Johns Hopkins University

Mr. McCarty is the Chief Network Officer for the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System. He is responsible for networking, telecommunications, network security, web infrastructure and the Local Area Networking environment. He has been involved in IT since the mid 1970's. His background and experiences include various senior management positions with responsibility for applications development, operations and technical support, systems integration, web based architectures, networking and telecommunications. He is currently involved with a number of major projects that include: widespread deployment of wireless technologies; implementation of high bandwidth computing services involving animation, image information and research in a virtual environment; Internet 2 activities including work with the National Science Foundation on the development and deployment of middle-ware products and services, as well as innovative efforts dealing with network security. Prior to joining Hopkins, Mr. McCarty was president of Adaptive Sciences Corporation. Adaptive Sciences was a consulting firm that provided senior level IT management services. Prior to his involvement with Adaptive Sciences, Mr. McCarty had been a Vice President with the USF&G Corporation for eleven years.

James McPartland, Ph.D. is executive director of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, the parent organization of Talent Development High Schools (TDHS).A He is the author of numerous research studies on the equality of educational opportunities and the process of whole school reform, and leads the Johns Hopkins team that developed the TDHS model.A He is frequently invited to work with government agencies and foundations on projects to improve American high schools with populations of students placed at risk for academic failure and dropping out. McPartland received his bachelora s and mastera s degrees from Cornell University and a doctorate in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.

Ron Fairchild is executive director of the National Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University. Under Mr. Fairchild?s leadership since 2002, the Center has grown from a local program serving the children of Baltimore city, to become the only national organization focused exclusively on creating opportunities for high-quality summer learning for all young people. In 2007, the Center?s efforts led to more than $14 million in public investment in summer programming for youth. Mr. Fairchild?s strategic direction continues to drive the Center?s efforts to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged youth and their higher-income peers. Mr. Fairchild is widely recognized as an authority on the issues of summer learning. He speaks regularly on research-based approaches and models of effective summer learning programs. His frequent appearances in the media include segments on NPR, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and the CBS Early Show. Fairchild has co-authored numerous publications including Making the Most of Sum

Andrew L. Singer is an assistant professor of surgery and surgical director of kidney transplantation at The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. He received his medical degree with honor as well his Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Pennsylvania. Singer completed his general surgical training and a fellowship in multiorgan transplantation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has participated in efforts to expand live-donor renal transplants, including paired kidney exchange and desensitization strategies. His basic science research focuses on molecular mechanisms of alloreactivity and novel strategies for immune modulation.

Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr. had a childhood dream of becoming a physician. Growing up in a single parent home with dire poverty, poor grades, a horrible temper, and low self-esteem appeared to preclude the realization of that dream. But, today, he is the director of pediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, a position he has held since 1984 at age 33. He is a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained world-wide recognition as the principal surgeon in the 22-hour separation of the Binder Siamese twins from Germany. This was the first time occipital craniopagus twins had been separated with both surviving. The procedure employed hypothermic arrest (the deliberate lowering of body temperature) and circulatory arrest, as well as sophisti-cated surgical reconstructive techniques for success. In 1997, Dr. Carson was the primary surgeon in the team of South African and Zambian surgeons that separated type-2 vertical craniopagus twins (joined at the top of the head) in a 28-hour operation. It represents the first time such complexly joined twins have been separated with both remaining neurologically normal. He is noted for his use of cerebral hemispherectomy to control intractable seizures as well as for his work in craniofacial reconstructive surgery, achondroplasia (human dwarfism), and pediatric neuro-oncology (brain tumors). Dr. Carson is a recipient of numerous honors and awards including more than 20 honorary doctorate degrees. He is a member of the American Academy of Achievement, the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Americans, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and many other prestigious organizations. He sits on the board of directors of numerous organizations, including Kellogg Company, Costco Wholesale Corporation, the Yale Corporation which is the governing body of Yale University, and America's Promise. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he is a highly regarded and requested motivational speaker who has addressed varied audiences from high school graduations to the keynote address at the 1997 President's National Prayer Breakfast. He is president and co-founder of the Carson Scholars Fund which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments. He hopes this program will positively change the perception of high academic achievers among their peers across our nation.

Professor Denis Wirtz is co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), Associate Director of a graduate training program in nanobiotechnology funded by the US National Science Foundation, Director of the graduate training program in nanotechnology for biology and Medicine funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Director of the postdoctoral training program in nanotechnology for cancer medicine, all at Johns Hopkins University. After he gained his degree in physics engineering from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, Professor Wirtz went on to gain his M.S. and Ph.D in chemical engineering from Stanford University under the supervision of Professor Gerald G. Fuller. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles in Paris, France, he returned to the United States to take a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at John Hopkins University. Professor Wirtz is a member of the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal, Cell Adhesion and Migration, and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2005, he became the co-Director and co-Founder of the John Hopkins University Institute for Nanobiotechnology, and is Director of the graduate training program in nanobiotechnology. Professor Wirtz has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 2700 citations. He is regularly invited to give talks at international conferences and was the keynote speaker at the 13th Yonsei International Symposium in Seoul, Korea. He has also given numerous presentations at universities and research institutions around the world, including Stanford University, The Scripps Research Institute, Berkeley, MIT, Yale, the Ecole Federale Polytechnique de Lausanne in Switzerland, and Cambridge University in the UK.

Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, Director, is CEO of The Kiernan Group. She previously served as the assistant director for the Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While with the ATF, she was responsible for the design and implementation of an intelligence-led organizational strategy to mine and disseminate data related to explosives, firearms and illegal tobacco diversion. Dr. Kiernan has been involved with the intelligence community for over a decade. She served as the ATF representative to the Counterterrorism Center at the CIA from 1993 to 1995. She is a council vice president for the American Society for Industrial Security - a preeminent world-wide private sector organization comprised of subject matter experts in technology, security, law enforcement, the military, and academia. She is also former chair of the Law Enforcement Working Group, an initiative to bridge the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Dr. Kiernan is a senior member on the International Association of Chiefs of Police terrorism subcommittee, and an intelligence fellow and graduate of the FBI's National Executive Institute. She was recently named a senior fellow for the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute.

Carrie grew up in the town of Skaneateles, NY. She graduated salutatorian from Skaneateles High School in 1984. From there, she went to the University of Rochester where she graduated magna cum laude earning a Bachelor's Degree with distinction in health and society and a minor in biology. Carrie attended the Sloan Program In Health and Human Services Administration at Cornell University, graduating with a Master's degree in 1990. Currently, Carrie works as Senior Finance Manager for the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Since her brother's murder in 1998, Carrie has been immersed in the pursuit of justice; engaged almost daily in the mutual support of other murder victim survivors; and has participated in campaigns to block the parole of murderers, argue for maximum sentencing, and promote policies and decisions that hold violent criminals accountable for their actions and make our communities safer. After her brother's murder, Carrie searched for reading material to help cope with the turmoil she was experiencing. The literature was sparse and inadequate. Most material spoke in sterile technical terms to mental health and criminal justice professionals without personally touching the hearts of those surviving the victim or those tangentially traumatized by murders in their community. Carrie wrote Aftermath to fill this void.

Dave Carter is a Project Manager at The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), where he has worked for nearly 35 years. Dave has lived in Columbia since 1973 with his wife Mary a Case Manager at Howard County General Hospital. Dave and Mary have been clients of BWFA since the early 1990s. At home, Dave and Mary are kept busy with their pet dachshunds and enjoy running (for exercise rather than glory), skiing (although never enough opportunities to do so), and travel (which will hopefully increase when they retire in a couple years).

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Dr. Albert Wu, Johns Hopkins University. Albert is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently conducting research on disclosure of medical errors. Albert also maintains a clinical practice in HIV and general internal medicine, and leads the Johns Hopskins disclosure program.

Alison Calhoun is a third-year Graduate Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at The Johns Hopkins University, where she specializes in Literature of the Renaissance in France. Also a singer, she has a particular interest in the theatrical music of the French baroque. In the 2004 05 season, she staged the world premiere of Amy Beth Kirsten's Ophelia Forever in the Singing Shakespeare program. In the 2005 06 season, Alison will stage Charpentier's Acteon as part of the Pastorale & Masque program. She is excited to be directing her second opera at Peabody, especially since this year's Early Music program coincides with her own academic interests in Early Modern France.

Alison is excited to be taking on the role of Athletic Director for the 2008-2009 school year. Originally from Rochester, NY, Alison attended Towson University where she received a BS degree in Criminal Justice. While at Towson she was a standout performer on their division one track and cross country teams, specializing in the Hurdles, Jumps and Heptathlon. She was a multi event scorer who led her team in the America East Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association. Currently she is an assistant track coach at Johns Hopkins University where she works with athletes competing in the events of Long, Triple and High Jump. Alison came to Oldfields from the Ballet school of Glyndon where she was the program director as well as a teacher and choreographer. "It takes an athlete to be a dancer and I have always enjoyed the combination of physical strength and artistic creativity that dancing requires." Along with being the Athletic Director, Alison will be teaching dance, Geography, sophomore seminar and dorm parenting. Alison lives on campus with her dogs Bruno and Marley.

Dr. Everett is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology. Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, he was an Associate Professor within the University of Virginia's Division of Pediatric Cardiology.

Amy is originally from Minnesota. Her undergraduate degree is from Bemidji State University in secondary English. While at Bemidji State she developed a youth mentoring program with Upward Bound and was employed in many different positions within that nonprofit. Upward Bounda??s mission is to give high school students equal access to higher education. During her time in Northern Minnesota, Amy also spent two years teaching English at the high school level on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Currently, Amy resides in Baltimore, Maryland and is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University working towards her degree in secondary education. She teaches at Northwestern High School also in Baltimore. There, she is the director and instructor of the public relations academy, which specializes in student journalism. Amy joined the staff of the Project to End Human Trafficking in the fall of 2007 and is working to develop an Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition in Baltimore, Maryland.

