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Yale New Haven International Congress on Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management

Omni New Haven Hotel
New Haven, Connecticut
September 12-13, 2005

Congress speakers

Name Title and affiliation Topic
Richard Aghababian, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mass. Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, MA		 Role of DMATs in health emergency management
Jeffrey Arnold, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
New Haven, CT		 Evidence-based emergency management
Glen Asaeda, MD Deputy Medical Director Fire Department of New York - Office of Medical Affairs
Brooklyn, NY		 2001 World Trade Center attack
Yasufumi Asai, MD Sapporo Medical University, Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine
Sapporo, Japan		 International medical response to 3 tsunamis
James Augustine, MD Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA		 Role of ASTM in health emergencies
Francois Baud, MD Director, Professor, Toxicological and Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Lariboisière of Paris
Paris, France		 Cyanide poisoning and structural fire
Marvin Birnbaum, MD Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine; Professor of Medicine and Physiology University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 		Closing ceremony: Research imperatives in disaster medicine and emergency management

Panel discussion on hot topics in emergency management
David Bradt, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Royal Melbourne Hospital
Victoria, Australia		 Rapid assessment in health emergencies
Robyn Brown, CAPT U.S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coordinating Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response
Division of State and Local Readiness		 Role of the CDC in health emergencies
Frederick Burkle, MD Director, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Asia-Pacific Center for Biosecurity, Disaster & Conflict Research; Professor, Dept. of Public Health Sciences & Epidemiology
Kailua, HI 		Keynote: Mass illness triage management in large-scale biological emergencies

Panel discussion on hot topics in emergency management
Christopher Cannon, FACHE Director, Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
New Haven, CT 		Surge capacity approaches in hospitals
Joseph Cappiello Vice President for Accreditation Field Operations, JCAHO Oakbrook
Terrace, IL 		Health care and community issues in emergency management
Paul K. Carlton, MD Director of Integrative Homeland Security, Texas A&M University System, Health Science Center
College Station, TX 		Keynote: topic TBD
Lou Coccodrilli, MPH Branch Chief, Area Health Education Centers
Division of State Community and Public Health Bureau of Health Professions
Health Resources and Services Administration		 Role of HRSA in health care emergency preparedness
David Cone, MD Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 		Role of EMS in health emergency management
Sandra Santa Cosgrove U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness
Washington, DC 		TOPOFF national exercise program
Arthur Cooper, MD Professor of Surgery; Director of Trauma & Pediatric Surgical Services, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Harlem Hospital Center
New York, NY 		Medical care of children in disasters
Claude de Ville de Goyet, MD Chevy Chase, MD Common misconceptions about disaster medicine
Herman Delooz, MD Professor of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Free University Brussels
Brussels, Belgium 		European Masters in Disaster Medicine Program
Louise Dembry, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine; Hospital Epidemiologist and Director, Hospital Epidemiology Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT 		Hospital preparedness for biological emergencies
Philip Fidler, MD Director of the Panettieri Burn Center, Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport, CT 		Role of burn centers in health emergency management
Joxel Garcia, MD Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Washington, DC 		Global vision of emergency preparedness: Closing ceremony
Robert Gougelet, MD Director, New England Center for Emergency Preparedness
Lebanon, NH 		The community response: Resources for the local medical system
Gregg Greenough, MD Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine; Deputy Director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD		 Complex humanitarian emergencies
Pinhas Halperin, MD Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel 		ED management of terrorist bombings Healthcare system planning and preparedness for mega-terrorism in Israel
James Hodge, JD Associate Professor; Executive Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD 		Legal considerations in disasters
Tim Hodgetts, MD Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine and Trauma, University of Birmingham Medical School; Defense Consultant Advisor, Royal Centre for Defense Medicine
Birmingham, England 		The London bombings, 2005

Major Incident Medical Management Support (MIMMS)

The 2004 South Asian tsunami

Panel discussion on hot topics in emergency management
James Holliman, MD Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine; Director of the Center for International Emergency Medicine, PA State University School of Medicine and Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA 		Crush injury and crush syndrome
Lenworth Jacobs, MD Director, Department of Emergency Medicine/Trauma Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT 		Role of trauma centers in health emergency management
James James, MD Director, Center for Preparedness and Emergency Response, American Medical Association
Chicago, IL 		National Disaster Life Support
Scott Lillibridge, MD Director, Center for Biosecurity and Disease Preparedness, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX 		Keynote: topic TBD
Mike Magee, MD Director of Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, Pfizer, Inc.; Senior Fellow in the Humanities to the World Medical Association
New York, NY 		Fear management in emergencies symposium
Eric Noji, MD Senior Medical Policy Advisor, CDC, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Washington Office
Washington, DC 		Public health consequences of disasters
Jean Luc Poncelet, MD Area Manager, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, Pan American Health Organization
Washington, DC 		Disaster myths that will not die

Panel discussion on hot topics in emergency management
Asghar Rastegar, MD Professor of Medicine, Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 		2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake
Irwin Redlener, MD Associate Dean and Director of the National Center on Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University, School of Public Health; Co-founder of the Children's Health Fund
New York, NY 		Children and disaster preparedness planning: What we need to know
Ulkumen Rodoplu, MD Vice President, European Society of Emergency Medicine; MD Chairman, Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey
Pasaport Izmir, Turkey 		2003 Istanbul bombings
David Schonfeld, MD Thelma and Jack Rubinstein Chair and Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH 		Hospital preparedness for mental health needs
Roslyne Schulman, MHA Senior Associate Director, Policy Development, American Hospital Association
Washington, DC 		Role of American Hospital Association in emergency preparedness
Knut Sundnes, MD Past President, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anasthesia Baerum Hospital
Norway 		The Utstein template and health emergency management
Stanley B. Supinski, PhD Homeland Security/Education Consultant
Formerly: Director, Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium NORTHCOM		 Education and training for homeland defense
Ming-Che Tsai, MD National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Tainan, Taiwan 		Hospital Emergency Incident Command System and SARS

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Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
1 Church Street, 5th Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Telephone: (203) 688-3224
Fax: (203) 688-4618
E-mail: center@ynhh.org