Iowa
For more information, e-mail
DisasterReady@aap.org.
Kansas
Contact: Dennis Cooley, MD, FAAP, Vice President
E-mail:
Cooleymd@aol.com
The chapter has identified a Chapter Disaster Preparedness Coordinator, Dennis Cooley, MD, FAAP, who attends meetings of the Kansas Bioterrorism Coordinating Council and the Kansas Advisory Council on Trauma. Dr Cooley also serves on the Clinical Resource Network, a statewide group of health professionals who serve as medical consultants to the Kentucky Department of Health during a public emergency.
The chapter regularly sponsors continuing education lectures on disaster preparedness, and disaster preparedness continues to be included in the Topeka area Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course (PALS) courses.
Thanks to the state EMS-C coordinator, Sara House, 17 pediatric disaster
life support courses have been held throughout the state. The courses include materials from
University of Massachusetts Medical School Pediatric Disaster Life Support and
American Medical Association's
Basic Disaster Life Support™ (BDLS®) classes. To date, Dr Cooley has been involved in 7 of these 1-day courses. Daniel Fagbuyi, MD, FAAP, AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council member, has also been part of the faculty and contributed to the curriculum.
A Governor's summit on novel influenza A (H1N1) was held in August 2009 and included a presentation by Dr Cooley. Dr Cooley plans to attend the First Biennial Kansas Homeland Security Summit in December 2009.
Missouri
Contact: Ted Barnett, MD, FAAP
E-mail:
tbarnett@cmh.edu or
tbarnett@kc.rr.com
Contact: Jan Frank, Executive Director
E-mail:
jkfrank@moaap.org
The Missouri AAP Chapter has formed a Committee on Disaster Preparedness and has appointed Ted Barnett, MD, FAAP to serve as the committee chairperson. Dr. Barnett is a highly-qualified and experienced pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, and he also serves as the disaster preparedness director for the hospital. Committee members from across the state are being recruited, and conference calls will be scheduled.
Resource:
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Are You Ready? (Missouri) – A compilation of readiness materials and tools to help Missouri schools and families prepare for emergencies when school is in session. (MO Department of Health and Senior Services) |
Nebraska
For more information, e-mail
DisasterReady@aap.org.