Andres de Francisco is a Medical Doctor with a Doctorate in public health and with extensive experience in the interface between research findings and health policies. He has worked in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions, and in the subsequent transferal of research knowledge into policies for health and population programmes in South America, Africa, and Asia. He is currently the Deputy Executive Director and Head of Research and Programmes of the Global Forum for Health Research, an international foundation in Switzerland hosted by the World Health Organization which aims to promote, advance and focus research on health priority problems of developing countries. He is also an Elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia, Associate of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London. His training includes an MD in Bogota, Colombia (Rosario, 1983), PhD in Medicine (London 1994), Masters in Clinical Tropical Medicine (1986) and in Community Health in Developing Countries (1987) in London, and a Diploma on Tropical Medicine (Royal Colleague of Physicians of London in 1986). Past positions include: Project Director of the Matlab MCH-FP Programme and Coordinator of Reproductive Health Research at the Centre for Health and Population Research in Bangladesh (ICDDR,B); Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Senior Scientific Officer at the Medical Research Council in The Gambia, West Africa; and Director of the Hospital in Miraflores (a rural zone in the Amazonas region in Colombia).

Dr. Goldfinger is a doctor of theoretical physics with a Masters degree in counseling. He is currently the Assistant Supervisor of the Space Department Mission Concept and Analysis Group at Johns Hopkins University. He has been Director of Space Technology Training for the Republic of China and a number of other groups working in space technology. He is a popular speaker for Aish HaTorah's Discovery seminar.

Dr. Everett currently serves as the Senior Medical Advisor to the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The projects she is currently working on include several aspects of the Implementation of the President's Commission on Mental Health Services, Mental Health Disparities, Rural Mental Health, Prescription Medications, and Public Mental Health Care Financing. She is a Community Psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University and prior to this practiced community psychiatry primarily in rural areas. Dr. Everett served as the Inspector General to Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Retardation Services in Virginia from 1999 to 2004. In this position she completed over 85 unannounced consultative inspections of the 15 Institutions operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Everett is treasurer of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and was an author of the recent AACP position paper on redesigning disability benefits for those with serious mental illness. She is active within the American Psychiatric Association Assembly where she has worked to promote a greater emphasis within APA for the advocacy for persons with serious mental illness and for the needs of professionals and psychiatrists who serve them. Dr. Everett is married and has two children, one dog, and one cat.

Anna Mae Diehl, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Diehl serves on numerous Committees for the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American College of Physicians, the International Associate for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Federation of Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, as well as others. Dr. Diehl has served as a liver disease consultant for various pharmaceutical companies and serves on Editorial Boards for a number of journals including Hepatology, Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology, the American Journal of Physiology, and the American Journal of Medicine. Her research activities have focused on both clinical and pre-clinical studies of chronic liver diseases including alcohol and non-alcoholic liver steatohepatitis, liver regeneration and the role of cytokines in liver disease. Dr. Diehl has authored over 100 publications in the field of liver- and gastroenterology-related diseases.

Anne Efron is a Research Nurse/Program Coordinator for the Center for TB Research at the Johns Hopkins University. She has more than 6 years of experience working in Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS research on randomized clinical/community trials and qualitative research. Specifically, she specializes in TB-related randomized clinical trials and has trained on-site research staff in the conduct of clinical trials, monitored study progress and processes, and coordinated communications between investigators and regulatory and funding agencies. Ms. Efron conducts study audits, documents compliance with the protocol and oversees human subjects' protection. She has worked for the Center for TB Research in 2 countries, Brazil and South Africa and she spent 6 months in Kenya working for Doctors Without Borders in a Somali refuge camp, managing a TB program, hospital and outpatient center; conducting nutritional surveys and reporting epidemiological data. Ms. Efron is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and speaks fluent Portuguese.

Dr. Chakravarti is the Henry J. Knott professor and director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Chakravarti is also a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a renowned expert in genetic epidemiology, population genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology. He is one of the editors-in-chief of Genome Research and serves on the advisory editorial boards for Current Biology, Annual Review of Genomics & Human Genetics, Indian Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Genetics and European Journal of Human Genetics.

Bernadette Wegenstein was born in Vienna, Austria, of Swiss parents. She studied semiotics at the Universita degli Studi di Bologna (with Umberto Eco), medical anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and received her PhD in Linguistics and Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Vienna. She is the author of Die Darstellung von AIDS in den Medien: eine semio-linguistische Analyse und Interpretation (Vienna University Press, 1998), and Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press, 2006), among many other academic publications on cultural and media theory. She has been a professor of media studies at the University at Buffalo (State University of New York) since 2002, and is currently a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where she researches and is writing her latest book, forthcoming with MIT Press, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty. Wegenstein has worked for the Austrian television and radio network ORF, the French TF1, and has written columns on popular culture for the German print market; she also served as curator for independent film festivals in the USA and Europe; in 2006 she developed the mixed media program "Future Cinema" at the Vienna Schikaneder Cinema. She has been working on her first independent documentary Made Over in America since 2005 in collaboration with experimental filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes. She raised the financing for the film through research grants as well as private investors.

