Homeland Defense Training Conference®:

Medical Aspects of Disaster Management:

Managing the Consequences of Natural, Emerging
and Asymmetrical Threats

March 29-30, 2006
Sheraton National, Arlington, VA

“This was an excellent comprehensive conference that will inevitably assist me in my planning efforts. I strongly encourage emergency medical planners (especially from hospitals) to attend this conference in the future.”
- Garrett Havican, Regional Planning Coordinator for Hartford Hospital, Connecticut Center of Excellence for Bioterrorism Preparedness


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

• 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
• Medical Management of Water Contamination Events
• And more!
  
  

What You Will Learn:

What last year's attendees said about this conference

“Reminded me of my college and medical school lectures! Make this a regular.”
Michael Boyek, Staff Physician, Department of Veteran Affairs

“Thanks! WOW! Now I understand and can explain my leadership style!”
Mark Silveira, Program Manager, St. Francis University Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under Surveillance

“Great job on the agenda, topics and speakers. Overall the conference was very educational and helpful. Networking is great.”
Angie Hamilton, BT-EP Coordinator, Indiana Rural Health Association

“This was wonderful! The networking opportunities abound! I made many surprising introductions. Would eagerly attend again.”
SMS gt. Tyrelle Rogers (USAF), Medical Planner, JTFCS, Ft. Monroe, VA

“Very timely- provides the incentives to return to my community and plan further.”
Evelyn Elliot, Director of Pharmacy, Kern Medical Center

“Truly Superb Speakers! Excellent Conference. Extremely glad I attended! I feel like I met the cutting-edge thinkers and do-ers for Emergency Preparedness.”
David Pytlewski, MD; Deputy Health Officer, Worcester County (Maryland) Health Department

“Excellent compilation of topics and speakers.”
Catherine Angotti- Deputy, Chief Health and Medical Officer, NASA-HQ

“Thank you for the opportunity to continue growth within Disaster Management Arena.”
Richard Carroll, Joint Staff Intern, US Navy

Early Registrants Include:

