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Fundamentals of Medical Mass Casualty Planning
A Two-Day Workshop in Support of Emergency Response in a Medical Environment

February 5-6, 2008

Room CC2 of NRECA’s Executive Conference Center (lobby)
4301 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22203

About This Workshop:

An uncertain world environment has forced national leaders to re-assess medical support requirements. Changes in global disease patterns, the frightening specter of terrorism and the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosive (CBRNE) weapons of mass destruction (WMD), natural disasters and complex emergency events have emphasized the central role to be played by the healthcare community in helping to mitigate the impact of these threats.

Fundamentals of Medical Planning Workshop will teach you aspects of crisis action medical planning to help your organization enhance its preparedness and risk management posture. This workshop will help you create, or improve, organic medical plans to improve your defenses against emergency events, whether they be from terrorism, the next series of catastrophic weather events, or large-scale industrial accidents.

You'll also receive hand-outs which will provide you with a take-home, strategic "guide" to help you with your organization's medical planning initiatives.

• How to assess threats to the health and safety of your organization and personnel
• The role and importance of medical intelligence
• Fundamentals of Medical Planning
• How to conduct deliberate and crisis-action planning evolutions
• How to train and exercise your medical plans
• Emerging threats in the asymmetrical environment
• Response and recovery operations

Who Should Attend:

• City, County and State Emergency Planners
• Hospital-based Disaster and Emergency Planners
• Hospital and Healthcare Administrators, CEO's and COO's
• Clinicians and First Responder Personnel
• Medical Professionals

Workshop Agenda/Speakers:

Day 1

Day 2

*Agenda is subject to change  

About the Speakers:

Pietro (Peter) Marghella (Program Chairman) is President & CEO of Medical Planning Resources, Inc. (MPR, Inc.), a private firm which specializes in medical and public health contingency planning and management solutions. He is a retired Naval Officer and has served variously as the Director of Medical Contingency Operations for the Office of the Secretary of Defense; Chief of Medical Plans and Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Chief of Medical Plans and Intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Command. He holds graduate degrees from Central Michigan University and The Naval War College, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Complex Emergency and Disaster Management at Tu*** University’s School of Public Health. He is a member of the inaugural class of the National Preparedness Leadership Program at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Peter holds academic appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Tu*** University; and the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies.

His planning credentials include authoring the CDC’s initial draft of the Pandemic Influenza Response Plan; the Nation’s first Catastrophic Incident Response Plan; and the National Smallpox Response Plan. He is Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) in the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM); the Co-founder and First President of the American College of Contingency Planners (ACCP); and a well-published author and a frequent speaker at national- and international-level conferences addressing medical preparedness for catastrophic emergencies and disasters.

Len Singer, MD FACS, has lectured extensively on preparedness for and response to disasters and complex emergencies for the pre-hospital, medical and healthcare communities. As a senior medical officer for an NDMS Disaster Medical Assistance Team, he had wide experience applying field medicine to the consequences of natural and complex disasters.

Dr. Singer is an instructor at the Noble Training Center (FEMA) for the Health Care Leadership course, the Hospital Emergency Response Team course and the Hospital Emergency Management course. He served on the editorial board for the Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support courses (BDLS/ADLS) and has authored innovative training courses for medical students and emergency medicine residents.

Dr. Singer is involved in a number of state and regional efforts including start-up planning, training and coordination of local Medical Reserve Corps and planning for a statewide effort to construct regional clinical response teams. He earned his B.S. degree in biology from Brooklyn College of CUNY and his M.D. from New York Medical College. His postgraduate training in surgery was at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital and Case Western Reserve University Hospital. He practiced surgery for 20 years and holds academic faculty appointments in surgery and emergency medicine.

Registration Fee:

Industry: $695 per person
Small Business (<100 employees): $645 per person
Government: $595 per person

Registration Options:

[1] Register on-line at www.governmenthorizons.org
[2] Phone at (703) 807-2758
[3] Mail the Registration Form provided below to:
Government Horizons
4301 Wilson Blvd. #1003, Arlington, VA 22203

*Government*Horizons has the right to refuse registration to any attendee at any time

Location and Hotel Information:

The workshop will be held in the NRECA Executive Conference Center (lobby area) in Room CC2 at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. Public parking at the facility is available for $9 a day. The NRECA Building is just one block from the Ballston Metro Station in the orange line. Please note: the parking garage and a side entrance to the building is on Taylor Street.

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