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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
Arlington, VA
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Our Critical Infrastructure Resiliency theme for this event is "Emergency Preparedness and Response, Bioterrorism, and Crisis Management in the National Capital Region (NCR)."
We welcome non-members to attend this open meeting and to find out more about our growing Public/Private Partnership here in the Nations Capital. We are pleased to have two distinquished guest speakers for our event.
DUE TO A SCHEDULING CHANGE, THIS EVENT HAS MOVED FROM MICROSOFT TO RAND CORPORATION. THIS VENUE HAS LIMITED SEATING, SO PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE ONLY IF YOU ARE CERTAIN YOU CAN ATTEND AS A COURTESY TO OUR HOST AND OUR MEMBERS. THIS IS AN OPEN PUBLIC EVENT.
OUR FIRST GUEST SPEAKER: 8:30AM-9:30AM
Mr. Christopher Geldart
Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination
Christopher Geldart is FEMA’s Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination.
Before joining FEMA in April 2007, Mr. Geldart worked for the State of Maryland as Assistant Director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, beginning in 2004. He designed, developed and led the State’s homeland security Program Executive Office, which included management of over $400 million in funding and required coordination with all of Maryland’s local and municipal governments and the entire state enterprise. He also designed and led grant application, allocation/distribution and outcome tracking process for Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control grant programs for the improvement of the Maryland’s all hazards prevention, protection, response and recovery capabilities.
In addition, he served as primary liaison for the State to the multiple coordinating offices of DHS to include Preparedness, Grants and Training, Infrastructure Protection, Information Analysis and the Office of State and Local Coordination and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
From 2002-2004, Mr. Geldart was a Program Manager at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he provided program management for the Installation Preparedness Program, Unified Defense Exercise 04 and the Technical Assistance Team. He served as a lead in developing scenarios and training materials that test naval installation Weapons of Mass Destruction plans and directives.
From 1989-2001 Mr. Geldart served in the United States Marine Corps, where he had several leadership positions in the Fleet Marine Force and was certified and served as an instructor in a joint military formal school environment at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in American History from the University of Maryland.
BREAK - 9:30AM to 9:45AM
OUR SECOND GUEST SPEAKERS: 9:45AM
Ms. Dianne Quebra / Dr. Gloria Addo-Ayensu
Dianne K. Quebral, MS, MBA is the Medical Reserve Corps
Program Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Preparedness for the Fairfax County Health Department. Ms. Quebral received her masters in marketing and her MBA from the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. She has a background in community organizing and legislative advocacy, most recently representing children's hospitals and related medical institutions on various issues affecting children and their health care.
The highlights of the presentations will cover public health
functions in emergency preparedness and response, disease
surveillance, pandemic influenza preparedness, individual and family preparedness and an overview of the Medical Reserve Corps program.
Creating Critical Resiliency in Metropolitan Washington, DC INCMA consists of a growing membership of professionals who are creating a more resilient Critical Infrastructure in the Washington, DC metro area. These include defense industrial base, water supply systems, electrical energy, emergency services, law enforcement, health systems, gas and oil, storage and delivery, transportation, banking, and telecommunications. Our membership is voluntary yet exclusive and is comprised of individuals from both the public and private sector. The main goal of the Washington, DC Nations Capital Chapter of InfraGard is to promote ongoing dialogue, education, community outreach and timely communication between public and private members. Furthermore, to achieve and sustain risk-based target levels of capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from all hazards or events, and to minimize their impact on lives, property, and the economy. http://InfraGardNationsCapital.org
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