September 2015 SPADA Meeting

CHAIR BIOS:  WORKING GROUP CHAIRS

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.  

Luther Lindler, PhD  Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate  SPADA YERSINIA PESTIS WORKING GROUP CHAIR 

Dr. Lindler joined the DHS Science and Technology Directorate in October 2003 as a Senior Science  Advisor.  Dr. Lindler currently serves as the DHS S&T liaison to the Department of Defense Joint Program  Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO‐CBD).  He also serves as the Chief Scientist  for the DHS Chemical and Biological Defense Division providing biodefense expertise to both DOD as  well as DHS in the area of infectious disease threats from a global perspective.  Dr. Lindler’s previous  work provided strategic investments to bring forward deployed rapid molecular diagnostics to U.S.  forces.  Dr. Lindler provided technical leadership in the Federal Material Threat Assessment and  Biological Risk Assessment programs.  He helped plan the National Biodefense Analysis and  Countermeasures Center forensics and threat characterization programs as well as the first DHS  laboratory building on the Fort Detrick National Biodefense Campus.  Before joining DHS, Dr. Lindler was  a leader in the U.S. Army Biodefense program.  He was a principle investigator at the Walter Reed Army  Institute of Research leading a team of professionals studying the pathogenesis of the plague bacterium.   He served on the Army’s plague vaccine steering committee and the emerging threats steering  committee within the Biodefense program.  The peak of his career with the Army culminated with his  senior editorship of the well‐acclaimed Biodefense book entitled, “Biological Weapons Defense;  Infectious Diseases and Counterbioterrorism.”  Dr. Lindler was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of  Dr. Susan Straley at the University of Kentucky in Lexington from 1987 until 1989. Dr. Lindler received his  Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Medical College of Virginia in 1987, his Masters of Science in  Microbiology from Clemson University in 1981 and his Bachelor’s of Science in Medical Technology from  Lenoir Rhyne College in North Carolina in 1978.