Disaster Medical Response: What a City Has Learned and How Telemedicine Can Improve Medical Care During an Emergency

April 16, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT

In this panel discussion format, leaders in disaster response from the City of New Orleans will discuss the role of telemedicine in disaster medical response, the history of telehealth use in disasters, and the future of how telemedicine can augment response to natural and man-made disasters.

Speakers:

• James Aiken, MD, Co-Director, EMS and Disaster Medicine, LSU Emergency Medicine
• Sarah Babcock, MPH, Department of Health, City of New Orleans
• Meghan Maslanka, MD, Associate Director, LSU Disaster Medicine
• Stephen Murphy, Ph.D, MPH, MBA, Assistant ProfessorGlobal Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health
• Jeffrey Edler, MD, Co-Director, EMS and Disaster Medicine, LSU Emergency Medicine