• Alachua Co., FL Health Department, Administrator
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Director, Public Health & Quality
• Ann Arundel Medical Center, ER Physician
• Aquia Harbour Rescue Squad
• Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Colonel, U.S.A.F., MC
• Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), Director
• Arnot Ogden Medical Center, Executive Medical Director
• Becton, Dickinson & Company, Manager, WW Public Relations
• Becton, Dickinson & Company, Research Scientist and Group Leader
• Calvert Memorial Hospital, Vice President of Patient Care Services/CNE
• Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital, RN Emergency Department Manager
• Clackamas Co., Oregon Fire District #1, EMS Officer
• Communication Technologies, Inc., Life Sciences - Federal Programs Manager
• DefenseWeb Technologies, Inc., AF Sales Manager
• DefenseWeb Technologies, Inc., Army Business Development Manager
• Denver Health Medical Center, Associate Director of Emergency Medicine
• Department of Health & Human Services, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness
• Department of Health & Human Services/HRSA/Division of Transplantation, Public Health Analyst
• Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,
• East Metro Health District (Gwinnett Co., GA Health Dept., District Health Director
• East Texas Medical Center, CEO
• East Texas Medical Center, LVN, Bio-Terrorism Coordinator
• East Texas Medical Center, Medical Technologist, Laboratory Director
• Embassy of the Czech Republic, Defense Attache
• Emergent BioSolutions, Manager, DOM
• Emergent BioSolutions, Program Manager
• Emeritus Director and Special Consultant, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine,
• Emeritus Professor of Military Medicine
• Escambia Co., FL Health Department, Director
• Exmed UK Ltd.
• Fairfax County, VA Fire & Rescue, Deputy Chief, EMS
• FDA/Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Senior Health Pysicist
• Federal Reserve Board, Physician
• Federal Reserve Board, Supervisor of Health Services
• Humanetics Corporation, Research Director/Biologist
• Joint Task Force Civil Support, GS-12, Medical Planner
• Joint Task Force Civil Support, Medical Planner
• Lab Safety Supply, Senior Product Manager
• Laerdal, Manager
• Lockheed Martin, Business Development Manager
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Technical Staff Member
• Martin & Associates, Co-Founder & Chairman
• Martin & Associates, Senior Partner
• McKinney, TX Fire EMS, EMS Coordinator
• Mercy Hospital, Director of Emergency Room
• Mercy Hospital, Director of Radiology
• MME, Medical Consultant
• NASA Ames, Chief Nurse
• National Cancer Institute, Radiation Oncology Sciences Program
• National Mall and Memorial Parks, EMS Coordinator
• National Mass Fatalities Institute, Assistant Director
• National Mass Fatalities Institute, Training & Operations Manager
• National Pain Foundation, Program Director
• Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Director
• New Mexico VA Health Care System, Nursing Instructor
• New York State Health Department, Health Systems Emergency Preparedness for Non-Acute Coordinator
• NORAD & USNORTHCOM, Command Surgeon
• Northwestern Medical Center, Chief Technology Officer
• Northwestern Medical Center, Support Services Manager
• OHSU/CCFD1, Medical Director
• RAMSAFE Technologies, Vice President, Program & Product Management
• Raytheon, Program Manager - Global Health Resources
• Royal Norwegian Embassy, Medical Advisor
• Safety Priority, President
• SAIC, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Task Leader, Biowarfare Proliferation Prevention
• Salina Regional Health Center, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
• Salt Lake Valley Health Department, NP/Division Director FHS
• San Antonio Military Pediatric Center, Chairman
• San Mateo County, California, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Preparedness Specialist
• San Mateo County, California, Emergency Medical Services,
• Scottsdale Healthcare, Emergency Preparedness Supervisor
• Seattle/King Co. Public Health, Hospital Emergency Preparendess Administrator
• Southeast Regional Medical Command (SERMC), Chief of Plans
• Southeast Regional Medical Command (SERMC), Director of Operations and Readiness
• St. Johns County, FL, Doctor
• St. Mary's County, MD Health Dept., Deputy Health Officer
• State of Nevada Division of Insurance, Actuary I
• Swedish Issaquah ED, RN, BSN
• The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC), Senior Preventive Medical Consultant
• The Wornick Company, Director of Business Development, Government
• The Wornick Company, Director of New Sales Initiatives
• Triosyn Corporation, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing
• U.S. Air Force, Colonel
• U.S. Army, Currents Ops
• U.S. Army, Major
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Scientific Advisor
• U.S. Coast Guard, Health Services Technician Chief
• VersaMed, Inc., Marketing Manager
• VersaMed, Inc., Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
• Washington Post
• Welch Allyn, Inc., Government Corporate Accounts Manager
• Widmeyer Communications, Vice President & Group Director (Formerly with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
• Worldwide Assistance, Medical Team Manager
  

Executive Steering Committee

The Executive Steering Committee develops the overall training conference strategy, provides guidance on key topics and speakers and provides overall advice with respect to the content and its application in a management/decision-making environment.  The Executive Steering Committee for this conference includes:

• Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin & Associates
• Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Executive Medical Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Arnot Ogden Medical Center - Elmira, NY

Other members will be announced soon.

