Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education (GME) and Designated Institutional Officer (DIO) ,Pritzker School of Medicine

 Publications

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Training

• BS, 1998, University of Wisconsin College of Arts and Letters, Distinction in Spanish
• MD, 2002, University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Residency, 2004, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, General Surgery Residency
• Residency, 2007, University of Chicago Medical Center, Emergency Medicine

Academic Interests

Dr. McCartin is board eligible in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He serves as an Assistant EMS Medical Director in the Chicago South EMS System, is a Medical Team Manager for Illinois Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team and is a former United States Air Force Pararescueman (PJ). He has a broad range of professional interests in the field of EMS including flight medicine, urban search and rescue, tactical medicine, mass gathering medical care, and critical care transport. 

Clinical Interests

Dr. McCartin works clinically as an Emergency Medicine Physician in the Adult Emergency Department at The University of Chicago.

Training

• MD, 2018, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
• Residency, 2021, University of Chicago, Emergency Medicine – Chief Flight Physician
• Fellowship, 2022, University of Chicago, Emergency Medical Services

Medy S. A. Agami is Vice-Chairman and Partner at Ben-Roz and Associates. He is an expert in strategy and economics, data analytics and decision sciences, risk management and governance, finance, and public policy. Mr. Agami was previously a co-founder and managing director of Opimas. He has also worked in strategic advisory, as well as in finance and risk advisory at Oliver Wyman. Prior to Oliver Wyman, he worked at FSCM as a strategist, head of strategy and quantitative research, and chief risk officer. He has worked with many of the world’s leading companies and their boards on a variety of issues including strategy, analytics, and innovation and helped launch several market-shaping innovations. He has also worked with business leaders in diverse sectors on risk management and governance, defense, public policy, business transformation, opportunities in technology, and other global trends.

Mr. Agami studied financial engineering and quantitative analytics for his MS in Mathematical Finance at IIT. He also received an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Peter Boogaard leads policy communications for Snap Inc, the technology company that makes Snapchat. Previously, he served as a White House and National Security Council Spokesman as well as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama Administration. During these roles, he helped lead the communications strategy and response to issues related to Western Hemisphere Affairs, including the President’s Cuba policy, immigration and refugee policy, Zika response, border security, aviation security, NASA, and domestic emergency management including natural disasters and domestic terrorism response. After leaving the White House, Peter lead the communications team at FWD.us, an advocacy organization focused on immigration and criminal justice reform. He currently lives in Virginia with his lovely wife and two children.

Paul is currently the Managing Partner of Stratagem Consulting, LLC. Stratagem is a cadre of
national security experts, combining decades of law enforcement, intelligence, business and
military experience. The team includes thought leaders with successful careers in the fields of
law, business, science and technology, and communications.
Paul retired from senior executive service at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2021, where he served as an Assistant Director at FBI Headquarters. Paul previously served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, leading a team that directed all investigations, operations and intelligence functions in the FBI’s third largest office. Paul served as the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Honolulu field office, leading the FBI’s investigations and operations in the Pacific, and in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters, where he led internal reviews of field offices, national programs, critical incidents, and special projects.
Paul began his career as a special agent with the FBI in 1995. He was the lead investigator of several criminal conspiracy investigations, resulting in dozens of indictments and prosecutions in Chicago. Following 9/11, Paul transferred to the counterterrorism program, working on material support and other investigations, and became the Supervisory Special Agent of a squad that investigated international terrorism matters in the state of Georgia. Paul served on several teams deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, leading FBI counterterrorism investigations overseas.
Paul served joint duty assignments within the  intelligence community, was a liaison officer to US Pacific Command, and was the regional representative to the Director of National Intelligence domestic working group. He brings his 25 years of experience and this intelligence community background to the University.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Michigan, a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, and a certificate from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business for Navigating Strategic Change.

Former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

Mr. Evanina currently serves as Founder and CEO of the Evanina Group advising CEOs and Board of Directors on strategic corporate risk.  Mr. Evanina provides a wide array of elite strategic risk consultation services and executive-level tabletop exercises to Boards of Directors, CEOs, and senior decision makers operating within a very complex and competitive global economy and with nefarious nation state actors.  Clients include corporations within energy, financial services, telecommunications, academic, biomedical, technology, private equity, national security, and retail sectors.

Mr. Evanina currently serves on multiple advisory boards and is an instructor at the University of Chicago’s distinguished Biological Sciences Division.

Mr. Evanina frequently appears in national news outlets (television, print, op-eds) advising on threats, vulnerability and mitigating strategies.

