Working Draft

April 22 - 25, 2018 Embassy Suites Nashville Airport

Hotel Nashville Tennessee

Program

I A E M - U S A R e g i o n 4

C o n f e r e n c e

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Greetings!

On behalf of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) USA Region 4 we are honored to extend a warm welcome to our 2018 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee! We want to thank Davidson County, the City of Nashville, and the Embassy Suites Hotel for accommodating us during this important event. We hope your presence here will be a rewarding experience! IAEM is an international organization dedicated to promoting the goals of saving lives and protecting property prior to and during emergencies and disasters. With more than 1,500 current members in Region 4, IAEM brings together Emergency Managers and disaster response professionals from all levels of government, military, the private sector, and volunteer organizations around the world. This year’s theme, “Setting the Tone for Emergency Management,” reflects the region’s ongoing efforts in sustainable and proactive initiatives that lead the nation in our ability to prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate against any disaster. Through recent events, our cohorts, partners, and supporters have gained knowledge, skills, and abilities that will be shared over the next few days through a variety of presentations. Our hope is that you will actively participate in discussions, and share your thoughts and experiences for a true interactive training opportunity. A BIG THANKS to our vendors! We appreciate your support and realize that this event would not be possible without you. Thank you to the Conference Committee Members for all your hard work, time, dedication, support, and guidance! Our goal is that you (members, students, other attendees, and guests) leave with new ideas to apply to your program and additional and strengthened professional friendships that will last a lifetime. Again, WELCOME to your IAEM Region 4 Conference! Sincerely, Chauncia Willis, MPA, CEM, MEP President, IAEM-USA Region 4

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If you need assistance at any time during the Conference, please contact one of the below Committee Members wearing a "COMMITTEE" ribbon.

2018 IAEM-USA REGION 4 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Necole Holton Jacobs, MEP Mitigation Program Manager Broward Emergency Management Plantation, Florida

Josh Morton MPA, CEM, SCCEM

Emergency Management Director Saluda County, South Carolina

Chauncia Willis, MPA, MEP, CEM, CPC Emergency Coordinator Office of Emergency Management Tampa, FL

David Nock, MEP, NEMAA State Training Officer Tennessee Emergency Management Agency Nashville, Tennessee

Shari Holbert-Lipner Emergency Management Specialist Department of Emergency Management Miami Beach, Florida

John J. Walsh, Jr., Ph.D Co-Director Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee

Daniel Hahn, MA, MPA, CEM, FPEM Emergency Management Plans Chief Santa Rosa County Florida

Calvin Williams Plans and Operations Section Broward Emergency Management Plantation, Florida

Lauren Mink Continuity/Emergency Planner Office of Environmental Health and Safety East Carolina University

Amy Ramsey, GA-ACEM Emergency Management Coordinator Whitfield County Emergency Management Agency

Lynn Manning Armstrong, CEM

Halifax County, NC

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Embassy Suites Nashville Airport

10 Century Blvd.

Nashville, TN 37214

Conference Rooms

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CONFERENCE Monday, April 23, 2018

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Conference Registration continued

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Alabama

Day 2 EMAP (2 day class)

Pre-Registration Required: https://goo.gl/forms/gcDvhN0Hg2Ed492D3 (No on-site registration)1

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: Friday, April 13, 2018

GENERAL SESSION 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. Grand Ball Room (Virginia,

Tenn, Miss)

OPENING CEREMONIES & PARTNER UPDATES

Welcome

Presentation of Colors Nashville Fire Department

Pledge of Allegiance Chauncia Willis

National Anthem

Invocation

Davidson County Introductions TEMA EM director

PRE-CONFERENCE Sunday April 22, 2018

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. South Carolina

CEM / AEM Prep Course/ Exam

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Alabama

EMAP (2 day class)

Pre-Registration Required: https://goo.gl/forms/gcDvhN0Hg2Ed492D3 (No on-site registration)1

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: Friday, April 13, 2018

3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Pre Assembly Ball rooms

Conference Registration & Check-In

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. South Carolina

Presidents Reception

8:00 pm -10:00 pm

Vendor Set up

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Davidson County Welcome

IAEM-USA Chauncia Willis/Nick Crossley

FEMA Phillip Strauss (tentative)

10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Exhibit Hall Morning Break

GENERAL SESSION 10:15 a.m. - Noon Grand Ball Room (Virginia, Tenn, Miss)

Governor Bill Haslam Nick Crossley Thad Hugely Ellis Stanley Brock Long

Noon - 1:00 p.m. Grand Ball Room (Virginia, Tenn, Miss)

