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Homeland Defense Journal and Government*Horizons Training Conference and Workshop

Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Training Conference

November 13-14, 2007

Sheraton National
Arlington, VA

 

Don’t miss the Post-conference training course Working with the Media in High Stress, High Concerns Situations

 

Also, mark your calendar - Disability and Special Needs Technical Assistance Conference (Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery) , Jan 8-9, 2008

 

About the Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Training Conference

Previous attendee comments include:

This was one of the most professional programs I have attended, this list of presenters was top notch.  This was an excellent conference with so much tremendous information given.  Very well organized speakers and participants held to time and schedule. Nicely scheduled breaks, thoughtful layout and organization of conference materials, very helpful.  Impressive balance of local, state, and national perspectives.  Outstanding selection of top notch speakers and presenters. Outstanding Conference.  Excellent conference, I look forward to the next workshop put on by your group, impressive. I have attended several events on pandemic and this one leads the pack. My expectations were met.

 

About this Workshop

 

Last year, President Bush outlined the United States strategy to safeguard against the danger of pandemic influenza. The 2006 Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference outlined how our government  - and governments around the world -  is improving the nation’s ability to detect outbreaks early, expand vaccine production capacity, and stockpile influenza treatments. However, the threat of a major pandemic outbreak still exists and the nation is not as prepared as it should be. 

 

The 2007 Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference will bring together an influential gathering of medical and public health leaders to stress the importance of national, state, and local preparedness to respond to a pandemic so that we can ensure the health and safety of our people in the face of this ominous threat.  The conference will address three crucial areas (that remain a major part of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza):

 

1) How real is the Pandemic threat today, and how should you prepare to respond at the federal, state, and local levels in the event that an influenza pandemic reaches the United States?

 

2) How an influenza pandemic can impact your community or business, and what measures should you be taking to ensure business continuity?

 

3) While a pandemic response is primarily a public health response, what is the best approach to properly communicate an outbreak to your staff, community, other agencies, organizations, and private institutions ? and most importantly ? to ensure families are prepared - in a coordinated and collaborative manner to ensure an effective overall response to such a crisis

 

What You Will Learn

• How serious is the pandemic threat today?

• How an influenza pandemic can impact your community or business

• International efforts, community outreach, family preparedness, and other resources

• What measures you should implement to best prepare

• How preparing for the next influenza pandemic can provide benefits now (i.e., improvements in public health infrastructure can have immediate and lasting benefits, and can also mitigate the effect of other epidemics or infectious disease threats)

• The importance of testing your planning assumptions and response capacities, and having the most up-to-date information on potential pandemic strains and subsequent disease

• How to strengthen local capacity to respond to epidemics of influenza

• Current actions and priorities at the federal government level

• Public health guidance for state and local partners

• What, if anything, you can do individually to reduce the risk of pandemic influenza

• How to prepare, maintain, update, and exercise an operational plan that itemized specific roles and responsibilities in the event of an influenza pandemic

• The latest technologies for preparing a pandemic

• Why continuous global surveillance of influenza is essential

• And more!

Who Should Attend

• City, County, State and Federal Emergency Planners and Public Health Professionals

• Hospital-based Disaster and Emergency Planners and Healthcare Providers, including doctors, nurses, Paramedics and EMT’s, and allied health professionals

• Hospital and Healthcare Administrators, CEO’s and COO’s

• Clinicians and First Responder Personnel (EMT, paramedics, etc.)

• Primary Medical Care Professionals

• Logisticians and Planners

• Anyone in the emergency and preventive medicine sectors who are concerned with or unsure about  their roles in the response to an influenza pandemic

• Federal Partner Agencies and their personnel who are involved with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza

• Companies with products, services and solutions designed to aid in US medical response to pandemic disease and mass casualty events

