Instructors

Our volunteer instructors are composed of emergency managers, hospital based personnel to include physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and mental health specialists, and public safety professionals to include first responders from the fire/rescue service, hazardous materials specialists, emergency medical services (EMS), aeromedical services, and law enforcement. These professionals possess a diverse preparedness and operational response background with many serving, or previously served on federal disaster response elements as part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), United States Army, and non-governmental humanitarian response partners.

Instructors have numerous real world disaster and public health emergency deployments involving earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, super typhoons, severe winter storms, tsunamis, National Special Security Events (NSSEs) and local mass gatherings. The faculty also has significant national and international presentation experience conducting numerous didactic teaching engagements and practical training evolutions including tabletop exercises, drills, high fidelity simulations, functional and full scale exercises.

Instructors have extensive experience preparing for, setting up, managing and demobilizing medical shelters, alternate care sites, and field hospitals. Specifically, instructors have extensive real world experience successfully responding to national and international large-scale disasters. This extensive real world experience provides specialized insight and knowledge that enables EPI to offer training and teaching that is unique, comprehensive and practical.