Donald N. Forthal, MD – Course Director
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Howard Backer, MD, MPH
Chief, Immunization Branch
Chief Medical Consultant, Emergency Preparedness California Department of Health Services

Alan Barbour , MD
Director, Pacific-Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

Robert G. Darling, MD, FACEP
Director, Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, D.C.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Bethesda , MD

Steve Patrick
Senior Hazardous Materials Officer
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laboratory Division

Harold Sanchez, MD
Attending Pathologist
Medical Director of Microbiology
New Britain General Hospital

Carl H. Schultz, MD
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Department of Eergency Medicine
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

It is the policy of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center that all faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Institute for Medical Quality and the California Medical Association are expected to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation. The faculty will also be asked to disclose any discussion of the use of unapproved/unlabelled drugs or devices in their presentation.