Medical Aspects of Disaster Management
Managing the Consequences of Natural, Emerging and Asymmetrical Threats
The threat of pandemic disease, mass casualty events or terrorist use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high explosive (CBRNE) weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have created a complex operational environment across the spectrum of the National medical community — from first responders providing initial support to an affected population, all the way up to strategic-level planners formulating the response strategies for federal, state and regional planning teams.
Federal, state, local and private providers of medical services must now plan for their role in the consequence management mission, a mission where success will be heavily dependent on the ability of the medical community to create a seamless architecture of response and support across the operational continuum.
The Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Defense have taken a leadership role in the development of planning strategies to deal with a variety threats now facing our Nation, including those capable of producing catastrophic casualty events (CCEs).
Presented by leading experts, The Medical Aspects of Disaster Management Conference will bring together the leading experts in the field of medical planning and consequence management in order to help Federal, state, local and private stakeholders become better informed, and ultimately help shape their organization’s role in the medical consequence management mission.
Speakers will focus on the following areas:
• Supplies and equipment needs for pandemic disease response
• Information system needs for treated patient tracking, asset monitoring, response personnel certification and tracking, family relocation
• Medical Management of Pandemic Disease Response
• Medical Management of Mass Casualty Event
• Medical Management of Biological Casualties
• Medical Management of Chemical Casualties
• Medical Management of Radiological/Nuclear Casualties
What You Will Learn:
• How to plan for and manage CBRNE WMD events
• Concepts in CCE management
• Threat agent properties
• Application of best practices
• Strategies and tactics
• Federal agency plans, programs, new initiatives, and new business models for implementation
• New tools, techniques, and procedures
• Successes and Lessons-learned
• Innovative government and commercial approaches and applications
• New opportunities and management strategies - what is on the drawing boards?
• New rules, new policies
Who Should Attend:
• Federal, state, local and private healthcare, public health professionals
• Hospital and healthcare network administrators
• Healthcare Organization CEO’s & COO’s
• First responder management (EMT, paramedics, HAZMAT crews)
• Hospital-based medical management professionals (doctors, nurses, technicians) in the emergency and preventive medicine sectors who are concerned with their role in the medical CM mission
• Hospital administrators concerned with the ability to provide medical support in the managed care environment
• City, county, and state emergency management professionals tasked with developing the consequence management plans that bridge local and federal response
• Federal Partner Agencies involved with the N/FRP and Catastrophic Incident Response Plan (CIRP) (HSC, DHS/FEMA, DoD, HHS, VA, DoA, DoT, ARC, and others)
• Medical Logisticians, Medical IM/IT Professionals, etc.
• Companies with products, services and solutions designed to aid in US medical response to pandemic disease, mass casualty events and WMD
Visit www.homelanddefensejournal.com for more information.
Location Information
The conference will be held at the Sheraton National, 900 S. Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204, (703) 521-1900. The hotel offers complimentary shuttle service every half hour from the Pentagon City metro stop (on the blue line).
Please note there is a block of guest rooms being held at this hotel until March 7th for attendees offering a room rate of $180 plus tax. Please call (703) 521-1900 and be sure to mention you are attending the “Medical Aspects of Disaster Management Conference.”
To download a PDF of planned training conferences and workshops for 2006, http://www.marketaccess.org/images/2006MAIevents.pdf