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Ted Hadfield, PhD
Owner, Hadeco LLC.
SPADA BACILLUS ANTHRACIS WORKING GROUP CO-CHAIR
Ted L. Hadfield, Ph.D., Co-chair of the Variols Working Group, graduated from University of Utah in
1976. He did a post doctoral in Clinical Immunology at the Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City,
UT. He subsequently was an assistant professor at California State University in Los Angeles. In 1980 he
joined the United States Air Force as a Laboratory Officer. He was stationed at the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology as Chief of Bacteriology. In 1984 he was transferred to Wilford Hall USAF Medical
Center in San Antonio Texas as Chief, Clinical Microbiology. In 1989, he transferred back to the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology as Chief of Microbiology. Dr. Hadfield retired from the Air Force in 2000
and was appointed as a Distinguished Scientist at the American Registry of Pathology. He continued as
Chief of Microbiology and as Deputy Director of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology. In 2003 he
moved to MRIGlobal’s Florida Division as Chief, Bioscience Advisor. In 2012 he retired from MRIGlobal
and became president of HADECO, LLC, a consultation service for microbiological, immunology and
molecular biology solutions. Dr Hadfield has more than 100 scientific publications and remains active in
research projects at MRIGlobal, University of Florida, Gainesville and consultations with clinical
laboratories.
Jay E. Gee, PhD
Research Biologist, Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, DHCPP, NCEZID
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
SPADA
BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI
WORKING GROUP CHAIR
Jay E. Gee earned his BS in Microbiology at Mississippi State University in 1987 and his PhD in
Biochemistry in 1992 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. He studied
antisense oligonucleotide technology in his first postdoctoral position at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, TX. He later studied antiviral therapy strategies using chemically modified oligonucleotides in a
vesicular stomatitis virus model at L’Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (The Institute of
Molecular Genetics of Montpellier) in France in a second postdoctoral position.
He has been with the CDC for almost 14 years. During his research at CDC, he designed real-time PCR
assays to identify pathogenic
Leptospira
spp. and
Burkholderia pseudomallei
and has performed
molecular genetic subtyping on a variety of pathogens such as
Bacillus
spp. (e.g.
B. anthracis
and
B.
cereus
) and
Burkholderia
spp. (e.g.
B. pseudomallei
and
B. mallei
) in support of epidemiological case
investigations. He has served on the CDC Environmental Microbiology Work Group and serves on the
CDC Next Generation Sequencing Quality Workgroup. He is currently a subject matter expert on
Burkholderia pseudomallei
and
B. mallei
.