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Director
Louisiana State University
Fire and Emergency Training Institute
Baton Rouge, LA 70820 Phone: 225-334-6300
Jeff Gleason serves as the director of the LSU Fire and Emergency Training Institute. His fire service career began at an early age, accompanying his dad to fires. Jeff later served as a volunteer firefighter in Ohio, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Mr. Gleason began working at LSU FETI in 1978. He served as Chief Administrative Fire Marshal for the State of Louisiana from 1981 to 1992, responsible for all statewide fire and life safety inspections. Jeff came back to FETI as the associate director in 1999, and was appointed director on January 1, 2006. He holds an associates degree in fire protection from Oklahoma State University, a bachelor of science in education from Ohio State University, and a master’s degree in public administration from LSU.
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Professor
Louisiana State University
Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-2509
Peter Kelle has been the deputy-head of the Operations Research Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor with the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He had several visiting appointments including a British Academy fellowship and a two-year visiting research position at the University of Calgary, Canada. Peter Kelle has been granted several prestigious awards including the ISIR Service Award recognizing the outstanding service to the International Society for Inventory Research.
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Professor
Louisiana State Univeristy
Department of Psychology
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-4113
Mary Lou Kelley has been an LSU faculty member in the Psychology Department since 1982. When Hurricane Katrina devestated New Orleans, Dr. Kelley and her research team of ten graduate students and colleagues were determined to obtain for evaluating children’s psychological adjustment post-Katrina. Within three months after Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Kelley and her colleagues and students wrote and received a NIMH grant for following Katrina victims for two years. Several articles studying variables related to children’s adjustment after Katrina are in press. Additionally, Dr. Kelley recently received a grant from the Deparment of Homeland Securities to continue to follow a select group of the NIMH participants and expand the assessment of these victims. Dr. Kelley has presented her work nationally and internationally.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
School of Veterinary Medicince
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-9500
Rebecca McConnico is a veterinarian specializing in equine internal medicine and has been a faculty member at the School of Veterinary Medicine – Louisiana State University since 2000. She is presently an associate professor. In addition, she is the director of the Equine Health Studies Program Emergency & Disaster Management Team and is the Equine Branch Director of the Louisiana State Animal Response Team. She was an active leader in the Louisiana response to storm-affected horses during the fall of 2005. She has remained active in emergency preparedness and planning for the state and nation. She was instrumental in developing the equine evacuation and response plan for Louisiana with the Louisiana Dept. of Agriculture & Forestry. This plan is updated yearly and is now being used as a template by other states in the development of respective state plans.
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Associate Director
Louisiana State University
National Center for Biomedical Research and Training
Phone: 225-578-2366
Michael Moody is the Associate Director, Research and Development, of the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at LSU. He is also a professor at the LSU Agricultural Center and LSU International Programs. He has a 32 year career with LSU and served as Head of the Department of Food Science. He is an Institute of Food Technologists Fellow. Research interests and responsibilities include food and drug law, domestic and international food safety, seafood technology, and food defense. He served in the United States Army Reserves for 31 years and retired as a full Colonel. In that capacity, he was DOD’s Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) for the state of Louisiana for five years.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State Univeristy
Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-2507
Suzanne Pawlowski is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at LSU. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University and an MBA in Management and B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on knowledge processes, knowledge management and learning in teams, organizations and ad hoc knowledge networks in disaster response. Her professional experience includes a 20-year career in IT as an application developer and manager of application development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
Department of Enviornmental Research
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-1075
John Pine received his Ed.D. in Higher Education and Public Administration from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA in 1979. He joined the faculty of LSU’s Governmental Services Institute in 1980 and worked with a team of faculty in Louisiana’s Certified Public Manager Program. He took a faculty position as Director of LSU’s Industrial Technology Program in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in 1987. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental Sciences and then served as interim Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology from 2005 through 2006. Dr. Pine serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Emergency Management. In 2007 he received with other LSU faculty the Association of American Geographers Merril Award for service following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University
Department of Psychology
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Tracey Rizzuto, an assistant professor in the LSU Department of Psychology, received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interest is in attitudinal and behavioral responses to large-scale organizational change, including workplace disasters and technology implementation. She has also taken an active role in promoting workplace disaster recovery services through the Katrina Aid and Relief Effort (KARE) and the Disaster Research Team (DRT), inter-divisional committees of the American Psychological Association.
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Professor & Department Chair
Louisiana State Univeristy
Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-2516
Helmut Schneider received his Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin . He taught statistics at the Free University in Berlin from 1978 to 1983. He visited the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. In the Fall of 1985, Professor Schneider joined the College of Business Administration, now called the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Since 1994 he has been the chairman of the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at Louisiana State University. He has published two books and over 50 articles in refereed journals and is a member of several professional organizations including the Association for Information Systems, the Information Systems Audit and Control Associations, the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality. He teaches courses in quality management, systems auditing and statistics.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-4792
James R. Van Scotter (Ph.D., University of Florida) is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the Louisiana State University. His research on individual and group performance, computer mediated-communication, and e-commerce has been published in Decision Sciences, Organization Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Information and Management, Personnel Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly. He is a member of the Association for Information Systems, INFORMS, the Academy of Management, and the Southern Management Association. He held numerous positions in Air Force transportation and logistics before retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1998.
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Professor
Louisiana State University
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-6629
Fahui Wang is a professor at the Department of Geography and Anthropology and director of Chinese Culture and Commerce, Louisiana State University. He earned his B.S. in economic geography from Peking University (1988), and M.A. in economics (1993) and PhD in city and regional planning (1995), both from the Ohio State University. His research interests include transportation planning, mitigation and socioeconomic impacts related to disasters with research methods such as GIS, spatial analysis, and computational methods.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
Library & Information Sciences
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-1462
Robert Ward holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Public Affairs from the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Ward’s research interest include Crisis and Disaster Management, Organizational Theory, Public Policy Theory, Public Management Networks, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State Unviersity
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-4697
Chester Wilmot is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University, and Program Manager of Special Studies at the Louisiana Transportation Research Center. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Pretoria University in South Africa in 1988, a Master’s degree in transportation engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 and a Ph.D in transportation engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1983. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Louisiana, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The main thrust of his research in the last five years has been in evacuation demand modeling. During this period, he has developed a time-dependent evacuation demand model that can be used to test alternative policies and operational strategies, investigated alternative models of evacuation destination choice, and developed a procedure to establish hurricane evacuation zones. He is currently investigating alternative methods of collecting data on evacuation behavior.
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Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
Transportation Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-5247
Brian Wolshon's research areas lie within the broad area of traffic and transportation engineering. Recent research projects have included work in car following experimentation; testing and evaluation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS); and traffic flow analysis with particular emphasis in the application of this knowledge to the field of hurricane evacuation. As part of his activities in the area of evacuation, Dr. Wolshon recently founded (and now chairs) the Transportation Research Board Subcommittee on Emergency Evacuation A3B01(4). |
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