Biography of Dr. Doug Rokke

Doug Rokke earned his Ph.D. in physics and technology education at the University of Illinois. His military career has spanned 4 decades to include combat duty during the Vietnam War and Gulf War 1. Doug served as a member of the U.S. Army Medical Command's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) teaching, medical response, and special operations team and with the Depleted Uranium Assessment team during the Gulf War.
He was the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project director from 1994 - 1995.
He developed the congressionally mandated education and training materials and wrote U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and the U.S. Army's common task for DU incidents. Doug has taught nuclear, biological and chemical warfare and emergency medicine for over 20 years to both civilian and military personnel. He was one of the original authors of the EDRAT (Emergency Disaster Response Assistance Team) proposal which formed the foundation for the National Guard CSD teams and the Illinois
CERT Teams. In preparation for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he wrote and taught the original Chemical / Biological Counter-terrorism Course for civilian emergency responders that is now the federal 120 city and Department of Justice course. Dr. Rokke serves or has served as an advisor with the Centers of Disease Control, Department of Defense,
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, U.S Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Transportation, FAA, U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. General Accounting Office, Department of
Veterans Affairs, British Royal Society, British House of Lords and House of Commons, United Nations, and Presidential Special Oversight Board. He has been an advisor for numerous television documentaries on effects of nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare and depleted uranium with CBS; ABC; NBC, History Channel; A & E; PBS; BBC; CBC; and German, French, Japanese, Australian, Italian, and Greek TV. Dr. Rokke has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science, environmental engineering, nuclear physics, and emergency management and was a staff physicist at the UIUC for 19 years.