SCIENCE SPECTRUM TRAILBLAZERS
TRAILBLAZERS HONOREES
by Lango Deen,
ldeen@ccgmag.com
SUSAN GORDON BARKER Infrastructure IMLP Leader, GE Healthcare
Susan Gordon Barker develops young leaders in information technology. As head of the information management leadership program in GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Co., her focus is to recruit, coach and train interns and full-time college students, and place them in positions within GE busi- nesses after two years. The GE Healthcare division delivers medical technologies and services for the new healthcare environment, and looks for IT leaders to implement its vision for the future.
PAMELA CHU, PH.D. Research Chemist, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
Dr. Pamela Chu was one of 60 young researchers to receive the 2001 Presiden- tial Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. In 2007, she was part of a NIST project to develop and disseminate tools to improve the evaluation of chemical detectors used by first responders, as well as the accuracy and reliability of measure- ments of toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents.
COREY CULBREATH PMP Project Manager, BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc.
Corey Culbreath is a certified project management professional (PMP), a credential offered by the Project Manage- ment Institute. He graduated from the University of Baltimore in 2004 and has worked in the computer and network
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industry since 2005. Culbreath served as IT manager at BITHgroup, an award- winning information technology consult- ing firm and certified minority business enterprise, for five years before taking on his current position in 2010. He freelances as a photographer at Creative Photo Expression.
PATRICK A. GOULD Electronics Engineer/Program Manager, U.S. Air Force, AFMC/AFRL/RYZT
Patrick Gould conducts field and flight test demonstrations in support of risk reduction simulation and evaluation of offensive sensor technology that sus- tain U.S. military functions of navigation, target identification, reconnaissance/sur- veillance for air and space vehicles. He is responsible for the outside the continental United States demonstration of the Angel Fire sensor. It provides a higher resolu- tion, geo-rectified image with recall and up to three times area coverage compared with video imagery typically provided by an unmanned aerial vehicle. This is a valuable asset in the counter-improvised explosive device effort.
NANCY RABEL HALL Research Scientist, NASA Glenn Research Center
Nancy Rabel Hall is active in outreach and demonstrating reduced grav- ity environment to educators, students and the public. She works in the Space Processes and Experiments Division at NASA Glenn Research Center, which she joined over 17 years ago. Her area of research is on fluid physics and how fluid behaves in a reduced gravity environment. She is currently technical lead for projects developing environmental control and
life support system technologies to meet exploration goals.
DAWN MICHELLE HOLT Ph.D. Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dawn Michelle Holt is a 2008
American Association for Cancer Re- search Minority Scholar Award winner. The organization celebrated the 25th year of the AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research program in 2010. The awards are intended to enhance the education and training of minority researchers, and to increase the visibility and recognition of minorities involved in cancer research. Each year since 1985, these awards have been offered to eligible minority scientists who wish to participate in annual meet- ings of the AACR.
HAICHANG HUANG, PH.D. Research Scientist, Bristol Myers
Dr. Huang works in hepatitis C virus (HCV) research. He is focused on treatments in clinical development—spe- cifically anti-HCV compounds using molecular and cell biology techniques. Huang says one of his proudest accom- plishments is his contribution to the HCV NS5A inhibitor project. In January 2011, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced a new joint study to investigate the potentially promising new means of treating hepatitis C. The research represents the first cross- company collaboration to combine two oral agents to combat this viral disease.
ZACKARIE LEMELLE Vice President of IT Corporate Systems, Johnson & Johnson
Zackarie Lemelle has 30 years of experience in information technology and
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