SUNY Downstate Medical Center/ Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn New York
New York Institute for All Hazard Preparedness (NYIAHP)
440 Lenox Road, Suite 2M
Brooklyn New York, 11203
(718) 270-1168/3216
2002-2009 Emergency Preparedness-related collaborative projects, drills, presentations
Date
April 3,2002
Accomplishment
2 Hospital Drill, Mass Casualty with
local EMS using Joint Triage System
May 10, 2003
Mass Casualty with optional Decon
of 108 victims using 6 hospital of
Brooklyn & local EMS
July 26, 2002
February- March
2003
March 10,2003
2 Hospital Drill, DECON
Small Pox Clinic
June 2, 2003
Sept 2003
February 2004
December 12,
2003
June 6-10, 2004
October 2004
December 18,
2004
December 27,
2004
January 10,11,
2005
January 19, 2005
February 2005
City Wide Drill, Mass Casualty at a
Sports Stadium (Shea Stadium)
Surgery, ED Tabletop, 2 Hospital
Drill
Poster Presentation: Joint Triage
Among Hospitals
Centers for Biological Preparedness
and Planning (CBPP) Award,
Smallpox Award, Table top Award
Disaster Planning/Surge Capacity
Drill
details
University Hospital of Brooklyn
(UHB), KCHC (Kings County
Hospital Center), Brooklyn, NY
UHB, KCHC, Brookdale
Hospital, Kingsbrook Jewish
Medical Center (KJMC),
Brooklyn Veterans Hospital,
Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn,
NY
UHB, KCHC, Brooklyn NY
KCHC, Brooklyn NY
NYC
UHB, KCHC, Brooklyn NY
2nd Mediterranean Emergency
Medicine Congress, Barcelona,
Spain
UHB, KCHC, Kingsboro
Psychiatric Center (KP) , KJMC
UHB, KCHC, Kingsboro
Psychiatric, and Kingsbrook
Jewish, Brooklyn NY
Poster Presentation on Joint Triage
10th International Conference
System
on Emergency Medicine, Cairns,
Australia
Award Winning Oral Presentation on 3rd Asian Conference on
Graded Multi-hospital Response to
Emergency Medicine, Hong
Disasters
Kong, China
NYCDOHMH-sponsored Plague
UHB, Brooklyn
Tabletop
Clinics Drill
UHB, KCHC, Brooklyn NY
Disaster Instructor
5 Hospital Drill, SARS
Co-chair of Pediatric Advisory
Eastern Association of Surgeons
and Trauma
CBPP, Brooklyn NY
New York Hospital/ Bellevue
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Disaster Group
March 2005
May 16, 2005
July 2005
July 13, 2005
July 2005
July 28, 2005
Smallpox Clinic
Presentation: Tiered Multi-hospital
Response and Joint Triage for
Disaster: A Model for Resource
Allocation and Surge Capacity
Pediatric Advisory Disaster Group
City-wide Conference with final
reports/documents
Hospital Drill, DECON
Started Disaster Medicine
Fellowship
CBPP Surge Task Force-General
Committee
September 2005
HRSA Grant Proposal submitted on
delivering healthcare provider
disaster-preparedness training
September 2005
Article submitted pending approval
on Medical Student Support Team:
An Answer to a Disaster Relief Need
Article submitted pending approval
on EM Residency model of mass
information distribution during a
disaster
Surge Capacity Table Top Drill
using Biological Hazard of Severe
Respiratory Infection
Pediatric Tabletop Exercise January
1,2006-August 31, 2006
September 2005
November 29,
2005
January 11, 2006
CBPP, sponsored by
NYCDOHMH
UHB, Brooklyn, NY
14th World Congress on Disaster
and Emergency Medicine,
Edinburgh, Scotland
New York Hospital/ Bellevue
CBPP, sponsored by
NYCDOHMH
KCHC, Brooklyn NY
SUNY Downstate, KCHC, NYC
DOHMH (partial funding)
NYC
Included collaboration of:
Primary Care Development
Corporation, the Regional
Perinatal Network of NYS, Nat.
Assoc. of State EMS Directors,
Nat. Council of State EMS
Training Coordinators,
CentreLearn, and NYU Schools
of Medicine, Nursing and
Dentistry
Society of Annals of Emergency
Medicine
Society of Annals of Emergency
Medicine
11 HHC Hospitals and the HHC
central office
2005-2006
Essentials of Clinical Medicine,
Block 3, Disaster Preparedness
Community Response lectures
New York City Bioterrorism
Hospital Preparedness planning
Program
SUNY Downstate Medical
Center,
3rd Year medical Students
January 2006
“Hospital Working Group for
Developing a Model Plan to Address
the Surge Capacity Response to an
NYC DOHMH Grant – New
York City Bioterrorism Hospital
Preparedness Program
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March 15, 2006
April, 2006
May 1,2005
May 2,2006
Outbreak Due to a Contagious
Respiratory Illness”
ABC News Interview on Pandemic
Flu, Dr Arquiila
Arquilla, B, Kohlhoff S,
Pediatric Disaster Advisory Group.