Early Registrants Include

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, Senior Program Management Officer
Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center, Communications Supervisor, Operations Coordinator
Alion Science,
Atlanta Police Department, Lieutenant
Base-X,
Battelle, Program Manager
Boynton Beach Fire Rescue, Community Relations Specialist
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Special Asst
Carnival Cruise Lines, Executive VP, Fleet Medical Director
CDC, Program Services Consultant
City of Bethlehem, Director, Community & Economic Development
City of Hickory Fire Department, Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief
Clemson University, Exec. Director
Comprehensive Technologies Int’l, Inc, CEO, Senior VP, Senior System Engineer
Con Edison, Project Specialist
Connecticut State Department of Education, Comsultant
CT River Area Health District, Director of Health, Public Health Emergency Coordinator
Danbury Hospital, Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology
Day & Zimmerman Security Services, Director of Compliance
DFAS, DFAS Safety Manager
DHHS, Regional Health Administrator
DHS, Federal Security Director
DHS Ready Campaign, Account Coordinator, Project Manager, Acting Director
DHS/ FEMA, Chief, Logisitics Branch
DSCA, Program Analyst
Fargo Cass Public Health, Environmental Health Manager
FDIC, Assistant Director
FERC, Security Specialist
Flu Wiki, Editor
Food Lion LLC, Special Projects Manager
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff’s Adjutant
General Physics Corp, Business Development Manager, Emergency Preparedness Specialist, Event Manager
Haltec Corporation, Chief Financial Officer
HHS, Team Commander (Acting)
IRS , Staff Assistant
Joint Task Force Civil Support, Public Affairs Officer
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Operations Manager
Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, Deputy Executive Director
Miami-Dade Police Department, Police Lieutenant, Police Officer
Mid-Michigan District Health Department, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Monroe County Health Department, EPC/Epidemiologist
Narragansett Indian Health Center, Medical Director
National Science Foundation, Labor Relations Officer
New York State Insurance Department, Deputy Superintendent
Norfolk Southern Corporation, Manager, Business Recovery Planning
Northern Virginia Community College, Medical Director, Medical Education Campus
Northwest Savings Bank, Security Specialist
Nova Southeastern University, Community Outreach Coordinator
Nycom, Inc., Account Manager
Ohio Center for Public Health Preparedness, RN
OSMA Insurance Agency, Director of Operations
Penn State University, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow
Pennsylvania Senate, Exec Dir, Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness
Pfizer Inc, Executive Director
Regional Medical Center Memphis, Director of Nursing, Nurse Epidemiologist, Manager, Microbiology Lab
Rutgers University, Grant Coordinator
S&C Electric Company, Benefit Services Director
San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, Director, Risk Management Services
SERMC HQ, MEDCOM, ACS Operations & Readiness
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. , Of Counsel
SSA, Medical Director
The Boeing Company,
Township of Derry, Board of Supervisor
Twenty-First Century Communications, UCS Sales Director, Asst. Marketing Manager
U.S. Air Force, Chief of Operations, 79th Medical Wing
U.S. Army, Chief, Plans Officer, MEDCOM
U.S. District Court, Sys Admin
U.S. Marine Corps, CBRNE Protection Officer
U.S. National Guard Bureau, Plans Officer
U.S. Navy, Director, Public Health Services
United Nations, New York, Chief, Business Continuity Management Unit
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Director of Training
US NORTHCOM, Commander, NC, USN
USPS, Medical Director
USUHS Environmental Health & Occupational Medicine, Assistant VP, AVR
Verizon Business, Group Manager
Washington Savannah River Company, Technical Services Chief, Fire Dept
Welch Allyn, Inc., Sales Director, Sales Manager
West Haven Health Department, Director of Health
Western Racine County Health Dept, Supervisor
Whittier Hospital Medical Center, Infection Control Practitioner
Wilmer Hale, Of Counsel
Yaussy Consultants, President
ZOLL Medical, Director, Government Accounts

 

Agenda

 

Day One, November 13, 2007

7:30-8:30am Registration/Continental Breakfast: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal

8:35-8:45am Opening Comments: Dr. Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates (Former Senior Medical Advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services)

8:45-9:15am Keynote Speaker: RADM W. Craig Vanderwagen, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

9:15-10:00am Dr. Bruce Gellin, Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “The Pandemic Threat Today – It Still Exists!”

10:00-10:30am NETWORKING BREAK: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal

10:30-12:00pm Panel: State and Local Preparedness

–Stephen Ostroff, MD, Director, Bureau of Epidemiology, Pennsylvania Department of Health, “State PI Preparedness”
–Isaac Weisfuse, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Commissioner, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene “Local PI Preparedness”

12:00-1:30pm LUNCH: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal
–Lunch Keynote Speaker: Katherine B. Andrus, Assistant General Counsel, Air Transport Association of America, Inc. “Pandemic Planning for the Aviation Sector”

1:30-2:15pm Dr. Martin Cetron – Division of Quarantine and Global Migration (DQGM), Centers for Disease Control

