Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) Outreach Meeting

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/schedule.html

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 (1:00 - 3:00 PM eastern)

Reception Immediately following 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC)

http://www.mscmc.org/

Syed Qadir

MSCMC Chair

Executive Director, National Response Center

Location:

Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software

(ACCESS)

Ballston Metro Center Office Tower, Suite 800

901 North Stuart Street

Arlington, Virginia 22203

Phone: 703.248.0072

Fax: 703.248.0100

Email: dcrecept@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Directions:

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/directions.html

Agenda:

1:00 - 1:10 PM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Janet Thot-Thompson

MSCMC Executive Director

NCSA ACCESS Director

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/

Syed Qadir

MSCMC Chair

Executive Director, National Response Center

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/

1:10 - 2:00 PM PRESENTATION - US Citizen Corps & FEMA's Community Emergency Response Team

 

This presentation will focus on FEMA's Community Emergency Response Team as well as the Citizen Corps

Slides on Citizen Corps

Slides on CERT

Elizabeth DiGregorio

FEMA liaison to the White House for US Citizen Corps.

Citizen Corps is part of the President's initiative under the umbrella of USA Freedom Corps. Citizen Corps fosters a culture of service, citizenship and responsibility by brining together volunteers and the first responders in a community to find ways to make a community safer, stronger and better prepared for all emergencies. Ms. DiGregorio is responsible for developing the national strategy for Citizen Corps and for overall coordination of the program's implementation.

Ms. DiGregorio was appointed chief of staff by FEMA Director Joe M. Allbaugh in July 2001. As chief of staff, she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the agency and for directing implementation of the priorities and policies of the agency's director. FEMA programs encompass disaster response and recovery, hazard mitigation, training, preparedness exercises, insurance and fire prevention. As chief of staff, Ms. DiGregorio oversaw the agency's internal operations, advised the director on the agency's crosscutting policies and procedures, and served as the focal point for implementing the director's initiatives.

Ms. DiGregorio joined FEMA in 1980 as a disaster assistance employee in the Denton, Texas, regional office. In 1982, she became a full-time employee working in disaster assistance and continuity of government programs. In 1988, she came to FEMA headquarters and served in a number of senior management positions. She directed the implementation of several national security programs, directed training initiatives for FEMA's training center, served as the director of regional operations where she had oversight of FEMA's 10 regional offices, and served as the executive officer for FEMA's response and recovery directorate, which is responsible for management of the nation's disasters.

Before joining FEMA, Ms. DiGregorio was executive director of the McKinley Area Council of Governments, in Gallup, NM. A native of New Mexico, Ms. DiGregorio earned a bachelor of arts degree from Colorado College and a master's degree in public administration from the University of North Texas. She is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute and holds a training specialist certificate from Georgetown University.

2:00 - 2:45 PM PRESENTATION - USA SMALLPOX VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

 

The focus of this presentation is on the impending smallpox vaccination campaign for the US, which will be a very challenging and historic time.

Slides on Smallpox Vaccination Program

Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases

Washington Hospital Center

Washington, DC

Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. He trained in Internal (Adult) Medicine from 1982-1985 at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospitals. He completed his training in Infectious Diseases at Harvard's Brigham and Womens and Beth Israel Hospitals and earned a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1988. Over the next decade he served as an Infectious Disease physician in the U.S. military and in the Public Health Service (NIH and FDA). Since 1998 he has worked at the Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in DC, initially as the Director of Infectious Disease Service and now as the Director of the Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases. During the 2001 anthrax attack in DC he was closely involved with the regional response. He has organized public educational forums on bioterrorism every month since January 2002 for the DC-Maryland-Virginia area. From the Washington Hospital Center-Medstar Health system he is involved with regional planning for smallpox vaccination via the DC Department of Health, DC Hospital Association, Medical Society of DC, Georgetown Medical School, DoD, and clinical colleagues in Virginia and Maryland.

2:45 - 3:00 PM CLOSING REMARKS

3:00 - 5:00 PM RECEPTION