Lunch

1:00- 1:30pm

Dessert Social

Break-out Sessions 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Grants Management Technical Assistance

Program Cotilda Harvey

Virginia

A Strategic View of FEMA’s Public

Assistance Program Mike Martinet Tennessee

Post Disaster Safety Assessment and Recovery

Resources Ronald Rogers

Mississippi

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Exhibit Hall

Afternoon Break

Break-out Sessions 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

The Future of EM, Innovating in Real-Time Desiree Matel Anderson

Virginia

Airport Emergency Planning &

Management David Nicewinter

Tennessee

Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) 5th Edition

Lee Newsome Mississippi

Break-out Sessions 4:00p.m 5:00p.m

The Process of NIMS Refresh & Updates with

ICS course David Nock

Virginia

Emergency Planning for Dams Technical

Assistance Preston Wilson

Tennessee

What is IMAAC and How Can It Help During a

CBRNE/HazMat Event? Erik Gaull

Mississippi

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5:00 PM -UTC

Dinner on your own

CONFERENCE Tuesday, April 24, 2018

7:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

Registration

GENERAL SESSION 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. Pre Assembly Ballroom

Kathy Fulton

Executive Director

American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Exhibit Hall

Morning Break with Vendors Students session in Mississippi

GENERAL SESSION 11:00 a.m.- Noon Grand Ballroom (Virginia, Tenn, Miss)

Grassroots Run Deep – Whole Community Participation Following Disasters

Dr. Alison Thompson

Noon - 1:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom

Lunch and Awards presentations

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall

Dessert Social

Break-out Sessions 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Patient Evacuation Before a Hurricane

(Lessons learned from Hurricane Irma)

Sean Graham

Virginia

Making the Most with Program Stakeholders

Britton Holdaway

Tennessee

The TAO of Community Resilience

Daniel Hahn

Mississippi

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2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall

Afternoon Break with Vendors

Break-out Sessions 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Keys to Community Resilience

Lisa Janak Newman Virginia

Radiological Emergencies Michael Freeman

John Walsh

Tennessee

Working recovery for a non-declared disaster

Anthony Clifton

Mississippi

Break-out Sessions 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Regional Planning for Multi State Evacuation and Shelter Operations

Larry Tucker Virginia

Cybersecurity in Emergency Management: Setting the

tone for now and the future. Sarah K. Miller

Tennessee

Business Continuity: When Push Comes to

Shove Stephen Lewis

Mississippi

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Tennessee BBQ Social

CONFERENCE

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

8:30am-

10:00am

Offsite Tour of the Grand Ole Opry

10:00 a.m. -12:00 a.m.

Tour of Williamson County EOC with presentations / close of session and lunch

Building Better Water Forecasts, Information, & Decision Support Tools at NOAA's NWS

Whitney Henson

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PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS Sunday, April 22, 2018

CEM/ AEM Exam Prep Course This Pre-Conference workshop will review the CEM

program requirements (experience, education, professional contributions and more); explain the AEM program requirements; application procedures; tips for successful program completion; present an overview of the CEM/AEM exam; the standards upon which the exam is based; sample exam questions; and a Q&A period. Purpose of the course is to relieve exam anxiety, NOT to teach emergency management principles. The course will discuss the exam mechanics, facilitate an interactive discussion of emergency management principles, and review the crosswalk through practice exam questions. Please come prepared to ask specific questions related to the program and/or to your personal credentials submission.

EMAP The Emergency Management Standard Training Course will provide emergency

management and preparedness personnel with valuable information regarding the Emergency Management Standard and its application. At the end of the course, participants may choose to be certified as Accreditation Managers and/or Assessors. Serving as an EMAP Accreditation Manager and/or an EMAP Assessor is an excellent way to serve the public and the profession of emergency management while broadening one’s knowledge of emergency management practices. The primary purpose of this training is to provide the necessary information, tools, and resources for personnel wishing to become an EMAP expert—whether to assist their Emergency Management Program achieve accreditation and/or become a member of the EMAP Assessor Cadre. If interested in the training, please contact Lindsey Shafer, the EMAP Training Coordinator, at lshafer@emap.org.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS Monday, April 23, 2018

Grants Management Technical Assistance Program; (Cotilda Harvey)

FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate manages the Grants Management Technical Assistance (GMTA) program. The objective of the program is to improve the ability of FEMA’s grant recipients (direct and sub recipients) to administer federal financial assistance. The GMTA Program adapts to fit the specific needs of the requesting jurisdiction. The program has been supported by FEMA’s homeland security and emergency management partners to institutionalize sound business and programmatic grant management concepts. This program is available at no cost to State, Local and Tribal governments that receive federal financial assistance for Homeland Security Grants, Assistance to Firefighter Grants, Port Security Grants, Transit Security Grants and other non-disaster grants. The grant management session will provide an overview and update for the Grants Management Technical Assistance (GMTA) program, review the process for requesting training and customized technical assistance, review the contents for the GMTA Toolkit (online resource library) and review the modules addressed in the Fundamentals of Grants Management course. This session will also review the common trends for grant management training and lessons learned. This session will promote networking and resource sharing among participants. Each person will leave with additional tools to support successful grant management within their agency.

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A Strategic View of FEMA’s Public Assistance Program (Mike

Martinet)

Many local government agencies don’t have a working disaster cost recovery plan; they don’t have the policies needed to enable maximum cost recovery; they don’t have the procedures to effectively track costs and document damage; and staff hasn’t been trained in the complex Federal regulations which apply. FEMA's Public Assistance program is much more than just filling out some forms and filing the paperwork and a hefty dose of good luck. A strategic vision is necessary for get the maximum grant reimbursements and keep them away from the auditors. This presentation a high level overview of Federal cost recovery principles; recent changes in Federal regulations; current thinking on cost recovery; some best practices for the maximum cost recovery; and some principles of effective disaster cost recovery for local government agencies.

Post Disaster Safety Assessment and Recovery Resources (Ronald

Rogers)

The NCSEA’s SEER (National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, Structural Engineering Emergency Response) program, in conjunction with the International Code Council provide a nation-wide team of qualified Safety Assessment experts that assist communities with the Post-Disaster Safety Assessments (SAP) (Placarding) and damage assessment. The BOAF (Building Official’s Association of Florida) will provide information about their experience with the NCSEA SEER system during Hurricane Irma recovery in Florida. They will also discuss additional resources that they and other similar associations provide to their states via Mutual Aid agreement. This workshop with show you how to access these valuable resources and will share specific success stories from the 2017 Hurricane Season from both Texas and Florida.

The Future of Emergency Management, Innovating in Real-Time

(Desiree Matel-Anderson)

The Do Tank thrusts attendees into the whirlwind of chaos that characterizes the immediate post-disaster setting. It is within the cacophony that innovation must be used to shape response that best meets the needs of the community setting the tone of emergency management. The disaster of focus will be XX (decide with Region 8 committee), gearing Region 4 IAEM participants to integrate design and creativity into this simulated disaster. The Field Innovation Team (FIT) will walk participants through a three-step design process “3 Step Prep" creating solutions in REAL-TIME. This Do Tank will demonstrate how innovation, fast prototyping, agile teams are being deployed by FIT in global disasters from the recent Northern Spanish wildfires to Hurricane Harvey, even the earthquakes in Mexico. The lessons learned have exponential impact for the responder and emergency management communities. Join us for high intensity and explosive creativity at the Do Tank with WCDM, for the intersection of innovation, design and emergency management. More on empowering humans to create cutting-edge disaster solutions and the innovators of FIT at www.fieldinnovationteam.org.

Airport Emergency Planning & Management (David Nicewinter)

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Large hub airports today resemble small cities in many ways and are required by the FAA to have plans for responding to a variety of incidents ranging from the aircraft accidents to natural disasters. Tampa International Airport has established effective working relationships with the local emergency response community and is working to incorporate the use of Emergency Support Functions (ESF) in response to airport emergencies. Panel would focus on airport emergency planning and coordination with local stakeholders. Willing to work with other airports, aviation industry stakeholders and emergency management offices.

Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) 5th Edition (Lee Newsome)

This workshop will introduce the 5th Edition of HICS a comprehensive incident management system intended for use in both emergent and non-emergent situations, and the NIMS.

Emergency Planning for Dams Technical Assistance (Preston Wilson)

Historic dam failures and incidents demonstrate the need for collaboration between dam owners/operators and emergency managers to protect the public from the many and varied effects of emergencies involving dams. FEMA is working with communities and organizations to provide specific Technical Assistance (TA) to support to special projects and improve activities across all homeland security mission areas: prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation. FEMA will facilitate TA to provide jurisdictions with access to expertise, coaching, peer connections, sample plans, templates, and tools to form the planning team, frame the issues, establish goals and objectives. This will create a structured process to examine existing plans and develop correct actions where gaps exist. Emphasis will be placed on the incorporation of the dam owners/operators and the emergency management community, as participants in the planning processes for dam safety and tools and processes to enable emergency managers and dam owners to work collaboratively.

