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The Problem of Meeting Immense Medical Needs Background | Purpose and scenario | Transcript | Summary Issues and Participants
Issues
In a severe pandemic, demand for health care will be greater than the healthcare system’s capacity to treat flu patients and maintain other essential medical services, according to everyday expectations. How can communities as a whole tackle the complex logistics of protecting the well and caring for the sick in large numbers? What might innovative partnerships among health agencies, hospitals, community-based organizations, businesses, and individual citizens—established in advance of the crisis—be able to accomplish in a mass casualty scenario? Moderator: Tara O’Toole, CEO and Director, UPMC Center for Biosecurity Participants - Ann Beauchesne, Executive Director, Homeland Security Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Arrietta Chakos, Assistant City Manager, City of Berkeley, California
- Christa-Marie Singleton, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Baltimore City Health Department
- Jan Lane, Deputy Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute, George Washington University; former Vice President of Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships, American Red Cross, National Headquarters
- Diane Lapson, President, Independence Plaza North Tenant Association, Lower Manhattan, New York
- Robert Tosatto, RPh, MPH, MBA, Commander, U.S. Public Health Service, Director, Medical Reserve Corps Program, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
- Richard Waldhorn, MD, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University; former Physician-in-Chief, Georgetown University Hospital
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