Lessons Learned in Disaster Management - Haiti Earthquake - IAEM CEM Live Webcast Series
January 27, 2011 - 1pm to 5pm EST
In the first of a monthly 4-hour live webcast series presented by IAEM and the Knowledge Foundation, webcast participants will have the opportunity to learn valuable disaster management lessons drawn from last year's earthquake in Haiti while also earning 4 CEM credit hours.
At 1:00pm on January 27, Dee Grimm, National Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for BCFS, will present on how the human element affects decision making in a crisis environment. The earthquake that rocked Haiti held worldwide attention. In this presentation, BCFS, an international response agency, will share their experience as they led an incident management team to support a hospital outside of Port Au Prince. Their teams spent over a month helping to manage the hospital and provide medical and administrative services to the beleaguered facility. Dee will share lessons learned and not learned, related to responding to an international disaster in one of the poorest counties in the world. The human element of this event affected so many aspects of the medical response - all factors that will be discussed. The earthquake's effect on the Haiti's children will be examined, as well, when the organization responded to an orphanage whose numbers had swelled beyond capacity. This presentation examines how people are affected by a megacatastrophe and how that changes the way we make decisions in these events.
Live Webcast Agenda - All times are EST
Thursday, January 27, 2010
12:30 Registration & Log In
1:00 How the Human Element Affects Decision Making in a Crisis Environment - Lessons from Haiti
Dee Grimm, RN, JD, National Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Western Region, BCFS
2:00 Earthquakes: The Basics, The Threat and The Impact
Randy Kearns, Researcher/State Burn Disaster Coordinator, University of North Carolina
3:00 The Haiti Earthquake and the Open Source Technology Community: A Case Study of a New Model for Collaboration by Traditional and Non-Traditional Emergency Management Organizations
Mark Prutsalis, President & CEO, Sahana Software Foundation
4:00 Haiti and Use of Augmented Response Technologies in Emergency Management
Maurice Ramirez, Founder/CEO, High Alert International
5:00 End of Live Webcast
For only $179 ($149 for IAEM Members) live webcast participants will be able to:
- Earn 4.0 CEM credit hours towards conference attendance or training requirements
- View conference video
- Listen to conference audio
- View speaker's PowerPoint presentations
- Receive a PDF download of speaker slides
- Submit questions to the presenter
* Only want to watch some of the presentations live? Live webcast participants also receive free complete On-Demand access to the recorded webcasts.
* On-Demand only webcast access for $149 ($119 for IAEM Members).
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