Pacific EMPRINTS Staff
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Ann is a faculty member in medical anthropology at the University of Hawaii's College of Social Sciences. She is also the Program Director/Principal Investigator of Pacific EMPRINTS. Her interests include health disparities, health care disparities, medical malpractice, health policy and politics and the role of public health in emergency management and preparedness. She serves on the advisory board of the Hawaii State Civil Defense, the Executive Committee for the State Department of Health's Bioterrorism Training and Preparedness Committee, HRSA's National Hospital Preparedness Program Committee for the State of Hawaii and the Hawaii Emergency Preparedness Executive Committee.
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Barbara is nationally recognized for her expertise in Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Incidents. She is one of few who have successfully completed the personal development series and the Hazard series at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She has coordinated local training scenarios/exercises for Emergency Medical Services personnel since 1982. The exercises have included many different local, county and state agencies. In addition, she maintains certification as BCLS Instructor Trainer, Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor, Pediatric Advanced Life Support Instructor, Prehospital Trauma Life Support Instructor, Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals Instructor Trainer and Advanced Life Support Instructor Trainer. Barbara has taught at the First Responder, Emergency Medical Technical-Basic and Intermediate and Paramedic levels. She is also responsible for coordinating continuing medical education credits for classes targeted to EMS personnel.
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John is a faculty member with the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii Manoa where he is the Director of the Office of International Affairs. He has a long interest in Bioterrorism and a Disaster Preparedness with a special interest in the political and economic ramifications of these issues as well as the more practical side - in dealing with the role of the nursing profession in dealing with natural and man-made disasters.
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Anna is the Program and Training Coordinator for Pacific EMPRINTS. She is responsible for the development and continuing education certification of online courses and podcasts. She also assists with online Problem-Based Learning case construction, oversees survey analyses for face-to-face trainings, and helps coordinate office activities. Anna has a Master's of Social Work with a concentration in mental health from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is working toward a certificate in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance as well.
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Carter Davis has a diverse background in emergency medical services, emergency management and fire safety. He has been an EMS instructor for 20+ years here in Hawaii, mainland US and the Pacific Rim and has held leadership roles in training, management, planning and preparedness, quality assurance and community outreach. Most recently he participated in the State Civil Defense's Tactical Interoperability Communications Plan (TICP) Exercise as the City's Communications Unit Leader (COML) and to coordinate all communications activities at the exercise including "patching" or "joining" different communications systems used by Federal, State, City and private responders together. He is also a peer evaluator for the DHS at similar TICP exercises conducted in cities around the country.
During August 2006, Carter participated in the State Civil Defense's statewide Improvised Nuclear Device exercise as part of the HazMat Group. He is also a member of the Hawaii Urban Search and Rescue Team and a certified train-the-trainer for FEMA, Red Cross, National Fire Academy, International Association of Fire Fighters and much more.
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Patsy teaches at the Department of Dental Hygiene, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Manoa. This year marks her 25th year of teaching in the hygiene department. She also maintains a private dental practice in Hilo. In her spare time, Patsy enjoys reading, crocheting, running and tai chi. Currently, she is reviewing online bioterrorism courses for dentists and other health professionals for Pacific EMPRINTS.
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Dr. Kalinowski is the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medical Services at Kapi'olani Community College (KCC) and the State-wide Training Coordinator for emergency medical services personnel. One of KCC's mandates includes the regular offering of continuing education programs to emergency medical technicians within the State of Hawai'i. Dr. Kalinowski, together with two of his continuing educator coordinators, will play a key role in the development of live scenarios for public health emergencies using a coordinated multidisciplinary approach involving federal, state and county agencies. His extensive experience in emergency medicine, nursing and public health and training affiliations with other State and City emergency medical personnel and his close relations with the HRSA Hospital Preparedness Committee will contribute to the overall development of relevant and quality CE courses to address the professional competency requirements of EM personnel.
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Dr. Katz is an infectious disease epidemiologist and author of several published state-wide bioterrorism preparedness assessments of health professionals in Hawaii:
- Katz AR, Nekorchuk DM, Holck PS, Hendrickson LA, Imrie AA, Effler PV. Hawaii veterinarians’ bioterrorism preparedness needs assessment survey. J Vet Med Educ 2006; 33:612-617.
- Katz AR, Nekorchuk DM, Holck PS, Hendrickson LA, Imrie AA, Effler PV. Hawaii physician and nurse bioterrorism preparedness survey. Prehospital Disaster Med 2006; 21:396-405.
- Katz AR, Nekorchuk DM, Holck PS, Hendrickson LA, Imrie AA, Effler PV. Bioterrorism preparedness survey of Hawaii mental health professionals. Int J Ment Health 2006; 35:12-25.
- Katz AR, Nekorchuk DM, Holck PS, Hendrickson LA, Imrie AA, Effler PV. Dentists’ preparedness for responding to bioterrorism: a survey of Hawaii dentists. J Am Dent Assoc 2006; 137:461-467.
Dr. Katz currently serves as a consultant to Pacific EMPRINTS for continuing education offerings.
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John Kawahara is the Program Manager at Pacific EMPRINTS. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Mr. Kawahara is primarily responsible for assisting the project in coordinating events and ensuring that administrative and fiscal details are met at Pacific EMPRINTS. John’s favorite part of his job is to participate in the Live Training Exercises in which a disaster scenario is presented to trainees who must then try and bring control to the simulated crisis.
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Dr. Qureshi has extensive experience in the area of community and public health disaster preparedness. She is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Nursing, (having studied under the tutelage of Dr. Kristine Gebbie); is the former Program Director of the Columbia University Center for Public Health Preparedness; and served as a co-investigator on previous HRSA Bioterrorism Continuing Education and Curriculum Enhancement grants through Columbia University. Dr. Qureshi has previously worked with public health agencies, first responder groups (Police, Fire and EMS), and community-based providers to develop competency-based disaster preparedness training programs. During the past year she has worked extensively with the Nassau County, NY Department of Health to develop a model for first responder Point of Distribution (POD) operations, and has begun work on the role of the Medical Reserve Corps volunteer in a disaster shelter for persons with special needs. After the POD plan was developed, Dr. Qureshi developed, delivered and then evaluated the training through a county wide drill that involved 11 volunteer Fire/EMS Departments, Police Department, Department of Health and 10 hospitals. The many lessons learned at this drill will be used to refine the POD training program that is developed for use by the state of Hawaii during the coming year. One of the areas that Dr. Qureshi will be working with EMPRINTS on is the disaster shelter work, which is based upon what has been previously developed in NY, and expanded to include competency-based training for public and community health workers and other volunteer groups as well.
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Mr. Chuan Su is the IT and Data Management Specialist for Pacific EMPRINTS, in charge of the program's IT infrastructure/operations, data management and software development. He graduated from Hawaii Pacific University with a master of science in Information Systems in 2002 and has since been involved in and led a number of web application development projects of varying size and complexity.
In addition to his extensive experience in systems analysis, design, implementation and maintenance, Mr. Su is interested in IT security and governance. He served on the CISA Review Course Development Team, and also contributed to the CISA Review Questions, Answers and Explanation Manual (2006).
Mr. Su's most recent accomplishments include developing, integrating, and deploying the new EMPRINTS Distance Learning System and the web-based EMPRINTS Event Registration & Management System.
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Michael Tamaru graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a BFA in visual design in 1968 and a MFA in 1971. He started in 1969 as a publications specialist with the Office of University Relations and Development and retired in 2005 as publications manager with the same office now known as the Office of External Affairs and University Relations. Mr. Tamaru received the Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service to the University in 1999.
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