Fundamentals of Medical Planning

A Two-Day Workshop in Support of Emergency Response in a Medical Environment

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February 15-16, 2007
Fort Lauderdale Marriott North
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Don't miss our Effective Healthcare Disaster Response - Building an Emergency Response Coalition and Learning Requirements & Protocols for Medical Preparedness Conference on February 13-14
 at the same location!

NOTE: On-line registrations for this workshop are now closed. Space is available for walk in registrants. To register the day of the workshop, please bring your payment and the attached registration form.

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

Early Registrants Include:

• Baptist Health South Florida, Corporate Coordinator for Emergency Preparedness
• Bon Secours Health System, Manager, Insurance
• Cerner Corporation, Director, CDC Project
• Cubic Defense Applications, Inc., Vice President
• Miami-Dade County Health Department, Hospital Liasion
• Nashville Area Indian Health Service, Area Statistician
• Veterans Health Administration, Network Pharmacoeconomist
• Veterans Health Administration, Program Specialist
• Zel Technologies

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 Tulane 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); Tulane 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.

Sponsors

Corporate Sponsors

To be announced