Dr. Tierno is the director of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostic Immunology at New York University Langone Medical Center, and is Clinical Professor of Microbiology and Pathology at the New York University School of Medicine. He is a highly respected and world renowned microbiologist with more than 35 years of experience in the fields of Clinical and Medical Microbiology.

Dr. Tierno acts as a consultant to the office of Attorney General of the State of New York, Department of Health of the City of New York, National Institute of Health, Bethesda , MD, and the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Tierno is also a member of the NYC Mayor’s Task force on Bioterrorism and the United States representative to the International Hygiene Commission.

For more than 30 years Dr. Tierno has studied the effects of germicides and disinfectants on microbes. His work in the field of microbiology has resulted in numerous articles and texts that have been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Lancet, Reviews of Infectious Diseases, JAMA, Journal of Infectious Diseases, etc., etc. He is co-editor of a popular environmental book, “Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment”. He has authored recent books entitled “The Secret Life of Germs”, “Protect Yourself Against Bioterrorism” and “Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Emergency Response and Public Protection”.

Dr. Tierno is Co-founder and President of the “Foundation for Scientific Research in the Public Interest” (a non-profit organization). Being considered one of the words’ foremost scientific authorities in the area of environmental and medical microbiology and microbial ecology has resulted in numerous appearances as an expert on TV news, documentary, and investigative reports. Frequently referred to as “Dr. Germ” he has appeared on both local and network television shows such as 20/20, Oprah, Montel, Primetime, Dateline, Nightline, Today, Good Morning America, to name just a few.

Dr. Tierno has been recognized extensively for his numerous contributions to the medical/scientific community. He was bestowed the honor of Knighthood by the Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of Saint John Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. In 2005 he was awarded the Il Leone de San Marco Award for lifelong achievements in Science and Medicine. He is a member of numerous other highly respected scientific societies and did his graduate studies at the New York University, where he was awarded an MS. in 1974 and his PhD. in 1977.

Dr. Goldmann is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He teaches a Harvard College Freshman Seminar, “The Impact of Infectious Diseases on History and Society.” Dr. Goldmann’s work has focused on preventing and controlling hospital-acquired infections. His applied research in the health services arena focuses on quality measurement and improvement, clinical practice guideline development and evaluation, assessment of parental perceptions of care, and patient safety.

Dr. Goldmann served on CDC’s Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and chaired the taskforce that developed national guidelines for the use of a glycopeptide antibiotic, vancomycin. He and his colleagues used infection control as a model for quality assessment and improvement in developing countries including Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia (development of validated methods to assess the structure, processes, and outcomes of infection control programs), Hungary and Poland (training of multidisciplinary QI teams and national surveillance), Colombia (reduction in C-section infections using QI interventions), Russia (national infection control training initiative and center-specific interventions), Ukraine (hospital assessments and microbiology laboratory capacity), Mexico, (use of QI methods to prevent pediatric nosocomial infection) and the Philippines (infection prevention collaborative and a clinical trial of interventions to reduce antibiotic resistance in academic NICUs).

Dr. Donald Goldmann is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He completed an internship, residency, and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer of the Centers for Disease Control.

Dr. Kulkarni has a Doctorate in Environmental and Chemical Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. He has over 20 years of both scientific and administrative industry experience with British Petroleum (BP). His direct responsibilities have included mergers and acquisitions, regulatory approval at the EPA, research and development, business to business marketing, channels of distribution and profitable new product/technology introduction. His is an experienced executive/scientist with a global view, extensive industry contacts and a history of building, leading and supporting a successful sales and marketing effort leading to over a quarter of billion dollars in sales.

Mr. Voltaggio’s extensive career with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, entails thirty six years of comprehensive experience in multiple aspects of environmental management at the federal level, including executive level leadership, scientific and technical management, budgeting and analysis, enforcement and compliance, biological and chemical environmental emergency response, homeland security terrorism response processes and operations and information management and technology.

Tom directed all federal hazardous waste site remediation programs in the 6 state regional offices for 17 years. These included the Superfund, Brownfield, Resource Conservation and Recovery, Underground Storage Tank, Emergency Response and Oil Pollution programs. He brought about dozens of resolutions of complex environmental issues in air, water and hazardous waste fields with major corporations, state, local and federal governments through the use of detailed and profound knowledge of environmental programs and a well-developed skill in persuading environmental dispute resolution. In addition to the cleanup programs in the US, Mr. Voltaggio also assisted countries including Italy, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa and China.

Mr. Voltaggio managed the nation’s largest biochemical terrorism response when EPA was called upon to cleanup the Anthrax contamination on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001; interacting on a daily basis with the highest levels of Agency and Congressional leadership. As a result of his leadership in responding to the Anthrax cleanup, Tom became the leading regional spokesperson for homeland security at EPA. He was also deployed to New Orleans as EPA’s Senior Federal Official at the national response to Hurricane Katrina.

In 2006, Mr. Voltaggio founded an independent consulting firm, Voltaggio Consulting, LLC, where he consults various companies with domestic or international environmental and homeland security problems. He was also appointed by Governor Jon Corzine to the New Jersey Tidelands Resource Council. Tom has a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from City College of New York, NY and a Masters in Management Science from Texas Christian University , Forth Worth, TX.