Spanish Language Researcher Wanted

ITTR is looking for Spanish language researchrs for an online research project. Interested candidates please send your resume to arichman@itrrintel.org.

IAEM Healthcare

Last November the IAEM-USA Board approved the proposal for a Hospitals and Healthcare Caucus, similar to the Universities and Colleges Caucus. The purpose of the IAEM Healthcare Caucus is to promote issues specific to Emergency Management as it relates to hospitals and healthcare. We have established a Google Group called IAEM Healthcare. We have completed a salary survey through the Google Group. We will also be working on developing Core Competencies for Healthcare Emergency Management. The Group has seen very lively conversation recently on the use of hospital codes!

Jennifer Lord, current DMM student has been named the Region 1 Representative and Robert "Buzz" Buzzerd, a recent DMM graduate has been named the Region 2 Representative.

We invite you to join our Google Group and to become involved in Emergency Management for Healthcare!

We will be holding a semi-annual meeting National Conference (including a conference call bridge) on Sunday November 1, time to be announced via the Google Group. We look forward to you joining us to further the interests of emergency management in healthcare!

Secretary of Homeland Security wants to hear from YOU!

- ATTENTION SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS -

DHS has launched the National Dialogue on the QHSR and we wanted to ensure that we hear from you. Join the Dialogue NOW!

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to hear from you and your members during the second National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). As a member of the academic community, you have a unique view of government, both as an insightful analytic researcher and as an outside observer. The QHSR is a congressionally mandated, top-to-bottom review of homeland security that will guide and inform the nation's homeland security policies for the next four years. The QHSR has the potential to shape the broader homeland security missions of the nation and thus will have a great impact on your future research and publications.

Beginning Monday, August 31st through Sunday, September 6th, you have the opportunity to engage in an interactive online dialogue on homeland security. You can prioritize and comment on the proposed objectives and discuss what must be done to achieve them in the following areas: Borders, Counterterrorism, Disasters, Immigration, Planning, and Risk. Attached is a fact sheet providing more information on the National Dialogue on the QHSR; an additional source of information is www.dhs.gov/QHSR.

Strong participation from the academic community will add great value to this effort. Here's how you can get involved:

1. Participate from August 31 until September 6! The second National Dialogue is now live until Sunday, September 6. Join the conversation at http://www.homelandsecuritydialogue.org/.
2. Spread the word! Forward this announcement to your professional contacts and to those with an interest in the homeland security field at large. Also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Govloop!

Thanks again for all your help and support. If you or any of your members have any questions with the QHSR and/or National Dialogue on the QHSR, please feel free to direct them to me or qhsr@dhs.gov.

PhilaU Connect - September 8, 2009

PhilaU Connect: Professional International Presentations

Will be presenting

“Medically Clearing Local Nationals in Iraq"

September 8, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time)

The PhilaU Connect Professional International Presentations is proud to present Evan Feurer, NREMTP, currently operating out of Iraq. Evan has enjoyed close to 20 years career in emergency services, disaster preparedness, operational and tactical medicine. Evan has participated in all facets of emergency medicine from the operations level to planning, from hands on to the academic. Evan has spent 15 years as an active paramedic working in traditional and tactical EMS. He has been a program manager of a university based disaster medicine research and training center where he was published in peer review journals and has worked for the US Army in training and curriculum development for disaster and medical response and civilian interface. Evan has also functioned as a course coordinator for a university based EMS training center where he implemented curriculum using the cutting edge of real world simulation training. Evan has written and implemented training programs from small municipal tabletops to multijurisdictional/multi-agency full scale exercises. In order to keep current and on the cutting edge of operational and tactical medicine, Evan has been traveling and training around the globe and currently deployed in Iraq functioning as a remote site paramedic officer.

The presentation will identify the risk factors of working with locals in a war zone and how those factors are mitigated. How we decide what to test for and how we do the testing in an austere environment.

Instructions outlining how to join the PhilaU Connect will be sent via email prior to the event.

Each PhilaU Connect presentation will include a certificate of attendance emailed to the attendee. Questions or to register, please contact Annette Solarski at solarskia@philau.edu.

Anderson 360 Tonight: Higher Ed H1N1 (Featuring IAEM Map)

Tonight CNN's Anderson 360 show will feature H1N1 on Higher Education Campuses. The program will feature the IAEM-UCC / ED-OSDFS Higher Education H1N1 Google Tracking Map. The current version of the map is viewable at http://tinyurl.com/HigherEDH1N1Map.

Version 3.0 of the map is in production and will debut tomorrow, September 1, 2009. Changes include:

· Monthly Maps

· Shift from numbers of cases to severity of cases

· Increased tracking of consequences and protective actions

Additional information on the new map will be released tomorrow.

We hope you are able to view tonight's program on CNN.

Upcoming events

Reserve on your calendars:
1. 23October2009 - The DMM program was invited by the Port Authority for an on site visit and tour regarding the activities and concerns from a safety and security perspective at the LaGuardia International Airport.

Drafting evacuation plan for hospital

Jennifer Lord, current DMM student is drafting an evacuation plan for the hospital she is working for. As a part of the plan we have identified several new HICS positions that would be necessary to the evacuation process: Patient Transfer Team, Evacuation Confirmation Team,Patient Loading Officer and Patient Medical Records. These positions don't currently exist within the HICS structure. Our understanding is that HICS can be fluid enough that positions can be created and Job Action Sheets (JAS) drafted that address a need. Given that, we should be able to draft JAS's for these four positions. The HICS positions that currently exist are relative to receiving patients and treating patients that will be cared for within the facility. These positions don't translate all that well to the actions required for the safe and orderly movement of patients out from the facility to other facilities.

If anyone has any suggestions for either drafting new HICS position JAS's or finding the NIMS EMS job aides, please contact Jennifer at jennifer.lord@norwalkhealth.org.