| Steering & Sustainability Expert Committee |
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| Dr. Lumie Kawasaki Head of Geriatrics, Tulane University, & VA, New Orleans (co-chair) Lumie Kawasaki, MD, MBA serves as the Associate Chief of Staff/Geriatrics and Extended Care for Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System and is an Associate Professor of Medicine/Tulane University School of Medicine. She is a native of Louisiana, although has lived throughout the northeastern part of the country for several years before returning to Louisiana in 2003. She is board-certified in Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine. |
| Abby Browning Office of Private Sector and NGO Coordination, CA Office of Emergency Services Abby Browning is the Chief of the Office of Private Sector / NGO Coordination for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. She works directly with partners from private sector, non-profit, community and volunteer groups, faith-based, higher education, and philanthropy. Before joining the Newsom Administration and Cal OES, Abby served as the Special Advisor for International Trade for Governor Brown and worked with the Schwarzenegger Administration while employed with the California Chamber of Commerce. She coordinated and led trade missions to China, Japan, Korea, Israel, Chile, Canada, and Mexico on behalf of the Governor for California’s business community. Abby has a B.A. in Political Science (foreign affairs) from West Virginia University and a Master of the Arts degree in Government (political theory) from California State University, Sacramento. |
| Scott Gregory Dep. Director of Technology, CAL FIRE (SSEC Co-chair) Scott Gregory is the Deputy Director of Technology at CalFire supervising the Information Technology Services, Telecommunications, and Research and Development programs. Scott has over 20 years of experience in developing and managing complex IT implementations across local, state, and federal government, as well as the private sector and academia. In his previous role as the State’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer at the California Department of Technology, he created the first statewide open data platform for better information sharing, the state’s first innovation lab and innovation academy. Scott has also served as the State’s Geographic Information Officer and led the first statewide GIS infrastructure, launching the California Geoportal in 2013. Scott served as the manager of the west coast public safety/homeland security market for Esri Inc. where he interacted with US Dept. of Homeland Security to train public safety professionals to assess critical infrastructure and key assets across California. |
| Dr. Terry Harvath UC Davis, Healthy Aging Institute Terri Harvath, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, is a Professor and the Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. She is also the founding Director of the Family Caregiving Institute in the School of Nursing, which strives to support the millions of individuals who provide care to aging family members or friends. Through provider and caregiver education, along with research for best practices and methods to assist this invisible workforce, she leads experts who elevate the role of family caregivers within the larger health care system. Currently, Dr. Harvath serves as the past-President and Board Chair of the Gerontological Society of America, the largest interdisciplinary organization in the US devoted to the field of aging. An internationally recognized expert in gerontological nursing and nursing education, Harvath currently leads an effort to build comprehensive services for older adults and their family caregivers at UC Davis Health. Whether in teaching, research or clinical practice, Dr. Harvath’s passion centers on the health and health care for frail, older people and their family caregivers. |
| Kevin Kelley Red Cross Kevin F. Kelley, PMP, is the Senior Director, Community Preparedness Programs at the American Red Cross. In this role, he manages national teams that develop, promulgate and evaluate effective programs to build community resilience and preparedness through the Red Cross regional network. Programs managed include: the Home Fire Campaign of community risk-reduction home safety visits, reaching more than 4.2 million people with safety education and the installation of more than 2.3 million smoke alarms; Disaster Mobile Apps; Community Preparedness Education Programs, including Ready Rating business prep and Be Red Cross Ready adult prep offerings, and Youth Education offerings, including The Pillowcase Project and Prepare with Pedro curricula. Kevin represents Red Cross on community resilience and preparedness issues is currently on the National Fire Protection Association Educational Messaging Advisory Committee; the Vision 20/20 Steering Committee; and the Working Group, Revisiting America Burning (Report of The National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control) 2020. |
| Davis Park Vice President, Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing Davis Park is the vice president of the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (fpciw.org; FPCIW), and develops and manages all of its technology initiatives and programs. The FPCIW is a center of excellence in Front Porch, one of Southern California’s largest not-for-profit providers of retirement living communities and affordable housing. Davis has two decades of program development experience in technology implementation in senior, low-income, and other underserved communities to explore and deploy innovations to help people live well. |
| Cody Mendoza Office of Congresswoman Katie Porter, 45th Cong. District Cody Mendoza is the District Director with the US House of Representatives with the Office of Congresswoman Katie Porter at the 45th Congressional District. He has served as a senior field representative for the US Congress as a policy expert. He holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.) in Intellectual Property Law from Chapman University School of Law and a B.A. from CalState Fullerton. |