Pediatric Disaster Tool Kit Section
Presentations: Pharmacy.
Presentation by the Centers of
Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning
Pediatric Task Force and the NYC
Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene. Bellevue Hospital
“Pediatric Tool Kit: Hospital
Guidelines for Pediatrics in
Disasters”
Looking at Pandemic Flu
Presentation of Pediatric Task Force
Document
NYC DOHMH and GNYHA
ABC News
Presentation
April 2006.
CBPP Pediatric task Force and
New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene
New York City, NY 10013
First Edition Copyright  2005
May 4, 2006
Community Outreach for
The plan was approved and funded by the NYC
KCHC highlighting the
DOHMH in September of 2005
isolation ward in Central
o KCHC A42 Disaster Ward
Brooklyn
Opening of unit; NYCAHP
identified and converted an
existing hospital unit, which
was not currently in use,
into an isolation ward. The
A42 unit of Kings County
Hospital Center was built
originally as an isolation
ward to house the increasing
population of TB patients in
the 1980’s.
May 9,2006
Small Pox Tabletop
Exercise KCHC
May 11,2006
An Integrated Plan to
Augment Surge Capacity
Authors: Christopher
Dayton, MD1, Jamil
KCHC, NYC DOMH
CBPP and New York City Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene
New York City, NY 10013
Posting on NYCDOHMH Website
First Edition Copyright  2006
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Ibrihim, MD2, Michael
Augenbraun, MD1, Steven
Brooks,PhD3, Kiaran Mody,
MS3, Donald Holford,
MPA4, Patricia Roblin, MS,
1
, Bonnie Arquilla, DO2
May 17,2006
Central Brooklyn Center for
Bioterrorism and
Preparedness Planning
Hospitals; 1University
Hospital Brooklyn, SUNY
Downstate Medical Center,
Brooklyn,New York 2 Kings
County Hospital Center,
Brooklyn,New York 3
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical
Center , Brooklyn,New
York 4 Kinsboro Psychiatric
Center, Brooklyn,New
York.
Plague Tabletop Exercise
UHB, Brooklyn, NYC DOMH
May 22, 2006
HHC Conference Lighthouse – Disaster
Ethics
111 E. 59th Street, NYC
June 6, 2006
Community Outreach for
UHB
Preparing for Emergencies
in NYC, Household Disaster
Plans, Infection Control,
Drills and Exercises,
Syndromic Surveillance,
Seniors and People with
disabilities, Pediatric
Planning
Model for Multiple City
Hospitals
Network;
Biological
Exercise
Evaluating Surge Capacity
Bonnie Arquilla, DO,
Patricia Roblin, MS,
Michael Augenbraun, MD,
Jay Reich, MD, Joseph
Masci, MD
Model for Multiple City
Hospitals
System;
Biological
Exercise
Evaluating Surge Capacity
Community Board 17,
New Hope Christian Fellowship
4615 Church Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203
July 5, 2006
October 4-8,
2006
Poster Presentation at the 2006 NY ACEP,
Scientific Assembly, July 5-7,2006
Sagamore Hotel
Bolton Landing, New York.
Presentation at the 4th European Congress on
Emergency Medicine 4-8 October 2006, Crete,
Greece
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Bonnie
Arquilla,
DO,
Patricia
Roblin,
MS,
Michael Augenbraun, MD,
Jay Reich, MD, Joseph
Masci, MD
May 13-16,
2007
Chronic Renal
Insufficiency and Diabetes
Mellitus Following
Disasters: A Model for
Reform.
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Andrew C Miller MD* ‡,
Bonnie Arquilla DO*†
Departments of *
Emergency Medicine, ‡
Internal Medicine, and †
Director of Disaster
Preparedness and the
Disaster Medicine
Fellowship, State University
of New York Downstate
Medical Center. Brooklyn,
NY. USA.
May 13-16,
2007
Postgraduate Fellowship
in Emergency Medicine
Disaster Preparedness:
Providing Physicians with
Special Skills in Disaster
Mitigation as well as
Planning and Response
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Christiana Campbell, MD,
FAAP
SUNY Downstate/Kings
County Hospital Center,
Brooklyn, NY, USA
May 13-16,
2007
New York City Pediatric
Preparedness;
Decontamination of the
Pediatric Patient
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Authors: Christopher
Freyberg1, George L.
