ABOUT MY FAMILY’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY
This website is about my family’s work for social justice and civil rights
on the House Judiciary Committee and throughout the world,
and my work for thirty-two years as a federal research engineer
with the US Department of Energy and as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh.
UPDATE:
In 2012 independent experts reviewed the technology I invented
as a federal employee of USDOE and found it to be
“ something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years. ”
So in 2013, I protected that technology with US Patent 8,391,552.
In 2018 Trump gave that technology to the Saudi Royal Family – for free!
To silence me, Trump had me attacked at the Pittsburgh site of the
USDOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory and driven
from federal service with fabricated false charges and violence.
At least he didn’t chop me into little pieces and flush me down a drain.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) meeting with Donald Trump in The Oval Office on March 20, 2018.
On October 2, 2018, MBS had Washington Post reporter Jamal Kashoggi chopped into small pieces and flushed down a drain in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. MBS used a body-double of Kashoggi to try to hide his
heinous crime.
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 19:23
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THE SHAFFER FAMILY
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Dr. Douglas Shaffer, MD; Jennie M. Shaffer, VP of the WVEA; Rev. Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer; Vera Shaffer PharmD; and Franklin D. |
Vera, Douglas and Franklin D. |
BORN AND RAISED FOR FEDERAL SERVICE
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Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer US Army veteran Episcopal Priest |
My father, Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was an honorable US Army veteran who served on foreign soil; a Professor of US History and Political Science; campaign manager and senior advisor to Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr on how the House Judiciary Committee should interact with the Supreme Court; and an Episcopal Priest. My mother, Jennie M. Shaffer, née Lininger, was a high school teacher, a civil rights activist, and Vice President of the West Virginia Education Association. |
My mother leading the WV teachers’ strike in 1990 |
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Both of my parents were children of coal miners in West Virginia. All of the men in my family served in the US military, then returned home to work in the coal mines of WV. Except for my father. He joined the US Army and served in Guam and Korea. When he returned home, he used his GI Bill to get a Degree in History from the University of Richmond. He then earned a PhD in US History from West Virginia University. |
My mother rallying 5000 striking teachers on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, 1990 |
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He was the 9 th of 15 children of an Irish railroad worker. His most important legislation was the Staggers Rail Act of 1981. It deregulated and saved the railroad industry of the United States. In 1967, Congressman Staggers Sr read my father’s papers. He immediately had my father hired as a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Social Sciences at Potomac State College in Keyser.
Every prayer I heard my father say in my life ended with this “and let us always be mindful of the poor” During the Great Depression his family in WV often went without food.
Our parents raised me and my little brother to get as much education in the sciences as we could, then to serve our country as federal employees. |
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ABOUT MY BROTHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR THE POOR |
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For his education in the sciences, Doug earned a Pharmacy Degree and a Medical Degree from WVU, thena Master’s Degree in Hospital Administration from Duke University. He served as a federal employee with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. In 2003, he helped Dr. Anthony Fauci start the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program. To implement the PEPFAR program, Doug lived in Kenya and Rwanda for 20 years with some of the poorest people in the world suffering from HIV/AIDS. The PEPFAR program has now saved 25 million lives. In 2024, after 27 years of federal service, Doug retired as the Associate Director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy. The FDA is the largest and most powerful regulatory agency in the world. |
Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD
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“Doug Shaffer, a public health leader whose heart is as big as Africa itself. We at the FDA Office of Global Strategy & Policy are honored to have had the opportunity to know him as a colleague.” |
The International Vaccine Institute appoints Dr. Douglas Shaffer as Deputy Director General of Global Affairs July 24, 2024 – SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Douglas Shaffer will join as IVI’s Deputy Director General of Global Affairs & Communications on August 26, 2024. The International Vaccine Institute accelerates the development of vaccines for poverty-associated infectious diseases that sicken or kill millions of people every year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Though they have limited commercial potential, these vaccines are vital to global health. Through training and the transfer of knowledge, technology, and resources, we work with countries to achieve vaccine security and protect their people. |
