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FYI The Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium
(<a href="http://www.mscmc.org/" eudora="autourl">www.mscmc.org</a>) is
hosting an outreach meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21, from 1 - 3 pm
EDT at ACCESS with the focus on SARS and TOPOFF 2. Invitation
below<br>
<br>
The MSCMC outreach meeting briefing is always AG enabled. Although
attendance is normally by membership invitation only, because of the SARS
situtation, and other requests that the MSCMC has received from SARS
affected regions to connect them with experts, this MSCMC SARS briefing
will be open to the global AG communities. This may be a small start - a
good way to link up an ad hoc collaborative network from the affected
communities via the MSCMC with members and experts here.<br>
<br>
Janet<br>
<br>
703 248-0102<br>
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Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium Outreach Meeting<br>
<br>
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 (1:00 - 3:00 PM eastern)<br>
Reception Immediately following 3:00 - 5:00 PM<br>
<br>
<b>Please RSVP to: dcadmin@ncsa.uiuc.edu<br>
<br>
</b>Alliance Center for Collaboration, Science, and Software
(ACCESS)<br>
Ballston Metro Center Tower<br>
Suite 800<br>
Arlington, VA 22205<br>
703-248-0072<br>
<br>
Agenda for Wednesday, May 21, 2003<br>
1:00 - 3:00 PM (eastern time)<br>
Reception Immediately following 3:00 - 5:00 PM<br>
<br>
1:00 -1:15 PM<br>
<br>
Introductions and Welcome<br>
Syed Qadir, MSCMC Chair<br>
Executive Director, National Response Center<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/" eudora="autourl">http://www.nrc.uscg.mil</a><br>
<br>
</font></u>Janet Thot-Thompson, <br>
MSCMC Executive Director<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.mscmc.org/" eudora="autourl">www.mscmc.org</a><br>
</font></u>Associate Director, NCSA ACCESS<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.accesscenterdc.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.accesscenterdc.org</a><br>
<br>
</font></u>1:15 - 2:15 PM<br>
<br>
Presentation: SARS and TOPOFF 2: The Practice, Fear, and Effectiveness of
Quarantine<br>
<br>
Stephen Prior, Ph.D.<br>
Director, National Security Health Policy Center (NSHPC)<br>
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies<br>
<br>
>From May 12 - 16, top officials from the Department of Homeland
Security and the Department of State, together with those from Federal,
State, local and Canadian agencies, are participating in TOPOFF 2, the
second of two Congressionally-mandated exercises that simulate Weapons of
Mass Destruction (WMD) attacks on the United States. Part of the TOPOFF 2
exercise included a biological weapons attack on Chicago. Stephen Prior
will describe the basis for the simulated attack and discuss what
responses were considered and implemented, including treatments and
quarantine.<br>
<br>
Prior will also examine various countries’ use of quarantine in response
to the recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). He
will discuss public perception of and response to quarantine, focusing on
such issues as mandatory versus voluntary quarantine.<br>
<br>
Biosketch: Stephen David Prior, Ph.D.<br>
<br>
Dr. Prior joined the Potomac Institute For Policy Studies in 2000 as the
Research Director of the Institute’s National Security Health Policy
Center (NSHPC). He is a life scientist with qualifications in
biochemistry, microbiology, and microbial physiology, and over 18 years
research experience in a wide range of academic, corporate, and
multinational environments. He is an acknowledged leader in the field of
defense against the threat posed by biological weapons (BW) and
bioterrorism (BT) who, since 1986, has advised and worked closely with
government and commercial defense staffs world-wide to develop integrated
strategies of medical countermeasures for BW defense. Dr. Prior has wide
experience in the defense industry, including appointments with the U.S.
Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, and has
presented internationally on BW/BT defense. <br>
<br>
The experience gained by Dr. Prior in medical and scientific issues
during and following the Persian Gulf War (1991) is currently being
applied to the policy issues that surround the threats posed to the
United States by bioterrorism and other disease-related problems. His
direct-experience of analyzing threats and developing novel solutions has
enabled him to establish the NSHPC at the forefront of current
discussions and debates on health and national security. The initial
results of the work of NSHPC have found a place in both U.S. and UK
debates about the policy issues surrounding countermeasures for the
increasing threat from BW/BT, and current research encompasses public
health law and socio-economic concerns. The policy work that NSHPC is
pursuing continues to elicit requests from government, non-government,
academic and public bodies for study papers. <br>
<br>
In 2001, as a result of the concerns over the possible release of BW
agents in a bioterrorist attack on the U.S., Dr. Prior was invited to
work with various U.S.-Government agencies and non-Government
organizations on the “National Strategy For Homeland Security” and the
creation of the Office of Homeland Security. Recent publications by Dr.