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Imaginative concepts, a proven ability for problem solving, and intense account service orientation have contributed to Cary Hatch's success. With more than 25 years of experience in advertising and direct marketing, Cary has a formidable track record in business and consumer communications, both domestic and international. Her hands-on approach to marketing "accountability" has fueled the agency's growth and helped MDB earn a spot on the Inc. 500, the annual list of the fastest-growing companies in America. Cary's broad-based client experience includes Sprint, Fannie Mae, Global One, National Geographic, the D.C. Lottery, Loral Skynet, The U.S. Mint and many others. Cary currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Board of Directors for the Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington, which in 2004 bestowed on her its highest honor, the Silver Medal Award. She served on the Board of Directors for Women in Advertising and Marketing for four years after fulfilling two terms as president, and she recently received the organization's first-ever Founder's Award. She currently serves as the Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Board of Governors for the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Advisory Board for the Washington Business Journal. Cary also devotes significant hours giving back to the community. She has served as the Washington, DC Key Market Coordinator for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America since 1990, and serves on the Women's Advisory Board for the Girl Scouts of Washington. She is a graduate of Leadership Washington (Class of 2000) and a noted lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.

Cathy Runnels, president and lead SLP, brings multiple years of experience gained in corporations. non-profits, medical and educational settings. . Ms. Runnels is presently a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University, a national consultant for the American Guidance Service, Inc (AGS) and Member of the Board of the National Black Association for Speech, Language and Hearing. Ms. Runnels on the Committee of the American Speech, Language Hearing Association that developed guidelines and curriculum for Speech, Language, Pathology Assistants. Current associates are Master's Level certified and licensed speech-language pathologist's from accredited universities.

Mr. Morton currently serves as Immediate Past-President of the Maryland Chapter of the Association of Corporate Growth, as a Board Member of the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland (TEDCO) and as General Counsel to the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. He teaches an undergraduate course in the entrepreneurship program at Johns Hopkins University focused on tech transfer. He helps to manage more than $100 million dollars through his service to two different university related endowments. Mr. Morton holds, or has held, leadership roles in the American Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association and the Bar Association of Baltimore City.

Dr. Lee is an internationally renowned scientist and a professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University. His work in analytical and structural glycobiology (the study of carbohydrate biology) has helped build glycoscience from a small division of biochemistry to an established field. His research also contributed to treatments for tissue rejection, hepatitis, nerve damage, cancer and inflammation. Dr. Lee's work has garnered numerous awards, including the Claud S. Hudson Award from the American Chemical Society, and the National Institutes of Health Fogarty Fellowship. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and has served as an executive editor for the journal Analytical Biochemistry since 1978.

Coleman is an expert in all aspects of the commercial development process with over 20 years of experience as a real estate developer, contracting, asset management and property management. Also, since 2001 he has been a professor of "Real Estate Investments" at Johns Hopkins University, St. John Department of Real Estate.

Dr. Rushton is Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University and Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is Coordinator of the Harriet Lane Compassionate Care program. She also is Faculty of the Bioethics Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She served as Nurse Ethicist at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. until 1996. Dr. Rushton has held a variety of clinical positions specializing in pediatrics and neonatal care, and she is involved in several professional organizations. She has served as President and past-President of the Association for the Care of Children's Health, was a member of the Ethics Integration Work Group for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and sat on the board of directors of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She worked on the development of standards for bioethics consultation as a member of the Bioethics Consultation Task Force of the Society for Health and Human Values/Society for Bioethics. She served on the ANA Task Force on the nurse's role in end-of-life decisions and on the Maryland Nurses Association Council on Ethics and Human Rights. From 1996-1999, Dr. Rushton was a member of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Last Acts Campaign Provider Education Task Force. She has published articles in numerous professional journals, been featured in several educational videos on end-of-life care issues, and from 1993-1996 was the editor of the "Dialogues in Ethics and Law" column for Pediatric Nursing. Dr. Rushton earned her doctorate in nursing at the Catholic University of America with a concentration in bioethics, her Master's of Science in Nursing, with a specialization as a pediatric clinical nurse specialist, from the Medical University of South Carolina, and her undergraduate degree in nursing at the University of Kentucky. In 1990, Dr. Rushton was awarded the National Nurse of the Year by the ANA Council on Maternal Child Nursing and March of Dimes, and that same year was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. In 1999, she was selected to be a Kornfeld Fellow in end-of-life ethics and palliative care, with a focus on pediatric palliative care.

Cynthia S. Rand, Ph.D. - Dr. Rand is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University?s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, department of Psychology. Dr. Rand is accomplished in the interdisciplinary field of behavioral science as related to patient/physician interaction, and most recently has focused on compliance in respiratory disease.

It began with a power tool. After seven years promoting one of the world's biggest power tool brands, Dave decided to take on a little building project of his own. 15 years later, he's built a formidable force of an agency in Imre Communications. Today, he's weighing in on client strategy and stoking the fires that keep us growing and focusing time on communications industry matters. Dave is on the national board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and has served as President of the Maryland Chapter of PRSA, chair of the Mid-Atlantic District of the PRSA, and on various industry committees and judging panels. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from James Madison University and a Master of Arts in Radio-Television from Ohio University. He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and Towson University in Maryland.

While at Economists Incorporated, Mr. Argue has analyzed competition and performed damages analyses in various health care markets for government merger reviews and private antitrust litigation. Currently, he is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University teaching MBA-level courses in the economics of health care. Among the health care areas in which Mr. Argue has consulting experience are hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, health insurance and pharmaceuticals. He has also conducted efficiency studies in hospital mergers. Mr. Argue has performed competition and damages analyses in other industries as well, including cement, propane distribution, grocery stores, copper production, funeral homes, pesticides, telecommunications, newspapers, steel and industrial controls. Mr. Argue has also conducted damages analyses in several employment-related matters. In addition, he has expertise in environmental matters including assessment of natural resource damage claims, and class certification in environmental litigation. Mr. Argue previously served as an economist at the Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. In that position he directed the research and publication of a project profiling the economies of local areas in Virginia and was a researcher on two large economic development initiatives.