Foltin2, Katherine Uraneck3,
Arthur Cooper4, Bonnie
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Arquilla5
1
May 13-16,
2007
Veterans Administration
New York Harbor Hospital
System, New York, NY,
2
Bellevue Hospital Center,
New York University
Medical School, New York
NY,
3
New York City Department
of Health and Mental
Hygiene, New York, NY,
4
Harlem Hospital Center,
New York, NY,
5
State University of New
York, Downstate Medical
Center, Brooklyn, NY
Family Information and
Support Center –
Preparing for ALL of the
Victims of a Large Scale
Disaster
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Authors: Esther Chackes 1,
Gloria Mattera 1, Mary
Caram 1, Silka Aird 1,
George Contreras 2,
Katherine Uraneck 4,
George L. Foltin 1,2, Bonnie
Arquilla 3
1
Bellevue Hospital Cener, 2
New York University
Medical Center, 3 State
University of New York
Downstate Medical Center,
4
New York City
Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
May 13-16,
2007
An Integrated Plan to
Augment Surge Capacity
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Authors: Christopher
Dayton, MD1, Jamil
Ibrihim, MD2, Michael
Augenbraun, MD1, Steven
Brooks,PhD3, Kiaran Mody,
MS3, Donald Holford,
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MPA4, Patricia Roblin, MS,
1
, Bonnie Arquilla, DO2
Central Brooklyn Center for
Bioterrorism and
Preparedness Planning
Hospitals; 1University
Hospital Brooklyn, SUNY
Downstate Medical Center,
Brooklyn,New York 2 Kings
County Hospital Center,
Brooklyn,New York 3
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical
Center , Brooklyn,New
York 4 Kinsboro Psychiatric
Center, Brooklyn,New
York.
May 13-16,
2007
How to Train Physicians to
Respond to a Radiation
Emergency
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Rajesh Mittal, MD MBA1,
Kate Uraneck, MD2, Debra
Berg, MD MPH2, Bonnie
Arquilla, DO1
1
May 13-16,
2007
State University of New
York Downstate Medical
Center, 2 New York City
Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
Hospital-Based Pediatric
Disaster Triage Algorithm:
A Collaborative Effort from
New York City’s Pediatric
Disaster Advisory Group
Presentation:
15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency
Medicine, Amsterdam, Holland,
May 13-16, 2007
Authors: Jeffrey Hom1,
Stephan Kohlhoff1, George
L. Foltin2, Katherine
Uraneck3, Arthur Cooper4,
Bonnie Arquilla1
1
State University of New
York, Downstate Medical
Center, Brooklyn, NY
2
Bellevue Hospital Center,
New York University
Medical School, New York
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May 2007
May 31, 2007
June 18, 2007
June 20, 2007
July 8-10, 2007
July 18, 2007
August 2007
Spring 2008
NY,
3
New York City Department
of Health and Mental
Hygiene, New York, NY,
4
Harlem Hospital Center,
New York, NY
Testing Hospital Disaster
Communication Plan has
Immense Value
Dialysis Center Drill
Emergency Preparedness
Presentation
Bonnie Arquilla, DO,
FACEP
Assist. Prof., EM, UHB
Pediatric emergency
Preparedness forum.
Invited speaker; Dr Bonnie
Arquilla
Goldman M, Anderson T, Zehtabchi S, Arquilla B.
Department of Emergency Medicine, KCHC
PMID: 17517359
Parkside Dialysis Center, UHB and KCHC
Joint UHB/CKHC Mandatory orientation and
annual mandatory education for new and
reappointed residents
Erie County Medical
Smith Auditorium
Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
Disaster Preparedness:
Training Outcomes for
Hospital Staff,Allon
Amitai, MD, R. Gentry
Wilkerson Patricia Roblin,
MS , Rajesh Mittal, MD,
Bonnie Arquilla
Clean Baby Disaster Drill
4 Hospital Radiation
Evaluations and
Decontamination Drill with
Special Attention to
Pediatric
Decontamination
Center for Biological
Preparedness and Planning
“Disasters, Women's
Health, and Conservative
Society: Working in
Pakistan with the Turkish
Red Crescent following the
Earthquake in Southeast
Asia “
New York ACEP, Scientific Assembly, Bolton,
Landing, New York
Miller, A., Arquilla B.,
Chronic Diseases and
Environmental Catastrophes:
The Impact of natural
Disasters on diabetic, renal
and cardiac patients.
