Dr. Peter Katona is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in viral diseases where he investigated both domestic and international outbreaks. He works for Apria Healthcare as their Corporate Medical Director, and is President of the non-profit Center of Medical Multimedia Education and Technology. He has appointments at Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training, and the Los Angeles County Emergency Management Services (EMS) Agency.

He is co-founder and President of Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterrorism preparedness consulting firm. He is a member of the Hospital Association of Southern California and LA County EMS Agency’s Hospital Preparedness Program, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s National and Global Public Health Committee, the LA County Sheriff's Department's Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Pacific Council on International Policy where he has a healthcare vulnerability project, and the FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee. He has served as Chairman of the UCLA Hospital Infection Control Committee and has been nominated by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers to serve on the prestigious Defense Health Board. He has authored articles on medical informatics, influenza, polio, nutrition, bioterrorism, the future of health care as well as many other aspects of medicine and infectious diseases.

He is an internationally recognized authority on bioterrorism and has lectured throughout the world. He teaches a yearly course at UCLA on terrorism, and has edited the books Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network, and Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses, with a book on the vulnerability of healthcare to disasters in progress. He also maintains a practice in infectious diseases and internal medicine at UCLA, seeing in-patients at five Los Angeles hospitals.

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