2:15-2:45pm John S. Parker, MD, FACS, FCCP, Major General, USA (ret), Chief Medical Officer, Health Solutions, SAIC

2:45-3:00pm NETWORKING BREAK: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal

3:00-3:30pm Speaker TBD – “COOP for Your Business”

3:30-4:00pm Erin Streeter, Program Director, Ready.gov (DHS), “How the Public Can Prepare for an Influenza Pandemic”

4:00pm Adjourn Day One

Day Two, November 14, 2007

7:30-8:30am Continental Breakfast, sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal

8:30-9:15am Opening Keynote Speaker: James W. Terbush, MD, MPH, CAPT, USN, MC, FS, NORTHCOM Command Surgeon, “Individual and Family Preparedness: Building Resiliency in Advance of the Pandemic”

9:15-9:30am NETWORKING BREAK: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal

9:30-11:15am Panel Discussion

Speaker: David M. Park, President and CEO of Family Solutions LLC (Former U.S.A.F. Chaplin, U.S.A.F. (retired)) “Family Assistance Center Operations for Catastrophic Events”

Speaker: Peter Teahen, President, International Mass Fatalities Center “Picking Up the Pieces: Coping with the Mass Fatalities Response”

Speaker: Dr. Grady Bray, PhD, President & CEO, Bray Associates (former VP of Kenyon International Emergency Services), “Crucial Elements to Your Family Assistance and Training Program”

11:15-12:00pm James W. Terbush, MD, MPH, CAPT, USN, MC, FS, NORTHCOM Command Surgeon and Bruce Davis, Major General (Ret), Vice President/Deputy Group Manager, National Security Group, Alion Science (former Commander of Joint Task Force Civil Support of United States Northern Command)

12:00pm Closing Remarks and Conference Adjourn
Post Conference Workshop: Working with the Media in High Stress, High Concerns Situations — Register for Both Events and Save $100

Nov. 14, 2007
Day One
1:00-4:30 pm Post-conference training course “Working with the Media in High Stress, High Concerns Situations” click on link for more details Sheraton National

Nov. 15, 2007
Day Two
7:30-12:30pm Post-conference training course “Working with the Media in High Stress, High Concerns Situations” click on link for more details Sheraton National

 

Registration Charges

Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference and Working with the Media Workshop
? Industry - $990 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $890 per person
? Government - $790 per person

 

Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference

? Industry - $695 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $645 per person
? Government - $595 per person

 

 Working with the Media Workshop Only

? Industry - $395 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $345 per person
? Government - $295 per person
 

Registration Options

[1] Register on-line at www.governmenthorizons.org
[2] Phone Katie Smith at (703) 807-2758
[3] E-mail Katie Smith at ksmith [Email address: ksmith #AT# marketaccess.org - replace #AT# with @ ]
[5] Mail the Registration Form provided below to:
Government Horizons
4301 Wilson Blvd. #1003, Arlington, VA 22203

Location Information

The conference and workshop will be held at the Sheraton National, 900 S. Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204, (703) 521-1900.

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— REGISTRATION FORM —-

Pandemic Influenza Conference
November 13-14, 2007

Attendee name:

Title:

Company/Agency:

Address:

City, State, and Zip Code:

Telephone Number:

Fax Number:

Attendee E-mail Address:

Training Coordinator E-mail Address:

Phone #:

REGISTRATION CHARGES (CIRCLE ONE):

 

Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference and Working with the Media Workshop
? Industry - $990 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $890 per person
? Government - $790 per person

 

Preparing for Pandemic Influenza Conference

? Industry - $695 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $645 per person
? Government - $595 per person

 

 Working with the Media Workshop Only

? Industry - $395 per person
? Small Business (100 employees or less) - $345 per person
? Government - $295 per person

Method of Payment:

Company Check Government*Horizons, Inc)  Tax ID: 20-4904026
Credit Card
Government P.O. (please attach)
Type of Credit Card (check one):

____Visa____MasterCard____American Express

Card Number: ____________________________________

Exp. Date:____________________

Name Printed on Card: ___________________________________________________

Signature (required): ___________________________________________________

Please fax this form, complete with payment information, to
(703) 807-2728 or mail it with your payment to:

Government*Horizons, Inc., 4301 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1003, Arlington, VA 22203

If you have questions about registration/payment, please call Katie Smith at (703) 807-2758. Thank you

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