This event was held on May 9, 2006.

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Are you prepared to take the medical lead in your hospital during a disaster? How would you make decisions about allocating scarce resources? What is your role in an emergency incident command system? Are discussions about these issues even taking place at your hospital?

Learning Objectives and Audience

This training is geared towards physicians, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, physician's assistants, healthcare administrators, and advanced nurse practitioners. By the end of the training, participants should be able to:

• Define avian influenza, seasonal influenza, and pandemic influenza
• Discuss impact of avian and pandemic influenza on our healthcare system
• Review regional hospital response framework for disasters
• Discuss 'surge capacity' as it relates to pandemic planning
  Note: CEUs will be given

Featured Speaker

John L. Hick is a faculty emergency physician at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.  He serves as the Associate Medical Director for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at HCMC.  He is Medical Advisor to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Medical Response System.  He also serves the Minnesota Department of Health as the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Medical Director for Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness.  He is the founder and current chair of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Hospital Compact, a 27 hospital mutual aid and planning group active since 2002.  He is involved at many levels of planning for surge capacity and traveled to Greece to assist their healthcare system preparations for the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of a 15 member CDC/HHS team.  He continues to work with Health and Human Services and other agencies on development of hospital contingency stations and adjusted standards of care in disasters. He is a national speaker on hospital preparedness issues and has published numerous papers dealing with hospital preparedness for contaminated casualties, personal protective equipment, and surge capacity. In his spare time, he practices disaster mitigation, response, and recovery at home with his two daughters ages 2 and 6.

Planning Committee

Carol O’Boyle, PhD, RN
MERET Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Public Health Nursing, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Jeanne Pfeiffer, RN, MPH, PHN, CIC
MERET Grant Content Expert
School of Nursing Coordinator, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Mary Jeanne Levitt, MBC
MERET Program Coordinator
Continuing Education Specialist, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach (CPHEO)

Sponsored By

Minnesota Emergency Readiness Education and Training (MERET), a program of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and School of Public Health. Funded in part through a grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration.