Storm Surge: Nature Never Follows the Rules

Join us virtually (via Zoom) on August 6, 2024 from 1:00- 2:00 p.m. ET for the 2024 MESH Grand Rounds Series event “Storm Surge: Nature Never Follows the Rules” presented by Dr. Andrew Sulyma.

During this presentation, attendees will learn to:

  • Mitigate the provision of EMS services: ensuring redundancy of phone systems, radio communication, and transportation during severe storms and flooding

  • Safeguard the continued delivery of social services to specialty populations (unsheltered, OTP, AFN, and seniors)

  • Provide assistance to GACHs and LTCFs to maintain operational readiness for standard and specialty services

  • Work within the confines of Standardized Emergency Management Systems (SEMS) to allow contiguous operational areas to assist (and supplant) affected areas

  • Facilitate State and Federal Aid for temporary shelter, rebuilding affected infrastructure, and ensuring limited downtime for local economies (agriculture and farming)

Andy is an experienced front line healthcare provider with a three decade history in the Emergency Medical Services industry both as a first responder and as a regulator. He has extensive skill in EMS Operations and Administration, Disaster Management, Clinician Oversight and Investigations, and Tactical Medicine. Collaborating with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), he successfully navigated the 16 California Counties of CalOES Region Il through the COVID -19 pandemic including provision of vital emergency staffing, hospital surge expansion, deployment of PPE, vaccines, and antiviral medications.

Andy has directed and assisted stakeholders with strategies to navigate MPox, RSV, Ebola, the Winter Storms, and Wild Fire Season. He has also served as a Doctor of Chiropractic for 25+ years, a Paramedic for 18 years, and an Athletic Trainer for 30+ years. Andy has a strong healthcare services history working with entities including American Medical Response, Paramedics Plus, Falck, ESO, ReddiNet, Crossfit and RockTape. He lives in the Bay Area of Northern California with his wife and has two sons in college.

All events in the MESH Grand Rounds Series are FREE and open to the public!

Continuing Education credit (CME/CEU) is available for this presentation.

Click the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlcO-tqDwjG9TFNm0nCl_CvfSA2xAbvvur#/registration

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