy development relating to public facilities. He has been certified by examination by the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a member of the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association. Mr. Little holds a B.S. in geology and a M.S. in urban-environmental studies, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.