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Dan Baden, MD

Senior Medical Advisor, Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, CDC

Dr. Dan Baden is a family physician with CDC. He currently serves as the associate director for External Partner Outreach and Connectivity in the Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement Unit in the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support. Previously, he served as the director of the Division of Public Health Capacity Development, acting director of the Division of Issues Management and Executive Secretariat, and chief of the Emergency Communications Branch. His public health career began in Ghana, West Africa, where he developed a rural health network and served as a liaison between tribal elders and the Ghanaian Ministry of Health.

Dr. Baden is a board-certified family physician. He earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and undergraduate degree in math/computer science and natural science from Concordia University Irvine.

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Ian Williams, PhD, MS

Branch Chief, Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, CDC

Dr.Ian Williams is the Chief of the Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch at CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. He helps coordinate the national network of epidemiologists and other public health officials who investigate outbreaks of foodborne, waterborne, and other enteric illnesses in the United States. Dr. Williams has been involved in a number of multistate outbreak investigations leading to the identification and recall of food products. He is a graduate of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service program and has worked at the CDC since 1994.

He received a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and has a MS degree in preventive medicine from The Ohio State University.

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Tim Jones, MD

State Epidemiologist, Tennessee Department of Health

Dr. Tim Jones practiced medicine in an underserved population in Utah before joining CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1997. He now serves as the state epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health, overseeing programs including immunizations, TB, HIV/STD, emergency preparedness, foodborne diseases, healthcare-associated infections, vectorborne and zoonotic diseases, environmental epidemiology, prescription drug overdose epidemiology, and general communicable disease surveillance and control. He serves on CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors and the MMWR Editorial Board. He is active on the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, including serving as its president (2013−2014) and vice president (2014−2015).

Dr. Jones completed medical school at Stanford University and a residency in Family Medicine and a Maternal/Child Health Fellowship at the Brown University/Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island program.

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Michael P. Doyle, PhD

Regents Professor and Director, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia

Dr. Michael P. Doyle is a Regents Professor and Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia in Griffin. Dr. Doyle is an active researcher in the area of food safety and security and works closely with the food industry, government agencies, and consumer groups on issues related to the microbiological safety of foods. From 1977 to 1980, he was senior project leader of corporate microbiology at Ralston Purina Company, and from 1980 to 1991, he advanced from assistant professor to Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Food Microbiology, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Doyle has published more than 500 scientific papers on food microbiology and food safety topics and has given more than 800 invited presentations at national and international scientific meetings. He serves on food safety committees of many scientific organizations and has served as a scientific advisor to many groups, including the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Science-National Research Council, the International Life Sciences Institute-North America, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Doyle has received several awards for his research accomplishments, including the Nicholas Appert Award of the Institute of Food Technologists. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Food Technologists, the International Association for Food Protection, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Doyle received his BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in bacteriology/food microbiology.

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