The Keys to Community Resilience disasters (Lisa Janek Newman)

One of the most critical responsibilities of emergency managers is building resilience through effective preparedness programs. Want to build your community's resiliency but don't know where to start? Looking to increase visibility for an existing preparedness campaign? FEMA's suite of preparedness programs can help. America’s PrepareAthon!, Youth Preparedness Council, and the new You are the Help Until Help Arrives, which empowers everyday people to provide assistance to those with life-threatening injuries following an incident, are all designed to increase your community’s disaster preparedness. These programs are free, flexible and totally customizable. Learn how Region IV communities have successfully implemented these initiatives and how you can localize them for real results.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Patient Evacuation Before a Hurricane (Lessons learned from

Hurricane Irma (Sean Graham)

This discussion will explore the newly introduced state web-based patient placement system that was rolled out the night before hurricane Irma made landfall on mainland US. Patients were

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evacuated from the Georgia coastline to multiple health systems across the state. At WellStar Health System-North Fulton (located in Roswell, Georgia), the Manager of Emergency Preparedness, along with coordination of the hospital administrators and managers, quickly learned the new system and utilized it to coordinate 14 transfers (including 8 NICU patients), and to treat 42 evacuees. There were many lessons learned; from the arrangement of EMS through the State EOC, along with the actual building issues during the storm, to the impromptu arrangement of employees staying overnight to ensure staff presence during and after the storm.

Making the Most with Program Stakeholders (Britton Holdaway)

Strong and effective emergency management programs come from committed stakeholders organized by networks of communication, mutual trust, and understanding. Emergency management accreditation or other baseline assessments build bring stakeholders into these networks and identify areas for improvement, thus better preparing programs and their constituents. Often, engaging stakeholders proves to be one of the most difficult tasks in these endeavors, however. This training provides emergency managers with guidance, tools, and tips for conducting stakeholder analyses and developing engagement strategies to overcome such obstacles. Properly identifying and engaging stakeholders equips programs to achieve greater success in accreditation or other baseline assessments, and to meet the needs of constituents before, during, and after disasters.

The TAO of Community Resilience (Daniel Hahn)

A presentation that will allow any sized jurisdiction to organize a local public private partnership initiative oriented towards developing community resilience, utilizing best practices and case studies. Also presents some stand-alone initiatives that can be used in jurisdictions that are not ready for a local public private partnership, but want to achieve some goal oriented towards public safety. The presentation involves a kilt, a chain, and some blind folds. Audience participation is required.

What is IMAAC and How Can It Help During a CBRNE/HazMat Event?

(Erik Gaull)

The Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center is a 24/7 federal government resource that can assist SLTT public safety and emergency management agencies with free-of-charge modeling, scientific interpretation, and other decision support for releases of any type of HazMat or CBRNE. IMAAC is staffed by highly trained scientists and modelers who use the most sophisticated software and the best HazMat databases available to produce critical decision-making information, including health and population effects estimates. IMAAC is available 24/7 and free-of-charge to assist state, local, tribal, and territorial officials during real-world incidents. With sufficient advance notice, IMAAC can also provide assistance for plans, training, and exercises. This session will discuss how IMAAC can assist public health and emergency management decision-making during a hazardous release, including describing IMAAC resources, capabilities, and services. The presentation will include information on how to access IMAAC and how to receive information from IMAAC. The session will cover the various models that IMAAC uses and will present case studies from the Arkema Chemical plant explosion and fire following Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and the Maryville, Tenn. train derailment and Acrylonitrile release in 2015, in which IMAAC assisted state and local decision makers.

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Radiological Emergencies (Michael Freeman / John Walsh)

The presentation will cover the principles of radiological physics as they apply to emergency management operations during a nuclear or radiological incident. The course discusses the various types of radiological hazards illustrating examples from actual events and will discuss the acute health effects that result from radiation exposure and the various countermeasures available.

Working recovery for a non-declared disaster (Anthony Clifton)

This presentation will discuss the various problems associated with recovery from an event without federal assistance if the jurisdiction does not meet the criteria for a disaster declaration from FEMA. Recovery is one of the most important mission areas but most of the time, recovery is dependent on some kind of declaration in order to fund the recovery efforts. But what about the hundreds of local disasters that do not get approved for assistance? In this lecture, we will look at the declaration types, and how the declarations process works from the local to state to FEMA regional level to Headquarters levels and how locals must work for and with their communities and states when they do not qualify for Federal assistance. This includes public assistance, individual assistance as well as how local emergency managers and community leaders can work to insure they can get a community back up and running after a devastating event .

