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Friday April 16, 2010 Armstrong Atlantic State University
TIMESCHEDULE
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST
8:00 – 8:15 a.m.Welcome - Carmen A Young, RN, MPH, Conference Chairperson
Opening Remarks - John Wright, Director Emergency Services
8:15 – 9:15 a.m.“Dreading the Worst: Pandemics, Panic, and Cultural Anxieties”
Philip Alcabes, PhD, Professor Hunter College, City University of NY
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.BREAK
9:45 - 10:45 a.m.“Evaulating Readiness for the Next Wave of H1N1 Flu”
Partick O’Neal, MD, Dir Emergency Preparedness & Response,
GA Dept. of Community Health
10:45 - 11:45 a.m.George Heake, Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities
Emergency Management and Response Coordinator
11:45 – 1:00 p.m.LUNCH
Remarks – Robin Wingate, CEO, ARC Savannah Chapter
Speaker – Sharon A.R. Stanley, PhD, RN, RS, Chief Nurse and Director, Disaster Health and Mental Health Services, ARC
Acknowledgements - Carmen
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.Concurrent Sessions A
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.Concurrent Sessions B
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.Concurrent Sessions C
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.BREAK
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.“Child and Youth Mental Health; Preparedness and Response”
Betsy Gard, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Member of Georgia Disaster Mental Health Response Team
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.Summation of Conference – Paula Tillman, RN, MSN
Door prizes
End of Conference.
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