Emergency Management
Track Leadership
Bruno Petinaux , MD
Director
Dr. Petinaux obtained his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College after having finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois in chemistry. He completed a transitional year internship at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in New Jersey. In 1999, Dr. Petinaux began his emergency medicine residency at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, and after being a chief resident, finished in 2002. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty at the George Washington University Medical Center Medical Faculty Associates as Assistant Professor in emergency medicine and performs clinical duties at the George Washington University Hospital and Bethesda Naval Medical Center, where Dr. Petinaux is the Site Director for the MFA. His other activities include being a Medical Team Manager for the Virginia Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team, as well as being a Major in the US Army Reserve Medical Corps with three activations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He serves currently as the Co-Chair of the George Washington University Hospital’s Emergency Management Program. Dr. Petinaux continues to pursue his interests in emergency preparedness and education, academic research, as well as administrative aspects of emergency medicine.
Jan Lane
Deputy Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute
The George Washington University
Jan Lane serves as Deputy Director of The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI), a unique, nonpartisan “think and do tank” that builds bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. In her role as Deputy Director, she has helped lead the Institute’s major initiatives over the past year to advance policy in the areas of radicalization, homeland security and emergency preparedness. She also oversees the Institute’s Ambassador’s Roundtable Series, strategic planning and grant-funded training initiatives.
Since joining HSPI in January 2006, Ms. Lane has co-authored several reports, including: NETworked Radicalization: A Counter Strategy, May, 2007; Out of the Shadows: Getting Ahead of Prison Radicalization, September, 2006; Regionalizing Homeland Security: Unifying National Preparedness and Response, June 2006; and testimonies before the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee; and the U.S. Commission on the National Guard and Reserves. Ms. Lane served as a subject matter expert for the Homeland Security Advisory Council, Report of the Future of Terrorism Task Force, January 2007, and as a member of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Center for Biosecurity Working Group on Community Engagement in Emergency Public Health Planning.
From 1990 through 2005, Ms. Lane served as government relations lead for the American Red Cross during some of the organization’s most challenging times, including the response to September 11 th; the 2005 Tsunami; Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; and the interaction with FDA and Congress regarding blood safety issues. At Red Cross National Headquarters, she was Vice President of Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships at National Headquarters (2005); Vice President of Government Relations (1997 – 2004); and Government Relations Officer for Biomedical Services (1994- 1997). In her role as Vice President, she was responsible for the development and communication of public policy positions at the federal and state levels for: biomedical services; disaster preparedness and response; international relief and development; and work with the Department of Defense in support of Armed Services Emergency Communications. During her tenure she led efforts to secure over $100M in federal funding to support the organization’s programs. She worked to foster close collaboration with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to coming to National Headquarters, Ms. Lane was Director of State Relations in Illinois, one of the organization’s first advocacy programs at the state level.
Ms. Lane also served in the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh; Office of Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania Senate; and worked with the District Office of Congressman Bob Michel (R-IL).
Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH
Dr. Tee L. Guidotti is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Pulmonary Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the School of Public Health and Health Services and as Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology of the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. From 1984 to 1999, he was Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, where he was named Killam Annual Professor in 1996. Dr. Guidotti’s interests in the problems of surveillance during and medical evaluation following “technological disasters” focus on two types of emergencies: incidents involving release of toxic emissions and those involving intentional assaults on civilian populations. His interest in industrial incidents resulting in toxic exposures began twenty years ago and in recent years has emphasized hydrogen sulfide and the oil and gas industry. His activities related to chemical and biological threats began ten years ago and most recently include the organization of what is believed to be the first course on planning the civilian response to bioterrorism in a school of public health. The Department he chairs and the Department of Emergency Management and Systems Engineering (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) are collaborating on the introduction of complementary certificate programs in public health and emergency management.
Michael D. Barnett, M.D.
Dr. Barnett is a graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York. He attended medical school at New York Medical College, and completed his residency at the George Washington University Medical Center where he was Chief Resident.
Dr. Barnett has a clinical faculty appointment at the George Washington University Medical Center and teaches second year medical students; he is also on the medical staff of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Medical Center in Bethel, Alaska where he travels to on a regular basis to provide medical services to Native Alaskans in the tundra region of southwest Alaska.
He has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, and works on Capitol Hill with Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) on issues related to homeland security. Dr. Barnett was the principal drafter of the only two bills introduced into Congress on the topic of community resilience: the National Resilience Development Act of 2003 and the Ready, Willing, and Able Act; a bill that seeks to give the American people a meaningful role in disaster planning efforts.
Dr. Barnett has been an invited speaker at a NATO-sponsored meeting on resilience, a NATO-Russian sponsored meeting on radiological terrorism, the National Academy of Science, the Center for Biosecurity, the Intelligence Science Board, etc.