Dr. David Sidransky is the Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Research Division at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In addition, he is Professor of Oncology, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Urology, Genetics, and Pathology at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. Dr. Sidransky is certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology by the American Board of Medicine. He has served as a Director of Imclone since January 2004. He is a founder of several private biotechnology companies and has served on the scientific advisory boards of many private and public companies including Medimmune, Telik, Roche and Amgen. He was formerly on the Board of Scientific Counselors at the NIDCR and is currently a member of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee at the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Sidransky is a member of numerous editorial boards. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, has contributed more than 40 cancer reviews, and also has numerous issued biotechnology patents. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 1997 Sarstedt International Prize from the German Society of Clinical Chemistry, the 1998 Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health by the American College of Chest Physicians, and the 2004 Hinda and Richard Rosenthal Award from the American Association of Cancer Research.

David Weishampel is Professor of Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Receiving his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, Dave has conducted museum and university research in North America, Europe, Argentina, Mexico, Mongolia, Japan, and China. He has also conducted field work throughout North America, including Utah, Kansas, West Virginia, Montana in the United States, and Alberta, Canada, as well as in Romania, Hungary, and southern Mongolia. Dave's research includes the evolution of ornithopod dinosaurs, their jaw mechanics, and ecological relationships with contemporary plants, a variety of behavioral studies of dinosaurs, including communication, display, and reproductive strategies (i.e., eggs and babies). More recent work in Romania and Hungary concentrates on dinosaurian island biogeography, dwarfing, and heterochrony across Europe at the end of the Cretaceous. Dave is the senior editor of "The Dinosauria", as well as coauthor of "The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs", "The Dinosaurs of the East Coast" and "The Dinosaur Papers: 1676-1906".

Derek Howell grew up in Eastern Baltimore County, Maryland. He attended Seneca Elementary School, Middle River Middle School and Kenwood High School. Mr. Howell is a committed Christian, the son of James and Phyllis Howell, and is happily married to his wife, Jenna. Mr. Howell is admitted to practice law in the State of Maryland. He graduated with honors from the Johns Hopkins University, earning both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. He went on to obtain his Juris Doctor, cum laude, with a double concentration in Litigation & Advocacy and Criminal Practice from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Mr. Howell is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Community College of Baltimore County where he teaches Criminal Justice and the Constitution. He also teaches Fourth Amendment Search & Seizure law to the Maryland State Police and is a guest lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Howell is also a certified mediator, Fellow of the Stephen L. Snyder Center for Litigation Skills, member of the University of Baltimore School of Law Trial Team, Vice President of the American Association of Justice, University of Baltimore School of Law Chapter, member of the International Honors Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi, and the first law student to be inducted into the National Leadership Honors Society of Omicron Delta Kappa, University of Baltimore Chapter.

Dr. Kerr is an Associate Professor of Neurology with joint appointments in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Kerr has established the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center which is the only such center in the entire world. The center utilizes the expertise of physicians and therapists from a variety of disciplines including neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, rheumatology, rehabilitation medicine and urology for a comprehensive evaluation of transverse myelitis. Dr. Kerr has research interests in determining the cause(s) of transverse myelitis, evaluating novel markers to help prognosticate outcomes in the acute phase, and in developing novel treatments. Dr. Kerr also investigates neural stem cells as a potential tool for functional recovery in patients with transverse myelitis and motor neuron disease. He has made significant discoveries concerning the basic

Dr. Robert J. Barbera is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at ITG, Investment Technology Group. He is responsible for ITG’s global economic and financial market forecasts. Dr. Barbera has spent the last twenty-six years as a Wall Street economist, earning a wide institutional following. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and is regularly quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, Dr. Barbera authored The Cost of Capitalism: Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future. The book identifies the root causes of the Great Crisis of 2008. It also identifies key policy prescriptions for economic recovery and offers commentary about the shape of capitalism in the decades to come. Dr. Barbera currently is a Fellow in the Economics Department of The Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching applied macroeconomics at Hopkins for the last five years. Early in his career, Dr. Barbera served as a staff economist for U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas and as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Barbera also lectured at M.I.T. From mid-1994 through mid-1996, he was Co-Chairman of Capital Investment International, a New York based research boutique. Dr. Barbera earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

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Dr. Gabrielson has more than 25 years of experience as a physician and faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. Currently, Dr. Gabrielson is a Professor of Pathology and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also an attending physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Gabrielson received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Illinois and M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School.

