Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
CENTER FOR BIOTERRORISM AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

The International Conference on Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness

Program Agenda
 7:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
 8:00 am Welcome
 8:15 am Hospital Management of Terrorism Casualties
Avraham Rivkind, MD
 9:00 am Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Terrorism Preparedness/Emergency Response
Lynn Steele, MS, CIC
 9:45 am  Break
 10:00 am Smallpox Preparedness/Bioterrorism
Yehuda Danon, MD
 10:45 am Toxicological Multi-Casualty Incident:
The Israeli Perspective
Chaim Rafalowski, MA
 11:30 am Panel Discussion
 12:00 pm Lunch
Art Blackshaw Award
Statewide Preparedness
Pennsylvania Department of Health
 1:15 pm EMS Response for the State of Israel
Doron Kotler, EMTP, MA
 2:15 pm Break
 2:30 pm Israeli Security
Major General Benny Kaniak
 3:15 pm Domestic Security - TBD
 4:00 pm Panel Discussion
 4:30 pm Evaluations and Conclusions
 5:00 pm Adjournment

Program Director
Edward Jasper, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Center for Bioterrorism and Disaster Preparedness
Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Program Co-Director
Zvi Grunwald, MD
The James D. Wentzel, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Faculty – International Speakers
Yehuda Danon, MD
Director, Kipper Institute of Immunology
Schneider Children’s Medical Center
Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine
(Former Surgeon General of Israeli Defense Forces), Tel Aviv, Israel

Avraham Rivkind, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery
Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel

Doron Kotler, EMTP, MA
Head of Operations, Magen David Adom
(Israeli Emergency Medical Services)
Tel Aviv, Israel

Chaim Rafalowski, MA
Director of Non-Conventional Warfare and Mass Destruction, Magen David Adom (Israeli Emergency Medical Services) Tel Aviv, Israel

Major General Benny Kaniak
Commander of the Central District of Israeli Police

Faculty – Domestic Speakers
Lynn Steele, MS, CIC
Senior Advisor for Education and Training
Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Harrisburg, PA

Domestic Security - TBD