Some of Dr. Barnett’s other activities include teaching at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies as an adjunct professor, and is on the Board of Advisors of a Canadian national study on community resilience in the wake of disasters.
John J. Lombardi, MBA, COL (Ret), U.S. Army
Director, Grants and Training
John was the President and CEO of A. Marshall Consulting and a Founding Partner of the Diogenec Group, a Homeland Security consulting firm. He was previously Senior Vice President for Homeland Security Operations for Logistics Health, Inc. (LHI), a Wisconsin-based health services firm.
Prior to joining LHI, Mr. Lombardi served for 28 years with the United States Army, the last five years at the Pentagon, most recently as Director of Domestic Emergency Preparedness - Medical Programs (Military Assistance to Civil Authorities).
Mr. Lombardi was also the Department of Defense Project Manager for and a Representative to the Gilmore National Terrorism Commission (Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction). He participated in the development of contingency and remediation plans for a biological attack on the Pentagon and the National Capital Region after the 9-11 attacks. As the Defense Department's representative to the Department of Health & Human Services Interagency Contingency Operations Planning Committee, Mr. Lombardi established policy for the use of DoD medical assets in response to the activation of Emergency Support Function #8, Health and Medical Services, of the Federal Response Plan.
Mr. Lombardi served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for RAND and the Department of Defense in the conduct of numerous Emergency Operations Tabletop exercises. At Department of the Army Headquarters (the Pentagon) Col Lombardi served as Deputy Division Chief, where he was responsible for the training portion of the Presidents Budget as well being as a member of the Army’s Crisis Action Team (CAT) at the Army Operations Center.
Mr. Lombardi was commissioned Infantry, and then served most of his 28 years as a Medical Service Corps Officer. As the director of Medical Operations (332d Medical Brigade), he was responsible for planning, organizing and coordinating all operations for a medical headquarters (comprised of almost 60 medical units and 5000 personnel) for the preparation of wartime missions in both the Korean and Southwest Asian theaters of operation as well as for ongoing military operations. Mr. Lombardi had direct supervision in the areas of medical operations, communications, medical regulating (of patients), aviation and ground evacuation assets and the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) resources. As a Medical Logistician Mr. Lombardi devised programs for the Army medical system that were instrumental in forging improvements in overall medical logistics system.
COL. Lombardi received his BA from St. John’s University, an MBA from the Citadel, is a graduate of the Air Force Air War College and was awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge while on active duty. Prior to pursuing his military career, Mr. Lombardi was an administrator in New York City at the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn.
Julia Frank, MD
Dr. Frank is a professor of psychiatry, currently focused on medical student education. However, her longstanding professional interest in traumatic stress has led her to be one of the longest serving members of the GW Hospital Emergency Preparedness Committee. Dr. Frank is also a Red Cross Mental Health volunteer and has had some direct emergency experience working with Hurricane Katrina survivors in DC in 2005 and in Mississippi in 2007. She is the chair of disaster committee of the Washington Psychiatric Society.
Larissa May, MD
Dr. May is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician on faculty at the George Washington University with experience in developing training curricula in emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism for continuing medical education programs, as well as graduate and undergraduate medical education, including online curricula. She collaborated with the Office of Emergency Preparedness in 2006 on formulation of the hospital’s emergency response plan to a contagious disease outbreak or bioterrorism event in 2006 and is a member of the Infection Control Committee for the George Washington University Hospital. She is co-chair of the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease Surveillance and is the lead investigator on the development of a continuing medical education project for syndromic surveillance for the society. Dr. May’s principal interests are in emerging infectious diseases, syndromic surveillance, and novel educational methods.
Keith A. Monosky, MPM, EMT-P
Mr. Monosky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University and is also the Director of the Emergency Services Management Graduate Program in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His master degree is in Public Management of Health Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University and he is currently completing his doctoral studies in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University with a focus on Health Policy. He has been in emergency medical services for more than 35 years as an educator, researcher, director of operations of a private EMS agency, an EMS and trauma outreach specialist, as well as a director of a regional EMS system. His principal teaching interests are in paramedicine, EMS management, homeland security and response to terrorism, emergency services management, and national health policy. He has authored a number of articles related to EMS administration and clinical practice and has contributed to several premier texts on paramedic practice. Mr. Monosky is currently developing a new undergraduate curriculum at GWU in emergency medical services with a clinical and operational concentration.
Geoffrey L. Shapiro
Mr. Shapiro is the Operational Medicine Programs Coordinator for the GW Emergency Health Services (EHS) Program. Geoff also serves as a lead instructor and coordinator for the Emergency Services Section at a premiere federal law enforcement agency training center near Washington, DC. He played a key role in the development of the latest curriculum which is about to be implemented, and has assisted in delivering many other training elements. Geoff teaches several classes to on-campus undergraduate & graduate students, and medical interns & residents. He has presented at international conferences, assisted in the development of international EMS systems, delivers training to military special operations forces, and is a contributing author and reviewer of EMS textbooks. Geoff’s background in EMS is as a Paramedic/Firefighter with more than 15 years experience, and his interests include teaching emergency medicine/response to individuals that function outside of a typical clinical environment.
