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Dr Gregory Ciottone, MD, FACEP Harvard Medical School

Professional Profile

دجامعة هارفر كلية الطبلعملية للدكتور غريغوري سايتون السيرة الذاتية والخبرات ا Dr. Ciottone is a U.S. board certified Emergency Physician with more than 25 years’ experience

in academic, clinical, and global Emergency Medicine. He is an internationally recognized

expert in Disaster Medicine, and has served as a consultant in more than 30 countries around the

world. He is also honored to serve as a consultant to the White House Medical Unit during the

Obama and current administrations. Dr. Ciottone has extensive field experience, including

developing medical education programs throughout the former Soviet Union in the 1990’s that

trained over 75,000 people, serving as Commander of one of the first federal Disaster Medical

Teams into Ground Zero during the World Trade Center disaster on 9/11/2001, and more

recently leading a team into Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. He has also flown over 200

missions as a flight surgeon on a rescue helicopter system, with experience on the BO105,

BK117, and EC135 air-frames. In 2006, Dr. Ciottone became Editor-in Chief of Disaster

Medicine, later renamed Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine in his honor. The second edition was

released in 2016 and deemed “The leading textbook in the field” by the prestigious journal

Annals of Emergency Medicine. In addition to his textbook, he has written over 100 scholarly

articles, chapters, and educational materials.

Dr. Ciottone is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr.

Ciottone is the Founder and Director of the first-ever Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program at a

Harvard teaching hospital. He also serves as the Director of the Disaster Preparedness Program

at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. In addition to these appointments, he has held the

position of Visiting Professor of Disaster Medicine at three prestigious Universities around the

world, including Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and the Universita del Piemonte Orientale

in Italy. Dr. Ciottone has had numerous appearances on CNN and SKY news as a subject matter

expert, with one of his interviews cited as “Best of CNN”, stories worth watching in 2014. He

has been quoted in multiple news sources including the Boston Globe, Washington Times, ABC,

CBS, and NBC news networks, Discovery news, and National Public Radio. He also gave a

TEDx talk on Crisis Leadership and Counter-Terrorism Medicine.

Dr. Ciottone is the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including receiving an Official

Citation from the Massachusetts Senate for his work at Ground Zero during the September 11,

2001 federal response, and being personally thanked by Tommy Thompson, the Secretary of the

Department of Health and Human Services, for the two weeks he spent responding to that

horrible event. He also served as Medical Director for the Tactical EMS training program at the

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Academy in Quantico, VA., and became a Founding

Member of the United States Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Ciottone later served as

Medical Director for the Operational Medicine Program, Office of Security and Investigations,

Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC.

Dr. Ciottone was named “EMS Physician of the Year” by Central Massachusetts Emergency

Medical Services (EMS), and was the “Spotlight” for the Phi Beta Kappa national publication

Keynote Reporter. The Boston Red Sox recently honored Dr. Ciottone by having him throw out

the Ceremonial First Pitch as part of a 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Fenway Park. While

working in conjunction with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Gorbachev Foundation towards

improved healthcare infrastructure in Russia, Dr. Ciottone served as a personal envoy from

President Gorbachev to the U.S. Governmental Agency the Overseas Private Investment

Corporation (OPIC), and was named by the Russian Federation Ministries of Education and

Science as an approved Evaluation Expert for the New Eurasia Foundation. In 2016, the Chinese

Ministry of Health adopted and translated Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine, 2nd

ed. to be used as the

national Emergency Preparedness Training Manual for China. In 2017, he was recognized by

the White House Medical Unit for his consultative services and “outstanding achievement in

support of the White House Medical Unit and the President of the United States”. In December,

2017 Dr. Ciottone will be honored by induction as a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons in

Ireland.

Dr. Ciottone continues to teach and lecture around the world on Disaster Medicine and related

topics. He resides in Westminster Massachusetts with his wife and children.

Dr Paul D. Biddinger, MD, FACEP Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

بدنجربول للسيرة الذاتية وخبرة العمل للدكتور جزمو

قسم الطوارىء في مستشفى ماسوشوست ببوسطن الواليات المتحدة األمريكية وجامعة هارفردرئيس

Dr. Paul Biddinger is the Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine, and is Vice Chairman for

Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General

Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is also the Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at

MGH and at Partners Healthcare. Dr. Biddinger additionally serves as the Director of the

Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation and Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T.

H. Chan School of Public Health and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the

Chan School. Dr. Biddinger serves as a special advisor to the Massachusetts Medical Society’s

Committee on Preparedness and serves as a medical officer for the MA-1 Disaster Medical

Assistance Team (DMAT) in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) in the US

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Dr. Biddinger is an active researcher in the field of emergency preparedness and has lectured

nationally and internationally on topics of preparedness and disaster medicine. He has authored

numerous articles and book chapters on multiple topics related to emergency medical services

and disaster medicine. He completed his undergraduate study in international relations at

Princeton University, attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, and completed residency

training in emergency medicine at Harvard.

Dr Debra Weiner, MD Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr. Weiner is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital where she

provides care to patients from around the world, including from the UAE. She is also an Assistant

Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. As one of the first 500 board certified Pediatric

Emergency Medicine Physicians in the United States, Dr. Weiner has been active in promoting pediatric

emergency healthcare and the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine nationally and internationally,

particularly in the UAE and Asia. Dr. Weiner is also a PhD Human Geneticist who has developed best

practices for ED diagnosis and management of emergent manifestations of suspected and known inborn

errors of metabolism.

Dr. Weiner has been a member of the National Disaster Medical System since 1995, serving on the

Disaster Medical Assistance Team Massachusetts-1, the Pediatric Specialty Team and the International

Medical Surgical Response Team, and has deployed for disaster relief in the US and internationally. She

co-developed and teaches simulation courses on disaster response locally and in austere environments.

She is a steering committee member and site PI for the United States Clinical Illness and Injuries Trial

Group research network which is funded by the US government to build research capacity for disaster and

public health emergency preparedness and response.

Dr. Weiner is Clerkship Director for the Harvard Medical School Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Clerkship. She is a founding member and Board member of the Boston Children’s Hospital Education

Academy and a member of the Harvard Medical School Education Academy, for which she serves as the

Technology Interest Group Co-Chair. Dr. Weiner is developing technology-based solutions to improve

clinical care and clinician training. Dr. Weiner earned her medical degree from the University of

Southern California in Los Angeles, California, completed Pediatrics residency at the University of

Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at

Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr Joshua Goldstein

Harvard Medical School

جامعة هارفردشوا غولشتاين اسيرة الذاتية والخبرات العملية للدكتور جال

وسطن الواليات المتحدة األمريكيةفي مساشوست التعليمي ومستشفى

Dr. Goldstein is an emergency physician who specializes in neurologic emergencies. He

received both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut Health Center in 2000, and

completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2005. He

then completed a research fellowship in Vascular and Critical Care Neurology at Massachusetts

General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is currently the Director of the Center

for Neurologic Emergencies in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts

General Hospital and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the

Neurocritical Care Society, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, the

American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Academy of Emergency

Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein has dedicated his career to multidisciplinary work integrating neurology,

hematology, neurocritical care, and emergency medicine. He has served on the Program

Committees for the International Stroke Conference, the American Heart Association Scientific

Sessions, and the Neurocritical Care Society. He has served on the American Heart Association

Get-With-The-Guidelines Stroke clinical workgroup, the writing group for the 2015 AHA

Guidelines for Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage, and the writing group for

the upcoming scientific statement on Treatment and Outcomes in Post-Thrombolysis

Hemorrhage. Finally he has served as Associate Editor of various journals including Academic

Emergency Medicine.

Currently, Dr. Goldstein manages a large extramurally funded research program focused

on neurologic and hematologic emergencies. He is the PI for the Boston Hub of the NINDS-

funded Neurologic Emergencies Treatment Trials (NETT) Network, and the PI for a

Massachusetts-wide consortium of centers for the NIH-funded SIREN clinical trials network of

emergency care trials. He was on the Steering Committee of the two largest clinical trials of

anticoagulation reversal performed, including one listed under the Eastern Association for the

Surgery of Trauma’s “Landmark papers in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery”. Dr. Goldstein has

received numerous awards including the SAEM Young Investigator Award for his research and

the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency’s Outstanding Attending award for his teaching and

clinical care. He has served as an invited speaker at many national and international forums

including the American Heart Association, the American Society of Hematology, and the

European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery. Finally, he has published over 100

original research articles, over 30 reviews and book chapters, and is an Associate Editor of the

textbook Scientific American Emergency Medicine.

Dr Beatrice Hoffmann

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School , Emergency Ultrasound

السيرة الذاتية والعلمية للدكتورة بياترس هوفمان

Dr. Hoffmann is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Emergency Ultrasound expert.

Dr Hoffmann has worked and for over eight years as the Director of Emergency Ultrasound in

the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of

Medicine. She also served as Division Director and Fellowship Director of Emergency

Ultrasound during her time in Baltimore

Dr. Hoffmann graduated in 1997 from the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany

with both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. She had several years of postgraduate training in Germany in

internal medicine with an emphasis on pulmonary medicine and cardiology. Dr Hoffmann

moved to the United States in 2000, and in 2003, completed her emergency medicine residency

training at York Hospital/Penn State University.

