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Thought Leadership
Experience & Qualifications Overview
Decontamination
- Decontamination of Mass Casualties - Re-evaluating Existing Dogma
Evaluates current standards surrounding the response to a release of hazardous materials that results in massive numbers of exposed human survivors.
- Hazardous Materials: Disaster Medical Planning and Response
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, Disaster Medicine, May 1996, pages 327-348.
Reviews the current problems and controversies in hazardous materials preparedness and concludes with a list of recommendations for hospital-based decontamination planning.
- Dangerous bodies: a case of fatal aluminum phosphide poisoning, The Medical Journal of Australia, August 7, 2000, Vol. 173, No. 3, pp. 133 – 135.
A detailed case study of an aluminum phosphide ingestion and how the victim was managed in the pre-hospital and hospital setting.
Mass Casualty Care
- Acute Care Center (ACC)
Describes an alternate care, inpatient treatment model that can be used in the event of a large-scale infectious disease outbreak that overwhelms existing hospital resources.
- Neighborhood Emergency Help Center (NEHC)
A high volume, outpatient treatment model for a large-scale infectious disease outbreak designed to conduct brief clinical assessment and triage of victims, a point of distribution for prophylactic medication, self-help information, and instruction.
- Modular Emergency Medical System (MEMS)
Describes a model developed by a panel of medical and emergency management experts as an example of one way that a jurisdiction can expand its healthcare delivery capability in response to a biological terrorism event.
Emergency Management
- Standing Together: An Emergency Planning Guide for America's Communities
DQE principal participated as a subject matter expert on a Joint Commission roundtable that focused on community-based emergency management.
- Preparing for Terrorism: What Every Emergency Manager Needs to Know, Public Management, December 1998.
Article reviews the unique planning challenges associated with preparing for and responding to a terrorist attack.
- Personal Protection of Healthcare Workers in an Infectious Disease Environment, HRSA National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program, Technical Assistance Report, November 2003.
Article evaluates the utility and safety profile of standard precautions attire in an infectious disease environment.
Terrorism
- Biological Weapon Incident Response Planning Guide
- Terrorism: A Law Enforcement Perspective
A short synopsis of a national presentation made by a DQE principal to law enforcement officials on how law enforcement can help diffuse the public’s fear as it relates to terrorism and weaponry.
- Pilot Assessment of Hospital Preparedness for Bioterrorism Events
Describes the results of an AHRQ/HRSA Bioterrorism Assessment Tool, co-developed by a DQE principal, to evaluate hospital preparedness for a bioterrorism event.
- CDC Recommendations for Civilian Communities Near Chemical Weapons Depots
Describes CDC guidelines that established the minimum standards of medical preparedness for civilian communities that might be exposed to chemical warfare agents during the incineration or storage process. DQE principals served as subject matter experts on this project.
- Terrorism and First Responders, On Scene, June, 1997.
Article reviews the impact and special preparedness needs of First Responders in the event of a terrorist incident.
- Attacking the nervous system, Fire International, Oct/Nov. 1997.
The mechanism of action of organophosphates is described along with clinical signs and symptoms of exposure, personal protective needs, and treatment modalities are discussed.
- Addressing the NBC Threat, Airport World, the Magazine of the Airports Council International, August-September, Vol. 4, Issue 4, 1999.
Provides an overview of terrorist weaponry (chemical, biological, and radiological) and the unique challenges these agents pose to airport security officials.
Textbook Chapter Contributions
- Hazardous Materials Emergencies, Disaster Medicine, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, published in 2002.
- Hazardous Materials Emergencies, Disaster Medicine, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, published in 2007.
- Decontamination, Disaster Medicine, Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2008.
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