beforeealthcare group joining the foundation, he directed the illinois department he brings aalth, so great deal of experience and expertise. you for coming. this is a critical topic. tom my viewpoint i was able charge with participating in response for a number of disasters that many may not have but i became with, quite interested in that. was in emergency medicine. i can tell you it is a challenging task. one of the things back in the late 90's that i thought was critical was we would have a molecular biology lab. up until then, we would grow cultures in the lab, and trying to track the disease was very challenging. you could do dna fingerprints, and i thought that was really important. they said it sounds like a good idea. the following year we had the same conversation. then we had september 11. in 2001 we set up a molecular biology lab, because we had thousands of samples people sent because they were concerned it was going to be anthrax. that could be part of the story. in 2002 there was an event outside of illinois where people e.rted coming down with coli, and we had the capa