Runa Gokhale, MD, MPH

Medical Officer, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Runa Hatti Gokhale is a team lead in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion where she oversees invasive Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and serves as science lead for Agency sepsis activities. She is a Commander in the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service. Runa is board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and before joining CDC worked as a hospitalist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where she continues to attend on the inpatient medicine service. Runa received a BA from Brown University, an MD from Jefferson Medical College, and an MPH from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.

Richard Catherina, MD 

Senior Medical Officer, National Disaster Medical System, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Richard A. Catherina, M.D., is the Senior Medical Officer of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  In this role Dr. Catherina is the principal medical consultant to the NDMS Director and serves as subject matter expert for multiple programs within the NDMS portfolio, including force health protection, operational medicine, aeromedical evacuation, infection control, credentialing and privileging, and clinical quality management.  A graduate of Muhlenberg College, he is a former Naval Aviator who transitioned to the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, where he practiced primary care, occupational, and hospital medicine before retiring from active duty as a Senior Medical Officer with the U.S. Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force.  Dr. Catherina received his medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCP, MCCM

Senior Advisor, IPA to BARDA DRIVe 

Professor of Surgery, Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine

Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCP, MCCM has four decades of bedside experience caring for septic patients. A general surgeon, intensive care doctor and virologist, he is currently Senior Advisor, IPA to the Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Buchman’s other current roles include Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University, where he founded the Emory Critical Care Center. Dr. Buchman is past president of the Shock Society, of the Society for Complex Acute Illness and of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the latter being the largest organization of critical care professionals in the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Critical Care Medicine (www.ccmjournal.org) and Critical Care Explorations (www.ccejournal.org). He is a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. He also serves as site director of the military-civilian partnership, Surgical Critical Care Institute (www.sc2i.org).

Robert D. McLeroy, MD

MAJ, MC, USA

Medical ICU Director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Robert Dustin McLeroy is a medical intensivist in the U.S. Army and currently serves as the Medical ICU Director at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he is also core faculty for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program. His scholarly interests include critical care delivered in remote and austere environments. He is also a Director for the Fundamentals of Critical Care Support – Resource Limited course.  Robert’s medical career started as a volunteer EMT in rural Colorado. He then received a BA from the University of Colorado Denver and an MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.   

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