7:30am-8:30am	Registration and Continental Breakfast, hosted by Homeland Defense Journal
8:30am-8:35am	Welcome and Introduction - Laura Johnson, Vice President, Homeland Defense Journal
8:35am-8:45am	Opening Remarks  by  Edward D. Martin, MD, Co-founder and Chairman, Martin & Associates, Inc.
8:45am-9:30am	Keynote Presentation - Dr. Gerald Parker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services, “OPHEP's Initiatives on Bioterrorism and Public Health Emergencies, Including Pandemic Influenza Preparedness"
9:30am-10:00am	General Session - Stephen V. Cantrill, MD, Associate Director of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, “Surge Capacity in the Medical Environment”
10:00am-10:15am	Networking Break
10:15am-10:45am	General Session - Dennis McGowan, Assistant Director, National Mass Fatalities Institute and VP, SAC International, “Preparing for Fatalities Management Challenges”
10:45am-11:15am	General Session - John A. Mikszta, Ph.D., Group Leader, Advanced Vaccine Delivery, BD Technologies, “Advanced Vaccine Delivery Platforms for Biodefense Immunization”
11:15am-11:35am	General Session - Paul Dupont, Director of New Sales Initiatives – Prepared Foods Division, The Wornick Company, "Planning an Emergency Preparedness Employee Sustenance Facilitation Guide for Operational Continuity"
11:35am-12:30pm	Networking Lunch - hosted by Homeland Defense Journal
12:30pm-2:45pm	Panel - Medical Management of Biological Casualties Moderated by: Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin & Associates, "Introduction to the Threat of Bioterrorism"
	Panelists Include: Dr. Robert Darling, MC, USN, Director, Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, "Medical Management of Key Biological Threat Agents - Anthrax, Smallpox, Botulinum toxins, and Plague"
	COL Ted Cieslak MD, Chairman, San Antonio Military Pediatric Center & Biodefense Consultant, Office of the Army Surgeon General
	Dr. Randy Culpepper, MC (FS), USN, Senior Preventive Medicine Consultant, The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC), Defense Intelligence Agency, "Bioterrorism - Putting it All Together - Case Presentations and Discussion"
2:45pm-3:00pm	Networking Break
3:00pm-4:30pm	Panel - Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Moderated by: Craig H. Llewellyn, MD, M.P.H., Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), Founding Director of the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian and Assistance Medicine (CDHAM)
	Guest Speaker: COL James M. Madsen, MC, Scientific Advisor, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD)
4:30pm	Adjourn Day One

Day Two

7:30am-8:15am	Continental Breakfast - hosted by Homeland Defense Journal
8:15am-10:00am
	Panel - Medical Management of Nuclear/Radiological Casualties Moderated by: Dr. David G. Jarrett, COL, MC, USA, Director, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI)
	Panelists Include: C. Norman Coleman, MD, Radiation Oncology Sciences Program, National Cancer Institute, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services
	William E. Dickerson, MD, Colonel, USAF, MC, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
10:00am-10:15am	Networking Break
10:15am-10:45am	General Session - John S. Parker, MD, Major General, USA (ret), Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Task Leader, Biowarfare Proliferation Prevention (SAIC), "The Role of the Private Sector in Medical Preparedness"
10:45am-11:15am	General Session - Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Executive Medical Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Arnot Ogden Medical Center - Elmira, NY, "Medical Preparedness for Water Terrorism and Water Contamination from Natural Disasters"
11:15am-11:45am	General Session - Dr. Tim Tinker, MPH, Vice President & Group Director, Widmeyer Communications, (Formerly with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), "Crisis Communications in the Medical Environment"
11:45am-12:15pm	Concluding Keynote Speaker - Colonel John A. Powell, Command Surgeon, North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), U.S. Army "The NORTHCOM Role in the Medical Reponse to Natural and Un-Natural Disasters"
12:15pm-12:30pm	Closing Comments and Adjourn

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Premier Sponsor

Martin & Associates, Inc. (M&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 M&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.

Corporate Sponsors

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. Organized by three segments: BD Biosciences, BD Diagnostics, and BD Medical, BD manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products.

EverSafe^TM Emergency Meal Kits builds on over 25 years of manufacturing excellence and proven solutions for feeding people in the most austere environments. EverSafe^TM is the first meal kit for the workplace. A proven credible solution in every type of emergency situation- EverSafe^TM is a delicious, shelf-stable, self-heating meal.

BlastGard International Inc. has been created to develop, design, manufacture and market proprietary blast mitigation materials. Patent pending BlastWrap technology has proven to effectively mitigate blasts and suppress flash fires regardless of the material or compound causing the explosion. This unique technology can be used to create new finished products or designed to retrofit existing products.