Dr. Eliana Gil is Director of Clinical Services for Childhelp, Inc. Her office is located at Childhelp Children's Services of Virginia in Fairfax, Virginia (CCCV) She is developing a child abuse and neglect treatment program which provides specialized services to children and their families. We have thre bilingual staff in English and Spanish (Eliana Gil, Maria Ines Butler, and Myriam Goldin), as well as someone tri-lingual in English, French and Farsi (Azi Amirsadri). Nicole Jalazo is joining our program in mid-September as are a few Master's Level Interns (Michelle Ayers, Jennifer Shaw, Malvolia Gregory, Erin Breslow.and Rebecca Kelly. Dr. Gil spent the last seven years as founder and coordinator of an abused children's treatment program in Northern Virginia. She is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage, Family, Child Counselor who received her doctorate in family therapy from the California Graduate School of Family Psychology in San Rafael, California. She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse. She is also a former President of the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Gil is an adjunct faculty member of Johns Hopkins University where she teaches courses on family play therapy. Dr. Gil has written numerous materials on child abuse and related topics and has a number of educational videotapes that feature her work. Her most recent book for a professional audience is Helping abused and traumatized children: Integrating directive and nondirective approaches. Other books include Cultural issues in play therapy (with Dr. Athena Drewes); Treating abused adolescents; Systemic Treatment of Families who Abuse; The healing power of play; Play in family therapy; and Sexualized children: Assessment and treatment of sexualized children and children who molest (with Dr. Toni Cavanagh Johnson). She has also written several popular books for lay audiences including Outgrowing the Pain and Outgrowing the Pain Together. Several of her books are in other languages, including Spanish. Dr. Gil is a well-known lecturer, author, and clinician and has been a frequent guest on local and national TV and radio shows. She is bilingual and bicultural, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador. This year (2007) marks thirty four years that she has worked in child abuse prevention and treatment.

Elizabeth Nyang, M.A., LCPC, is President of the Today's Family board of directors and a licensed mental health counselor. She received her MA in Counseling from Seton Hall University and is currently working on a doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University . She leads workshops on self-exploration, self-esteem, journaling and other issues related to women with a special interest in leading spiritual workshops for women. She also teaches life and job skills to at-risk youth for nonprofit organizations. She has traveled to Costa Rica 5 times to study Spanish and is interested in developing workshops for minority women. She is a counselor in Rockville , Maryland .

During WWII Dr. Emanuel Horowitz served as a B-29 navigator with the 315th Bomb Wing, Twentieth Air Force, stationed at Northwest Field on Guam. After the war he returned to the City College of New York and obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry. Then he completed his graduate work at George Washington University, earning a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry. Dr. Horowitz was employed at the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for 29 years as a research chemist and later as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Materials Research and the National Measurement Laboratory. In 1980 he joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and is currently a research professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and teaches courses in biomaterials.

A lifelong volunteer and social activist, Emily Kumpel is a student at Johns Hopkins University where she is studying mechanical engineering. Her service contributions range from social justice causes such as AIDS advocacy and anti-war efforts to community advancement initiatives like literacy programs and girls' science mentorships. Emily is also the recipient of several prestigious honors such as being a Heart of America Foundation Youth Ambassador and accepting the Young Adult Caring Award. Her outdoor skills recently developed from a winter backpack leadership program, and she intends to continue her wilderness adventures as a pre-orientation outdoor leader in 2003. Emily brings youth, energy, and a wide variety of civic experience to the EnVision team.

Dr. Fonseca-Becker is currently a Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at CCP and Faculty Senior Research Associate in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since September 2002, she is also the Director for Research Evaluation for the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Scholars Program, also at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to her expertise in social network analysis, health communication, and reproductive health, she is an international public health specialist. A native of Colombia, she has more than 20 years' working experience in international development in Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Prior to joining CCP, she was an Evaluation Specialist with the MEASURE Evaluation Program. Before that she worked in monitoring and evaluation for several USAID-, USDA-, and DHHS-funded MCH projects, and for several years she worked in Brussels, Belgium with a Cooperative Agency of the European Development Fund. At CCP she has used her expertise in evaluation design, and program development and management in the evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programs in Latin America, and of HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors programs in several countries in West Africa. Areas of current research activities include studying the role that social networks play in maternal health-seeking behavior and on HIV/AIDS preventive behavior. She is CCP's point person in the area of HIV/AIDS Maternal to Child Transmission (MTCT). She obtained a Master in Public Health from the Department of International Health and a Doctorate in Public Health from the Department of Population Dynamics, both from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Fonseca-Becker is multi-lingual: Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English.

As a Scientific Advisor to Rive, Fred Krambeck develops kinetic and economic models and advises the company on technology scale-up. Fred had a distinguished career in research and management with the Mobil Oil Company. Early in his career, he co-discovered thermal nitric oxide decomposition technology, elucidated the mathematical structure of chemical kinetics, and led the development of Mobil's kinetic reforming model. Later, Fred led the development and modeling of the Mobil/UOP fast fluidized bed FCC regenerator. He also led the development of closed FCC reactor cyclones, the fluidized-bed Methanol-to-Gasoline process, and of a new additive to reduce the potential hazards of the HF alkylation process. Fred is now a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught a graduate course in Chemical Reaction Engineering and is working on applying chemical kinetic principles to biochemical systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is an AIChE Fellow, and is Treasurer of the AIChE. Fred has a BS in chemical engineering from City College of New York and a PhD from City University of New York.