During her time as the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Johns Hopkins University,

Dr. Hoffmann focused on program building with equal emphasis on research, education, and

administration. She developed new models for emergency ultrasound education and competency

assessment, created a successful emergency ultrasound fellowship program, and introduced

electronic workflow solutions to Hopkins, increasing the use of emergency ultrasound by 7-fold.

In 2012, she became the division director of emergency ultrasound at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Hoffmann has assumed leadership roles in emergency ultrasound education and policy both

nationally and internationally. She is the founding chair of the Academy of Emergency

Ultrasound (AEUS), the chair of emergency ultrasound education task force for the European

Society in Emergency Medicine (EUSEM), and she has been appointed corresponding member

to DEGUM, the German society of diagnostic ultrasound. She is also the editor-in-chief

of www.sonoguide.com, ACEP’s online education resource for emergency ultrasound.

Dr. Hoffman has Board Certifications in Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and Registered

Diagnostic Medical Sonographer, (RDMS). Her clinical interests include meaningful

incorporation of emergency ultrasound in education and practice of emergency medicine and

development of electronic workflow solutions and QA for point-of-care imaging.

Dr. Shane Kappler

Harvard Medical School

وجامعة جورج تاون دلسيرة الذاتية العلمية والخبرات العملية للدكتور شين كابلور من جامعة هارفرا Dr. Shane Kappler is a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician. He is faculty at Harvard Medical School as well as faculty at Georgetown University School of Medicine where he teaches a graduate level course on Medical Preparedness, Response, and Capacity to bioterrorism threats. Dr. Kappler has lectured nationally on topics of bioterrorism, preparedness and disaster medicine. He has served as a Department of Homeland Security Scholar, and has had disaster medicine training research presented nationally. He has consulted for the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center and lectured to FEMA on topics related to biological Pandemics. He has served as a Director of Disaster Preparedness for a hospital system, helping to navigate that system’s Ebola response. He additionally serves as a medical manager for FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1. Dr. Kappler received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame, his Medical Doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine and his Master of Science degree in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency program, serving as Chief Resident during his final year.

Dr David Peak MD

Dr. David Peak is an emergency medicine doctor in Boston, Massachusetts and has affiliation

with numerous hospitals in Boston area including Massachusetts General Hospital, Department

of Emergency Medicine; Boston Children's Hospital and few more others. He received his

medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and has been in practice for more than

20 years. He is one of 98 doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital who specialize in

Emergency Medicine. He is also an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr

Peak has published a great deal of peer reviewed research articles on trauma, automobile

accidents , PTSD and pain.

Goulda Downer, PhD, FAND, CNS, RD/LN

Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC - 8/21/2017

الواليات المتحدة األمريكية –السيرة الذاتية والخبرات العملية للدكتوره غولدا داونر من كلية الطب جامعة هاورد في واشنطن

Goulda Downer, PhD, FAND, RD, LN, CNS is faculty in the College of Medicine at Howard

University, in Washington, DC. Dr. Downer currently heads the Howard University Capital

Region AETC Telehealth Training Center (HU-CRTP). In collaboration with the National

Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and Boston University Healthcare Emergency

Management. Dr. Downer has provided training on, “The Role of Cultural Competence in

Emergency Management.” She has developed the graduate Emergency Management Certificate

curriculum for Howard University and has served as Emergency Management curriculum

reviewer for other academic institutions. Currently she serves as instructor for Federal

Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) E390 Course – “Integrating Emergency

Management Education into Your Institution,” with and emphasis on Hispanic-Serving

Institutions (HSIs); Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs); and Historically Black Colleges

and Universities (HBCUs). The outcome of this engagement is aimed at strengthening the

diversity of the US EM workforce. Dr Downer served as part of a team of experts invited by the

US Federal Government Agency to explore ideas to collectively engage in supporting the quality

of EM and Homeland Security Education Systems (NTES) and Center for Homeland Defense &

Security (CHDS) which convened in the spring of 2017

Prof. Leonardo Palombi MD

Faculty of Medicine, University Tor Vergata, Italy

Dr. Leonardo Palombi is a full Professor of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health at Faculty

of Medicine, University Tor Vergata, Italy .

He is the head of the Biomedicine and Prevention Department in the same university.

He is also scientific director of the DREAM (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and

Malnutrition) Program, a large private/public intervention in 10 African countries with 33 health

centers and 20 molecular labs, run by a faith-based organization: the Community of Sant’Egidio.

He is the coordinator of a PhD on Nursing sciences and Public Health at University of Tor

Vergata, Rome. He also serves as a Director of the International Master Courses in Protection

Against CBRNe events (www.mastercbrn.com)

His main area of research has been HIV infection, infectious/ tropical diseases, global health,

health planning and epidemiology of ageing. He has been Co-Principal Investigator in a number

of national studies and international interventions. He has been involved as Managing Director

for two World Bank Interventions in the Balkan area (1998-2000) and in Mozambique (2004-

2007). He was a member of the National Italian Committee for HIV/AIDS (2003-2005) and was

involved in the WHO guidelines preparation in Geneva for HIV (PMTCT 2006 -2008, HIVRES

net 2009, Consolidated Guidelines, 2012).

Leonardo Palombi authored of more than 250 publications (H Index 22), books and oral

presentations at international meetings.

Dr. Andrea Malizia

Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Andrea Malizia is a Researcher in Experimental and Applied Physics at the Department of Biomedicine

and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He achieved his Bc.S. in 2003 and the Ms.S. in 2005

(cum laude) in Environmental Engineering both at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Dr. Malizia

defended his Ph.D. in Quantum Electronics and Plasma Physics in 2010 (Rank 4/4); he later achieved in

2010 the postgraduate title in Protection against CBRNe events (cum laude) at the University of Rome

Tor Vergata. He has completed his second Ph.D in Industrial Engineering in 2017 with an evaluation of

excellent cum laude.

His research interests center on improving the understanding, design, and performance experimental set-

up to analyze the mobilization of toxic dust in case of accident in the energy plants. Currently, he studies

the mechanism of mobilization in case of accident like Loss Of Vacuum Accident (LOVA), Loss Of

Coolant Accident (LOCA) by the mean of experimental and numerical characterization. In addition, Dr.

Malizia has contributed to the development of LIDAR/DIAL systems for environmental control and

military application. He cooperates with international entities (public, military, academics and private)

involved in CBRNe (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and explosive) safety and security.

He works on the development of methods and tecnhiques to improve mechanical and eletrical

measurements for applications on energy, environment, safety and security.

He serves as Assistant Professor, since A.Y, 2013/2014, in the bachelor degree courses of Applied and

Medical Physics at the Faculty of MEdicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has

scientific collaborations with: JET (Joint European Torus) Research Centre in UK; IRSN (France);

University of Bristol (UK); University of Madrid (Spain); Joint Research Centre, European Commission

(Ispra, Varese). He has been also visiting researcher in some of these centres. He is the Didactical

Coordinator of the International Master Courses in Protection against CBRNe events since 2008,

cooperating with the most important national and international entities involved in the CBRNe events.

He also serves as Tutor Assistant in the courses of Physics, Laser systems, Nuclear Fusion Energy and

Measurements. Dr. Andrea Malizia is author of more than 95 scientific works on international and

national Scientific Journal and Conference Proceedings; of 1 National Patent; of 1 book and he serves as

lectures in the Postgraduate courses of: Chirurgia Plastica (Prof. Cervelli, University of Rome Tor

Vergata) for the laser systems security in lab.; for the course of Fusion Energy - Engineering and Science

(Prof. Romanelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata) . He received two National Awards for his research

activities: “Premio Città e Sicurezza” (2007) and “Premio Sapio” (2011).

Professor Francesco d’Errico

أريكو ية والعلمية للبرفسور فرانيسكو ديالسيرة الذات

Francesco d’Errico is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and of

Medical Physics at the University of Pisa, and the Director of the Advanced Radiation Protection

School of AIRP, the Italian chapter of the International Radiation Protection Association. Dr.

d’Errico has prior appointments at Yale University, where he serves in the Science Advisory

Committee of the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO)

Collaborating Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response at Yale New Haven

Health System.

Dr Bonnie Jenkins

Former Ambassador U.S. Department of State's Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

السيرة الذاتية والخبرات

لسفيرة األمريكية السابقة بوني جنكيزل

Born in Queens, New York, serveed as the U.S. Department of State's Coordinator for Threat

Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation[. She is also the

U.S. representative to the G7 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of

Mass Destruction (WMD) and chaired the Global Partnership in 2012. She was the Department of

State lead on the Nuclear Security Summit, and she coordinated the Department of State's activities

related to the effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material. Jenkins coordinates the Department of

State's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs and helps to ensure a coordinated approach

when promoting these programs internationally. Jenkins engages in outreach efforts and regularly

briefs United States Combatant Commands about WMD programs in their area of responsibility,

works closely with relevant international organizations and multilateral initiatives, and works closely

with nongovernmental organizations engaged in CTR-related activities.

