Disaster – are we ready?

Dr. Brian Schwartz – Chief, Emergency Preparedness & Executive Lead, Service Integration at Public Health Ontario; Associate Professor Dept. of Family & Community Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto “Public Health and Primary Care roles in a disaster: where do we fit?”

Prof. Pinchas (Pinny) Halpern – Chair of the Emergency Dept. at the Tel Aviv Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor in Anesthesia, Critical Care & Emergency Medicine at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel “Coping with multiple casualty incidents – often – lessons learned”

Dr. Daniel Kollek – Executive Director, Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness, Hamilton, Ontario; past Chief of Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Civic Hospitals; Associate Professor McMaster University “Canadian Hospital Preparedness, what do we really know? “