Previously, Mr. Evanina was nominated by President Trump in 2018 and subsequently confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6, 2020, to be the first Senate-confirmed Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC).  Mr. Evanina served as the Director of NCSC since June 2, 2014. In this position, he was the head of Counterintelligence (CI) for the U.S. Government.

Mr. Evanina was responsible for leading and supporting the CI and security activities of the US Intelligence Community, the U.S. Government, and U.S. private sector entities at risk from intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries. Under NCSC, he oversaw national-level programs and activities such as the National Insider Threat Task Force; personnel security and background investigations; information technology protection standards and compliance; CI cyber operations; supply chain risk management; threat awareness to sectors of the US critical infrastructure; national-level damage assessments from espionage or unauthorized disclosures, CI mission management, and national CI and security training programs.

Under Mr. Evanina’s leadership, NCSC produced the President’s National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America 2020, which has been instrumental in raising foreign intelligence threat awareness to critical infrastructure sectors and the private sector executives regarding supply chain, economic security, cyber, and malign foreign influence.

Mr. Evanina chaired the National Counterintelligence Policy Board, and the Allied Security and Counterintelligence Forum comprised of senior CI and security leaders from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK.  Mr. Evanina also served as Chair of the NATO Counterintelligence Panel.

Prior to his selection as the Director of NCSC, Mr. Evanina served as the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Counterespionage Group.

Mr. Evanina previously served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, where he led operations in both the Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Divisions.

Mr. Evanina served over 31 years of distinguished federal service, 24 of which as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). At the start of his law enforcement career in 1996, he investigated organized crime and violent crimes through the FBI’s Newark Field Office. He then served on an FBI SWAT unit for 10 years, ultimately supervising this unit. He participated in some of the highest profile terrorism investigations in our nation’s history including the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks, and the Daniel Pearl kidnapping. During his tenure with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Mr. Evanina was selected as a Supervisory Special Agent and received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence for his leadership in the investigation into convicted spy Leandro Argoncillo.  Mr. Evanina also served as the Supervisory Special Agent (SSRA) in the Newark Division’s Trenton Office.

Mr. Evanina’s government career began in 1989 as a Project Manager with the General Services Administration, in Philadelphia.

Mr. Evanina was born and raised in Peckville, PA. He holds an Associate’s Degree in History from Keystone College in LaPlume, PA, a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Arcadia University in Philadelphia.  Mr. Evanina was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Keystone College.

Mr. Evanina resides in Alexandria, VA and is married to his wife JulieAnne and has two sons, Dominic and Will.

Mr. Jeremy Greenberg currently serves as the Director for the Response Operations Division at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing FEMA’s numerous capabilities that identify, alert, and stabilize threats and hazards. This includes the National Watch Center, FEMA Operations Center, National Response Coordination Center, Operations Capabilities, Operation Integration and the National Urban Search and Rescue program.

Additionally, Mr. Greenberg functions as the Chief of the National Response Coordination Staff in the National Response Coordination Center and is the Deputy Team Leader for the Domestic Emergency Support Team (DEST), which provides assistance to the F.B.I. for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.

Previously Mr. Greenberg served as the Acting Deputy Director, Office of External Affairs, and Director, Office of Policy and Performance within FEMA’s Response Directorate.

Before joining FEMA, Mr. Greenberg served as the Manager for the Department of Transportation’s National Response Program. In this capacity he was responsible for coordinating DOT’s Emergency Support Functions and the Regional Emergency Transportation Program. Prior leading the National Response Program Mr. Greenberg was the Deputy Manager for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Crisis Management Center.

Additionally, Mr. Greenberg served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was the Operations Branch Chief in the National Exercise Division. He was responsible for overseeing the design, development, and conduct of exercises at the Federal, State and local levels including several National Level and International Exercises. Before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Greenberg served as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Program Assistant for the U.S. Department of  Justice.

Mr. Greenberg holds a BA from American University, an MA from the College of International Security Affairs at The National Defense University and is a graduate of both the National Emergency Management Executive Academy and Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. Mr. Greenberg spent over 20 years as a volunteer firefighter, emergency medical technician, and instructor. He resides in Vienna, VA with his wife, son, and dog.

Millie Rey provides writing support for graduate students in the Master of Science in Threat and Response Management and Master of Science in Analytics programs, in addition to the liberal arts programs at the College of the University of Chicago. She is a writing consultant for industry and academic clients including: Lincoln International (a middle market investment banking firm) and the Institute for Clinical Social Work.

