Peter Katona, MD Publications

Peter Katona, MD Publications

 

  1. Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES, Katona P et al. Guillain-Barre syndrome: its epidemiology and association with influenza vaccine.  Annals of Neurology 9(Supp):31-38, 1981.*
  2. Katona P, Jones TS. Operational Aspects of the Use of OPV in Developing Countries in Recent Advances in Immunization A Bibliographic Review. PAHO Scientific Publication #451, 1983. (Also published in Spanish)*
  3. Katona P. St. Louis encephalitis, Mississippi. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 28:474-475, 1979.
  4. Katona P. Imported poliomyelitis – Oregon. Morbidity and mortality Weekly Report 29:329-330, 1980.
  5. Kaplan JE, Katona P, Hurwitz ES, Schonberger LB. Guillain-Barre syndrome in the United States, 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 – lack of an association with influenza vaccination. JAMA 248(6):698-700, 1982.*
  6. Moore M, Katona P, Kaplan JE, Schonberger LB, Hatch MH. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1969-1981. J Infect Dis 146:558-63, 1982.*
  7. Kaplan JE, Schonberger LB, Hurwitz ES, and Katona P. Guillain-Barre syndrome in the United States, 1978-1981 – additional observations from the national surveillance system. Neurology (Cleveland) 33(5):633-7, 1983.*
  8. Smith GC, Francy DB, Compos EG, Katona P and Calisher CH. Correlation between human cases and antibody prevalence in house sparrows during a focal outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis in Mississippi, 1979. Mosquito News.
  9. Hosford DA, Katona P, Hood RR and Rimland D. Soft tissue abscess caused by Torulopsis glabrata and Lactobacillus. South Med J1985;78(8):1017*
  10. Katona P, Weiner I  Mycobacterium avium-complex infection of an Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator. American Heart Journal 124(5):1380-1381, 1992.*
  11. Katona P. The UCLA Interactive Multimedia AIDS Education Project. AIDS Link 3(3):5, July 1994.
  12. Katona P.  Herpes Simplex Virus Infection column in The Westsider, July 17, 1995.
  13. Katona P. Editor, AIDS/HIV Reference Guide for Medical Professionals, 4th edition. Chapter on HIV and Infection Control, published on behalf of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunologic Diseases, 1997.
  14. Katona P. Medical Informatics and its Impact on Infectious Diseases. Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice 2000; 9:99-111.*
  15. Katona P. Bioterrorism: How serious is the threat? UCLA Today Magazine, p.7, February 13, 2001.
  16. Katona P. Bioterrorism Preparedness: A generic blueprint for health departments, hospitals and physicians. Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice, 2002;11(3):115-122.*
  17. Katona P. Iraq and bioweapons: When will evidence be enough? Editorial, UCLA Today, April 8, 2003.
  18. Katona P. The History of Bioterror and Biowarfare. Business Briefing: Global Healthcare Issue 3, the official publication of the World Medical Association (WMA) & the official publication of the 53rd WMA General Assembly. ISBN 1-903150-53-1.
  19. Katona P. Middle School Health Grade 6 Textbook. Chapter 10, Controlling Disease, for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002.
  20. Katona P. Middle School Health Grade 7 Textbook. Chapter 14, Infectious Diseases,  for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002.
  21. Katona P. Middle School Health Grade 8 Textbook. Chapter 17, Infectious Diseases, for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002.
  22. Katona P. Bioterrorism Preparedness: Practical Considerations for the Hospital and the Physician. Infections in Medicine. 2004;21(9):427-432.*
  23. Katona P. Bioterrorism Preparedness: Practical Considerations for the Hospital and the Physician. Drug Benefit Trends. 2004;16(11):559-563.
  24. Katona P. Book Notes review of The Bioterrorism Sourcebook. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007:147(11):819

25.  The Terrorism Studies Program Global Perspectives Office, University of Central Florida and The Global Connections Foundation White Paper: A Global Assessment of Terrorism: Perspectives from Current and Future Leaders on Policy, Doctrine, and Operational Implications, Orlando, Fla, Sept 11, 2006.

  1. Katona P and Apte J. The Interaction Between Nutrition and Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008; 46:1582–8.*
  2. Southwick F, Katona P, Kauffman C, Monroe S, Pirofski L, del Rio C, Gallis H. and Dismukes W. Commentary: IDSA Guidelines for Improving the Teaching of Preclinical Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Academic Medicine, 85:19-22, No. 1 / January 2010.*
  3. Katona P. Is Our Health Care System a Homeland Security Liability? Huffington Post, February 27, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-katona/is-our-health-care-system_b_479394.html
  4. Katona P. Botulinum toxin: Therapeutic agent to cosmetic enhancement to lethal biothreat. Anaerobe (2012) 18:240–243*
  5. Katona L, Katona P. et.al. A New Paradigm for Disease Surveillance in Vietnam. Telemedicine and eHealth. 20(5):1-3; 2014*
  6. Katona P and Katona L. Medical Education’s Role in Handling the Catastrophic Disasters of the Future. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Simulation.*
  7. Katona P. In Ebola Crisis, Hope and Heroism. Letter to the Editor, NY Times, August 28, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/in-ebola-crisis-hope-and-heroism.html

