FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Ebola Vigilance for Regional Preparedness Planners
University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center (ERC) Topical Workshop
April 21, 2015
8:00 to 5:00 pm
Kingsgate Marriott
151 Goodman Ave. 45219
Deadline for Registration is April 15, 2014
No registration fee but everyone needs to register (below)!
Cash parking is available at Eden Avenue Garage
and Kingsgate Marriott, 151 Goodman Ave. 45219
Application has been submitted for continuing education contact hours for nurses through the OBN Approver Unit at the
University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing (OBN-011-93). Please contact Developmental Affairs at (513)558-5311 regarding
approval status.
This Topical Workshop aims to provide an overview of the regional hospital Ebola response
with attention to human factors, maintaining vigilance and “lessons learned” applicable to
planning for other emerging diseases. A break-out donning and doffing work group session
will be held. The primary intended audience is regional Ebola response planners, but other
health care workers and students are also welcome if space permits.
Organizing Committee (University of Cincinnati):
Susan Reutman (Chair), RN, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Occupational Health Nursing,
Univ. of Cincinnati
Jane Christianson, RN, MSN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Deputy Director, Occupational Health
Nursing, Univ. of Cincinnati
Nicholas Newman, MS, DO, FAAP, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Director, Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Medical Center
Tiina Reponen, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health, ERC Director, Univ. of Cincinnati
Amit Bhattacharya, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health, ERC Deputy Director, Univ. of
Cincinnati
Sharada Paudel, RN, Univ. of Cincinnati (Co-Coordinator)
Chris Schafer, Univ. of Cincinnati (ERC Coordinator)
Marianne Kautz, Univ. of Cincinnati (Program Manager)
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Speakers:
Captain Kenneth Mead, MSN, PhD, PE, Senior Research Engineer. National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH
Cheedy Jaja, RN, BA, MSN, MPH, Ph Associate Professor, College of Nursing; Department of Internal
Medicine - Hematology & Oncology, College of Medicine, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Terri Thrasher, RN BSN MSN, Senior Director of HR Professional Services, Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Charles Schnurpel, BS, Manager, Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Patrick Burke, BA, MPH, CIC, Public Health Epidemiologist, Supervisor of Communicable Disease
Unit, Cincinnati Health Department, OH
Lt. Col. Edward Kosterman, BA, MS, MPH, Public Health Epidemiologist, Supervisor of Communicable
Disease Unit, Wright Patterson Air Force Base Hospital, OH
Maj. Jared Mort, MSN, MBA, RN-BC, ACNS-BC, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Wright Patterson Air
Force Base Hospital, OH
Break-out Session Moderators (in addition to above-named speakers):
Kelly Hoover (CCHMC) MSN, RN-BC, Education Specialist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center
Hannah Carlson, MSN, RN-BC, Education Specialist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Margot Bayer, BS, Safety Specialist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Steven Osterholt, RN, BS, Infection Prevention and Control Program Manager, USAF AFMC 88
MDG/SGNE Officer, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Fairborn, OH
Short Bio of Keynote Speaker
Captain Kenneth (Ken) Mead is a Senior Research Engineer assigned to The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
CAPT Mead has been with NIOSH since his transfer from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Public Health
Service in 1993. He is a registered Professional Engineer with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The
Wichita State University and an MS and PhD in Industrial Hygiene from The University of Oklahoma.
Throughout his 26-yr career, CAPT Mead has applied engineering and personal protective
concepts to protect workers against occupational exposures including chemical and biological warfare
agents, industrial exposures, and infectious and chemical exposures within healthcare environments. For
the past 13 years, his primary research focused on the protection of healthcare and emergency medical
responders to protect against infectious exposures as well as exposures to hazardous drugs. Ken serves on
multiple professional committees focused on Industrial Ventilation, Clean Space Design, and Healthcare
Facility Design. He is also a member of the USP Expert Advisory Panel on hazardous drug exposures.
Since August 2014, CAPT Mead’s involvement in the response to the current Ebola Epidemic
includes protective design and work practice guidance for African Healthcare Facilities as well as being a
member of multiple CDC Rapid Ebola Preparedness (REP) teams. The CDC REP teams travel to U.S.
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Hospitals with designated Ebola Treatment facilities to conduct on-site assessments and provide guidance
on the use of personal protective equipment, facility layout & planning, simulation training, hazardous
waste management and related topics. In addition, CAPT Mead is a cadre member of the CDC Ebola
Response Teams (CERT). The CERT teams are made up of experts in epidemiology, infection control,
laboratory, and communications and they stand ready to deploy on short notice to any hospital in the
United States with probable Ebola cases.
Agenda:
Speaker / Moderator:
Tiina Reponen
Kenneth Mead
Cheedy Jaja
Morning Break
Terri Thrasher &
Charles Schnurpel
Review of Ebola Response Preparation
Activities At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
Lunch Break
Patrick Burke
Lt. Col. Edward Kosterman
Maj. Jared Mort
Susan Reutman
Afternoon Break
Break-out Session:
Susan Reutman
Program Evaluation
Topic:
Introductory Address
Keynote: A Perspective on Hospital
Preparations for the Safe Treatment of
Patients with Known/Suspect Ebola Virus
Disease
Human Factors for Ebola Response
Planners: Lessons from the Ebola Virus
Disease Outbreak in West Africa
Local Health Department Response to the
Ongoing Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Risk Mitigation through Direct Active
Monitoring
Key Planning and Operational Response
Factors for Biocontainment Planning
Introduction to Break-out Session Activities
Break-out Session: Donning and Doffing
Small Group Workshops
Closing Remarks
Time:
8:30 – 8:45am
8:45-9:45 am
9:45- 10:15 am
10:15-10:30am
10:30-11:30am
11:30am – 12:30pm
12:30pm - 1:30pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
2:30pm – 2:45pm
2:45pm-3:00pm
3:00pm – 4:30pm
4:30pm – 4:45pm
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Please register at https://greatlakesosha.org/course-catalog
E-mail inquiries to Marianne Kautz at kautzm@uc.edu or call 513-558-1730.
The workshop is supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health though
University of Cincinnati, Education and Research Center, Grant T42/OH008432.
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