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Doug also served as an Attending Physician treating our military personnel at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center |
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We were raised in a small town of 4000 souls, Keyser, in West Virginia.Our family was close with, and worked closely with, Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr and his son Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. |
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President Harry Truman campaigning in Keyser to elect Harley O. Staggers Sr to Congress in 1948 |
First Lady Rosalynn Carter and President Carter with Congressman Staggers Sr & wife Mary Casey Staggers |
Congressman Staggers Sr campaigning to elect John F. Kennedy as our 35 th President. |
ABOUT MY FEDERAL SERVICE FOR MY COUNTRY
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For my education in the sciences, I earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from WVU. In 1986, I entered federal service with the US Department of Energy’s Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. In 1990, I invented, and in 1994 patented ( US Patent 5,333,044 “Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry” ) an imaging technology to visualize and measure the flow of organic and inorganic particles through power plants, and the flow of blood cells in artificial hearts and lungs. |
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My US Patent 5,333,044 was made possible by my access to nuclear weapons technologies from the US’s and UK’s premier nuclear weapons labs. |
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Patent 5,333,044 has now saved thousands of lives.
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The Honorable Bill Richardson-Lopez III
Click here to see a letter I received from
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ABOUT MY WORK ON THE LEAD TEAM RESPONDING
TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL LEAK CRISIS
Click here or above to watch President Obama’s first Oval Office Address .
The topics of his first Oval Office Address were the BP Oil Spill
and the Energy we use to power our country. Here’s a quote from his Address:
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I was one of those engineers. |
THE PLUME TEAM OF THE NATIONAL INCIDENT COMMAND
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US Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the DWH crisis |
I was on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis: the Plume Team of the Flow Rate Technical Group of the National Incident Command . Our team was led by Dr. Marcia McNutt. At that time, she was the first woman to serve as the Director of the US Geological Survey since it was founded in 1879. She is now the first woman to serve as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS was founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to serve as pro bono “Advisers to the Nation” on all scientific matters |
Dr. Marcia McNutt then Director of the US Geological Survey, now President of the National Academy of Sciences |
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The Plume Team of the National Incident Command at the
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An award from I received from the
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FUN FACT: BP was founded as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
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Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf states to recover and rebuild.
The technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 was critically important tool I used.
Independent experts reviewed the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 and found it to be “
a huge breakthrough
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Prof. Ömer Savaş, UC Berkeley |
My work at Naval Weapons Station Earle was funded ($738,000) by the USDOI Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). BSEE is a federal law enforcement agency. |
Dr. Ray Cocco CEO of PSRI |
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Click here to see a list of my peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals.
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THE ATTACKS The $20.8 billion fine was ordered on October 5, 2015, by the Honorable US District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier for the Eastern District of Louisiana. It is the largest single fine of a single entity in US history.
Those funds went to the 50 million people of 5 Gulf States
I played an important role in causing the $20.8 billion fine. I was immediately attacked in retaliation. I have been under color-of-law attacks since the $20.8 billion fine was ordered. The attacks were (1) in retaliation for causing the $20.8 billion fine, and (2) to silence me while the NETL disguised my US Patent 8,391,552 as a non-patented “open” source technology so the Saudi Royal Family could use it for free
When Trump took office on January 20, 2017, his first foreign visit was to the Saudi Royal Family. Trump gave the technology I invented and protected with United States Patent 8,391,552 as a free gift to the Saudi Royal Family.
