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2011 DMM Graduates

Class of 2011
Disaster Medicine and Management Program

Disaster Symposium

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 16^th 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.

 

 

 

Reminder: Live Chat at 12:15 Today on the Potomac Institute Website

 

POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES 901 North Stuart St., Suite 200, Arlington, Virginia 22203 (703) 525-0770 www.potomacinstitute.org

Reminder: Join Today's Live Interactive Web Chat With Dr. Don Donahue   On the Public Health Impacts Of  Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant  Today, April 12, 12:15 - 12:45 pm The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (www.potomacinstitute.org) cordially invites you to take part in a new feature now being offered on our website. Today from 12:15 - 12:45 pm, the Director of the Institute's Health Policy and Preparedness Program, Donald Donahue, DHEd, will take questions in a Live Chat forum on the Institute's website.  The topic will be public health effects of radiation released by Japan's damaged nuclear power plant.   Joining our Live Chat is simple. To join, just click on the Live Event Chat option in the Main Menu on our website. When the event is ready to launch, you will see a subheading entitled "Dr. Donahue on Radiation Risks."  This will be a text chat format, and you will be able to enter your name and your questions on the screen.  This is a moderated chat, so questions will be screened by our moderators as they are posted.  We hope to take as many questions as possible during our 30-minute time frame.         We hope you will enjoy this inaugural Live Chat, and we look forward to inviting you to future Chats. For more information on Dr. Donahue, please click here.

Save the date

 
SAVE THE DATE

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
First Annual
Emergency Management Conference

 

 

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Admission Free*

Located at:

 

Charlotte Seltzer Auditorium - Building 40 Ground Level

79-25 Winchester Blvd.

Queens Village

, New York 11427 

 

For more information, please contact Susan Marziliano at

(718) 264-3605or Susan.Marziliano@omh.ny.gov 


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Fwd: [EM] NJEPA Conference

Check out the upcoming New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Conference in Atlantic City May 2-6. This is a great and affordable training conference for OEM, Fire, Police, EMS, Public Health, Medics, Nurses and folks in the private sector. The conference features classes from FEMA, National Weather Service, FBI, Transit authority, trauma physicians and more. Go to www.njepa.org to view the conference schedule and register.

Fwd: Conference on Global Terrorism and International Crime

The instability of countries around the world can affect your business.  The interruption of supply chains can ripple through the economy.  Are you prepared for the threats you may be facing in the near future?

 

International Threats and Transnational Crime , the 28^th Conference on Global Terrorism, April 11 and 12, 2011 at the Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Virginia, provides an opportunity for you to meet the experts from the field and to discuss the risks developing in many parts of the world.  This high-level panel of presenters provides insights to global situations and leads you to practical measures for reducing your risks. 

 

Register today, and join your colleagues in Alexandria, Virginia, for this in-depth look at transnational crime. 

 

Please pass this information on to your colleagues.

 

 

 

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