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Introduction: by Yovette Mumford, Lawyer, Engineer,
and CEO of SafetyIssues, President of the Safety Medical
Supply International, Inc., medical equipment manufacturing
and distribution company. She was named Small Business Woman
of the Year in June 1994 and awarded the Ted Williams
Engineering Excellence Award in September 1995. |
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A Dose of Common Sense: Why Do We Need to Plan & Prepare
Speaker: Dr. Marc Siegel, columnist and author, is a
graduate of Brown University and SUNY-Buffalo School of
Medicine. Author of False Alarm: The Truth About the
Epidemic of Fear and Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know
About the Next Pandemic (False Alarm voted by Discover
Magazine as
Top 20 Science Books for 2005). |
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Control of Avian Influenza at the Grassroots
Level: Questions & Answers
Speaker: Dr. Julia Albright, professor at the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology at the George Washington
University School of Medicine. She is also the senior health
adviser for the International Relief and Development. She is
known around the world for her research on immunology and
other health issues. |
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The Bird Flu, in Your Own Words: Hard questions,
balanced answer
Speaker: Valerie Sellers, pandemic
researcher, is New Jersey Hospital Association's Senior Vice
President for Health Planning and Research, overseeing activities related to Certificate of
Need, Managed Care, HIPAA, Continuing Care, Community
Benefit, Emergency Preparedness and other policy and
regulatory issues that affect hospitals. She is also
responsible for
research activities related to NJHA's Health Research and
Educational Trust.
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School Pandemic Planning
Speaker: Thomas Palermo, Plant Director, Chapin School, NYC.
He has gained a reputation as one of the top in his field
for school safety and security. Mr. Palermo is an IFMA
member, on their Academic Affairs Council, and a member of
the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and the
National Center for Crisis Management cross-trained in
managing school based crisis. |
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'Anticipating Social Issues: The heart of
problem-solving'
and
'The Big Picture Tabletop Exercise: Classroom,
home front, community'
Speaker: Howard Steinberg
is President of the New Jersey Association of County Health
Officers and an active member of the advisory boards of
Health Emergency Planning Advisory Committee, Morristown
Memorial Hospital, and Community Health. He started
bioterrorism planning in the county in 1999. |
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We Have Ways to Make You Talk: Crisis
Communication Strategies
for Scary Times and Pre Pandemic Planning
Tabletop Exercise
Speaker: Jody Lanard, a
psychiatrist, risk communication consultant from Princeton,
New Jersey, and writer specializing in public health crisis
communication planning for disease outbreaks-natural and
intentional. She has given numerous speeches on outbreak,
crisis, and bioterrorism risk communication for such groups
as the National Academies of Science/Institute of Medicine,
the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and U.S.
CDC. |
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Lessons Learned Here
Today
Speaker: Yovette Mumford, CEO and Founder of
SafetyIssues. |
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