Shawn Leight. PE, PTOE, PTP
IPATH Executive Committee President Vice President/Chief Operations Officer CBB Transportation Engineers + Planners Past President Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) St. Charles, Missouri - United Sates Shawn’s technical strengths are transportation planning, modeling, and freeway operations. He has worked in virtually every stage of project development including comprehensive planning, corridor/feasibility studies, public engagement, grant writing, environmental (NEPA) investigations, Access Justification Reports (AJR), Value Engineering (VE), construction (PS&E) documents, Design Build, and Public Private Partnerships (P3). Shawn received his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Carolina and is certified nationally as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) and Professional Transportation Planner (PTP). LinkedIn Profile 
Karyn M. Warsow, MSc., MPH, DrPH(c)
Executive Committee Chair Founder & Executive Director TPH Link/ICTH/IPATH Gaylord, Michigan - United States Karyn is a cross-disciplinary professional with 15 years of experience, in the area of trauma and critical care medicine; specifically traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries as a result of motor vehicle crashes and interpersonal violence. With this experience, she successfully crossed over to the field of transportation after advocating for policy change in her local community. Karyn brings to the field of transportation, a unique perspective that merges best practices and lessons learned from multiple disciplines to devise innovative solutions. Over the years, she has developed an exceptional network of high-level national and international multimodal transportation, urban planning and public health contacts. Karyn is a strong results-based leader. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link), which administers the International Professional Association for Transport & Health (IPATH) and the International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH). In addition, Karyn has established a partnership with the Transport & Health Study Group (THSG) in the United Kingdom and serves on the Board as the US Policy and Advocacy Representative. Karyn is also peer-reviewer for the Journal of Transport & Health and multiple Committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) with membership in the TRB Strategic Management Committee and a member of the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE) Steering Committee on Transportation and Health. LinkedIn Profile 
Ahsan Habib, PhD
Executive Committee, Vice President Associate Professor, and Director Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) School of Planning, and Department of Civil & Resource Engineering Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada Ahsan is a transportation professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He received a PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto. Ahsan's research focuses on travel behaviour analysis, transport-land use-health interactions, transport modelling and microsimulation of urban systems. He has received over $1.4M in funding as a Principal Investigator and $4.8M as a co-applicant in the last five years. Ahsan has over 10 years of professional experience in transportation planning and engineering. He is the founder of Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC), a multi-disciplinary research facility dedicated to the advancement of transportation research and practice. Ahsan is a standing committee member of ADB10: Travel Behaviour and Values, ADB20: Effects of ICT on Travel Choices, and ADD40: Transportation and Sustainability of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington DC, USA. He also serves at the Urban Transportation Council, Transportation Planning and Research Standing Committee and Integrated Climate Change Committee of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), Ottawa, Canada. Ahsan believes multi-modal mobility options are the key to ensuring sustainability for cities across the globe. To learn more about his research and practice, click HERE LinkedIn Profile 
Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, PhD
Executive Committee Secretary Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah United Arab Emirates Ghassan is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Transport at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. His research focus is on the interaction between urban traffic operations and public health. Ghassan teaches traffic control, in particular, congestion and sustainability in transport systems. He earned a doctoral degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His academic and industry experience spans 25 years in transport operations and planning with periods at Michigan State University, University of Kentucky, and the Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Worcester, Massachusetts. LinkedIn Profile 
Slande Celeste-Alliance, MPH, MCHES
IPATH Membership Manager University of Florida, College of Public Health and Health Professions Public Health Programs Gainesville, Florida - United States Slande has a strong interest in social determinants of health, the built environment, and community participation. She has worked in a variety of Public Health settings. Internationally, she has worked with World Vision International: Haiti to evaluate maternal and child health programs as well as conduct health education and promotion campaigns around HIV/AIDS. Slande has worked in several health departments in Florida as an epidemiologist and a coordinator of chronic disease prevention programs. Recently, She served as an Internship Coordinator, while maintaining public health skills of program evaluation and health promotion with partners locally and internationally. In her current position, Slande works on clinical demonstration projects that benefit Veterans. She held a number of leadership positions in the American Public Health Association’s Community Health Planning and Policy Section over the last four years. Slande Celeste received her Bachelor of Health Education and Master of Public Health degrees the University of Florida in 2001 and 2003, respectively along with a certificate in Social Marketing. LinkedIn Profile 
Albert Almasy (Al)
Dallas, Texas - United States Al has been in the transportation/toll collection/IT industry for over 35 years holding various positions such as Director of Business Development, Project Manager & Consultant. Al brings a well-rounded perspective to any project as he has been on the operations side, the vendor side and the consultant side of the toll collection business. He has a broad skill set that includes project planning, procurement support, business process management (BPM), contract management and vendor management. Additional areas of expertise include radio frequency identifier (RFID) based vehicle transaction processing systems, customer service center design and operations, customer account management systems (CRM), business rules and managed lane operations. Al is active with the International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA), the Project Management Institute (PMI) and local charities. LinkedIn Profile 
O. A. Elrahman (Sam), PhD
