Briefing Features September
11 First Responders
March 1, 2002 - The Partnership
for Community Safety: Strengthening America's Readiness
sponsored a Feb. 21 briefing on Capitol Hill highlighting
the efforts of first responders in New York City and Washington,
D.C., following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Grace Shum,
R.N., assistant vice president for ambulatory services at
NYU Downtown Hospital, described how her hospital and staff
responded following the attack.
The Partnership, representing firefighters, paramedics and
other EMS professionals, emergency physicians, all other physicians,
hospital officials, medical education professionals, public
health officials, nurses and state regulatory agencies in
the United States, advocates strengthening community readiness
for biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism and other
disasters.
Other speakers included Jim O'Connor, vice president of MetroCare
Ambulance, who coordinated the ambulance services at the World
Trade Center after the attack, and Thom Mayer, M.D., director
of the Emergency Department at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia,
who responded to the attack on the Pentagon and the anthrax
emergency.
Information:
Erica Froyd, Director, Public Health and Research Legislative Affairs
AAMC Government Relations
efroyd@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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