Westchester Medical Center continuing its leadership and outreach in Disaster Medicine and as part of EMS week will be holding an all day disaster symposium on Monday, May 16th from 8:30am-5:00pm to be held at Westchester Medical Center in the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital Conference Center. WMC is sponsoring the event and as such there will be no fee for the program but pre-registration is required.
Confirmed speakers include:
Eric R. Frykberg, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Surgery, Shands Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida USA
Dr. Frykberg was deployed with a surgical team that was on station in support of the US Marines during their tenure with the multinational peacekeeping force in Beirut Lebanon, at the time of the terrorist suicide truck bombing of the Marine Barracks there on October 23, 1983. His team took care of all initially rescued casualties that day aboard the USS Iwo Jima, until they were transported to US Air Force hospitals in Germany. He published this experience, as well as other studies of terrorist bombings, in several journals since then. He stayed in the U.S. Naval Reserve for 5 years, during which time he was deployed to Saudi Arabia with the 2nd Marine Division during the First Gulf War in 1991. Dr. Frykberg has published extensively on various issues related to the medical response to disasters, and has served as consultant to numerous national and international organizations on this subject. He served as the Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma's Disaster and Mass Casualty Management subcommittee 2002-2006.
Major Lundy
US Army, Staff Burn Surgeon, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Department of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States Army
Dr. Lundy is a surgeon trained in both burn and critical care. He is currently serving in the US ARMY Institute of Surgical research where his research focuses on the burn patient. Major Lundy has also served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and as Burn Flight Surgeon.
Sherlita Amler, MD, MS, FAAP
Commissioner of Health, Putnam County
Dr. Sherlita Amler is the Commissioner of Health for Putnam County, New York. She has experience in the epidemiology of blasts and blast injuries and served as a principal medical subject-matter expert in medical/ hospital preparedness, surge capacity, and consequence management for mass-casualty events for the Injury Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Amler has worked for ATSDR in the investigation of chemical fatalities and hospital preparedness for mass casualty chemical events. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. Dr. Amler is the author of many articles in the area of environmental exposures. She has presented national and internationally on the subjects of elemental mercury poisoning and chelation, surge capacity, asymmetric war and children, and blast injuries.
Katharine Uraneck, MD
Surge Capacity Medical Coordinator, New York City Department of Health
Dr. Uraneck has extensive experience in the planning and response to disasters, terrorism and pubic health emergencies. She has overseen the surge planning efforts in New York City and has headed several projects looking at pediatric and pediatric critical care surge capacity.
