MS in Disaster Medicine & Management: DomPrep Webinar: Resilience

Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond!

On 12 September 2011, DomesticPreparedness.com hosted an Executive Briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. DomPrep40 Advisors Kay Goss, Senior Associate for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Albert Romano, Senior Vice President of Homeland Security at Michael Baker Jr. Inc., led the discussion on Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond! The agenda for this important meeting was focused on a common definition of the term "resilience" among the various disciplines involved in disaster preparedness and evaluating resilience efforts and progress in the past 10 years, with nine presentations along with question and answer sessions. Attendance for this by-invitation-only event included representatives from various government agencies as well as other private and public officials.

Discussions and presentations were made on the gaps uncovered in the survey followed by questions and comments from the audience. Download the full report, Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond!

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Presenters

James Schwartz, Chief

James Schwartz, Chief, Arlington County Fire Department

James Schwartz has been with Arlington County Fire Department for 27 years and was appointed Chief in 2004, after serving as Chief of Operations and Director of Emergency Management. His Department was the lead agency for the response to the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, where he led the Unified Command for the incident. He chairs the International Association of Fire Chiefs Committee on Terrorism and Homeland Security and serves on the Advisory Council for the Interagency Threat Assessment Coordinating Group at the National Counter Terrorism Center. In 2009, he was appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security to the Homeland Security Quadrennial Review Advisory Committee.

Paula Scalingi, Ph.D.

Paula L. Scalingi, Ph.D, Executive Director, Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President, The Scalingi Group

Paula L. Scalingi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President of The Scalingi Group. She also serves as Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience, Pacific Northwest Economic Region and is on the Board of The Infrastructure Security Partnership and principal integrator of TISP's 2011 Regional Disaster Resilience Guide. For the past decade, she has worked with organizations across the nation to improve resilience and infrastructure security. Previous positions include: Director, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection; Director, Decision and Information Sciences Division and Infrastructure Assurance Center, Argonne National Laboratory; and Senior Strategic Affairs Advisor and Director of Public Information, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Joe Manous, Ph.D.

Joe Manous, Group Manager & Future Directions Team Leader, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

Joe D. Manous, Jr., P.E., Ph.D., D.WRE, is a Group Manager and Future Directions Team Leader for the Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also serves on a part-time detail to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. As a civil/environmental engineer, his areas of focus are water resources and water security. Before assuming his current position, he was an Academy Professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and his past extracurricular activities include Chair, Committee on Professional Practice, Chair, Post-Hurricane Katrina Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Force, and Chair, Paraprofessional Task Committee for the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Brian Kamoie

Brian Kamoie, Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, National Security Staff, The White House

Brian Kamoie is Senior Director for Preparedness Policy on the White House National Security Staff. In this role, he leads the development of national policy related to all-hazards preparedness, individual and community resilience, domestic critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and preparedness grants. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Director of the Office of Policy, Strategic Planning & Communications at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he led the development and implementation of key national policies, including the National Response Plan and National Incident Management System, the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, and a number of Homeland Security Presidential Directives.

Joseph Barbera

Joseph A. Barbera, M.D., Co-Director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University

Joseph A. Barbera, M.D., is Co-Director of the George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM), Associate Professor of Engineering Management, and Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Through ICDRM, he has accomplished extensive research in emergency management, including an analysis of the Pentagon 9-11 response. Previously, he was Medical Director, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and Chair, The George Washington University Hospital Emergency Preparedness Committee. He has provided consultation to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Department of Health and Human Services, in the development of medical surge guidance, incident management, and mass casualty response initiatives.

Christine Springer, Ph.D.

Christine G. Springer, Ph.D., Director, Executive Master of Science in Crisis & Emergency Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Christine Gibbs Springer was appointed, in 2006, Director of the Executive Masters Degree in Emergency and Crisis Management at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and oversees the restructuring of the academic program – the only full executive masters in the country on this subject. She is involved in research on regional infrastructure resilience in Nevada, serves on the Nevada Citizen Corps Board of Directors, and serves on the Congressional Panel developing performance metrics for the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA) grants. Last year, she served on a Congressional Panel to evaluate FEMA post-Katrina. Before her current position, she was Director of Intergovernmental and Community Relations for the third largest public utility in the country (Salt River Project in Arizona).

Douglas Kinney

Douglas Kinney, Reserve Officer, Emergency Plans, Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State

Douglas Kinney, Reserve Officer, Emergency Plans, Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State, serves as an Emergency Plans officer for the whole risk spectrum, currently focusing on Personnel Recovery/Hostagetaking. He consults on the future of Crisis Management. Previously, he was a Program Manager with Innovative Technology Application (ITA); chaired the Interagency Group on NATO Civil Emergency Planning; and served as a Foreign Service Officer of the United States. He volunteers with Disaster Services of the Red Cross; Friendship Fire Association Rehab Squad of District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services; and Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group.