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine –
Participant Centers
UHB, KCHC, Psyc. Kinboro Center and KJMC.
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Volume 22,
Number 5. August 2007
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Submitted
August 2007
Submitted
August 2007
Submitted
August 2007
September 18,
2007
A Call for
Papers and
Panels
January 1, 2008
January 22,
2008
January 1 – 11,
2008
January 29 – 30,
2008
March 5, 2008
Multicenter Drill in
Brooklyn; A Test of New
York City Syndromic
Surveillance using Severe
Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) model
An Integrated Plan to
Augement Surge Capacity
Multi-hospital Response to
a Mass Casualty Incident: A
Model for Joint Triage
Medical Surge Capacity
During Disaster
Radiological Emergencies:
Detection and Alleviation
Tabletop – Explosion Water
interruption
Geriatric Tool Kit
Conference
1st Annual Protect NY
Conference
CDC Secondary Review
Committee Meeting
Reviewing Disaster
Preparedness Grants 20082009 funding
Critical Care Ventilator
Drill
Wallace, DJ. Arquilla B., Kramer, M., Anderson,T.,
Heffernen, R., Layton, M. Bernstein, D.,
Augenbraun, M.,
Emergency Infectious Disease
Dayton, C., Ibrahim, J., Augenbraun, M., Brooks,
S., Mody, K., Holford, D., Roblin, P., Arquilla, B.,
Annals of Emergency Medicine
Arquilla, B., Reich, C., Paladino, L., Lucchesi, M.,
Brandler, E., Celentano, J., Ibrahim, J., Shetty, S.
PMD
Bonnie Arquilla
Rajesh Mittal
Protect New York
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Grant received from NYC DOHMH to address
Disaster Preparedness for Geriatric Population
NY Academic and Professional Society Devoted to
Research and Education to Safeguard NY State
against Disasters and Terrorism
Bonnie Arquilla
SUNY Downstate Disaster Preparedness Drill
Tabletop Exercise interdepartmental - Joint
Commission and NYS Department of Health
fulfillment
March - April
2008
Chronic Diseases and
Environmental Catastrophes:
The Impact of natural
Disasters on diabetic, renal
and cardiac patients.
Miller, A., Arquilla B.,
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2008 Mar-April, 77(1):121-6. Epub 2007 Dec 31
PMID: 18164798
[PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
March – April
2008
An Integrated Plan to
Augment Surge Capacity
Dayton, C., Ibrahim, J., Augenbraun, M., Brooks,
S., Mody, K., Holford, D., Roblin, P., Arquilla, B.,
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2008 Mar-Apr;23(2):1139.PMID: 18557290 [PubMed - in process]
April –June
2008
EM Residency Model of
Mass Information
Distribution during a
Goldman, M., Anderson, T.,
Zehtabchi, S., Arquilla, B.
Disaster Manag Response. 2007 Apr-Jun;5(2):27.
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Disaster
No abstract available.
PMID: 17517359 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
Freyberg, C., Arquilla, B., Tunik, M., Fertel, B.,
Cooper, A.,
Heon, D., Kohlhoff, S., Uraneck., K., Foltin, G.
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2008 Mar-April, 23(2):166-73
PMID: 18557297 [PubMed – in process]
March – April
2008
Disaster Preparedness:
Hospital Decontamination
and the Pediatric Patient.
Guidelines for Hospital and
Emergency Planners
March 11, 2008
Activation of Critical Care – Afteraction report Kings County Medical CenterIT Failure
Joint Commission and NYS Department of Health
fulfillment
April 8, 2008
CDC Secondary Review
Committee Meeting
Reviewing Disaster
Preparedness Grants 20082009 funding
National Incident
Management Systems
Training for Hospital Staff
The Clean Baby 2007
Pediatric Decontamination
Drill. Oral platform
presentation
Bonnie Arquilla
Cover Your Cough 2008Pandemic Influenza
Exercise with 325 victims
presenting to NYIAHP
hospitals- Largest Full Scale
in NYC
White Paper on Academic
Emergency Medicine in
India: INDO-US Joint
Working Group (JWG)
Joint Commission and NYS Department of Health
fulfillment ASPIR Grant received from in
conjunction with the NYC Dept of Health and
NYIAHP
February 2009
Development of Geriatrics
Toolkit to Assist Hospitals
in Preparing to Care for
Geriatric Patients During an
Emergency
B.L..Crouch, M.D., M.P.H., J.C.Ahonheim, M.D. ,
B. Arquilla, DO, FACEP, D.E. Berg, M.D., Public
Health Preparedness Summitt, Washington D.C.
