September 9-10, 2008
Arlington, VA

Registration: 7:30 AM
Program Starts: 8:30 AM
Wrap-Up: 4:30 PM

Course materials, continental breakfast (coffee and pastries) and refreshments included.

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.

What You Will Learn:

• 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:

• Federal, DoD, City, County and State Emergency Planners
• Federal, state, local public health
• Federal, DoD, State & Local mass casualty response planners
• Hospital-based Disaster and Emergency Planners
• Hospital and Healthcare Administrators, CEO's and COO's
• Clinicians and First Responder Personnel
• Medical Professionals

Agenda/Speakers:

Day 1:

7:30-8:15am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15-8:30am	Welcome and Introduction
8:30–10:00am	Setting the Stage: “Welcome to the Era of Asymmetrical Threats”
10:00-1015am	Networking Break
10:15–11:45am	A History of Planning for Catastrophic Casualty Events (CCEs)
11:45–1:00pm	Lunch
1:00–2:00pm	Understanding the Essentials for Medical Preparedness
2:00-3:00pm	The National Planning Scenarios
3:00–3:15pm	Networking Break
3:15–4:30pm	Aspects of Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning
4:30pm	Day 1 End

Day 2:

About Your 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. Peter served for 20 years as a Medical Plans, Operations, and Intelligence Officer in the United States Navy, retiring as the Director of Medical Contingency Operations for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His previous assignments include Chief of Medical Plans and Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Medical Plans and Intelligence for the US Pacific Command. Peter holds Master’s Degrees in Health Services Administration from Central Michigan University, and National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is a Doctoral Candidate in Complex Emergency and Disaster Management at the Tulane University School of Public Health (the first candidate in the first such program in the Nation). Peter is a member of the Inaugural Class of the National Preparedness Leadership Program at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Adjunct Faculty at the Tulane University School of Public Health; Visiting Faculty at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Health Services Administration; and Adjunct Faculty for the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies. Peter is credentialed as a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) in the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), and is a Fellow in the American College of Contingency Planners (ACCP), which he Co-Founded and served as its first President. He is the only non-Physician member of the Board of Directors for the American Board of Disaster Medicine (ABODM). Peter has published numerous book chapters, monologues and articles on medical planning, consequence management, and the role of health service support in complex emergencies and disasters. He is a frequent speaker at national- and international-level conferences and symposia addressing catastrophic casualty events and the threats of terrorism, describing strategic initiatives for the medical aspects of incident management.

Stewart Smith is Vice President for Logistics Support Incorporated’s (LSInc’s) Emergency Preparedness and Response Division where he’s responsible for strategic planning and business development. LSInc’s customized all-hazards expertise emphasizes collaborative partnerships and coordinated programs with the federal, regional, state, local, and international markets. A retired Navy Commander, Medical Service Corps Officer, his previous military work history spans over 25 years of progressive assignments that includes Chief of the Joint Regional Medical Plans and Operations Division for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Northern Command (NORAD-USNORTHCOM), Surgeons Directorate; Director of International Health Operations Policy, Homeland Defense, and Contingency Planning Policy for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Branch Chief for the Joint Staff, Health Services Support Division; and Branch Head for the Deployable Medical Systems, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Medical Plans and Policy (OPNAV-N931). Stewart holds graduate degrees in Public Health Management and Policy from the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology; and the Naval War College in National Security and Strategic Studies. He is a Doctoral Candidate in Complex Emergencies and Disaster Management at Tulane University, and holds Adjunct faculty appointments Tulane University, and the Uniform Services University for the Health Sciences. He is the co-founder of and current President to the American College of Contingency Planners (ACCP). His particular areas of interest and expertise include strategic medical planning; domestic consequence management operations, the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), and the National Response Plan (NRP) with a focus on complex emergencies and calamitous events (including medical operations in the WMD/asymmetrical environment); and finally, international Weapons of Mass Destruction medical countermeasures policy. Stewart was selected as the first American to chair the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) Biomedical Defense Advisory Committee (BIOMEDAC); holding that appointment from 2003-2005 while assigned to the Secretary of Defense and USNORTHCOM staffs.

Sponsors:

Organizational Sponsors:
	LSInc is Veteran/Employee-Owned Company headquartered in Washington, D.C. with over a dozen field locations worldwide. LSInc offers expertise in a broad range of logistics and other functional areas within specific core capabilities. Unexpected Should Never Mean Unprepared. Accordingly, we work closely with our clients to help them develop customized emergency preparedness and response programs that ensure readiness for potential incidents or threats from all hazards. www.logsup.com
	Medical Planning Resources, Inc. provides consultative services for medically managing the threats associated with complex emergencies, natural and man-made disasters and asymmetrical events. Medical Planning Resources is dedicated to the mission of providing expert medical advice to help Prepare, Respond, and Recover from Complex Emergencies, Disasters, and Asymmetrical Threats…Worldwide.
Media Sponsors:
	Homeland Defense Journal is the first and most trusted independent monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to covering issues of critical importance to U.S. homeland security and defense. Each month, the industry’s leading journalists and experts provide in-depth coverage and analysis of programs, projects, new initiatives, government funding and innovative products that help keep America safe, strong and secure.

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