33.  Katona P.  A World Without Enough Empathy: How two contagions have much in common. Thomson Reuters Foundation. October 24, 2014. http://news.trust.org//item/20141024155933-b42jh

34.  Katona P. Zika’s Rapid Rise and the Limp Global Response Reveal Dire Global Health Challenges. How much of a game do we want to play with something so dangerous to humanity? World Post. November 4, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zikas-rapid-rise-and-the-limp-global-response-reveals-dire-global-health-challenges_us_581b6925e4b07cfea321a03f

35.  Katona P. Biological Terrorism as an Existential Risk. Garrick, B.J. (Editor), Proceedings – First Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Risk, sponsored by The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Luskin Convention Center, March 27-29, 2017. 

36.  Katona P. Forbidden Words: Censorship at the C.D.C.? Letter to the Editor, NY Times, December 20, 2017. 

  1.  Katona P. Flu webinar: Season: Current Activity, Prevention Efforts, and Forecast. March 28, 2018. http://www.intercep.nyu.edu/
  2.  Le P, Tsiang M, Hekmatjah N and Katona P. Risk Perceptions of Electronic Medical Records. Peer reviewed and accepted for publication in Cyber Security January 2019
  3.  Katona P. Biological Weapons. Chapter for the 7th edition of the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health to be published in 2019
  4. Dang LT, Vu NC, Vu TD, James SL, Katona P, Katona L, Rosen JM, Nguyen CK. Perceptions of the Feasibility and Practicalities of Text Messaging-Based Infectious Disease Surveillance: A Questionnaire Survey. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2016;4(2):e65. DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4509. PMID: 27226418 http://mhealth.jmir.org/2016/2/e65/

41.  Dang LT, Vu NC, Vu TD, James SL, Katona P, Katona L, Rosen JM, Nguyen CK. Perceptions of the Feasibility and Practicalities of Text Messaging-Based Infectious Disease Surveillance: A Questionnaire Survey. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2016;4(2):e65. DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4509. PMID: 27226418 http://mhealth.jmir.org/2016/2/e65/

 

*Peer reviewed

 

Poster Sessions and abstracts

  1. Katona P, Bregman D.  An interactive multimedia approach to HIV education. Poster session at the UCLA AIDS Institute Symposium: Social and Behavioral Studies in HIV/AIDS. November 4, 1993.
  2. Cella CM, Katona P. Precautions in Caring for Patients with Severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, A Case Report. Abstract, Respiratory Care Open Forum 2001.
  3. Cella CM, Katona P. Respiratory Delivery Devices for Use in Patients with Severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, A Case Report. Abstract, Respiratory Care Open Forum 2001.

 

Books and Chapters

1.      Katona P. Intriligator M and Sullivan JP, Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Anti-Terrorism Network, Taylor and Francis, London, September 2006.

2.       Katona P. Intriligator M and Sullivan JP. Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses, Taylor and Francis, London, January 2010.

3.      Katona P. The history of Terrorism chapter in Countering Terrorism and WMD

4.      Katona P. The history of bioterrorism chapter in Global Biosecurity

5.      Katona P. Emerging Infections chapter in Global Biosecurity

6.      N. Arnas. Fighting Chance. Global Trends and Shocks in the National Security Environment. Katona P. Chapter on Healthcare. Published by the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University, Potomic Books, 2009

7.      Katona P. The History of Bioterrorism and Biowarfare,  Terrorism: Essays for an Informed Public, produced jointly by the MIPT and the Terrorism Research Center, to be edited by renowned terrorism experts Brian Jenkins, John P. Sullivan, Neal Pollard, and Matt Devost of the Terrorism Research Center, and Brian Houghton, Research Director of the MIPT.

