Who is lieutenant colonel Nancy jaax?

A character in the book The Hot Zone.

She is a vetrinarian in the US Army, mother of two, wife, knows Martial Arts, auburn hair, green eyes, homecoming queen, has hands "too quick" to handle delicate work in dangerous situations, does all of the housework, doesn't have much time to cook, so she did this on Saturday's and reheated it during the week, hated blood, has a specialty in the effects of BiOSafety Level 4 hot agents, works with Eugene Johnson to study Ebola and Marburg as his pathologist, finds a leak in her spacesuit while dissecting an infected monkey but is not thought to have the disease, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, studied the effects of nerve gas on rats in Aberdeen, became chief of pathology at the Institute.