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SciPAC Executive Board
2009/2010
CDR Diana Bensyl:
Chair
 CDR Bensyl
earned a Master of Arts in Sociology from Baylor University and a
PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health from the University
of Texas Medical Branch. She joined CDC and USPHS in 1999 as an
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer assigned to the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Alaska Field Station
in Anchorage, Alaska. After finishing EIS, CDR Bensyl served as a
staff
epidemiologist at the NIOSH Alaska Field Station. CDR Bensyl's work
in Alaska focused on evaluating risk factors for work-related
injuries and fatalities, mostly within the fishing and aviation
industries. She also completed infectious disease investigations, an
assignment to Nigeria for Guinea worm eradication, and served as
Adjunct Faculty for Epidemiology at the University of Alaska,
Anchorage. In 2002, she transferred to the National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of
Reproductive Health where she worked on evaluating risk factors
associated with unintended and teen pregnancy, and served as Acting
Team Leader for the Unintended and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
from May 2004 through January 2005. In February 2005, CDR Bensyl
accepted a position with the EIS Field Assignments Branch as an EIS
Field Supervisor where she trains, supervises, mentors, and supports
EIS Officers who are assigned to state and local health departments.
She currently supervises assignees in Alaska, California, Utah,
Texas, Florida, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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LCDR Matthew Newland: Vice Chair
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Newland is a Senior Public Health Analyst in the Division of
Community Based Programs in the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) at the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). He monitors and
provides technical assistance to Ryan White HIV/AIDS community based
programs in the States of Florida, Tennessee and Alabama. He has
been a voting member of Sci-PAC since 2006, has served as COF
Liaison, Billet and Transformation Liaison and also on multiple
sub-committees. Prior to 2007, he was a Project Officer HAB's Global
Program overseeing the International Twinning Center and
International Quality Improvement. He came to HRSA through the HRSA
Scholar's Program and joined the PHS in December 2004. LCDR Newland
earned his doctorate in Medical Sociology and also his MPH at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also has another Masters in Asian
Studies from the University of Oregon focusing on Thailand and
Southeast Asia. He speaks Thai fluently and wrote his dissertation
on HIV/AIDS in Thailand, analyzing Thailand’s health care system and
Buddhist HIV/AIDS care and support services for affected
communities. He recently earned a Certificate in Epidemiology and
Biostatistics through Drexel University and plans to expand his
expertise in the field of HIV/AIDS. LCDR Newland is presently
studying for an MBA Healthcare degree at George Washington
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CDR Tim Nelle: Secretary
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CDR Nelle
received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and a
Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Pennsylvania State
University College of Medicine. In 1996, he accepted a direct
commission into the U.S. Army where he served as a Research
Microbiologist at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID) developing vaccines and other medical
countermeasures for several hemorrhagic fever viruses. Following the
anthrax attacks of 2001, CDR Nelle was chosen to serve as a Team
Leader in USAMRIID’s Special Pathogens Unit to oversee the screening
of thousands of samples from the National Capital Area for the
presence of biological threat agents. During this time, he also
served as USAMRIID’s Operations Officer where his duties included
implementing new biosurety regulations, overseeing the new training
and security measures for the institute, and conducting liaison
activities with the FBI, GAO, and the Army Inspector General. In
2002, CDR Nelle obtained an inter-service transfer to the Public
Health Service and was subsequently assigned to the FDA as a
Regulatory Review Officer in the Office of Vaccines Research and
Review (OVRR). Currently, he serves as a Director Regulatory Review
Officer within OVRR and is responsible for scientific and regulatory
review of Investigational New Drug (IND) submissions and Biologic
License Applications (BLA) for viral vaccines, including pandemic
influenza and third generation smallpox vaccines. CDR Nelle also
serves as consultant to WHO, NIH, and other agencies on regulatory
matters concerning the use of mammalian cell lines for the
manufacture of viral vaccines and alternative vaccine delivery
methods.
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LCDR Sally Hu: COF Liaison
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 LCDR
Sally Hu joined SciPAC shortly after she was commissioned in
2006, and became a voting member in September of 2008. She
served as Chair of the Visibility Subcommittee in her first year
with SciPAC. In addition, LCDR Hu is currently Chair of the
Awards Subcommittee of SciPAC.
LCDR Sally Hu is a technology licensing specialist at the
office of technology transfer of National Institutes of
Health. LCDR Hu is responsible for managing patent
prosecution, marketing and licensing activities on over two
hundred pending or issued patent families related to HIV
therapeutic technologies. Every year, LCDR Hu completes more
than ten license agreements with the companies and
organizations from the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium,
Switzerland, France, Mexico, China, India and others. One of
these license agreements led to a commercial product with
the brand name of Presizta™ which is the first FDA approved
anti-HIV drug for the drug resistant patients. LCDR Hu
received her Ph.D. in molecular pharmacology from Boston
University School of Medicine, M.B.A. from Boston University
School of Management.
Moreover, LCDR Hu served as Chair of the Asian Pacific
American Officers Committee (APAOC) in 2008. She is a member
of the National Capital Region team (NCR) of Regional
Incident Support Teams (RIST, Tier 1) and has been deployed
at least once per year since 2006. She has received multiple
PHS awards including two PHS Commendation Medals, one Unit
Commendation and one Special Assignment Service Award. She
also was named as the Junior Scientist of the Year in 2008.
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