8.      Katona P. The Vulnerability of Our Health Care System (in preparation)

9.      Katona P. Our Distrust in Science (in preparation)

10.  Bunker R et.al. Chapter in Counterterrorism: Bridging Operations and Theory: A Terrorism Research Center Book. 2015, iUniverse Publisher

11.  Katona P. Bioterrorism chapter for the 7th edition of the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (in preparation)

 

      Major Presentations

  1. Infection control management of African hemorrhagic fevers. Presented at the 5th Annual Infection Control Symposium for Physicians, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1979.
  2. Guillain-Barre syndrome following influenza vaccination. Presented at the Surgeon General’s Meeting on Influenza, Washington, D.C., 1980.
  3. Guillain-Barre syndrome following influenza vaccination, 1979-1980. Presented at the 29th Annual EIS Conference, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta Georgia, 1980.
  4. Poliomyelitis, going, going… Presented at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.
  5. Reye syndrome in Michigan, 1979 and 1980. Presented at the 108th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, 1980.
  6. An interactive multimedia approach to HIV education. Presented to Christine Gebbie, President Clinton’s AIDS Policy Coordinator at the UCLA AIDS Institute, October 27, 1993.
  7. Update on New Antibiotics presented at the 14th Annual Infectious Disease Symposium, April 16, 1994, Sacramento, California.
  8. Fever: Friend of Foe, presented at the 14th Annual Infectious Disease Symposium, April 16, 1994, Sacramento, California.
  9. The Future of Infection Control, presented at the First Annual UCLA Infection Control Symposium, November 2, 1994.
  10. Interactive Multimedia in Infection Control Education, presented at the UCLA Medical Waste Management Symposium, March 10, 1995.
  11. The Western Approach to Infectious Diseases, presented at the International Conference on Integrative East-West Medicine ‘96, February 15, 1996.
  12. New Technology and the Infectious Disease Physician. Presented at the 1997 California Infectious Disease Association Fall Symposium, October 4, 1997.
  13. Inpatient vs. Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy. Presented at the 50th Anniversary Postgraduate Assembly, St John’s Hospital, Santa Monica, California, September 12, 1998.
  14. Illness and Sports Injuries in Adolescents. Presented for Sports Run LA, Ventura, California, August 29, 2000.

15. The Medical Perspective of the Events of September 11. Presented at the American Medical Association (AMA) 2001 Interim Meeting, San Francisco, December 4, 2001.

  1. Introduction to Biological Warfare: A Historical Perspective. & Viral Agents of Bioterrorism: Ebola, Smallpox and More. Presented at the UCLA Conference on Bioterrorism Preparedness: What Practitioners Need to Know. February 23, 2002.
  2. Bioterrorism: Past History and Prospective Futures. Presented to the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, March 13, 2002
  3. The History of Biological Terrorism and biowarfare. Presented at the  International College of Surgeons Annual Meeting, June 22, 2002
  4. Biological Terrorism Past, Present and Future. Presented at Cornell University, 2003, 2004 and 2005
  5. All Hazards/All Partners Preparedness Workshop: Practical Considerations for the Hospital, Infection Control Practitioner and ID Specialist. Presented at the annual Infectious Diseases Society of America Meeting, San Diego, October 9, 2003
  6. Biological Terrorism. Terrorism Research Center Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 3, 2003
  7. Biological Weapons: Threat and Response. Presented at the 52nd annual Defense Orientation Conference (DOCA) Meeting, Washington, D.C.,October 31, 2003
  8. Biological Weapons: Threat and Response. Presented to the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce, and the US military’s European Command, Stuttgart, Germany, July 8, 2204
  9. From Prions to Gaia:  A Global Perspective on Disease & Society. Presented at Dartmouth College School of Engineering, March 31, 2005
  10. Infectious Disease Threats as Security Concerns in the Next 15 Years in Africa presented to the EUCOM general command, Germany, May 26, 2005
  11. Maternal and Child Malnutrition: The Role of Infection. Presented at the 2nd Annual Regional Ministerial Consultation on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Asian Countries, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 21, 2005
  12. The Economics of Terrorism. Moderator, Milken Institute Forum, Santa Monica, California, November 10, 2005 (panelists included Alvin Toffler)
  13. Panelist, The Economics of Terrorism, Milken Institute Global Conference, April 24, 2006
  14. Bugs, Disasters and Terrorism: New Rules for the 21st Century; presented at the National Headmasters Association Annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, the LSU NCBRT Annual meeting, Baton Rouge Louisiana, and the Marshall Center, Gamish, Germany, 2006
  15. Moderator, Panel on Terrorism, Milken Global Conference, Beverly Hills, CA, April 27, 2009
  16. The Current Swine Flu Pandemic, presented at the Annual Pri-Med meeting, Anaheim, CA, May 9, 2009
  17. H1N1 Swine Flu presented at the Annual ASIS Meeting’s Roundtable, September 22, 2009
  18. Influenza: What happened, what could have happened, and what would have happened if all hell broke loose. Annual Brown Lecture, Harvard-Westlake School, April 19, 2010
  19. The Role of Public Safety in Disaster Management, October 31, 2012, delivered to the LA County Sheriff, LAPD Chief, County Fire Chief and City Fire Chief
  20. Pandemics and Attacks: A Tale of Two Outbreaks. Renowned Alumnus Lecture, October 19, 2012, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
  21. The role of public safety in disaster preparedness. Presented to the four LA County Public Safety CEOs (LAPD Chief Beck, Sheriff Baca, LA City Fire Chief Cummings and LA County Fire Chief Osby) on October 31, 2012.
  22. Plagues and Contagion. Presented at the Global Risk Forum on Radical Regional Resilience, NY City, June 25, 2014
  23. Ebola: How Modern Medicine and Public Health Mishandles a Major Outbreak of the 21st Century. Global Security Seminar, December 2, 2014
  24. Ebola and Hospital Vulnerabilities presented at the 2nd Operational Area Lecture Series, January 20, 2015
  25. Emerging Disease Threat and Indigenous Populations. PRIMO Conference. March 16, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  26. Panel, Confronting Today’s Global Health Challenges. Pacific Council on International Policy Spring Conference. April 15, 2016
  27. Reasons to Fear: Imminent Threats to Humanity Beyond Terrorism. Pacific Edge Conference at UCLA. 2016. May 11, 2016
  28. Sheriff’s Department Headquarters, December 6, 2010.
  29. Global Infectious Disease: A Bracing Look at an Evolving & Devastating Threat. Urgent Threats Forum: Imminent Threats, their Impacts & Strategies to Address Them. NYU, June 7, 2016
  30. Digitized Medical Data: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Presented to the UCLA 3rd year medical school class June 9, 2016
  31. Is there an ethical mandate to prepare for a cataclysmic medical disaster? Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, European American Sheriff’s Advisory Council Holiday Luncheon 2010 Member Meeting with European Consular Corps
  32. Impending Diseases including Ebola and Zika. California Environmental Health Association. September 2, 2016.
  33. Biological Terrorism. First Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Threats, UCLA Garrick Institute for Risk Sciences, March 27, 2017
  34. Is Medicine Reaching a “Perfect Storm” of Changes? Council on Foreign Relations, Los Angeles Peninsula Hotel, March 30, 2017
  35. Infectious Disease: A Bracing Look at a Devastating Threat at NYU’s International Center for Enterprise Preparedness. November 28, 2018
  36. Moderator: The Worrying Paradox of Modern Medical Miracles with Thomas Bollyky author of  “Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways” for the Council on Foreign Relations. December 4, 2018

