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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. 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 . Jay E. Gee, PhD Research Biologist, Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch, DHCPP, NCEZID United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention