Registration Form Hospital Emergency Preparedness Committee of The Name This committee, which has existed for over 15 years, Hospital has as a mandate to develop and sustain, a Regional Emergency Hospital Disaster Plan. The goal is to co-ordinate the Preparedness Address emergency preparedness of hospitals in the region as well as their health care and first responder partners. Committee of Ottawa presents Members

Organization T h e O t t a w a H o s p i t a l : G e n e r a l C a m p u s C i v i c C a m p u s R i v e r s i d e C a m p u s The Rehabilitation Institute E-Mail The Queensway-Carleton Hospital The Changing Face The Children’s Hospital Of The Montfort Hospital of Disasters Phone The Royal Ottawa Hospital The Heart Institute SCO Health Service Ottawa Public Health Registration Fee: $125.00 Central Ambulance Communications Centre Breakfast, lunch and refreshments included. Ottawa Office of Emergency Management Emergency Measures Radio Group Ottawa Red Cross Registration Deadline: September 20,2007 Base Hospital Program Ottawa Fire Service Payment by cheque only, payable to: Ottawa Police Services Hospital Emergency Preparedness Champlain Community Care Access Centre Committee of Ottawa (HEPCO) Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Authority

Mail registration form & cheque to: 11th Annual Alistair Hensler Disaster Planning c / o R e d C r o s s , O t t a w a B r a n c h Conference Planning Committee Conference 340 Catherine Street Friday September O t t a w a O N K 1 R 1 C 4 Jill Courtemanche, Ottawa Public Health 28, 2007 Sadeeka Dean Nyles, University Ottawa Heart Institute The Chambers For registration enquiries contact: Thomas Hayes, Ben Franklin Place Alistair Hensler Alistair Hensler, Red Cross Phone: 613-560-7220 ext:248 Dave Levesque, The Ottawa Hospital 101 Centrepointe E-mail: [email protected] Tracy MacDonald, CHEO Ottawa Justin Maloney, Base Hospital

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John Webb R.S.W. is Director of Emergency Social John Ash, M.A. is the manager of Ottawa’s 08:00-08:30 Services, Nova Scotia, chair of the Council of Office of Emergency Management. In his Registration & Continental Breakfast Emergency Social Service Directors Canada, and a current role, and as an emergency services coach at CEPC. He has been involved in 55 disasters provider, John has been involved in 08:30-08:45 including Swiss Air and Hurricane Juan. He managed coordinating with the Federal and Provincial Opening Remarks a shelter as an American Red Cross Volunteer for governments for events such as the G World Thomas Hayes Katrina. Summits, the 2003 blackout and the ’s response to 270 evacuees from 08:45-10:00 Kashechewan. Wade Deisman Experiences from Katrina John Webb Director, National Security Group Dept. Criminology, University of Ottawa Donovan Arnaud 10:00-10:30 Coffee & Calories Project Manager National Office of Health Emergency Re- Dr Joseph Contiguglia M.D.,M.P.H.,M.B.A., 10:30-11:30 sponse Teams, Health Canada F.A.C.P.M., is a professor at Tulane, North Dakota, Government Reactions to Terrorism and Impacts on Society and Texas Tech Universities, and recently retired from Wade Deisman the USAF Medical Corps. He has vast experiences in emergencies around the globe. 11:30-12:30 Medical Aspects of Disaster Management Dr. Salisbury, M.D.,M.H.S.C.,F.R.C.P.C., Dr Joseph Contiguglia Conference Theme F.A.C.P.M. is the Medical Officer of Health for the City 12:30-13:30 Lunch & Displays of Ottawa. Formerly he was Deputy Chief of Staff, Force Health Protection, Canadian Forces Medical The Changing Face of Disasters refers to the 13:30-14:30 Group, NDHQ. He has experience across Canada, the emerging risks that we face in Canada today, SARS Commission Report: Panel discussion US and Croatia. He is past president of the Canadian and the adaptations to emergency response with perspectives from the trenches Association of Aerospace Medicine & Aero-Medical that we must make. Extreme weather is Dr. Salisbury MOH Transport Assoc., and the International Association of causing storms in areas untouched before, Shelley Hudson RN-ICU Military Flight Surgeon Pilots. Erin Henry PHN and extremes of temperature challenge our power grid. Our infrastructure and our Shelley Hudson R.N. B.Sc.N. is currently with the 14:30-15:00 population are aging. Our hospitals are filled Emergency Preparedness Team, Ottawa Public Ottawa’s Emergency Planning: What’s Next? to overflowing, yet we have more and more John Ash Health. She has worked as an ICU and Emergency nurse in Montreal, Halifax and Toronto, where she of the medically fragile in the community. 15:00-15:15 Refreshments worked in the Critical Care Unit at Sunnybrook Super bugs are emerging, and the threat of Hospital nursing SARS patients. In Nova Scotia she terrorism lurks. Interagency planning and 15:15-16:15 was the education coordinator and flight nurse for the engaging the community are trends that are NOHERT: A Program Review Air Ambulance Service. essential to deal with these threats. Donovan Arnaud 16:15 Erin Henry, R.N.,B.Sc.N, is currently a nurse advisor Please take the opportunity during Wrap-up and Evaluation with the Communicable Disease Emergencies, the breaks to visit the displays and Communicable Diseases Division, PHAC. Formerly network with colleagues with Ottawa Public Health and Peel Public Health during SARS doing contact tracing