Leonard A. Cole, an American dentist, political scientist and expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine. He is adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, and of emergency medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he is Director of the Program on Terror Medicine and Security of the UMDNJ Center for BioDefense. Trained in both the health sciences and public policy, Cole has testified before congressional committees and made invited presentations to the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of Technology Assessment. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey-Israel Commission, he has coordinated exchanges on terror medicine and domestic security between American and Israeli academics and professionals. Cole has appeared frequently on network and public television and is the author or editor of ten books. [More at Wikipedia]