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CAPT John J. Cardarelli
CAPT John Cardarelli started at NIOSH in 1992, transferred into the
Public Health Service in 1997 and recently joined the Environmental
Protection Agency in 2005. He holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, an
M.S. in Health Physics and Ph.D. in Industrial Hygiene from the
University of Cincinnati. He is board certified as a Professional
Engineer (nuclear specialty), an Industrial Hygienist, and as a Health
Physicist. He serves as a Health Physicist on the EPA National
Decontamination Team to provide scientific and technical support at
various levels of government ranging from local to international. His
experience includes dose reconstruction on DOE workers in support of
epidemiologic studies, conducting health hazard evaluations in the work
place, and emergency response. He is actively engaged in several
professional organizations and has served as president of the Cincinnati
COA Branch and the Cincinnati Radiation Society. He is currently the
Chair of the Health Services Professional Advisory Committee for the
PHS. He has received several PHS and non-PHS awards, most notably the
EPA, PHS, and Federal Engineer-of-the-Year awards in 2006. His interests
include any family activities, golf, and travel.
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CAPT Kenneth Mead Captain Kenneth (Ken) Mead has been with NIOSH since his transfer to
the U.S. Public Health Service from the U.S. Army in 1993. Throughout
his military and public health careers, Ken has served in many
capacities within the engineering and occupational safety and health
communities, focusing on indoor environmental quality, industrial
ventilation, and protective engineering designs for occupational safety
& health. He is a registered professional engineer (mechanical)
currently assigned as a senior research engineer in the Engineering and
Physical Hazards Branch within the NIOSH Division of Applied Research
and Technology and he is also a Deputy Team Leader for US PHS Applied
Public Health Team #3. Since 2001, CAPT Mead has been a leader in
national efforts to increase building protection against vulnerabilities
to chemical, biological, and radiological terrorism. Recent research
efforts focus on the design and operation of expedient airborne
infectious isolation techniques used to enhance surge isolation capacity
following a bioterrorism or epidemic event. CAPT Mead’s PHS deployment
experiences include an ESF 8-FEMA assignment following Tropical Storm
Allison, two deployments during the 2001 anthrax response and two
deployments for hurricanes Katrina/Rita. CAPT Mead has been awarded 22
uniformed service decorations and awards, including 5 PHS Outstanding
Unit Citations, 2 PHS Crises Response Service Awards and the US Army’s
Meritorious Service Award.
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CAPT William Murphy Captain William Murphy is co-leader for the Hearing Loss
Prevention Team in the DART. He received his bachelors and masters
degrees in physics from Iowa State University. He completed a Ph.D.
in physics at Purdue University and joined NIOSH in 1992. He was
commissioned as a scientist officer in 1993. He is a past COA
president, coordinates the annual physical fitness testing and is a
member of the PHS Ensemble. Currently he is developing ratings for
the performance of passive and active hearing protection devices. He
is an active member in the Acoustical Society of America and serves
as the ANSI S12 vice chair to develop national and international
acoustic standards on noise. Outside of work, Captain Murphy is a
worship leader and elder for his church, has edited science texts
for middle school and high school, and will be teaching high-school
physics to three home-school students this coming year. He and his
wife Debbie have three children, Alyssa, Aaron and Abigail.
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CDR Leslie A. MacDonald CDR
Leslie MacDonald began work at NIOSH as a summer intern in the HETAB Medical
Section in 1991. After completing her graduate course work at the University
of Massachusetts Lowell, CDR MacDonald returned to NIOSH to work as a
research ergonomist in the Industry-wide Studies Branch, where she has been
employed for the past 14 years. CDR MacDonald conducts field studies to
evaluate the separate and joint effects of physical and psychosocial job
stressors and of organizational antecedents on adverse worker health
outcomes such as musculoskeletal disorders and psychological distress. CDR
MacDonald earned her Doctor of Science degree in 2000, and she was
commissioned in the USPHS Commissioned Corps as a Scientist Officer in 2002.
CDR MacDonald deployed in October 2005 as a Logistics Officer to the DHHS
SERT in Baton Rouge, LA as part of the Hurricane Katrina Response effort.
She currently serves as the Logistics Officer for Mental Health Response
Team #5. CDR MacDonald previously served for 2 years in the Naval Reserves
and for 7 years in the Massachusetts Army National Guard as a Chemical
Operations Specialist. Leslie has been married to her husband Patrick for 9
years and they have a 3-1/2 year old daughter, Grace.
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CDR Mark Methner CDR Mark Methner received his doctorate in Environmental
Sciences/Industrial Hygiene at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey. He is Team Leader of Field Research at the NIOSH
Nanotechnology Research Center. Current Activities include:
identifying sources of exposure, measurement and characterization of
airborne/surface deposited engineered nanomaterials, exposure
controls and safe work practices during nanomaterial
handling/processing. He is serving his second term as recorder for
Cincinnati COA. He also has been an active member of the SciPAC
committee since 2003 and serves as chairman for the SciPAC mentoring
committee. He was named 2006 USPHS Junior Officer of the Year and
2007 SciPAC Young Scientist of the Year.
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LCDR Duane Hammond
LCDR Hammond began working as a mechanical engineer at
NIOSH on July 1st 2002 and was commissioned in the Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps on September 3rd 2004. LCDR Hammond’s
current projects at NIOSH include work being performed under an
interagency agreement with the United States Postal Service to
evaluate the effectiveness of local exhaust ventilation for mail
processing equipment and work with the boat manufacturing industry
to evaluation engineering controls to prevent styrene exposures.
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New Officers
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LT Ed Zechmann LT Zechmann joined NIOSH as a contractor in 2004 and
accepted his commissioned with the Public Health Service on
5 March 2007. In his 3 years of research on reducing noise
induced hearing loss in the construction industry, he has
developed a data acquisition program with several important
features for acquiring meaningful sound power data. His
research has evaluated more than 120 power tools for sound
power and lead to the creation of the NIOSH power tools
database. Ed coauthored a journal article which brought
meaning to the sound power database (sound power level is
approximately equal to the sound pressure level at the
operator’s ears). He is currently working to complete a PhD
in acoustics at Penn State University. Ed also enjoys
playing the trumpet, and juggling.
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Reaffirming the Oath of Office
I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any
mental reservation or purpose of evasion; that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me
God.
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