Sponsors

 

Partnering Sponsor
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.
   
Corporate Sponsors
Disaster Response Solutions
   
With a balanced view of strategy, people, operations, facilities, and technology, the EMERG team works with companies to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement practical business strategies to meet those needs.
Clients benefit from our tradition of transferring knowledge throughout each engagement. They also value our responsiveness, flexibility and sincere desire to help them meet, and often exceed their goals.
   
EMSystem provides comprehensive web-based healthcare information management solutions that optimize real-time communications, inventory resource allocation, volunteer registry management, and patient and evacuee tracking to enhance emergency preparedness and response to medical emergencies, mass casualty events, and public health incidents for the past 10 years.
   

FSI Fire Safety International, Inc.® is a full line supplier of Portable, Mobil, and Fixed Hazmat Decontamination Showers, Shelters, Isolation Systems, and Accessories along with Disposable Back Board System, Portable Field Hospital Cots and Mortuary Supplies.

   
The Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition (HERC) Mission is "to develop and promote the healthcare emergency preparedness, response and recovery capability of Palm Beach County, Florida." The county-wide disaster response coalition was established in 2001 and is made up of seventeen (17) hospitals; key local and regional emergency management, fire-rescue, law enforcement, health department; and over 35 other local participating health and emergency partners.
   
IAEM represents 4,000+ emergency managers from all sectors and government levels involved in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from all types of disasters including acts of terrorism. See www.iaem.com for the Certified Emergency Manager® program; scholarship; a comprehensive monthly newsletter; the 2008 Annual Conference & Exhibit November 15-20 in Kansas City; and more.
   

U.S. Air Ambulance, an industry leader in worldwide fixed-wing medical transportation, now offers a Medical Facilities Evacuation Program. More than 500 hospitals are affiliated with the program, which is supported by over 300 ground and air ambulance companies to assist in a regional evacuation.

Call 800/633-5384 or email sharkola@usairambulance.com.

   
Organizational Sponsors
Martin, Blanck & Associates, Inc. (MB&A) was founded in 1988 by Dr. Edward Martin a retired Public Health Service Rear Admiral, and has grown to a comprehensive federal health consulting firm with 18 partners, with each partner averaging more than 25 years of experience. The MB&A Team combines skillful strategic planning, broad policy-making abilities and operational nuts and bolts management experience in DoD, VA, and HHS health systems to assist clients with their business development needs in the federal health arena.