| Dr. Carl Schultz Orange County Healthcare Agency Dr. Carl H. Schultz is the EMS Medical Director for Orange County. He previously served as a professor of emergency medicine at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, Director of the EMS and Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship, and Director of Research for the Center for Disaster Medical Sciences. His area of research and expertise is disaster medicine, including earthquakes, terrorism, emergency management, and public health. He has multiple publications in the field of disaster medicine, including two first-author articles in the New England Journal of Medicine. His research has been funded by multiple agencies including the National Science Foundation. He served as a consultant under contract to the Department of Defense as an expert in the medical aspects of nuclear, biologic, and chemical terrorism for the Domestic Preparedness Program. The ANSER Institute for Homeland Security asked him to advice on the impacts of terrorism on public health. The State of Israel has used him as a consultant to update their urban search and rescue team on the management of earthquake victims and he has assisted their Ministry of Health on issues related to the impact of earthquakes on hospitals. He is also co-produced the definitive reference on disaster medicine published by Cambridge University Press, “Koenig and Schultz’s Disaster Medicine, Comprehensive Principles and Practices”. |
| John Butler Fire Chief Fairfax County (VA), International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and Metro Chiefs Section representative |
| Dr. Balaji Narasimhan Iowa State, Director, Nanovaccine Institute Dr. Balaji Narasimhan is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor & Vlasta Klima Balloun Faculty Chair in Chemical & Biological Engineering. Currently, he directs the Nanovaccine Institute, an interdisciplinary consortium of 70 researchers from 21 universities, national laboratories, companies, and hospitals. His research on the molecular design of biomaterials-based nanovaccines and nanomedicines against infectious diseases, cancer, and neural disorders has received funding from NSF, NIH, DOD, DOE, USDA, VA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, the Roy J. Carver Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and industry. He is the recipient of the Society of Biomaterials Clemson Award, the Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Award, the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and the TR-100 Award by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, AIChE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors. |
| Dr. Louise Comfort University of Pittsburgh Louise K. Comfort is Professor Emerita and former Director, Center for Disaster Management, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. She is also affiliated faculty with the Policy Lab, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley and Concurrent Professor, School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2019. Elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2006, she received the 2020 Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement, Section on International Comparative Administration, American Society for Public Administration. Her recent book, The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events, Princeton University Press, 2019, received the 2020 Don K. Price Award for Best Book from the Section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics, American Political Science Association. She led an international, interdisciplinary group in a comparative study of 12 nations’ response to COVID-19, that produced a co-edited book, L.K. Comfort and M.L. Rhodes, Global Risk Management: The Role of Collective Action in Response to COVID-19, Routledge Publications, April, 2022. She studies the dynamics of decision making in response to urgent events: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, wildfire, and COVID-19. |
| Dr. Manish Gupta Director, Google Research Dr. Manish Gupta is the Director of Google Research India. He holds an additional appointment as Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Previously, Manish has led VideoKen, a video technology startup, and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 7,000 citations in Google Scholar (and an h-index of 46), and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM, Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Innovation Award and the Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence. Manish is a Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi. |
| Dr, James D. Madia Southern California Edison Dr. James D. Madia is a senior energy security & risk management professional with 37 years of experience in the emergency response community, 20 of those years in senior management roles. He is currently the Manager of Business Operations, Infrastructure Security & Compliance at Southern California Edison, and an independent consultant to government and business. Dr. Madia retired from the Inglewood Police Department in 2014 at the rank of Captain, serving as a command-level executive. During his 29-year law enforcement career, James served in executive and senior management roles directing the Emergency Response Team, Special Operations Division, Scientific Services, Media Relations, and the Hostage Negotiations Team. James is a subject-matter expert in critical incident response, infrastructure protection, and emergency management. James holds a Doctor of Policy, Planning & Development degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Arts in Homeland Security from the United States Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security. |
| Expert Working Group |
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| Ron Cabrera LA County Fire Dept (retired) |
| Roxann Crawford FEMA Region IX |
| Casey Grant DSRAE |
| Bart van Leeuwen Netage B.V. & Amsterdam Fire |
| Shanna Jensen San Bernardino Co., OES |
| Clayton Kazan LA County Fire Dept. |
| Bernie Molloy CA Fire Chiefs Association |
| Susan Olson City of Frisco (TX), Director of IT |
| Ron Roberts Orange County Fire Authority |
| Joseph Scuri San Diego Fire-Rescue Dept. |
| Kevin Stewart Anaheim Fire & Rescue |
| Janine Wilmoth Anaheim Fire & Rescue, Dir. of Emergency Service |
| Katie Eing Emergency Manager, Newport Beach CA |
| Kimberley Shoaf MPH, DrPH, University of Utah |
| Jennifer Margrett Director, Gerontology Program, Iowa State University |
| Doug and Judy Resident Disaster Planning Committee Co-chairs, Walnut Village |