Jeffrey M. Good
Jeffrey attended The George Washington University where he received a degree from the School of Business and Public Management in Emergency Response Management. He has been the Director of Medical Center Safety, Bio-Security and Emergency Management since 2003. Previously, Jeffrey was the Safety & Emergency Preparedness Specialist for the NASA Headquarters Facility in Washington, DC. Jeffrey has over 16 years experience as an emergency responder, with 9 of those years being as a hazardous materials technician. Jeffrey has also received extensive additional training and education in the fields of emergency management and response from the National Fire Academy, the Emergency Management Institute, the Maryland Fire & Rescue Institute and the National Emergency Response & Rescue Training Center.
In addition to his current position with GW, Jeffrey is currently the president of the Jefferson County (WV) Ambulance Authority and is also the Co-Chair of the Jefferson County (WV) Local Emergency Planning Committee. He is also serving as the only private sector representative on the Program Review Committee of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program, a program of the National Emergency Management Association. He is also a member of the forming committee for the Emergency Services Special Interest Sector of the International Association of Emergency Managers. He has previously served on several National Fire Protection Association Technical Committees.
Jeffrey is a member of the National Disaster Medical System, serving as a safety officer on the NDMS-1 management team. He was previously with Public Health Service Team #1, and was a Captain with the District of Columbia Department of Health Rapid Response Team. He is also a technical advisor and civilian team member of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department's Special Threat Action Team, a division of the Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Branch.
Bill Barker, MD
Dr. Barker is in active clinical practice of emergency medicine and an Operational Medical Director (OMD) for Fauquier County Fire and Rescue. He serves as an alternate medical technical specialist for the Incident Support Team (IST) of FEMA/DHS US&R. As a member of VATF-1, and on behalf of the US Agency for International Development, Office for US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), he has responded to earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan, Iran, Kashmir, and the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. In the Iran, Kashmir and tsunami events, Dr. Barker responded as a technical expert for the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART). He also responded as one of the Task Force Medical Team Managers to the Pentagon terrorist attacks on September 11. He has participated in many local and regional disaster and EMS responses including a local activation of the Fairfax County US&R team for Hurricane Isabel. Dr. Barker had one of his first disaster response experiences working with Kentucky DMAT 1 during Hurricane Andrew. He has been active in EMS and medical education for many years including serving as a faculty member for the Confined Space Medicine course provided to the US Army Reserves at Fort Dix, New Jersey. As the medical director of Universal Services, a travel assistance and medical evacuation company, he is knowledgeable of medical care and facilities in many areas of the world in non-disaster situations as well.
Brandon Graham
Brandon W. Graham currently serves as an Associate Director in the Office of Homeland Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. His career in emergency services spans over 17 years, with extensive professional experience across the public safety continuum. Brandon started his career in Emergency Medical Services as a 911 call taker, EMS dispatcher, and Emergency Medical Technician in northern California. He later served in the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department (DCFEMS) in Washington, DC as a Paramedic, Continuous Quality Improvement officer (EMS Sergeant), and EMS Field Supervisor (EMS Lieutenant). During his tenure at DCFEMS, Brandon was also a Special Operations EMS Supervisor and Special Investigations Officer.
Brandon also served the District of Columbia as a reserve police officer for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), where he was a Patrolman First Class and Tactical Medical Officer on the Emergency Response Team. As a Tactical Medical Officer he provided operational and medical support for high risk incidents, including hostage situations, warrant service, barricade subjects and civil disturbances. Additionally, he served as a Tactical Flight Officer in the MPD Air Support Unit. During his tenure in Washington, DC, Brandon had the responsibility of responding to and supervising events ranging from routine medical, fire, and criminal emergencies, mass casualty incidents, mass transit emergencies, civil disturbances, and acts of terrorism. He also planned for, responded to and supervised special events such as Presidential and other VIP gatherings, high profile summits and conventions, Inaugurations, and a wide variety of mass public gatherings in the Nation’s Capitol. Before joining GWU, Brandon also served at the Texas Engineering Extension service (TEEX) in the Texas A&M University System as a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Instructor and WMD Operations Program Coordinator of a US Department of Homeland Security training program that provides terrorism and hazardous materials training to first responders and first receivers across the United States and its territories. In addition to providing lectures and training programs around the world, Brandon is also a published author and recognized subject matter expert in the field of public safety response to terrorism and other large-scale incidents.
Brandon obtained his Bachelor of Science in EMS Management from the George Washington University and is currently pursuing graduate studies in homeland security studies at The George Bush School of Government and Public Service at the Texas A&M University.