Health Intelligence
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Management Team
Board of Directors
Health Intelligence Advisory Board
Security Intelligence Advisory Board
Transportation Intelligence Advisory Board
Board of Directors
Health Intelligence Advisory Board
Security Intelligence Advisory Board
Transportation Intelligence Advisory Board
Bradley A. Connor, MD
Board Chairman
Dr. Connor is Chairman of iJET's Health Intelligence Board and currently President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. He is also the founder and Medical Director of Travel Health Services (New York City's largest private Travel Medicine Clinic), the Director of the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, and is Clinical Assistant professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Connor has been appointed to the Health Information for International Travel Working Group by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has clinical faculty appointments at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Rockefeller University Hospital and has served as a consultant since 1986 to the American Express Corporation Medical Department in gastroenterology and travel medicine. Under his leadership, the North American Charter for Travel Health Consensus Conference was organized, laying the groundwork for minimum standards for the travel industry with respect to health advice.Michael Callahan, MD, DTM&H, MSPH
Dr. Callahan is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases and tropical medicine. Dr Callahan is Director of the Biodefense and Mass-Casualty Care program at the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (www.cimit.org) and a staff physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also serves as a threat analyst for agencies of the U.S. Government and is the Principal Investigator of a Department of Homeland Security funded research program in counter-terrorism against chemical and biological weapons. In addition to research and clinical responsibilities, Dr. Callahan is an active Command Physician, who has been active in disaster and rescue medicine since the early 80's, and the co-founder of Rescue Medicine, a federal charter air medical evacuation provider with a service responsibility for the health and safety of over 1900 U.S. corporate expatriates living in austere international or conflict regions. Stephen O. Cunnion, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. Cunnion retired from the US Navy in 1998 after many years as a disease outbreak investigator before teaching infectious disease epidemiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and then becoming the Director of Preventive Medicine and Occupational Health for the Navy and Marine Corps. He was selected by the State Department and Department of Defense to be the principal investigator for chemical and biological warfare allegations in Southeast and South Asia. Later, the Department of Defense appointed him as the program manager for the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program for Persian Gulf Illnesses. The originator of the first worldwide military medical information network, he currently runs an international health consulting service advising overseas governments and their universities and institutes in preventive medicine and epidemiology. Davidson H. Hamer, MD
Dr. Hamer is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease with an interest in tropical diseases. He is currently conducting policy-relevant clinical research at the Center for International Health and Development at the Boston University School of Public Health in an effort to improve child survival in resource-poor countries. From 1990 to 2004, he was based at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Tufts University where he was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutrition. During his tenure there, Dr. Hamer spent ten years as the Director of the Traveler's Health Services at New England Medical Center. He also served as the Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Center. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Hamer worked as a medical consultant and medical director for the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation. This position afforded him the opportunity to assess local and regional medical facilities in Africa and southeast Asia, and to become familiar with international evacuation services. In his new position as an Assistant Professor of International Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, Dr. Hamer frequently travels to resource-poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to collaborate with and train local scientists. Elaine C. Jong, MD
Dr. Jong, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, trained in internal medicine, had a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington (U.W.), and founded the first travel medicine clinic at the U.W. Medical Center in 1980. There, she is the Director of the Student Health Service, the Medical Director of the Campus Health Services (employee and occupational health), and the CO-Director of the Travel and Tropical Medicine Service Clinics. Her extensive background also includes: serving as the Chairman of the International Committee of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), being former President of the American Academy of Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, the clinical group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, having served as a travel medicine consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, as well as to missionary groups, and other non-governmental international relief organizations, in addition to having created and edited three widely consulted travel medicine books: The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual (1st edition, 1987; 2nd edition, 1995, 3rd edition, 2000, in press), The Travel Medicine Advisor (1991), and The Medical Clinics of North America volume on Travel Medicine (1999), published dozens of articles and textbook chapters, and lectured at major medical centers and professional conferences all over the world. William Shoff, MD, DTM&H
Dr. Shoff is an Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, is full time faculty in the Department and the Director of PENN Travel Medicine, the largest travel medicine service in the Delaware Valley. Dr. Shoff is board certified in emergency medicine and internal medicine and has a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Institute in Tropical Medicine, Lima, Peru. He sits on the editorial boards of Infectious Disease Practice and eMedicine.com (web-based medical textbooks). In addition, he contributes regularly to these publications and is in the process of editing the Textbook of Travel Medicine for eMedicine.com. He serves as the national travel medicine advisor for Passport Health Incorporated, Baltimore, Maryland, and is a member of the International Meetings Committee for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Shoff has published numerous articles and chapters in the travel medicine and emergency medicine literature and has lectured nationally and internationally in both these areas. His research interests include travel medicine epidemiology, dive medicine, and bioterrorism surveillance. Joan Pfinsgraff, MD
iJET Director of Health Intelligence
Dr. Pfinsgraff joined iJET in January 2003 after working as a medical consultant in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. During her eight-year employment at DFM, Ltd., Joan worked on projects involving new product and technology evaluation as well as corporate development strategy. Projects included work with pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and drug delivery systems in a variety of fields. Joan is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston and West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.
