Advisory Board
L.J. Evans Jr.
Vice Chairman
Mr. Evans is the Former Chairman of White House Cabinet Council on Technology Commercialization. He also served as Head of NASA Commercial Technology and is a former member of the National Research Council Applications Board. He has more than 25 years of technology related operating, management and investment experience, mostly in government related sectors. He sits on numerous technology company Boards.
Jacques S. Gansler, PhD
Vice President of Research, University of Maryland, Roger C. Lipitz Chair
- Director of the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise
- Served as Under Secretary of Defense for Science, Technology and Acquisition
- Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Managed annual budget of over $180B and workforce of over 300,000
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Charles Harvey Roadman II, MD, CNA
Lt. General USAF (Ret.)
- Former President and CEO American Care Health Association
- Served as Surgeon General USAF
- Led the restoration to the Medicare and Medicaid and institution of national Quality Reform for Long Term Care
- 36+ years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry
- Managed health services to 2.4 million beneficiaries
Dr. Ronald Blanck, D.O.
Vice Chairman & Partner of Martin, Blanck & Assoc., Former President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
- Former Surgeon General of the US Army & Commander of the US Army Medical Command, Lt. General US Army (Ret.)
- Served as Commander of Walter Reed Medical Center North Atlantic Region
- Past Governor of the American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine
- Former President, North Texas Medical Center
- Chairs task forces on bioterrorism for both the Texas Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association
Dr. Scott Lillibridge, MD
Director, Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston
- Former Special Assistant for National Security and Emergency Management (assisted in development of a national bioterrorism program)
- Appointed by President George W. Bush to the White House Emergency Services, Law Enforcement, and Public Health and Hospitals Senior Advisory Committee for the Office of Homeland Security
- Former Director of the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the CDC
- Consultant to China’s Ministry of Health during the SARS outbreak in 2003
- Worked in emergency response and preparedness roles throughout the world in support of the United States Government and non-governmental organizations
Dr. James J. James, MD, DrPH, MHA
Director of the American Medical Association (AMA) Center for Public Health
- Preparedness and Disaster Response, and Editor-in-Chief, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, an official publication of the American Medical Association.
- Commanding General (Ret.) US Army Medical Department
- 30 years of experience in the public and private health care sectors – as a clinician, researcher, professional personnel manager and program director
- Served as Director of the Miami-Dade County Health Department from 1999 through Dec. 2002
- Recognized as an expert in the area of bio-preparedness
- Appointed Governor’s Domestic Security Task Force as well as the Lead Health Agent for Preparedness and Response for Region 7 in Florida
- He is board certified in general preventive medicine, earned a doctorate in medicine at Cincinnati College of Medicine, a doctorate in public health from UCLA’s School of Public Health, and a masters in health care administration from Baylor University