Speaker: Kelly R. Klein, MD, MPH, FACEP
About the seminar: Panic is frequently cited for a population’s presumed bad behavior or a reason for marshal law to be enacted. Our discussion will unpack this notion and get a better back story to this myth and why it still is pervasive in disaster management, hospital preparedness, and news headlines.
About the speaker: Dr. Klein originally hails from NYC and has lived in Maine, Michigan, Texas, England, and the Caribbean. Her career paths have taken her in many directions: sailing on traditional sailboats, teaching environmental and experiential education, search and rescue, paramedic both ground and helicopter, and finally as an emergency medicine physician. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Detroit Receiving Hospital in Michigan, which was followed by a two year CDC funded fellowship in WMD-Disaster Medicine and EMS with disaster course work concentrated on incident command, psychosocial characteristics of disasters, decontamination for hospitals, and emergencies involving radiation, chemical, biological, and explosives.
She is part of a federal disaster emergency team called a DMAT and is assigned as a supervisory physician with Michigan’s team. This has allowed her real world experiences including Hurricane Katrina and two presidential inaugurations. She is an active instructor and author both nationally and internationally for the National Disaster Life Support Foundation series of courses and an energetic author and reviewer for peer review journals as well as a textbook section editor, and book chapter author.
Recent international speaking adventures have taken her to Israel, South Africa, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland. Her most recent accomplishment is finishing her Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
At present, she works at Eastern Maine Medical Center wearing a few hats: Chair of the IRB, physician liaison to the hospital preparedness committee, and fulltime emergency medicine physician.
The event is free but registration is required. Please use this registration link to sign up for the Zoom event.