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Dr. Gary Zimmer rounds out the medical directing team for AMTSC's Baltimore operation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Assistant Director of Medical Informatics for the institution. Dr. Zimmer received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and went on to receive his Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University Medical College. He also completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency and acted as Chief Resident at the same facility. Dr. Zimmer is active in medical research, with a number of publishing credits to his name. He is a member of various industry associations, such as the Baltimore County Medical Association, Med Chi: The Maryland State Medical Society, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In addition, he participates regularly in classroom and clinical instruction and mentors residents through the Emergency Medicine Residents mentoring program.

Gary Slavinsky holds a B.F.A. from Alfred University and an M.F.A. from MICA. Gary has been an advanced level student with Clayworks since the spring of 2006, and he continues to explore and refine his wheel thrown ceramics. Gary's teaching experience ranges from instructing college-level ceramics foundations to working with pre-school and first-grade students. He is currently working for Johns Hopkins University, leading the functional development of an online registration system and conducting software training sessions.

Gretchen comes to EdBuild with more than 25 years of real estate development experience in the Washington, DC area including senior development positions with The Oliver Carr America (which became CarrAmerica) and The Kaempfer Company (which became part of Charles E Smith/Vornado Real Estate). Her responsibilities included joint venture formation, budgeting, master planning, phasing, entitlements, community liaison, finance and oversight of leasing, marketing, management and accounting in addition to project management. Some of Gretchen's better known development projects include: The Willard Hotel and Office Building; Carlyle, a seven million square foot development in Alexandria; The Investment Building, 1501 K Street NW, and Waterfront, also known as Waterside Mall. Gretchen is vice president, member of the board and member of the Executive Committee of the DC Building Industry Association (DCBIA) and was named one of the "50 Women Who Mean Business" by the Washington Business Journal in Fall 2004. She also serves as an adjunct professor of Real Estate Development for the graduate real estate program at Johns Hopkins University and as Director on the board of Bresler and Reiner, Inc., a Rockville-based, publicly traded real estate investment company. Gretchen holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Journalism, Magna Cum Laude, from Southern Methodist University.

Jason Stewart was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia from 2002 to 2004, focusing on small business development and basic business skill instruction. He currently works as an accountant for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. Jason lives in Baltimore with his wife, Christine. She is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University and also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia. Prior to the Peace Corps, Jason spent 5 years in the private sector working for small businesses in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from the University of Memphis and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Management from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Jason can be contacted at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dr. Herson moved to Chevy Chase, MD in 2003 to work out of the corporate office of Westat. His relationship with that company ended at the end of 2005. During the past 30 years he has developed methods for design and analysis of clinical trials with planned interim analyses and sample size re-estimation. He organized and chaired the first data monitoring committee in the pharmaceutical industry and helped FDA draft a guidance document on data monitoring committees. Dr. Herson is a regular attendee at FDA Advisory Committee meetings and reports regularly on trends in FDA policy and pharmaceutical company presentations. He has numerous publications in the medical and statistical journals and has made numerous presentations at statistical meetings. Dr Herson now works as a consultant or data monitoring committee member for several pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device firms. Serving as Senior Associate in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore he teaches in several graduate courses and works on various research projects. He volunteers weekly as a tutor in English as a Second Language and news reader for the blind.Dr. Herson's second career is that of a futurist. He has written articles on the future of the pharmaceutical industry and scenarios for the coming osteoporosis epidemic. He serves as Senior Associate at the Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA where he works with staff on future scenarios in areas such as pharmaceutical R&D and education. He is also Managing Editor and frequent contributor to the newsletter Future Takes.

Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein is currently Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Director for the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins and co-Director of the ALS clinic at Johns Hopkins. He received his medical training, and PhD and research training at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago. He trained in Neurology and Neuromuscular disease at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rothstein is a neurologist and neurobiologist with a major commitment to investigations of mechanisms of neurodegeneration. He has been a strong proponent of the roles of excitotoxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction, protein aggregation, and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of ALS. More specifically, he has proposed that abnormalities in glutamate transport contribute to the pathogenesis of cellular abnormalities that occur in motor neuron death. His laboratory studies the basic biology of membrane transporter, the cellular events that underlie regulation of transporters, and the development of novel drug- and cellular-based therapeutics targeted for both transporters and motor neuron death. He has developed both in vitro and in vivo models of motor neuron degeneration.

Jennifer Haverkamp is an independent consultant based in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor of international environmental law and policy at Johns Hopkins University. In 2003-04, Ms. Haverkamp served as one of two U.S. representatives on the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation's Ten Year Review Advisory Committee. From July 1995 to February 2003, she was the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) within the Executive Office of the President. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources and as a director in USTR's Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual Property and Environment. Before joining USTR in 1993, Ms. Haverkamp was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency; an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division (receiving the Attorney General's John Marshall award for her work on the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act); an Associate with the Conservation Foundation, an environmental think tank now merged with the World Wildlife Fund; and a law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School, an M.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a B.A. in Biology from the College of Wooster, on whose board of trustees she now serves.

Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson is a nonfiction essayist, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of Literature on Deadline (Pacific Isle Publishing, 2007). She is a former staff writer for The Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Johns Hopkins Magazine and has written articles and foreign correspondence for such venues as the Baltimore Sun, USA Weekend, and The American Journalism Review, including reportage from Cuba and China. Her literary essays have appeared in the journal Creative Nonfiction and Letters to J.D. Salinger, a collection published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She is currently working on a book of essays titled On Love And Children. Cavanaugh Simpson earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and her M.A. from Hopkins' Writing Seminars. Her master's thesis, on Cuba's dissident journalists, was funded by Harvard University's Goldsmith Research Award. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two children.

