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Terry Hazen
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Eileen Shea
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William Schaffner
William Schaffner, MD is professor and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He also is a consultant in communicable disease control at the Tennessee Department of Health. He is the co-PI of the Tennessee Emerging Infections Program (EIP), a ... >>
Jim Cane
Jim Cane is a research entomologist at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, based in Logan, Utah. He has been studying bee pollination in wild and agricultural settings for 30 years. Dr. Cane has applied his long-term interest in conservation to help measure, understand, and mitigate human factors that can shift nesting and foraging opportunities for ... >>
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