Jenkins is also engaged in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which is an international

effort with over 50 countries to reduce infections disease threats such as Ebola and Zika. Launched

in February 2014, Jenkins has worked closely with governments to help ensure they recognize that

GHSA is a multi-sectoral effort requiring the engagement of all relevant stakeholder to prevent,

detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Jenkins leads an international effort to engage

non-governmental stakeholders in the GHSA and she has also developed a GHSA Next Generation

network.

Jenkins has dedicated significant attention to the engagement of Africa in the threat of chemical,

biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and was working closely with the U.S. Defense Threat

Reduction Agency (DTRA), and has developed a program, Threat Reduction in Africa (TRIA), to help

ensure that U.S. programs and activities in CBRN security are well coordinated and as accurately as

possible meet the needs of countries where those programs are engaged. She also serves on the

Department of State's Diversity Governance Board.

Career

Prior to rejoining the U.S. Government, Jenkins most recently served as the program officer for U.S.

foreign and security policy at the Ford Foundation. Her grant-making responsibilities sought to

strengthen public engagement in U.S. foreign and security policy debate and formulation. She

promoted support for multiculturalism, the peaceful resolution of disputes, and the international rule

of law. Before joining the Ford Foundation, Jenkins served as counsel on the National Commission

on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, more commonly known as the "9/11 Commission". She

was the lead Commission staff member on counter-terrorism policy in the Office of the Secretary of

Defense and on U.S. military plans targeting al Qaeda prior to 9/11.[2]

Jenkins also served as General Counsel to the U.S. commission to assess the organization of the

federal government to combat proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and as a consultant to

the 2000 National Commission on Terrorism. She is a retired U.S. Naval Reser,ve officer, she

completed in 2006 a year-long deployment to U.S. Central Command in Support of Operation

Enduring Freedom. She received numerous awards in her time as an officer in the Naval Reserve,

including the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps

Achievement Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service

Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Navy Pistol Marksman Ribbon.[2]

Jenkins is an expert on arms control and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She

served for nine years as legal adviser to U.S. ambassadors and delegations negotiating arms control

and nonproliferation treaties during her time as a legal adviser in the Office of General Counsel at

the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. She has been a legal adviser on

the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty(CTBT), the Chemical Weapons Convention, and

the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, among others. She has also served as U.S. legal adviser

on relevant treaty implementing bodies, such as the CTBT Organization (CTBTO), and

the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).[2]

Education

Jenkins has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and co-led arms

control and nonproliferation simulated negotiations at Standford University's Center for International

Center and Security Cooperation. She was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and

International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. During her

years at Belfer, she served as an advisor at Harvard Law School's Bernard Koteen Office of Public

Interest Advising. Jenkins has a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia; an

LL.M. in international and comparative law from the Georgetown University Law Center; an M.P.A.

from the State University of New York at Albany; a J.D. from Albany Law School; and a B.A.

from Amherst College. She also attended the Hague Academy of International Law.

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Professor Sir Steve Finnigan CBE QPM DL BA ( Cambridge), MA (Hons) Former Lancashire Police Chief Constable, England , UK

Professor Sir Steve Finnigan joined Merseyside Police in 1976, and during the early part of his

career held various operational roles. He has a degree in Social Sciences from the Open

University, and went on a Bramshill scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge University

where he gained a BA Hons degree in History, and later an MA (Cantab). He was later awarded

a diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Studies, also from Cambridge University.

He joined Lancashire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable in January 2001 and acted as

Gold Commander during the disorder in Burnley in 2001, before he was promoted to Deputy

Chief Constable in July 2002, responsible for the Corporate Development portfolio.

In February 2005 he was appointed Temporary Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary,

before being appointed substantively to the role in March 2007.

Mr Finnigan is Chair of the National Performance Management Business Area. He is also Chair

of Police Sport UK, having been a keen sportsman throughout his career. He played soccer for

the English and British Police for ten years, as well as being awarded two “Blues” during his

time at Cambridge. In June 2006 Mr Finnigan was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM)

and in June 2010 was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Lis

Steve Finnigan, has led Lancashire Constabulary for 11 years. He earned the Queen's Policing

Medal in 2006 and was appointed CBE in 2010.. He was often described as the longest serving

chief constable in the United Kingdom. Sir Finnigan is recently retired Chief Constable of

Lancashire Constabulary having served as Chief for over 10 years. He is a highly experienced

operational officer and had a strategic command role during the tragic ‘cockle pickers disaster at

Morecambe Bay in 2004. He was the National Police Chief’s Council Chair of performance

management. He is now a Professor of Policing Studies at Liverpool Centre for Advanced

Policing Studies where he is leading on the professionalising of Police Leadership.

