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| GREATER OMAHA CHAPTER CHAPTER - Oct 28, 2016 |
October Luncheon |
In October, Dr. Sharon Medcalf, director and assistant professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, talked with the chapter on emergency preparedness. Medcalf gave a quick overview on how the Nebraska program took off after 9/11. She covered a number of significant events, from disasters to infectious diseases around the world, to show how the incident had some long-standing impact on the evolution of emergency preparedness. Medcalf also heralded the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit as a prototype that many locations have been duplicating. She covered the peculiarities that make the biocontainment unit isolated and effective. She concluded by emphasizing the significance of health care personnel not self-contaminating in their biopreparedness arrangements: They must establish processes with detailed instructions clearly posted. |
Event Photographs: |
 Chapter President Col. Sean Murphy, USAF, presents a chapter coin to October guest speaker, Dr. Sharon Medcalf, director and assistant professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska. |
 In October, Col. Murphy (c) recognizes Melinda Berry, campaign services director, Steier Group, and Jim Steier, CEO, Steier Group, Omaha, Nebraska, who were instrumental in developing the chapter's trifold brochure, which they took on as a public service to help the chapter grow. |
 In late October, the chapter supported National Cyber Security Awareness Month by securing two panelists, Christopher Jarko and Dr. Bernard Lichvar, for the Boys Town discussion "Cyber Citizenship: How Individual Actions Have National Impact." The full panel (l-r) includes Keelan Stewart, moderator, Boys Town; Craig Williamson, Continuum Security Solutions; Scott Haugaard, Nebraska State Patrol; Theresa Giorlando, MITRE Corporation; Christopher Jarko, U.S. Strategic Command J-3; Dr. Bernard Lichvar, iConsult4u; and Dan Birdsall, Nebraska Attorney General's Office. |
