Luciana Borio is an American physician and medical/public health administrator.
Education
She currently serves as the Assistant Commissioner for Counterterrorism Policy of the United States. Food and Drug Administration and Director of Food and Drug Administration" General’ s Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats. Prior to joining Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in 2008, Borio was senior associate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Center for Health Security and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh (2003-2008).
Career
Borio served at the United States Department of Health and Human Services as an advisor on biodefense programs (2001 to 2008), where she implemented and managed mathematical modeling projects to assess the health effects of bioterrorism on civilians and to inform medical countermeasures procurement activities for the Office of Preparedness and Response. Borio obtained her Doctor of Medicine in 1996 from George Washington University. She completed residency in 1999 in internal medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical Center and subsequently completed a combined fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University and critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
Borio continues to practice medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.