Terry Donat, Assistant Communications Director

Terry Donat, MD, is a dual-board certified Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon/OHNS and Medical Investigator practicing in Northern Illinois and greater metropolitan Chicago for the past 18 years.    Dr.Donat was trained in Biochemistry at the Pennsylvania State University and received his Medical Degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1991. Terry is a written-exam reviewer and oral board examiner of U.S. and Canadian surgeons for the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has extensive experience in facial reconstruction and managing blunt/penetrating head and neck trauma. Terry is the first physician certified as an Illinois Professional Emergency Manager. He is trained in acute Radiation Emergency Medicine, the Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties and as a past National Disaster Life Support Instructor. He was appointed IEMA RACES Regional Radio Officer on the State Team for IEMA Region 2. Terry is the first physician to complete the graduate program in Veterinary Homeland Security from Purdue University – National Biosecurity Resource Center.  He serves as an external resource to the FBI Chicago Field Office WMD Coordinator and the FBI WMD Directorate Biological Countermeasure Unit. He also served as a biosecurity and medical intelligence subject matter expert for the Underwriters Laboratory Security Council.  He is a lifetime member of the Special Operations Medial Association (SOMA) and is currently researching novel means for mitigating heat stress in austere thermally-hazardous environments.

Terry serves as the Health and Public Health Sector Chief for InfraGard Chicago; serves aside James Terbush, MD MPH, as co-chair of the Healthcare Industry Advisory Group of the InfraGard National Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Special Interest Group; and is a member of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council – DHS/DHHS (cybersecurity Information-sharing subgroup). He is keenly interested in expanding capabilities in healthcare cybersecurity; biosecurity and medical intelligence; and assessing those threats, risks, and vulnerabilities of infrastructure and evolving dual-use technologies relevant to homeland and national security.