Karen Wislon Dean of School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery

University of West of Scotland, Scotland, UK

Karen Wilson is Dean of the University’s School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery. She is

responsible for providing strategic, operational and academic leadership to the School,

maintaining and developing the School’s reputation in teaching, research and

scholarship and enhancing the School and University’s international reputation. She

leads a team of around 150 staff across 5 campuses, with approximately.4000

students. As an integral member of the University’s Senior Management Team, Karen

also contributes to the strategic leadership and direction of the whole University.

Previously Karen was Director of Health Professions and Nursing Care for the Scottish

Ambulance Service and prior to that she worked for the Scottish Government for 12

years as a Nursing Officer and then Interim Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland.

Karen trained as a nurse, a midwife, a district nurse, a nurse teacher and has a

research Masters degree.

Paul Gowens

University of West of Scotland, Scotland, UK

Paul Gowens is currently lead consultant paramedic, leading the team of consultant paramedics

at the Scottish Ambulance Service. He is also the Vice Chair of the College of Paramedics and

founder member of the faculty of pre-hospital care at the ( Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

RCSEd). He has undertaken both the Scottish Patient Safety Programme and the Health

Foundation, Generation Q Fellowships, developing a special interest in both professional

leadership and pre-hospital care of the critically ill and deteriorating patient.

Furthermore, He is a National Clinical Advisor at the Scottish Government, Healthcare Quality

and Strategy Directorate and a member of the Resuscitation Research Group, Edinburgh. He has

worked extensively on Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Major Trauma Systems and Sepsis. Paul

is an associate senior lecturer at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, he has published in a

number of peer reviewed journals.

Professor Michael J. Ward, BS, MGA, MIFireE

Professor Michael Ward spent three decades with a large urban county fire and rescue department in the

USA. He started career as a firefighter and retired as the acting EMS Division administrator with the last

five years in EMS Administration. He was a former director of the National EMS Management

Association, USA.

He also worked at a large state community college and ending at a medium sized university medical

center then as Assistant Professor and Program Director of Emergency Health Services. Also a dozen

years as a full time professor and program director. He is the Primary author/editor for Company Officer:

Principles and Practice, 3rd

edition published by Jones and Bartlett for the International Association of

Fire Chiefs and National Fire Protection Association.

Past experience include five years devoted as a consultant, evaluating EMS and fire systems against

national benchmarks and best practices; as well as being as an executive director for two hospital-based

paramedic ambulance services.

Bradford Newbury BS, MPA, NRP I/C

Brad has dedicated over 30 years to Fire and Emergency Medical Services. His experiences

include both volunteer and career fire departments as well as private, hospital based and

municipal EMS services. He currently serves as a career Captain/Paramedic assigned as a shift

commander in a suburban department just south of Boston.

Teaching is a passion for Brad and he has mounted a vast array of educating experience in both

Fire and EMS areas. He has presented at both fire and medical conference covering a number

of related topics. Most recently Brad worked with the NAEMT and Jones & Bartlett publisher as

a co-author for the “All Hazard Disaster Response” course released in 2017.

Brad had a vision to deliver EMS education in a different way. More than ten years ago he

became an innovator in hybrid EMS education for initial paramedic programs. Brad’s

entrepreneurial spirit drove him build a CAAHEP accredited program and enroll students from

around the globe at his school National Medical Education & Training Center.

Since 2014 served as Faculty Member, Fellowship Disaster Medicine, an affiliated fellowship of

the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and currently serves as the Associate Director EMS

Education where he teaches prehospital medicine and disaster response. . Brad holds a

Bachelor’s Degree in Fire Science and a Master Degree in Public Administration.

Dr Geoff O’Brien

University of Northumbria, Newcastle, England

Former Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Geoff is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering and Environment. He combines

engineering practice with social science work on policy together with a strong sense of business

culture. Prior to joining Northumbria University, Geoff was involved in the geophysical industry

with a global remit with a particular focus on environmental responsibility. On leaving the

geophysical industry he undertook an MBA at Durham University. He joined Northumbria

University, Newcastle , England in 1992.

Since joining the University of Northumbria at Newcastle , Geoff has been involved in a number

of research projects including environmental management for businesses, climate adaptation for

developing countries, renewable energy technologies, disaster management and resilience

building. His PhD is titled Disaster Management, Climate Change and Variability and Social

Resilience. Geoff is also active in public life and has served as an elected member of Newcastle

for some 20 years. He has served as Sheriff and Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne for

municipal years 2010/11 and 2011/12 respectively.

Dr. Ibrahim Almarzouqi BBA, MSc, PhD

Directorate of Emergency and Public Safety, Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, UAE.