 

      Meetings Organized

  1. Organizer, Program Chairman and speaker on the History of Bioterrorism and Biowarfare and Concluding Remarks, at Biowarfare and Bioterrorism: A Symposium on a Comprehensive Multinational Perspective, held in Los Angeles, May 29-30, 2002. Speakers included Ken Alibek, Bill Patrick and Alvin Toffler. The conference was covered by CNN, KABC, Copley News Service and Voice of America).
  2. Program Director and speaker, The First UCLA Infection Control Symposium, Bel-Air Hotel, Los Angeles, November 2, 1994.
  3. Organizer, moderator and speaker at the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s Terrorism Early Warning Group (TEW) international conference: Terrorism, Global Security and the Law, held at Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, June 1-2, 2005, October 19-20, 2006 and May 8-9, 2008.
  4. Master of Ceremonies. Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation meeting. The Anthrax Mailings Investigation. November 29, 2010, Washington DC and live simulcast to Los Angeles
  5. Organizer and speaker, Catastrophic Disasters and their Management, Rand Corporation, September 10, 2011 for the Saint Johns Hospital Postgraduate Assembly
  6. LA County Public Safety Leadership Summit, October 31, 2012 with four additional summits in 2013 and 2014.
  7. Los Angeles Operational Area Lecture Series (for first responders, organized jointly with the LA County Disaster Manager), August 26, 2014 and January 20, 2015

 

            Presentations made into webcasts

  1. UCLA Bioterrorism Conference http://www.webcast.ucla.edu/Webcast/School_of_Med/CME/Bioterrorism/index.html and http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/School_of_Med/CME/Bioterrorism/program_body.html. 
  2. Introduction to Biological Warfare: A Historical Overview and  Viral Agents of Bioterrorism: Ebola, Smallpox, and More

3.      Speech at Long Beach Memorial Hospital on Bioterrorism http://www.intelemedia.tv/Prod/kat/kat_files/default.htm#profile=0

4.      Speech at Encino-Hospital Regional Medical Center on  Bioterrorism http://www.tarzanameded.com/video.asp?VidID=aftermath

5.      The Medical Perspective of the Events of September 11. Presented at the American Medical Association (AMA) 2001 Interim Meeting, San Francisco, December 4, 2001.

6.      Moderator for the FEMA funded Incident Command training module done at Dartmouth (http://iml.dartmouth.edu/education/pcpt/vmimi/mms/) 

7.      Plagues and Contagion. Presented at the Global Risk Forum on Radical Regional Resilience, September 17, 2014

 

            Videos produced

           

1.      Cyber Insecurity of Digitized Medical Records

2.      HIV education for adolescents (2 videos)

 

 

 

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