-October 27-28, 2008-

Altered Standards of Care & Surge Capacity Conference
Mass Casualty Management in Times of Crisis

About This Conference:

The Altered Standards of Care & Surge Capacity Conference will bring together an influential gathering of medical and public health leaders to teach preparedness planners at the Federal, State, regional, community, and health systems levels how to plan and support surge capacity in healthcare systems and develop altered standards of care to meet mass casualty needs during all-hazard and hazard-specific emergencies.

At this 1.5 day conference, best practices for preparedness will be highlighted for disasters, acts of terrorism, and pandemic diseases.

The conference will bring together an influential gathering of medical and public health leaders who will teach preparedness planners at the Federal, State, local and heath systems level how to plan and support situations of surge capacity and develop altered standards of care to meet mass casualty needs during all-hazard and hazard-specific emergencies. 

Featured speakers include:

• Jon R. Krohmer, MD, FACEP, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Acting Chief Medical Officer, United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Captain Allen Dobbs, Chief Medical Officer, National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), Department of Health and Human Services
• Sally Phillips, RN, PhD, Director, AHRQ’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness
• Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates
• Randy Culpepper, MD, MPH, Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates
• Stephen V. Cantrill, MD, Denver Health Medical Center
• Dan Hanfling, MD, FACEP, Director, Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine, Inova Health System (Fairfax, VA)
• Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, MPH, FACEP, Former State Chair for Surge Capacity, State of Massachusetts
• Peter T. Pons, MD, Associate Medical Director, Executive Committee for PreHospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
• John L. Hick, MD, Associate Medical Director, Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services
• Gregg A. Pane, MD, MPA, FACEP, Director, National Health Care Preparedness Programs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• Asha V. Devereaux, MD, MPH, FACP, FCCP, Pulmonary/CC/Internal Medicine, Sharp Coronado Hospital, Coronado, CA
• Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director of the EMS and Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship at the University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine
• Tareg A. Bey, MD, FACEP, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of International Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine
• Mary Russell, EdD, MSN, Senior Hospital Project Manager, Division of Emergency Medical Operations, Office of Public Health Preparedness, Florida Department of Health
• Mark E. Gebhart, MD, Director/Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University
• Steven D. Gravely, Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP

You will learn:

• What is being done at the state and local levels in planning for a mass casualty event
• How to assess the capacity of health care facilities and systems in your region, and how to best prepare to respond to a terrorist or other public health emergency
• Characteristics of medical surge capacity demand for disasters
• Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) surge capacity priorities, activities, and initiatives
• DHS recommendations on Medical Preparedness for Major Consequence Events
• How EMS operations are affected in times of crisis
• The funding opportunities available under the Hospital Preparedness Program
• Legal issues to consider during disasters
• A national viewpoint of alternate care facilities
• Approaches for regional cooperation for surge capacity and altered standards of care
• Role of academic medicine in surge capacity
• The 3S concept of Surge Capacity -- Staff, Stuff and Structure -- and global applications to a Crisis Standard of Care

To learn more about this conference, or to register, please visit the website at http://www.governmenthorizons.org/SurgeCapacityConference/index.html