Intent of the webinar

•  To educate local and state 9‐1‐1 and EMS officials on syndromic surveillance
• To educate local and state public health officials on NEMSIS and its capabilities
•  To contribute to the collaboration between 9‐1‐1, EMS, and public health officials

Who should participate?

• State and local public health officials
• State and local 9‐1‐1 and EMS officials
• Members of National and Federal organizations that are involved in public health, 9‐1‐1, EMS, and syndromic surveillance

About the Presenters:

Clay Mann, PhD MS
Dr. Mann is a tenured professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is the  principle investigator at the NEMSIS Technical Assistance Center. He has a PhD in preventive medicine and Master of Science in public health. Dr. Mann has published numerous peer‐reviewed research articles on the role of emergency medical services in healthcare and trauma system evaluation. As the principle investigator of the NEMSIS TAC, he has led the effort to increase the number of states that use the NEMSIS standard, the publication of articles using NEMSIS data, and the harmonization of the NEMSIS standard with the Health Level 7.

Bernice Boursiquot, MPH CPH
Ms. Boursiquot is a public health fellow at NHTSA’s Office of Emergency Medical Services. Prior to joining NTHSA, Ms. Boursiquot worked on several research studies that focused on injury and chronic disease. She is a graduate of the  University of Alabama at Birmingham’s school of public health with a MPH in epidemiology and international health.

Gamunu “Gam” Wijetunge, NREMT‐P
Mr. Wijetunge has served as a staff member in NHTSA’s Office of Emergency Medical Services since 2001. Mr. Wijetunge has managed several programs related to the EMS workforce, such as a national EMS worker injury and illness surveillance program. He also serves as the Office’s liaison on preparedness issues. Mr. Wijetunge is a nationally certified paramedic and practices in Maryland. He has served as a volunteer EMT for 16 years.

Details:

• Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
•  1:00PM‐2:30PM EST
• Register for this free webinar at syndromic.org

Server hosting for the webinar is being provided by the International Society for Disease Surveillance

About the National Emergency Medical Services Information System

The NEMSIS Project is an effort to create a national EMS database, with a vision of collecting EMS data from all US states and territories. Agencies across the nation will be able to share the key elements of their data nationally and use NEMSIS data to evaluate care and benchmark against state and national data. Currently, 34 states and territories are reporting to the national EMS database and 40 are maintaining NEMSIS‐compliant state level databases. The current national EMS database includes 22.5 million EMS reports for year 2009 to 2011. NEMSIS was created in 2003 and the third version of NEMSIS was released in October 2011.

For more information on this project, please contact [email protected]. For more information on NEMSIS, please visit nemsis.org.