Dr. Ibrahim Almarzouqi is a long serving Major in Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, UAE. He holds

Doctorate degree in Community Awareness, Crisis and Disaster Management (from

Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK); and MSc in Disaster Management from Coventry

University, England, UK. Though, his Bachelor degree in Business Administration (ie BBA

degree) was obtained from the UAE University in 2006.

He is currently the Head of Data Analysis Section at the Emergency and Public Safety

Directorate, AD Police GHQ, UAE. Previously Dr Al Marzouqi worked at various departments

and holds a range of positions at the Directorate of Emergency and Public Safety, Abu Dhabi

Police GHQ. In 2011 for example He directed the Innovation and Development section and then

between 2012- 2017 was appointed as a Head of Strategic Planning at the Emergency and Public

Safety Department, ADP GHQ, UAE.

His research work and interests focus on disaster management, risk assessment, community

awareness, capability building and communication in disaster.

Professor Amer Hosin

Conference Program Chair

ConvenorWorkshop 2: Secondary Trauma & Mental Wellbeing of Emergency Staff

Professor Amer Hosin currently holds the position of Senior Executive & Academic Advisor,

Emergency and Public Safety Directorate, AD Police GHQ, UAE. Formerly Chief Executive

Officer (CEO) of the Emergency Medicine Academy Project, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Dr Hosin completed his training in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry Medical School,

Birmingham University, England; and his Child Psychiatry training at the Department of Child

and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, at King’s College Medical School, University

of London. His PhD in Applied Psychology, PTSD trauma and Behavioral Science was

conducted in Northern Ireland, UK where most of his subsequent research on trauma,

community health, PTSD and secondary traumatisation was conducted.

Previously and between 1994 and 2014 Dr Hosin worked as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and

Academic Leader (at London Metropolitan University, formerly University of North London).

He has specific passion for teaching in Higher Education. He has taught, designed and

contributed to the delivery of a range of undergraduate, postgraduate courses and successful

completion of several PhDs projects.

Professor Hosin has taught in Higher Education institutions in England for over 25 years. His

previous teaching includes the Middle East; Tuzla Medical School (involvement in the European

Task Force on Rehabilitation of Bosnian Universities); Northern Ireland; St Martin’s College,

University of Cumbria, Lancaster, England; and London Metropolitan University, London, UK.

At the latter Dr Hosin directed for several years the MSc Child, Adolescent and Family Mental

Health Postgraduate Programme alongside other programs, including designing the MSc Risk

Assessment and Disaster Management with LMU Business School.

Other main duties Dr Hosin enjoys include the supervision of PhD research students in areas

such as Stress in Work settings; Mental Health and Wellbeing; Secondary Trauma among

professionals working in emergency settings; and Mental Health of Survivors of Major

Traumatic Events and/or Disasters. These areas were clearly highlighted in his three books and

major chapter publications recently on Displaced Populations and Refugees of Multiple

Traumas’ published lately in Gregory R. Ciottone (ed.), Disaster Medicine, 2nd edition, Elsevier,

2015.

Furthermore, Dr Hosin has acted as a consultant and book proposal reviewer for various leading

publishing houses including Arnold, Pearson, Routledge and Sage relating to topics such as

applied cross-cultural psychology, stress, risk and trauma, displaced populations in emergencies

and disasters, traumatised refugee families and children of multiple trauma and child psychiatry.

Additionally, between 1997 and 2007 Dr Hosin chaired the Arab Medical Union in Europe, UK

branch; and also acted as the associate editor of the ArabMed Journal published by the Arab

Medical Union in Europe.

With regard to local and international partners and links, Dr Hosin has (in recent years)

organised various successful conferences and workshop training programs on Work-Related

Stress and Wellbeing, Trauma Rehabilitation, PTSD, Risk & Disaster Management and Family

Mental Health in Emergency and Disaster Settings which took place in cities such as London,

Amman (Jordan), Istanbul, Munich, Düsseldorf, Boston, Toronto, Paris and at several locations

in the UAE.

It is worth noting that some of these workshops and conferences (which Dr Hosin chaired or co-

chaired) were delivered in association with the World Health Organization, Regional Office for

the Eastern Mediterranean, WHO, EMRO; the World Psychiatric Association; and was

supported by other organisations such as the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK; the Royal

College of General Practitioners, UK; the Royal College of Surgeons, England; the International

Medical and Educational Trust, USA; the British Arab Psychiatrists Association, UK; and the

Centre for Trauma Recovery and the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, School of

Medicine, University of Missouri, USA.

In 2013, Dr Hosin also co-chaired and organized with colleagues from Harvard Medical School

the first Emergency Medicine Conference which was held in Abu Dhabi between 8th and 11th

December.