Previously, she has worked with the Chicago Public Schools, private K-8 schools, the Illinois Technology Development Association (now known as the Illinois Technology Association), and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has published peer-reviewed and popular press articles and has presented at numerous conferences in sociology.

Millie researches topics related to the professions, power, organizations and professional education. She is currently ABD in sociology with the dissertation in progress.

Phil Stupak is a senior advisor at Cambridge Global where he provides bespoke government relations solutions to companies operating within the cybersecurity, homeland security, and national security environment. He is also a senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s Harris Cyber Policy Initiative where he focuses on disinformation campaigns, election security, and AI policy.

Stupak previously served in President Obama’s Administration where he handled cybersecurity, technology research and development, national security, and international relations portfolios for the Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security. In that role, he served on the executive team implementing President Obama’s Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity; developed the first version of DHS’s continuous diagnostic monitoring (CDM) program as well as conception-to-deployment of EINSTEIN 3A; chaired the internal DHS China Working Group; launched the first ministerial-level engagement on cybersecurity cooperation between DHS and the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Public Security; ran the DHS Data Sharing Framework working group; and worked on interagency law enforcement task forces investigating significant cybersecurity hacks (including the 2013 $45-million ATM cyber heist). Stupak also helped negotiate the US-EU Passenger Name Records Agreement, which improved the safety and security of both continents through secure data sharing on inbound passengers from the EU.

Before joining the Obama administration, Stupak served as counsel to the US House of
Representatives Committee on House Administration, led then-Senator Obama’s 2008 field
campaign in northern Michigan, and served in the general counsel’s office at the New York City Board of Elections.

He has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a JD from the University of Richmond.

Nate is a current Executive Vice President with Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC, a national security consulting and strategic communications firm. There he advises and supports Fortune 500, federal, and state and local clients in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, information and intelligence sharing, and law enforcement engagement. He supported the Voting Village’s election security exploits at DEFCON 2019 where numerous current-use voting machines were assessed for cyber and other vulnerabilities. Nate also supports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center. Further, he provides guidance to clients on how best to engage with domestic and international law enforcement regarding issues such as terrorist use of the internet, cyber threats, terrorism prevention, countering foreign influence, and intelligence analysis.

Previous to joining Cambridge Global Advisors, Nate served as a Department of Homeland
Security Obama Administration counterterrorism official and advisor to Department of Justice,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Counterterrorism Center, and White House National
Security Council. Nate’s role focused on developing partnerships with domestic and international law enforcement, state and local officials, tech-sector industry, foundations, non government organizations, and communities across the country to develop solutions to prevent terrorism of all forms. In this role, Nate directly contributed to the Obama Administration’s efforts to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

He is a graduate from Syracuse University and has a Master’s Degree from the U.S. Naval War College in national security and counterterrorism.

Francis X. Taylor is the President and CEO of FXTaylor Associates, LLC which specializes in Security, Crisis Management and Risk Management Consulting.

Mr. Taylor retired from the US Government on January 20, 2017. His last assignment was Under Secretary, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, US Department of Homeland Security. In this role, he was responsible for developing and implementing intelligence programs to support, the US Intelligence Community, the Department and other federal, state and local consumers of DHS Intelligence. He was confirmed by the Senate and assumed this role on April 14, 2014.

From March 2005 to November 2013, Mr. Taylor served as Vice President and Chief Security Officer for the General Electric Company, Fairfield CT. He was GE’s first Global CSO and was responsible for developing and managing GE’s global security operations and crisis management processes. Prior to joining GE, Mr. Taylor had a distinguished 35-year career in government service, where he held several senior positions managing investigations, security and counterterrorism issues.

He served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security and Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, with a rank of Ambassador. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security is the Department of State’s security and law enforcement arm. As Assistant Secretary, Ambassador Taylor oversaw all Department of State security programs that protect all U.S. Government employees and buildings overseas from terrorist, criminal or technical attack, and ensure the integrity of classified national security information produced and stored in these facilities. Leading more than 32,500 US, foreign and contractor personnel, he provided security for all US government employees assigned to over 250 U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide. The Ambassador also directed the law enforcement function of the Bureau, wherein Diplomatic Security Service special agents protect the Secretary of State and foreign dignitaries who visit the United States. And conduct criminal investigations of violation of US Visa and Immigration statutes. As Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, Taylor regulated the activities of foreign missions in the United States to protect the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States and safeguards the American public from abuses of privileges and immunities by diplomatic and consular officials.

