Conference Speakers

JP is a program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office, where he leads efforts in casualty care, mass casualty triage, and diagnostics and exposure assessment. Recently retired from the Navy after 20 years as a medical officer, his previous assignments include Pandemic Warning Team Lead, Defense Intelligence Agency; Senior Policy Advisor for Biodefense, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Innovation & Evaluation Team Lead, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch; Director of Force Health Protection, II Marine Expeditionary Force; and International Programs Coordinator, DoD-Global Emerging Infections System.

JP graduated from the US Naval Academy, where he was a Truman Scholar, and received his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and PhD (genetic epidemiology) and MHS (biostatistics) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed residency in Preventive Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and fellowship in Health Sciences Informatics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. JP received the Rising Star Award from the American College of Preventive Medicine, was named one of 13 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health by Fortune, and is a member in the Council on Foreign Relations.