Finally and in his capacity as a Senior Executive & Academic Advisor, Emergency and Public

Safety Directorate, AD Police GHQ, UAE Dr Hosin has planned the strategic vision and

formulated mission statement both of which have focused on delivery of best practices,

professional development, achievement through investment through capacity building and

research work that recognize needs.

Dr Abdel H. Noureldin, MD, FACEP.

Dr. Abdel Noureldin is an attending physician in the department of Emergency Medicine at

Centegra Health System, US , Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He

worked as an instructor and course director of multiple life support courses and multiple

continuing medical education courses since 1983. He did multiple presentations in the USA and

internationally. Dr Noureldin is one of the Founding members of Emirates Society of

Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Abdel Noureldin worked in the UAE ( 2006-2009) and was appointed as the program

director of the Emergency Medicine residency at Tawam hospital, senior consultant in the

department of Emergency Medicine, and adjunct clinical assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine

and Health Science, UAE University. He was also the chair of the scientific committee of the

Emirate Society of Emergency Medicine and a HAAD oral examiners. Dr. Noureldin was a

faculty of Rush medical College from 1983 to 2006 in the department of Family medicine and

attending Department of Emergency Medicine at Alexian Brother Medical center from 1991 to

2006.

Focusing on educational background and membership, Dr Abdel Noureldin completed Family

practice residency and awarded the American board of family Physicians in 1983, and also

board certified Emergency Medicine, the American board of emergency Medicine 1988.

Major Dr Abudlla Al Al Hmoudi

Dr Abdulla Al Hmoud is a Major who served in Abu Dhabi Police , GHQ, UAE for over 16

years. Currently, He is the deputy director of CBRN administration at the Emergency and

Public Safety Directorate, AD Police, GHQ. He obtained his PhD from Salford University, UK

2016. His doctorate focuses on Community Centered early Warning System that enhance

reliance in disaster. His subsequent research work and contribution to international conferences

addressed this area of interest too. His master degree though was on Disaster Management and

completed in 2011 from Dubai University, UAE.

Focusing on other duties and membership, He is the President of Research in Security and

Safety, UAE. Also Head of Occupational health, safety, emergency management and public

safety in AD Police. His main interests and current research relate to innovation that focus on

protection of community from natural hazards and disasters.

Dr Zheeshan Aziz

School of Build Environment, Salford University, UK

Dr Zeeshan has earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering,

Loughborough University in 2003; and his MSc (Distinction) was in Software Technology,

from Robert Gordon University ( RGU), Scotland in 2001. He is working and since 2010 at

Salford as as a Senior Lecturer in Construction Management. Previously ( between 2007 – 2010 )

worked as a Research Fellow at University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA

Dr Zeeshan has over 15 year’s research experience in construction informatics. His areas of

specialisation include preparedness, response and recovery during disasters involving critical

physical infrastructures. Other main interest involves use of Virtual Reality and advanced

simulation technologies in disaster planning; and information technology support assist in

recovery , rehab and disaster management. He has lead/participated in numerous research

projects sponsored by funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, EU, British

Council, Royal Academy of Engineering and UKIERI. Further areas of research interest include

Intelligent Construction Collaboration, Building Information Modelling, Building Energy

planning and modelling, sustainable building design, climate mitigation and adaptation, life

cycle assessment, mobile computing. His recent work though remains the use of Virtual Reality

and advanced simulation technologies in disaster planning and response and management.

Dr Janaka Jayawickrama

Senior Lecturer in Community Wellbeing, Department of Health Sciences,

University of York, UK

Dr Janaka Jayawickrama was trained in India and the USA, on community health and mental

health. Janaka received his PhD in social anthropology in 2010. Over the last 25 years he has

collaborated with disaster, conflict and uneven development in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Janaka

has played key roles in various humanitarian responses including tsunami responses in Sri Lanka (2004),

internally displaced people in Western Darfur, Sudan (2005), Afghan refugees in Pakistan (2006),

refugees in Malawi (2006), Iraqi refugees in Jordan (2007) and Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Iraq

(2017).

Throughout his career Janaka has worked within and between academia and policy and practice in

disasters, conflicts and uneven development. His on-going work on community wellbeing seeks to shape

future policy and practice on humanitarian and recovery interventions in disasters and conflicts. As well

as teaching graduate courses on humanitarian assistance, mental health, multicultural health interventions,

post-conflict/disaster reconstruction, project management, research methods, sustainable development and

community wellbeing Janaka has also conducted local, national and regional workshops for national

professionals on concepts of community care in disasters and conflicts, disaster risk reduction and

humanitarian assistance.