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PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP DAY - July 30, 2009
Time Speaker(s) Topic
 8:00  NORAD/Northcom Officials
Briefing at NORAD/USNORTHCOM and Tour Cheyenne Mountain.  (Extra $25 includes transportation and lunch)
 8:30  Maurice Ramirez and Jim Shultz
DEEP Center Training
   Curt Drennen
Psychological First Aid (NCTSN/MRC Course)
   Melissa Brymer Skills for Psychological Recovery (NCTSN Course)
Noon-1:30

Lunch on your own
 1:30
 USNORTHCOM Command Surgeon's Office
Military/Civilian Interface in Medical and Behavioral Health Disaster Response
   Maurice Ramirez and Jim Shultz DEEP Center Training Continued
   Curt Drennen Psychological First Aid Continued
   Melissa Brymer Skills for Psychological Recovery (NCTSN Course)
 3:00
Break
 3:15  Steve Cantrill
Altered Standards of Health Care During a Pandemic
   Korey Bell
Colorado Volunteer Mobilizer: Register online as a disaster response volunteer
   Curt Drennen Psychological First Aid Continued
   Melissa Brymer Skills for Psychological Recovery Continued
4:45 - 6:00 Poster Session
Networking Reception


Speaker: Tom Pyszczynski, The Psychology of Terror
 

CONFERENCE DAY 1 - July 31, 2009

Time

Speaker(s)

Topic

8:30 Chip Benight, Curt Drennen, PJ Havice-Cover, Maurice Ramirez
Opening Remarks: Interface Between Behavioral Health and Medical Response in Disasters-Research and Practice Perspectives
 10:00  Break
10:15
P.J. Havice-Cover
Triage, Treatment and Tracking in Behavioral Health Response
  Curt Drennen An Introduction to The Colorado Emergency Response Network (COCERN)
  Brian Crawford Disaster Field Response for Physicians
  George Doherty Rural and Frontier Medical and Behavioral Health Interface and Challenges
 Noon Plenary Lunch Session

Maurice Ramirez, D.O.
Risk Communication Issues for Medical and Behavioral Health Response Following Disaster
 1:30 Don Sutton and Beth Roome
Resilience in the Workplace
  Floyd Buras
Pediatric Disaster Medical Response and Recovery
  Gil Reyes
Cultural Competence in Medical and Behavioral Health Response
  Panel 
Beyond CISD: Designing and Implementing a Successful Peer Support Program
 3:00 Break
 3:15 Panel
Poster Session Presentations
  Jim Shultz
Vulnerable Populations in Disasters
  Panel
Medical and Psychological Response to Campus Disasters
  Chip Benight
From Data to Eternity: Disaster Behavioral Health Research Methods
4:45 - 7:00
Reception Social Gathering – Networking development and support

 CONFERENCE DAY 2 - August 1, 2009

 8:45 Chip Benight, Curt Drennen, and PJ Havice-Cover Welcome, Opening Announcements and Initial Networking
 9:00
 Sheryl Bishop and Nonie Mendias Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike: The University of Texas Medical Branch Response and Recovery

 9:45 Break
 10:00  Jan McCormack
Secondary Trauma: Self Care for Disaster Responders
   Chip Benight
Web-based Interventions in Disaster
   Debra Kreisberg
Hospital Disaster Response: Integrating Medical/Behavioral Health in Hospital Triage
   PJ Havice-Cover and Charlie Little Medical and Behavioral Health Hospital Interface
 11:30 Buffet Lunch
Disaster Exercise
Communication and Intervention Interface between Medical and Behavioral Health Response
 1:00 Break
 1:15 Continue Disaster Exercise
 2:45 Chip Benight, Curt Drennen, and PJ Havice-Cover Closing Remarks and thoughts for next year

 
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