Speakers will
address a variety of topics, including the emotional toll of
bioterrorism
events, working with the media, backup communications, prions and Mad
Cow
disease, and a recap of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
experience
in Toronto.
The symposium’s
target audience is emergency medical technicians, nurses, physicians,
laboratory and infection control employees, and public health, allied
health
professionals and other emergency preparedness personnel. Cost of the
symposium
is $15 per day and includes course materials, refreshments, lunch, and
continuing education credits. Registration deadline is August 11. Late
registration fees will be added for registrations postmarked after
August 11th.
The program is
sponsored through funding from the Nebraska Department of Health &
Human
Services to the Nebraska Center for
Bioterrorism
Education and is presented in collaboration with the Nebraska Health
Education
Consortium. This is the second year that the center has hosted symposia
across Nebraska for emergency
response and health professionals. Other symposia have taken place in
Norfolk, Scottsbluff and Omaha.
Symposium
speakers will include: Lt. Gov. Dave Heineman, Nebraska homeland
security
officer; Richard Raymond, M.D., Nebraska Department of Health and Human
Services chief medical officer, Gerilynne Nephew, manager communicable
disease liaison
unit, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Canada; Anthony Ng, M.D.,
director of
Reich, Ng, and Associates, LLC, an emergency medical management
consulting
firm; Roger Brumback, M.D., Creighton University Medical Center,
professor and
chairman, department of pathology; Kenneth Hermsen, D.D.S., Omaha
endodontist.
For
more information or to get a form to
register, contact Liliana, (402) 559-8106 or e-mail her at
lbronner@unmc.edu.
To register or to see a list of the agenda, go to:
http://necenterforbted.org/Conferences.htm