Sr. Research Scholar Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Albany, New York - United States Sam is currently working with the Center for Transportation Infrastructure and Environment (CTIE) as a Senior Research Scholar. He is a member of a research team that examines governance of environmental health in six global cities, and studies the forces that influence decisions that impact environmental health. This National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored research study will deepen understanding of the processes and outcomes of collaborative governance of environmental health. He also is a team member of a study that is developing performance measures for evaluating social media use in public transit agencies. Prior to his work with the Center, Sam served at the New York State Department of Transportation for 30 years in different capacities including Head of the Research Coordination and Technology Transfer unit of the Transportation Research & Development Bureau. His extensive research and management activities spanned several departmental divisions, including Environmental Analysis, Policy, Transit, Project Development, and Economic Development. During his career, Sam has authored more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and technical reports. Sam holds a PhD in Urban and Environmental Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and an M.Sc. in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, School of Engineering, New York University. He also holds a postgraduate Certificate in Management Development from Cornell University. LinkedIn Profile 
Jennifer Mindell, PhD
University College London (UCL) London, England Jenny is a Professor of Public Health in the Health and Social Surveys Research Group of the Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at UCL (University College London). She has experience in epidemiology, general practice, and health promotion. Jenny leads the UCL Health Survey for England team and is health lead of UCL’s Transport Institute. Jenny supervises doctoral students in both the Population Health Sciences and the Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering Faculties. Previously, she was Deputy Director of the London Health Observatory and led health impact assessments of the London Mayor’s Transport and other strategies. Jenny was also Principal Investigator for a cross-disciplinary project developing tools to measure community severance by road traffic. Jenny was lead editor of the 2011 report, "Health on the Move2" published by the Transport & Health Study Group (THSG). She is Editor-in-chief of Journal of Transport and Health, former Co-chair (Science) of THSG, and chairs the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Health Improvement Committee. LinkedIn Profile 
Jun-Seok Oh, PhD, PE, PTOE
Professor at Western Michigan University Director, Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities Kalamazoo, Michigan - United States Jun is Professor of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at Western Michigan University and also Director of Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities, a Tier 1 University Transportation Center funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. With 34 years of experience in the transportation field, his unique strength is an extensive knowledge of both traffic engineering and transportation systems analysis through his experiences as a researcher or a professional engineer. Jun has participated in a wide range of research activities related with transportation systems analysis, traffic safety, intelligent transportation systems, advanced traffic management, and non-motorized transportation systems. His recent research focuses on building livable communities through smart, safe, sustainable transportation. He earned his PhD from University of California at Irvine. LinkedIn Profile 
Greg Rybarczyk, PhD
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan - Flint Affiliated faculty, Michigan Institute for Data Science Flint, Michigan - United States Greg is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, and is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Michigan’s Data Science Institute (https://midas.umich.edu/). He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has over a decade of experience utilizing GIS and empirical analysis to investigate accessibility and transportation issues for government, non-profit,and private sectors. In terms of research, his interests are centered on: active transportation, travel-demand modeling, accessibility, inter-modal mode-choice decision making, Big Data, public health, naturalistic wayfinding modeling, crime assessments, food systems, urban planning, and higher education. Besides serving on the IPATH Board of Directors, he is an active member of the Association of American Geographers, Michigan League of Bicyclists, Transportation Research Board-Transport & Health Study Group, and Association of Bicycle and Pedestrian Professionals-Education Sub-committee. Personal website: www.grybarczyk.com LinkedIn Profile 
Kimberly Vachal, PhD
Senior Researcher & Program Director Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota - United States Kimberly is the lead investigator for Agricultural Industry and Rural Transportation Safety and Security activities at North Dakota State University’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. She conducts research and outreach to promote a competitive agricultural logistics system, along with a safe and secure transportation, in rural regions. Research, outreach, and educational activities are defined and accomplished in cooperation with stakeholders. She has over 15 years of experience in transportation research, primarily in agriculture, safety, economics, policy, and freight mobility, and has worked extensively with both government and private industry agencies. In addition, she has had the opportunity to work with students as research assistants and in teaching courses in freight logistics, microeconomics, and international development economics. Kimberly's research concentration has been in public policy and economics. She has written over 50 research papers and authored several journal articles. She also assists other research faculty with policy and economic analysis as it is relevant to their research. LinkedIn Profile 
Stephen Watkins, PhD
Co-Chair, Transport & Health Study Group (THSG) Director of Public Health, Stockport City Council Stockport, England United Kingdom Steve is qualified in medicine and as a specialist in public health. He was a founding member of the Transport & Health Science Group (THSG) and co-chair. Steve was the editor and a co-author of THSG publication; Health on the Move and then co-editor of Health on the Move 2. He has also written "Unemployment: a Challenge to Public Health" and "Medicine and Labour: the Politics of a Profession". Steve is a member of the Council of the British Medical Association and a former President of the Medical Practitioners' Union, a British organisation, which is the medical organisation of the social movements of the people. In the transport field, his particular interests are demand responsive transport, active travel, new technology and transport for older people. Steve is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. LinkedIn Profile |
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