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Quail-Tech Research Team - Cooperating Scientists
Dr. Steven M. Presley, Ph.D. - Diseases
Steven M. Presley, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology in The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, and serves as the Research Coordinator for the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats. He is a Lubbock area native raised in Abernathy, and he and his wife Terri have three children and two grandchildren.
Dr. Presley’s professional career has focused upon vector-borne infectious diseases, with an emphasis on biological threat assessment and countermeasures including the potential impact of biological pathogens naturally or intentionally introduced into military and civilian populations, and the agricultural industry. His research focus has been and remains on the development and fielding of preventative measures against vector-borne infectious and zoonotic diseases, biological weapon agents, and the possible utilization of arthropod vector and non-vector species for the prediction and forensic validation of such occurrences. Dr. Presley offers advanced graduate level courses that address biological threats in the environment.
Dr. Presley earned his B.S. in Animal Science from Texas Tech University in 1982, his M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 1987 studying medical entomology, and completed a post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Kentucky. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as a Medical Service Corps Officer for more than twelve years before joining the faculty at Texas Tech University in 2002, and is currently a U.S. Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps Officer. He is a graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, where he earned a Masters of Military Studies degree focused on domestic terrorism and has completed various aspects of chemical, biological, radiological, and environmental-related response and control training. His operational experiences, both civil and military, have focused upon the surveillance, prevention and control of biological threats in the environment; specifically vectorborne infectious diseases in tropical and semi-tropical environments. He has led malaria control operations and research efforts in Africa, Asia and South America, as well as Rift Valley fever, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and cutaneous leishmaniasis studies in Africa and Asia. He has published more than 50 scientific and technical manuscripts, authored and contributed to several book chapters in the fields of biological and chemical countermeasures, and diseases of wildlife, as well as presented numerous invited professional and technical oral presentations. Dr. Presley was awarded the United States Navy and Marine Corps Rear Admiral Charles S. Stephenson Award for Excellence in Preventive Medicine for the year 2000-2001.
Dr. Presley serves as Chairperson of the Publications Committee and on the Science and Technology Committee of the American Mosquito Control Association. He is a member of the City of Lubbock Board of Health as well as several other local, regional and state professional boards and committees related to emergency preparedness, public health response to human and animal diseases, and catastrophic event planning and response.
Steven M. Presley, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology in The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, and serves as the Research Coordinator for the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats. He is a Lubbock area native raised in Abernathy, and he and his wife Terri have three children and two grandchildren.
Dr. Presley’s professional career has focused upon vector-borne infectious diseases, with an emphasis on biological threat assessment and countermeasures including the potential impact of biological pathogens naturally or intentionally introduced into military and civilian populations, and the agricultural industry. His research focus has been and remains on the development and fielding of preventative measures against vector-borne infectious and zoonotic diseases, biological weapon agents, and the possible utilization of arthropod vector and non-vector species for the prediction and forensic validation of such occurrences. Dr. Presley offers advanced graduate level courses that address biological threats in the environment.
Dr. Presley earned his B.S. in Animal Science from Texas Tech University in 1982, his M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 1987 studying medical entomology, and completed a post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Kentucky. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as a Medical Service Corps Officer for more than twelve years before joining the faculty at Texas Tech University in 2002, and is currently a U.S. Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps Officer. He is a graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, where he earned a Masters of Military Studies degree focused on domestic terrorism and has completed various aspects of chemical, biological, radiological, and environmental-related response and control training. His operational experiences, both civil and military, have focused upon the surveillance, prevention and control of biological threats in the environment; specifically vectorborne infectious diseases in tropical and semi-tropical environments. He has led malaria control operations and research efforts in Africa, Asia and South America, as well as Rift Valley fever, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and cutaneous leishmaniasis studies in Africa and Asia. He has published more than 50 scientific and technical manuscripts, authored and contributed to several book chapters in the fields of biological and chemical countermeasures, and diseases of wildlife, as well as presented numerous invited professional and technical oral presentations. Dr. Presley was awarded the United States Navy and Marine Corps Rear Admiral Charles S. Stephenson Award for Excellence in Preventive Medicine for the year 2000-2001.
Dr. Presley serves as Chairperson of the Publications Committee and on the Science and Technology Committee of the American Mosquito Control Association. He is a member of the City of Lubbock Board of Health as well as several other local, regional and state professional boards and committees related to emergency preparedness, public health response to human and animal diseases, and catastrophic event planning and response.