Dr. Paula Smith
Dr. Paula Smith is a Doctor of BioMedical Psychology and has worked with DHS, FEMA, (COOP, National Disaster Response), Multijurisdictional Counter Drug Task Force and many other Federal Agencies as an Operations Specialist. She has worked in both Strategic Planning and Operations at many levels, as assigned to Alternative Service /Temporary Active Duty by the Coast Guard. Currently Dr. Smith is the Director of Process Review and Training at the Catastrophic Planning and Management Institute where she innovated several processes that are key to expediting our national catastrophic preparedness capabilities. She also serves on the committees which review and write such National Policy documents as the National Response Framework, NIMS, ICS, and the Area Maritime Security Plan. Dr Smith is an as Adjunct Professor of Emergency and Disaster Management at American Military University, and sits on several Advisory Boards including Urban Search and Rescue.
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Keynote Speakers
Colonel Randall J. Larsen, USAF (Ret), became the executive director of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism in April 2009. The commission, led by former Senators Bob Graham (D-FL) and Jim Talent (R-MO), issued its final report in January 2010. Senators, Graham, Talent and Col Larsen recently formed the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center.
New! Jeffrey W. Runge, MD, FACEP, Former Chief Medical Officer, DHS
Dr. Runge has decades of clinical, research, leadership and administrative experience. In addition to seven years as the head of two government agencies with as many as 1000 employees and contractors under his direction, he brings nearly 30 years of experience as an emergency medicine physician. Until 2001 he practiced and taught in North Carolina’s busiest emergency department and trauma center, while performing research in injury prevention, trauma care, and emergency service delivery.
Speakers
Margaret "Jo" Velardo, PhD, Fellow, HSOA Directorate. Homeland Security Institute.
Thomas Cunningham, NAHERC Coordinator for USDA
Thomas V. Inglesby, MD, CEO and Director, UPMC Center for Bio-Security
Jeff Robertson, Risk and Crisis Communications Specialist, Former Assistant Commissioner of CBP for Public Affairs
Douglas Kinney, CPMI
Rob Housman, Partner, Book Hill Partners
Maryellen Maymarian, Attorney
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