Using LinkedIn for Good
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you've seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide [...]
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you've seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide [...]
It's taken me less than two weeks in Lima to realize we have work to do in the field of preparedness in North America. That may come as a surprise [...]
Overview: A Cascadia earthquake and earthquake generated tsunami are going to happen. Geological evidence tells us this. Every day that it doesn't happen brings us closer to that day the [...]
It's a challenge to know where to devote planning, training and exercise time with so many competing demands, agendas and requirements. Consider this - people will fall back on two [...]
I was tasked to develop a ground truth appreciation presentation for this year's Pathfinder Minutemen 2017 Cascadia exercise in Oregon. We're anticipating 10-12 Medical Rapid Response Teams (120-144 medical personnel) to [...]
When I operated a hospital-based ambulance service decades ago we offered free education to rural and frontier volunteer EMS organizations. The service would house and feed us and we would [...]
I am in the process of writing a new book, Healthcare Emergency Incident Management Operations Guide. My goal in writing this book was to provide readers with a straight forward [...]
On this day in 1972 a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, killed more than 10,000 people and left 250,000 homeless. With family in Nicaragua now and frequent travels there I [...]
I was rummaging through some old files the other day and I came across my copy of the After Action Report (AAR) for Quakex97. This was a joint local, state [...]
I participated in the Cascadia Rising 2016 exercise to help add realism and stress. Not everyone appreciated the challenges and annoyances I caused but there was a method to the [...]