Dr. Stout is a clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives. He has held academic appointments at the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has also served as a Non-Government Organization (NGO) Special Representative to the United Nations, is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He is the Chief Clinical Officer of Prevail Health, Clinical Advisor at HighTop Health, and serves as a Division Staff Officer for the Auxiliary Branch of the US Coast Guard where he holds a number of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Incident Command and National Incident Management qualifications. 

Dr. Andre (Andy) Pennardt is FEMA’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO). In addition to serving as CMO, he serves as Chief of FEMA’s Medical Branch overseeing the work of contact tracers, epidemiologists, nurses and licensed clinicians.

Dr. Pennardt is board certified in emergency medicine and emergency medical services. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the State University of New York at Syracuse, a Master of Science (MS) in fire and emergency sciences/emergency management from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in biology/biotechnology from the University of Rochester. He completed a fellowship in Austere and Wilderness Medicine, specializing in providing lifesaving services in remote and extreme environments.

Dr. Pennardt retired as a Colonel from the United States Army after 23 years of active duty during which he was assigned to a variety of special missions, weapons of mass destruction counterproliferation, and other special operations units. He deployed overseas on numerous sensitive, high-risk missions and served over 3 years on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. His assignments included Medical Squadron Commander for the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-DELTA, Chief Medical Officer for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, Command Surgeon for Special Operations Command-SOUTH, and Deputy Command Surgeon for Joint Special Operations Command. While on active duty, he also participated in hurricane relief missions and provided humanitarian assistance in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Kim Guevara is the Founder and CEO of Mozaik Solutions. She has provided services to all levels of government, the US military, and in the private and non-profit sectors. Ms. Guevara has more than 25 years’ experience in crisis and emergency management/homeland security, development, and stakeholder engagement. Her executive experience includes leadership for change management/business transformation initiatives to comply with local, state, federal and Department of Defense regulations, and to improve employee morale, talent recruitment, and retention. She also has significant international experience in telemedicine and humanitarian development and has led and supported initiatives and efforts in Southwest Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean among others to include projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Honduras, Antigua and Barbuda, Tristan da Cunha, and Kenya. Her combined experiences led her to co-create Crisis Athlete™. Crisis Athlete leverages a unique blend of neuroscience, emotional intelligence, performance coaching, sports and industrial/organizational psychology, and other disciplines to foster resilience and peak performance.

Dr. T. Lucas Hollar is an Associate Professor within Nova Southeastern University’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, teaching health policy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has evaluated federally funded initiatives addressing COVID-19 health literacy, hazardous materials trainings for maritime workers, interprofessional primary care and public health, among others. He has performed foundation and corporation-funded research and evaluation in such areas as zoning and urban planning, cancer screening and education for underserved women, and childhood obesity interventions in public schools. His current research focuses on policy, systems, and environmental change to improve population health; the political determinants of health; and social vulnerability. Dr. Hollar’s work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, to list a few. He has served as Chairperson of the Health Advisory Board for Broward County, Humana Bold Goal Broward initiative. He currently serves as a board member for the L.A. Lee YMCA and The Fruitful Field in Broward County, FL. 

Dr. Timothy B. Erickson is an Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Core Faculty member with areas of expertise in humanitarian health, environmental toxicology, crisis in climate change, wastewater epidemiology, chemical/biological terrorism, and acute injuries in global conflict and disaster settings. He has active humanitarian health projects in conflict regions of Ukraine and Syria. Dr. Erickson is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts where he serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and the Division Chief of Medical Toxicology in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.