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CHAIR BIOS: WORKING GROUP CHAIRS
Linda C. Beck, PhD, MT (ASCP)
Naval Surface Warfare Center
SPADA COXIELLA BURNETII WORKING GROUP CO‐CHAIR
Dr. Linda Beck works for the Department of Defense at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren
Division (NSWCDD) as a Lead Scientist/Microbiologist in the CBR Concepts and Experimentation Branch.
Prior to her current position, she worked for the Department of Homeland Security for three years, and
served as the Deputy Program Manager and Director for Laboratory Operations for the BioWatch
Program, the biosurveillance system designed to detect select aerosolized biological agents. Preceding
her DHS position, Dr. Beck was working at NSWCDD and developed and implemented the BioWatch
Quality Assurance Samples laboratory and served as the Program Manager for the DHS effort at
Dahlgren. During that tenure, she also served as the Head of the Micro/Molecular Biology Section,
supported the development of methods for testing the efficacy of decontaminants on biotoxins, and
served as a Chem/Bio Subject Matter Expert on the Hazard Mitigation, Materiel and Equipment
Restoration Advance Technology Demonstration program
sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency, Joint Science and Technology Office (DTRA JSTO).
In addition to her Federal government work, Dr. Beck has 15 years of experience in a career in academia.
She was a professor in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Mary Washington prior to
her appointment to serve on the faculty in the School of Allied Health Professions at the Medical College
of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Beck graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV/VCU)
with a PhD in Pathology/Clinical Microbiology followed by two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
in the School of Medicine at MCV/VCU.
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