Ambassador Taylor also served as the US Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for
Counterterrorism for the Department of State from July 2001 to November 2002. In this role, he was responsible for the implementing US counterterrorism policy overseas and coordinating the US government response to international terrorist activities. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, he was a key advisor in assisting the President Bush and Secretary of State Powell in forming the international coalition against terrorism and developing aggressive international policy implementation to defeat terrorism.

During his 31 years of military service, Mr. Taylor served with distinction in numerous command and staff positions, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in September 1996. In his final active duty assignment, Brigadier General Taylor headed the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where he was responsible for providing commanders of all Air Force activities independent professional investigative services in fraud, counterintelligence, and major criminal matters.

Mr. Taylor has received numerous awards and decorations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit and the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award. The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association honored his military service with the Father William Corby Distinguished Military Service Award. 

Mr. Taylor received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. He received his Air Force commission as a Distinguished Graduate of the Notre Dame Air Force ROTC program. He also has a Masters Degree in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs in 2017 and continues to teach an undergraduate and graduate Global Policy Seminar at Notre Dame. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Boards of Directors for the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs and the Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE).

He and his wife, Constance, have three adult children and five grandchildren.

Dr. Griffin Thompson recently retired as the U.S. State Department’s Director of the Office of
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, in the Bureau of Energy Resources. In that position, he was responsible for guiding the Department’s work on the global energy transformation, to accelerate the global adoption of renewable energy technologies in line with U.S. foreign policy. Before joining the Bureau of Energy Resources, Dr. Thompson was the Senior Climate Change Program Manager in the State Department’s Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, and served as the U.S. Government Lead Climate Negotiator on Technology within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Dr. Thompson was also responsible for overseeing the planning, designing, and implementation of the Department’s energy and climate change multimillion-dollar project portfolio. This included facilitating the strategic development of the programs, generating the substantive policy, technical and budgetary rationale for the programs, and managing the implementation of the project portfolio of clean energy, climate adaptation, and sustainable landscapes. Before coming to the State Department, Dr. Thompson served as Director of the Office of Energy at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Executive Director of the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC); and Senior Policy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Dr. Thompson also was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and U. of Maryland where he taught courses on “Geopolitics of Energy”, “Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Development”, “Ethical Issues in International Development”, and “Science Diplomacy”. He is currently an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago, and adjunct lecturer at U. of Chicago.

Dr. Thompson has a PhD in Political Philosophy from Georgetown University and a BA in English from Gonzaga University.

Roland Varriale is a cyber security analyst for Cyber Operations, Analysis, and Research in
Argonne National Laboratory’s Strategic Security Sciences Division. Roland has worked in various capacities from a business analyst to an intelligent transportation systems researcher and developer. He is interested in the application of security principles and protocols to VANETs and Intelligent Transportation Systems as well as personal device security on the “Internet of Things.”

He holds an MS in software engineering from the University of Scranton and a BS in computer science from Manhattan College.

Expert Affiliate, Coherent Economics
Professional Lecturer, DePaul University – Driehaus College of Business
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University Chicago – Quinlan School of Business

Dan is currently an Expert Affiliate with Coherent Economics, where he provides specialized expertise in forensic accounting, financial investigations, and cryptocurrency tracing, valuation, and recovery.

Dan retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a distinguished 23-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent. During his tenure, he led complex national security and counterterrorism investigations, including several high-impact cases involving domestic and international threats. He also served as a Program Manager in the FBI’s International Terrorism Operations Section, overseeing nationwide investigative programs and coordinating intelligence-driven operational responses.

At DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, Dan serves as a Professional Lecturer, where he teaches Forensic Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Blockchain Applications in Accounting. Dan is also an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business, teaching, in addition to the above, Cyber Risk Management.

In addition, Dan lectured in executive education programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business focusing on law enforcement risk management, intelligence-based decision-making, and organizational leadership.

Dan has presented at national conferences and law enforcement symposiums on topics including leadership, fraud examination, digital forensics, cyber ransom negotiation, crisis response, and motivators of criminal behavior.

Dan holds a B.S. in Accounting from Le Moyne College, an MBA in Economics and Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Certificate in Counterterrorism Studies from the University of St. Andrews Scotland, and a Certificate in Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application from MIT Sloan School of Management. Dan is also a Certified Public Accountant CPA.

Rebecca Wurtz is an infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and health informaticist. She has worked for city, county, state, federal, and international public health programs in communicable disease surveillance, pandemic planning and response, and management/leadership. She received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a MPH from the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and is currently a student in the Master of Jurisprudence health law program at the Loyola University School of Law.