Joel Andreas began following his parents to demonstrations against the Vietnam War while in elementary school in Detroit. He has been a political activist ever since, working to promote racial equality and worker's rights inside the United States and to stop U.S. military intervention abroad. After working as an automobile assembler, a printer, and a civil engineering drafter, he completed his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles, studying the aftermath of the 1949 Chinese Revolution. He now teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ADDICTED To WAR is Joel's third illustrated expose. He wrote and drew The Incredible Rocky, an unauthorized biography of the Rockefeller family (which sold nearly 100,000 copies) while a student at Berkeley High School in California. He also wrote another comic book, Made with Pure Rocky Mountain Scab Labor.

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Internationally recognized as a leader in philanthropic consulting, John Glier has provided strategic counsel to hundreds of higher education, healthcare and major cultural institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, and Australia. A skilled innovator who works with clients in all facets of philanthropic management, John joined the firm in 1982. He is deeply committed to his clients' success and works with them to build sustainable development programs that advance long-term growth. He brings clients deep experience in evaluating development programs, conducting planning studies for comprehensive campaigns, and leading training for development and volunteer professionals. He has worked closely with many chief executives, deans and Board leaders in early strategic planning, as well as in the day-to-day implementation of campaign tasks. His work in Board development is particularly well known, along with his work in building major gift and principal gift programs. He has provided counsel to numerous campaigns with some of the largest fundraising goals in higher education. Throughout his more than 25 years providing counsel, John has advised on such wide ranging topics as the role of volunteers and academic and medical leaders in the fundraising process; the use of information technologies in fundraising; constituency development; prospect identification and management; and the innovative use of analytics to drive evidence-based strategies. A true leader in the philanthropic community, he served for many years on the Board of the American Association of Fundraising Counsel, now called the Giving Institute, which publishes "Giving USA," the most authoritative source on philanthropic activity in America today. A Fulbright fellow, John graduated from Providence College and attended the Universite de Fribourg in Switzerland and the University of Chicago. He holds degrees in English and comparative literature.

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Judith R. Walkowitz is Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of the prize-winning, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, and a co-editor of the anthology Unknown London. She has published many articles on the history of feminism and sexuality and has been active in numerous feminist orgainisations.

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Dr. Cutting received her degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 1997 from Northwestern University. During her doctoral training, During her doctoral work at Northwestern University, she completed internships at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Yale University School of Medicine's Center for Learning and Attention, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 2002-2003, she completed an NIH science policy fellowship.. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Cutting subsequently completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in developmental cognitive neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Cutting is a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University.

Leana Pitkevits is the Sustainability Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. She received a Masters in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1998. Prior to working as the sustainability coordinator, she worked at the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and spent many years as an environmental educator for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Friends of the National Zoo and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Her current affiliations include member of the Johns Hopkins Sustainability Committee, Chair of the Energy Conservation sub-committee of the Bloomberg School of Public Health Environmental Stewardship Committee, member of the Patapsco-Back River Tributary Team and Friends of Patterson Park member and volunteer.

Leslie R. Stellman (J.D., Syracuse University) is chairman of the Education Law Practice-Group of the Towson, Maryland, firm of Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz, P.A., as well as an Adjunct Professor of Education Law at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University Graduate School of Education, and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Dr. Tsantis is currently at the Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Division of Education, directing the educators program for the Center for Technology and Educators. She is also a n Assistant Professor, Teacher Development and Leadership Department, Technology for Educators Program at Johns Hopkins Univesity. Dr. Tsantis was Director of Academic Affairs for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. She was a founder and Director of Academic Affairs for the America Tomorrow, Inc. Prior to these assignments, Dr. Tsantis worked at the IBM Washington Center, at George Washington University, Graduate Division, and the Georgetown University Medical Center. She has presented and published in the areas of Data Based Decision-Making, Educational Reform, Special Education, Use of Data Mining Tools, Assistive Technologies, Cross Cultural Reactions and Alternative Assessment.

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Lisa Beck, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at The Johns Hopkins University, has a broad background in skin disease. She is an international leader in allergic diseases of the skin.

In 1992, Delegate Maggie McIntosh was appointed to a vacancy in the House of Delegates. Two years later she was elected to represent the 42nd District of Baltimore City and Baltimore County. In 1998 all four members were re-elected. In the House of Delegates, Maggie first served on the Appropriations Committee. She chaired the Subcommittee on Personnel and was a member of the Education and Economic Development and Capitol Subcommittees. In 1998, Delegate McIntosh assumed the position of Vice Chairman of the Commerce and Government Matters Committee. In 2001, House Speaker, Casper R. Taylor, named Maggie as House Majority Leader. She is the first women ever to be named to this post. In this position, Delegate McIntosh became a member of the senior house leadership.

Marcia Ribeiro, M.D. is a National Board Certified Doctor of Neurology and Psychiatry. She is the Director of Mid-Atlantic Headache Institute and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology. Her sub-specialties include epilepsy and sleep disorders. Her major areas of interest are atypical facial pain and headaches.