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Peer Reviewers

The following persons served as peer reviewers for these proceedings: Raymond D. Aller, M.D.; Los Angeles County Public Health; Janet M. Blair, Ph.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; David L. Buckeridge, M.D., Stanford University; Palo Alto Veterans Healthcare; James W. Buehler, M.D., Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Howard S. Burkom, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Man-huei Chang, M.P.H., Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Dennis G. Cochrane, M.D., Emergency Medical Associates of New Jersey Research Foundation; Morristown Memorial Hospital Residency in Emergency Medicine; Andrew G. Dean, M.D., EpiInformatics.com; Rosaline Dhara, M.A., M.P.H.; Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Jeremy U. Espino, M.D.; University of Pittsburgh; Laura J. Fehrs, M.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Kathleen F. Gensheimer, M.D., Maine Department of Human Services; Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., M.S.; Office of the Director, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; Ivan J. Gotham, Ph.D., New York State Department of Health; University at Albany, School of Public Health; Timothy A. Green, Ph.D., Division of HIV, STD, and TB Prevention/Surveillance and Epidemiology, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Jesse Greenblatt, M.D., New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services; Joel R. Greenspan, M.D., Quintiles Transnational; Samuel L. Groseclose, D.V.M.; Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Christine G. Hahn, M.D., Idaho Department of Health and Welfare; Jessica J. Hartman, M.S., New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; New York Academy of Medicine; Richard T. Heffernan, M.P.H., New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Kelly J. Henning, M.D., New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Patrick W. Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H., The National Academies; Ken Kleinman, Sc.D., Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Melvin Kohn, M.D., Oregon Department of Human Services; Denise Koo, M.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Harvey B. Lipman, Ph.D., Division of Laboratory Systems, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC; William B. Lober, M.D., University of Washington; David Madigan, Ph.D., Rutgers University; Julie M. Magri, M.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Martin Mendelson, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha, Dr.P.H., Pennsylvania Department of Health; Ronald L. Moolenaar, M.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Roy Gibson Parrish, II, M.D., formerly of CDC; Julie A. Pavlin, M.D., Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Carol A. Pertowski, M.D., Office of the Director, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Stephen P. Pickard, M.D., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; North Dakota Department of Health; Robert W. Pinner, M.D., Office of the Director, National Center of Infectious Diseases, CDC; Richard Platt, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Daniel A. Pollock, M.D., Office of the Director, CDC; Julie A. Rawlings, M.P.H., Texas Department of Health; Janise Richards, Ph.D., Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; Robert T. Rolfs, M.D., Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC and Utah Department of Health; Henry Rolka, M.P.S., M.S., Office of the Director, CDC; Patricia Schumacher, M.S., R.D., Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; David William Siegrist, M.A., M.S.M., Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; Maya R. Sternberg, Ph.D., Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Donna F. Stroup, Ph.D., Office of the Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., Director, Epidemiology Program Office; Van T. Tong, M.P.H., Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC; David Walker, M.P.H., Office of the Director, CDC; Sylvan Wallenstein, Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center; Don Weiss, M.D., New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Scott F. Wetterhall, M.D., DeKalb County Board of Health; Christopher W. Woods, M.D., Duke University Medical Center; and Akbar A. Zaidi, Ph.D., Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC.

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