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Session: Experiences and Exercises in Responding to Epidemics and Bioterror Events
3303.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Experiences and Exercises in Responding to Epidemics and Bioterror Events
This session will describe the process for developing a tabletop exercise, how to use a tabletop exercise to evaluate a community's preparedness for pandemics or bieterrorist attacks and ways to incorporate the use of communications technology to simulate response during an emergency.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to describe: 1) the process for developing a tabletop exercise; 2) how to use a tabletop exercise to evaluate a community's preparedness for pandemics or bieterrorist attacks and 3) ways to incorporate the use of communications technology to simulate response during an emergency.
Moderator(s):Sandra D. Daniel, PhD, RN, CPNP
2:30 PMPandemic influenza functional exercise -- New Hampshire, 2005  [ Recorded presentation ]
Rachel Plotinsky, MD, Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD, Mary Ann Cooney, RN, Jose Montero, MD
2:45 PMMapping respiratory infection rates in California for flu epidemic planning
Jim E. Banta, PhD, MPH, Seth Wiafe, MPH, Sam Soret, PhD, David Dyjack, DrPH
3:00 PMAvian overture: How pandemic training builds public health and safety partnerships  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mary Clark, JD, MPH, Kerry Dunnell, MSW, Garrett W. Simonsen, MSPS
3:15 PMEasing the exercise burden: A scenario-based tabletop exercise generator  [ Recorded presentation ]
Cynthia T. Smith, MPH, Ariane Reeves, RN, BSN, CIC, ACRN, Darren Collins
3:30 PMUsing tabletop exercises to evaluate a community's preparedness for pandemic influenza  [ Recorded presentation ]
Michael Stoto, PhD, Paul D. Biddinger, MD, FACEP, Rebecca Orfaly Cadigan, MS, Elena Savoia, MD MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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