February 2009
May 17, 2009
Randomized Controlled
Abstract :
Trial Of High Fidelity
Patient Simulators
David Wallace, Brian Gillett, David Wright, Jessica
Compared To Actor Patients
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April 30, 2008
May 29,
2008
July 20, 2008
October 2008
KCHC and UHB -Joint Commission and NYS
Department of Health fulfillment
Fertel B, Kohlhoff S, Roblin P, Arquilla B. Lessons
From The Clean Baby 2007 Pediatric
Decontamination Drill.
Oral platform presentation at Society Academic
Emergency Medicine (SAEM) annual meeting
Washington, DC 5/29/08
AK Das, SB Gupta,SR Joshi, P Aggarwal, LR
Murmu, S Bhoi, T Sanson, KP O’Keefe, C Carruba,
S Galwankar, B. Arquilla, R Mittal
JAPI Vol. 56 October 2008
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In A Drill Scenario
Stetz, Bonnie Arquilla. SAEM May 17, 2009.
May 2009
Institutional Self Response
to a Disaster Drill: A
Descriptive Study,
B. Arquilla, DO, FACEP, B. Fertel, P Roblin ,
(Poster), 16th World, Congress on Disaster and
Emergency Medicine, Victoria, Canada, May 2009.
July 25, 2009
One ventilator multiple
patients-What the data
really supports.
Paladino L, Silverberg M, Charchaflieh JG, Eason
JK, Wright BJ, Palamidessi N, Arquilla B, Sinert R,
Manoach S.
Resuscitation. 2008 Jul 25. RESUS-D-08-00290
PMID: 18657892
February 10,
2009
Quarantine Grant -
April 23, 2009
Quarantine Full Scale
Exercise
Grant - NYC DOHMH grant -working on
Quarantine and Isolation protocols for NYC
Hospitals
“Do Not Pass Go” Simulation of outbreak of SARS
on airline arriving at JFK Quarantine station.
Patients transported to A42 Isolation unit. Do Not
Pass GoEvaluating Hospital Response to Activation
of Quarantine Unit – 15 patients, 36 hours
May 2009
CDC COTPER Division of
state
of
Readiness Conference
Dr Bonnie Arquilla in attendance
June 2009
A Test of New York City
Syndromic Surveillance
using Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) Model, Academic
Emergency Medicine.
Wallace, DJ. Arquilla B., Kramer, M., Anderson,T.,
Heffernen, R., Layton, M. Bernstein, D.,
Augenbraun, M., The Journal of American Journal
of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of
Emergency Medicine (2009) 27, 419–423.
May-August
2009
Multi-hospital Response to
a Mass Casualty Incident: A
Model for Joint Triage
Arquilla, B., Reich, C., Paladino, L., Lucchesi, M.,
Brandler, E., Celentano, J., Ibrahim, J., Shetty, S.
Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 2009 |
May-August | Volume 2 | Issue 2 108-110.
May 2009
“Lessons from the Clean
Baby 2007” (pediatric
decontamination drill)
Fertel, B.S., Kohlhoff, S.A., Roblin,
PM., Arquilla, B
American Journal of Disaster Med,
4(2):77-85, 2009.
May-2009September 2009
NYIAHP
Long Distance Table Top Exercise
9 Hospitals, Western Cape, South Africa In
preparation for the 2010 WORLD CUP.
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Oct 29-31
2010
Dr. Bonnie Arquilla
Academic Chairperson, INDO-US Emergency
Medicine & Trauma Education Center for Health
2010, Couimapitor, India
November 2009
NYC Department of
Heath and Mental
Hygiene
New York Institute for All Hazard Preparedness,
Geriatrics Disaster Preparedness Advisory
Committee
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/bhpp/bhpp.shtml
Web portal :Online
publication
Geriatric Toolkit:
Hospital Guidelines for
Geriatric Patients during
Disaster
November 2009
January 28,
2010
Emergency Medicine
Society of South Africa
second International
Emergency Medicine
Conference
EP Coordinators Meeting
Presentation
Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa
(EMSSA) Dr. Mark Silverberg and John Adelaine
Presentation of “ Western Cape-Abilities” Long Distance
Table Top Exercise, In Preparation for the 2010 FIFA
World Cup
November 23-26, 2009
GNYHA, EP Coordinator meeting , NYC
Bonnie Arquilla, DO
“Do Not Pass Go” KCHC
Quarantine Exercise
February 2010
Cape Town Hospitals “In
Training” for World Cup,
Bonnie Arquilla, DO
February newsletter of the Section of Disaster
Medicine, February 2010, Vol 19, #1
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