Clinical Challenges in the Community Management of Patients with Special Needs in Disaster

Course Description:

The evolution of modern medical competencies and expanded populations of increased vulnerability pose a significant challenge to today’s public health professional in providing shelter and support during times of disaster in both the urban and rural environment. This course will address some of the significant existing challenges and examine how the roles and responsibilities of responding/receiving personnel, triage and transport and the capabilities within communities can be enhanced through more extensive planning coupled with focused preparation. The application of lessons learned and the careful design of infrastructure, harvesting local experience on a global scale constitutes a critical resource for future problem solving and development in improving community response to disaster.

Target Audience

Academic Faculty/Staff, Federal Government Employees, State Government Employees, Local Government Employees, Non-Government Employees and Students

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and Analyze existing and emerging shortfalls in existing community medical capabilities
  • Explore available means of satisfying identified shortfalls to acceptable standards through modifications to individual roles/competencies, processes, transport and facilities
  • Examine opportunities for enhanced planning and process improvement through the effective harvesting of experience and implementation of community specific preparation and training
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 8.00 Participation/CE
    Tulane Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) awards 8.00 hour(s) of credit for completing Clinical Challenges in the Community Management of Patients with Special Needs in Disaster
Course opens: 
10/20/2021
Course expires: 
01/01/2040
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Instructors:

Joseph Contiguglia

Col. Joseph Contiguglia, MD, MPH&TM, USAF, MC, CFS

Dr. Joseph Contiguglia received an M.D. in medicine and surgery from the University of Siena, an MPH&TM from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and an MBA from St. Mary’s University. He holds clinical faculty appointments at the University of North Dakota, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Colonel Contiguglia retired from the USAF, effective 1 January 2007, as director of operational medicine and chairman of the Department of Military Medicine, Keesler Medical Center, Biloxi, MS. His military experiences include:

Surgeon general-appointed International Health Specialist
Director of the 2004/2005 LIFESAVER Exercises.
Surgeon 474 EOSS, Apiay, Colombia, supporting the Colombian Special Forces
Chief, Medical Operations, United States Air Forces in Europe
Surgeon, 3rd Air Force, responsible for medical operations in sub-saharan Africa
Deputy Command Surgeon, JTF Shining Hope supporting refugees in the Balkans
Headed NATO preparation team for Operation Allied Force in NW Turkey
Surgeon, Joint Task Force - Southwest Asia, Operation Desert Storm
Medical Commander, Operation Safe Haven, Republic of Panama,
Chief, Occupational Medicine and  Environmental Health, RAAF
edical Program Director of  the  Tactical  Air  Warfare Center’s Chemical Weapons Defense and Operational Employment Exercises
Surgeon, OPERATION ELF-1, Saudi Arabia (Iran/Iraq War)
Medical Project Manager of the South East Asian Refugee Evacuation

Dr. Contiguglia is married and has three children.

Available Credit

  • 8.00 Participation/CE
    Tulane Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) awards 8.00 hour(s) of credit for completing Clinical Challenges in the Community Management of Patients with Special Needs in Disaster

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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System Settings 
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