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.

For decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel the world's largest chip maker is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products. 

The iVent provides the ideal yet most cost effective disaster ventilatory solution. Regardless of what your ventilation needs are; invasive or noninvasive...or where the needs are; disaster sites, field hospitals or transport....In short, no other compact ICU grade ventilator can match the iVent’s list of standard features and versatility.

Reeves EMS has been manufacturing, selling and servicing emergency medical products in the U.S. for over 90 years.  Our products include Flexible Stretchers for patient movement and decontamination, quick erect decontamination shelters as well as custom gear bags.  Reeves EMS also offers a scalable Rapid Deployment Medical Facility (RDMF) that provides triage and intensive care capabilities in close proximity to the incident area.  Our products and services continue to meet and exceed the exacting standards of today’s Emergency Health Care Professional.

The LSS Public Safety Catalog delivers the professional quality gear and equipment all first responders need to remain safe and effective. The 500-page, full-color catalog features duty gear, body armor, uniforms, hazmat/disaster response equipment, first aid, traffic control and much more. Call 1-800-356-0783 to get a FREE copy or request one at www.LSS.com.

Founded in 1983, ACP is a non-profit trade association dedicated to fostering continued professional growth and development in effective contingency and business resumption planning. With 36 chapters and over 1,900 members, ACP is the largest networking and information exchange organization in North America for business continuity and disaster recovery professionals. ACP membership is open to anyone with an interest in or responsibility for the varied aspects of contingency planning.

Organizational Sponsors

Carroll Publishing provides the most comprehensive online Government Contacts Service available. Fully searchable, we cover over 700,000 listings at all levels Of Government. Business Development professionals and Government agencies alike rely on our product daily for accurate contact and program information. Delivery options include searchable on-line access, FTP Flat file delivery and print directories.

Telemus Solutions provides customized security consulting, advisory, research and training services to both public and private sector markets throughout the world. Our company headquarters is located in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., with branch offices in Boston and Miami. For more information on Telemus Solutions please call (703) 893-0550.

Founded in 1988, the Wireless Communications Association, International (WCA) is the principal non-profit trade association representing the wireless broadband industry. WCA membership, which includes the industry's leading carriers, vendors and consultants, has grown to over 530 member companies spanning six continents.

The WCA organizes the world's largest annual business conference and exhibition devoted exclusively to wireless broadband. This conference and exhibition annually convenes experts from around the world to discuss market strategies, emerging technologies, new applications and financing/regulatory options.

Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors

Homeland Defense Journal is proud to be able to present our fourth in a series of medical mass casualty planning training conferences. This message is intended to alert medical supply and services companies of the opportunities to present your product/service information to this executive audience. We will also be offering special packages of sponsorships, advertising and a Special Report that will be delivered to every state, county and municipal public health planning team. For more information contact Andrea Feinberg at 201-592-6477 or afeinberg@marketaccess.org.

Registration Fee

• Industry: $695 per person
• Small Business: $645 per person
• Government: $595 per person
  

Registration Options

Registrations are payable by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, check or government purchase order.

CANCELLATION POLICY: You may designate a substitute in writing any time before the conference. If you need to cancel your registration, you must send your notice in writing and will be subject to a $50 processing fee. No refunds are given for cancellations received one week prior to the event start date or later. PLEASE NOTE: No shows will be liable for the entire registration fee.

Contact Us

• For registration information, contact Pamela Greenstein, (703) 807-2758
• For government speaking and best practices presentation opportunities, contact Laura Johnson,
  (703) 894-1096
• For product and solutions companies interested in sponsorship information and related speaking opportunities, contact Andrea Feinberg, (201) 592-6477

Conference Location/Nearby Hotel Accommodations

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 the block of guest rooms being held at this hotel is now full and we recommend you try the hotel listed below for rooms. For additional assistance, please call Pamela Greenstein at (703) 807-2758.

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