Following the week's activities, the Coyote Crisis Campaign participants will hold several debriefings to best understand how the stakeholders can better collaborate and leverage external and internal assets to achieve a higher standard of patient care and offer the nation an exemplary alternative to current disaster response operations.
"Our Biodesign team will report the lessons learned from the disaster drill," said Zenhausern. "These will be incorporated into national emergency response efforts to prepare for the next natural disaster or man-made terrorism incident. It is our hope, that by our efforts, we can contribute to better preparedness planning in order to save lives in the event of a future disaster. Next year, our team will plan a possible simulation of its bird flu based systems for assessing pandemic preparedness."
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Contact: Joe Caspermeyer
joseph.caspermeyer@asu.edu
480-727-0369
Arizona State University
2-May-2006