THE DESTRUCTION OF MY LIFE SO THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY COULD USE MYUS PATENT 8,391,552 FOR FREE To get away with this the inventor would have to be removed from federal service and discredited. On January 20, 2017, Trump assumed the Office of the President of the United States. On the same day he appointed NETL Director Dr. Grace Bochenek as his interim Secretary of Energy. Two weeks later, on February 3, 2017, the attacks began to remove me from federal service and discredit me. After 17 months of attacks at the NETL, on July 9, 2018, I was forced to flee the NETL to protect my life. The same month, Dr. Tingwen Li and other NETL contractor employees were hired by Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) to implement the technology of 8,391,552 to improve the performance of their petrochemical processing facilities. I can find no contractual agreement governing the transfer of technology from the NETL to SABIC. After I fled from the NETL, to discredit me, NETL Chief Counsel Susan E. Malie designated me as a State Terrorist (another of her despicable lies) and banned me from ever again associating my name with the DOE. The NETL then tried to discredit my work and my US Patent 8,391,552 by having NETL federal employees Dr. Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Dr. Bill Rogers, and others, give presentations and publish journal papers claiming that the technology of 8,391,552 was not unique and that it was no better than a host of other technologies. This is not true and they know it. Breault and Rogers funded my work and watched me develop 8,391,552. After fleeing from the NETL, I was subjected to ten years of color-of-attacks by Allegheny County Solicitor Luke C. Kelly, common pleas Judges, and other lawyers in Pittsburgh. Solicitor Kelly tried to cause my death and make it appear to be by natural causes so his client, my ex-wife Dr. Nancy J. Shaffer, would gain control of my US Patent 8,391,552 and the royalties it produced. She was my sole beneficiary. They sought the same thing sought by the Saudi Royal Family.
Click here to read more about the theft of my intellectual property
Click here to read about the hate crimes against me
Secretary of Energy Bochenek spent 25 years developing advanced weapons for the US Army. All I have is a pencil to defend myself with.
Click here or on the many headed Snake to see the names of the Snakes who’ve attacked me for the past ten years.
NEW: The Snakes have been under investigation since March 6, 2025
One hundred and forty-two days after the $20.8 billion fine,
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If you are having thoughts of ending your life, there is help available. Please call or text 988 or just
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My presentation for the 2024 Multiphase Flow Event in Morgantown, WV:
COMING SOON: About listening to the Director of Los Alamos Dr. Michael R. Anastasio propose to detonate a thermonuclear device 5000 ft deep in the Gulf of Mexico to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil leak FUN FACT: Robert Oppenheimer was the first Director of Los Alamos
More about my work with experts in the fields
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SOME GAVE ALL |
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN |
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FUN FACT:CRADA’s were the brainchild of a love affair between President George H.W. Bush and Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thacher |
Hall of Fame Lawyers and Pittsburgh’s Hall of Shame Lawyers
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FOUNDING THE 15TH DOE NATIONAL LABORATORY OF THE UNITED STATES I was a member of the Institutional Strategic Planning Team that created the 15th National Laboratory of the United States, the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. Click here or on the images below to see my name on the original charter for the DOE NETL, and a letter from Senator Robert C. Byrd (Senate Majority Leader, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Pro Tempore) to a junior WV State Senator, Attorney Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr |
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SOME OF THE GREAT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES I WORKED WITH
MEDICAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF MY PATENT 8,391,552
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FUN FACT: Ken was an engineer on the team at Aerojet Rocketdyne that developed the main engine for the Saturn V rocket that sent the first three astronauts to the moon. |
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On April 7, 2019, I tried to end my life to escape The Attacks by the Snakes in retaliation for causing BP to be fined $20.8 billion and in the theft of my intellectual property. I was in the ICU and hospital for five days.
After the Snakes forced me to flee from the NETL to protect my life, they stole from me, under color of law, almost everything I earned in 32 years of federal service for our country, I was homeless for several years. I struggle everyday with the PTSD they caused. Suicidal ideations are always just a moment away. |
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If you are having thoughts of ending your life,
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COMING SOON:
My tips for safely surviving when you are homeless.
Famous people who've been homeless: Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey,
Halle Berry, Sylvester Stallone, and Oprah Winfrey
FDShaffer@Gmail.com 412-320-0510