Prior include <i>Terrorism and Medical Responses: U.S. Lessons and Policy
Implications</i> (ISBN 1-57105-228-3) and <i>What Is To Be Done? Emerging
Perspectives on Public Responses to Bioterrorism</i> (ISBN
0-9725956-1-9). In addition he contributes widely to published articles,
radio and television. Dr. Prior was recently appointed the Field Director
for the Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) a University of
Virginia-based analysis group. <br>
<br>
Before joining the Institute, Dr. Prior was the first President and CEO
of<b> </b>DynPort, a limited liability company based in Reston, VA, which
the DOD selected as the Prime Systems Contractor for its Joint Vaccine
Acquisition Program (JVAP). Under this ten-year, $500 million contract,
the company was responsible for preclinical research, clinical trial
management, bulk manufacturing, and storage and distribution of a range
of vaccine and related products to counter biological weapon
threats.<br>
<br>
>From 1990-1996, Dr. Prior was a Company Director at Porton
International, a UK/U.S. biotechnology company that focused on the
development of medical products, principally vaccines, for the military
and civilian defense markets. Dr. Prior was responsible for providing
expert advice to MoD, DoD and NATO, and the management of the
relationship with the UK governments’ Centre for Applied Microbiology and
Research (CAMR). While at Porton International, Dr. Prior served as a
UK/US advisor on defense policy for armed forces resulting in revised
strategies for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) defense and
provision of appropriate materials for use during the Persian Gulf
Conflict. <br>
<br>
Dr Prior trained in the United Kingdom and received his Ph.D. from the
University of Warwick in 1986. He holds degrees in Microbiology and
Applied Biology. <br>
<br>
2:15 - 2:45 Question and Answer Session<br>
<br>
2:45 - 3:00 Closing Remarks<br>
<br>
3:00 - 5:00 PM Reception<br>
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Technical Information<br>
NCSA AccessGrid Venue: Optiverse<br>
NCSA AccessGrid Schedule:
<a href="http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu</a></font></u><a href="http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/" eudora="autourl">/</a><br>
<u>AccessGrid www site:
<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid</a><br>
</font>Teleconference numbers: 1-877-607-8976 (toll free); 1-217-244-7526
(UIUC local)<br>
ACCESS Polycom Bridge server: 205.253.57.82 (Please mute local mic once
<br>
joined--image dictated by voice activation.)<br>
ACCESS contact: Tom Coffin (tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu; 703-248-0105)<br>
ACCESS DPPT3 server: ball-<font color="#0000FF">ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu<br>
</font>Slide repository:
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<br>
</u>At 09:33 AM 5/19/2003 -0500, Terry Disz wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Hello all,<br>
<br>
An update on trhe Taiwan PRAGMA situation - We had a teleconference
on<br>
Saturday evening summed up as follows by Jim Miller of inSORS.<br>
<br>
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The group from Taiwan and Pragma from SDSC conferenced with Futures
Lab<br>
group and Jim from inSORS on Saturday to review some technical
AG2.0<br>
questions along with other logistics for implementation of
AccessGrid<br>
network within 3 Taiwan hospitals.<br>
<br>
Once successful, they hope to expand to 7 area hospitals.<br>
<br>
They are hoping to allow doctors remote viewing and collaboration of
patient<br>
x-rays and other information to provide expert diagnosis and analysis
to<br>
combat the SARS crisis.<br>
<br>
The group from Taiwan is committed and excited to assist in this
endeavor<br>
(they had a long night on their Saturday night, 4-5am, and then were back
up<br>
talking with us in US 4-5 hours later).<br>
<br>
The Argonne Futures Lab group is working to get them up and
running. We<br>
will keep the community posted if there is anything that needs to be
done.<br>
<br>
We appreciate everyone's concerns and willingness to help.<br>
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<br>
<br>
We also learned something about the size of the task. For
diagnosis,<br>
treatment follow up and research, they are plannning on dong daily Xrays
for<br>
30 days of about 3000 patients. Each Xray is about 1MB, so there is a
need<br>
for a lot of storage. The San Diego team is helping with technology
advice<br>
from their telescience portal
(<a href="https://gridport.npaci.edu/Telescience/" eudora="autourl">https://gridport.npaci.edu/Telescience/</a>)
that<br>
uses the SRB software for remote storage.<br>
<br>
Tom Uram has been busy this weekend working on AG 2.0 installation for
the<br>
machines in Taiwan.<br>
<br>
The state of AG there is that they have inSORS servers and software and
are<br>
trying to decide just how to best deploy AG technology (AG 1.2 or AG 2.0)
to<br>
the hospitals.<br>
<br>
More as we learn about it.<br>
<br>
Terry</blockquote><br>
<br>
<font color="#000080">Janet I. Thot-Thompson<br>
Associate Director<br>
Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software
(ACCESS) <br>
National Center for Supercomputing Applications <br>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <br>
<a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/" eudora="autourl">www.ncsa.uiuc.</a><a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/" eudora="autourl">edu<br>
<br>
</a>Executive Director<br>
Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium<br>
<a href="http://www.mscmc.org/" eudora="autourl">www.mscmc.org</a><br>
<br>
Ballston Metro Center Office Tower <br>
Suite 800<br>
901 North Stuart Street <br>
Arlington, Virginia 22203 <br>
<a href="http://www.accesscenterdc.org/" eudora="autourl">www.accesscenterdc.org<br>
<br>
</a>1 703.248.0072 <br>
1 703.248.0100(fax) <br>
email: jtt@ncsa.uiuc.edu <br>
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