Presented by:

Mike Fagel
Aurora Safety

Michael J. Fagel has a diverse career in public service spanning more than three decades. He has garnered experience in the fields of Emergency Management, Fire Service, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Medical Services, as well as corporate risk management, safety, and security. Also, he served as Division Director for the North Aurora Fire Department in Illinois , where he served as EMS Coordinator as well as Emergency Operations Manager; He also served as the first Director of Emergency Management for the Sugar Grove Planning District in Kane County , Illinois . Additionally he is a member of that state's Terrorism Task Force. He has spent considerable time world wide working on Emergency Operations and developing Emergency Operations Centers and implementation of National Plans, as well as recent work in the Middle East . He has worked as a Technical Support Specialist since 1980, serving as an advisor to several federal agencies. Also spent ten years with the reserve cadre at FEMA Safety, where he has been deployed to incidents and disasters such as the Oklahoma City Bombing. The 2001 World Trade Center Attacks was a 100 day deployment as a Technical Support Specialist for the Office for Domestic Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Justice. He assisted with the LSU NCBRT Agricultural Terrorism Preparedness curriculum as team leader in the development process.

With a Ph.D. in Safety & Health Engineering from Columbia Southern University (1996), Dr. Fagel retains adjunct status on the faculties of a number of institutions, including FEMA's Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg , MD , the U.S. Army SBCCOM at Aberdeen , MD. He teaches in the Masters of Public Health Program at Benedictine University in Illinois , as well as the Masters of Loss Prevention Program at Eastern Kentucky University . He has authored more than 350 articles on safety and disaster management and contributed to two textbooks, including Food Safety Law (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997). Two new textbooks are in progress on Homeland Security as well as EOC Management and Design, due out in October 2006. Currently, Dr. Fagel served as the regional president of the International Association of Emergency Managers, Region V., as well as Vice Chairman of the Certified Emergency Management Commission.

Diana Graham
Keller and Heckman

Diana G. Graham, Ph.D., has broad-based experience in many areas of chemical and pesticide regulatory science, including over twenty years of advanced education and work experience relating to the impact of pesticides and other chemicals on the environment. Dr. Graham assists clients in chemical safety training, supervising field trials for agricultural crop chemicals, development of sample and data management programs and the use of novel scientific strategies for solving difficult problems. She has also collaborated with companies in planning regulatory and product stewardship programs and has worked with manufacturing plant management in conducting corporate-wide environmental audits.

Dr. Graham is very active in the scientific community with memberships in the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Society of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. She also has worked with various trade associations on issues involving Persistent Organic Pollutants and Persistent Toxic Substances. Dr. Graham has also authored various papers and presentations on field dissipation studies, organic pollutants, risk assessment of pesticides, and the evaluation of the long-range transport of chemicals in the environment.

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