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1986 – A disaster medical response discussion group is created by NDMS team members and emergency medicine organizations in the United States. Healthcare professionals worldwide join the discussion group of the years to come. dd 1989 – The University of New Mexico creates the Center for Disaster Medicine, the first such medical center of ...
The National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS) is a federally coordinated disaster medical system and partnership of the United States Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), Defense (DOD), and Veterans Affairs (VA). The purpose of the NDMS is to support State, local, Tribal and Territorial authorities following ...
A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a specialized group under the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [1] These teams are composed of professional medical personnel including physicians, physician assistants (PA), nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, and logistical and ...
In order to activate the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), "a public health emergency may include but is not limited to, public health emergencies declared by the Secretary of HHS [Health and Human Services] under 42 U.S.C. 247d, or a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency ...
Thomas D. Kirsch, MD (2019) Thomas Dean Kirsch (born 1957) is an American physician, scientist, and writer whose career has focused on disaster preparedness and response. He has been described as “…an expert in disaster research, planning and response, and disaster and wilderness medicine… both nationally and internationally”. [1]
Martin Grötschel (postdoc) Eva K Lee is an American applied mathematician and operations researcher who applies combinatorial optimization and systems biology to the study of health care decision making and organizational transformation. She is an analytic member of the Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment (MPHISE) system.
Gregory R. Ciottone. Gregory R. Ciottone (born 1965) is an American physician specializing in disaster medicine and counter-terrorism medicine. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, the first of its kind in a Harvard teaching hospital.
The American Academy of Disaster Medicine ( AADM) was founded in 2006 to promote the science and art of disaster healthcare. [1] It is one of the newest medical organizations in the world. On October 18, 2007 the American Academy of Disaster Medicine was also the first medical organization in history to fulfill a Presidential mandate ( Homeland ...