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James M. Wilson V, MD received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, his medical doctorate from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and trained as a pediatrician at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is currently the Executive Director of Praecipio International, a charitable non-profit devoted to providing access to infectious disease forecasting and early warning capabilities to the developing world. He was the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Scientist of the Veratect Corporation in Seattle, Washington. He was the founder and Principal Investigator of Project Argus, Chief of the Argus Research Operations Center, and Division Head of Integrated Biodefense at the Imaging Science and Information Systems Center, Georgetown University. He was a founding member of the Biosurveillance Indication and Warning Analysis Community (BIWAC), which included CDC's Global Disease Detection team; USDA's Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH); DHS' National Biosurveillance Integration Center; the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center; other Intelligence Community organizations; the Defense Threat Reduction Agency; and the US Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction. He was a member of the Department of Homeland Security National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) Concept Design Review team and the first Chief of Analytic Operations at the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC). Dr. Wilson has served as a Special Assistant to the Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (USAMRMC-TATRC), Ft. Detrick, Maryland; Visiting Scientist at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center; consultant to NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS); and research team member of the World Health Organization Tai Forest Project on Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.