Regional Planning for Multi State Evacuation and Shelter Operations

(Larry Tucker)

Preparations in advance of Hurricane Irma included significant evacuation from Florida and, potentially, Coastal Georgia and South Carolina. As a result, planning challenges along evacuation routes impacted several states simultaneously. These challenges included trafficability, route control, safety concerns, fuel availability, shelter availability, and public messaging. Many of these concerns are addressed at the local government level. An evacuation of this magnitude invites coordination between state leadership and planners to ensure safe and efficient transit for the public. This becomes a Regional event and, as such, should be addressed through regional collaboration between states.

This panel discussion would be conducted between Local, State, and Federal Planners to identify challenges and concerns involved with multi state evacuations and initiate future dialogue for resolving issues. It is intended to be a starting point for ongoing conversation.

Cybersecurity in Emergency Management: Setting the tone for now and

the future. (Sarah K. Miller)

Cybersecurity is more than just a buzzword: it’s a looming threat that most emergency managers are unfamiliar with and have done little planning for. People often assume that it’s entirely within the realm of Information Technology departments to tackle this issue, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Join this session to learn about the basic cybersecurity landscape, common threats, proactive prevention measures, and effective planning practices that will help your organization understand and prepare for this ongoing threat.

Business Continuity: When Push Comes to Shove (Stephen Lewis)

Whether in the private sector or public service, business continuity is all-to-often viewed like insurance – an undesirable but necessary cost that is only appreciated when bad things happen. Budgets and staffing are kept minimal, if dedicated at all, until that something bad actually happens and then it’s all eyes on the business continuity program. What happens then?

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This presentation will share real-world incidents that have impacted Florida Power & Light Company and NextEra Energy, Inc. From cyber threats, wildfires, massive flooding, tropical storms and hurricanes, to gun violence in the workplace, business continuity and continuity of operations have been a challenge facing the nation’s critical infrastructure and our company has seen its share of these challenges in recent years. See how Florida Power and Light, and parent company, NextEra Energy, have prepared for and responded to real incidents that have taken what was once a singular focus – hurricanes – and expanded to an all-hazards posture that has served both organizations, their employees, stakeholders and customers throughout the emergency management lifecycle of numerous incidents.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Building Better Water Forecasts, Information, & Decision Support

Tools at NOAA's NWS (Whitney Henson)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), through the National Weather Service (NWS), is working to create new and improved water prediction products and data services through enhanced capacity from the National Water Model and Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast System. NWS is creating developmental prototypes designed to serve a range of stakeholders’ needs for water forecasts, including flooding and low flow events. This interactive session will showcase new water forecast visuals and seek feedback on the ways these tools meet emergency management needs for planning and responding to severe floods and droughts. Participants will be asked: Are the products useful, understandable and easily transferred into operations? Are there recommended enhancements or features that would increase effectiveness? Participant feedback will provide insights to inform the development of forthcoming NOAA and NWS products and services to ensure they meet user needs. This activity is part of the broader NOAA Water Initiative www.noaa.gov/water, and is supported by NOAA’s new National Water Center within the NWS Office of Water Prediction, http://www.water.noaa.gov.

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GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS Kathy Fulton is Executive Director for American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which coordinates donations of logistics services and encourages cross sector cooperation for improved disaster response. Fulton serves on national workgroups focused on efficient coordination of logistics activities during disasters. Preceding her work with ALAN, Fulton was Senior Manager of Information Technology Services at Saddle Creek Logistics Services where she led IT infrastructure implementation and support, corporate systems, and business continuity planning.

Dr. Alison Thompson is a full time global humanitarian volunteer. Her work started as a first responder on Sept 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York, where she volunteered at Ground Zero for nine months. Thompson has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the Humanities from Loyola University and for the past 18 years has run large refugee camps and field hospitals in every major natural disaster around the world. Some of these include the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, Haiti and Nepal earthquakes, Philippine typhoons and also man-made disasters in the Syrian Refugee crisis. There she worked on rescues around the borders of Turkey, Lesvos Greece and Macedonia. In 2005 Dr. Thompson founded CTEC- the first Tsunami Early-warning Disaster center in Sri Lanka along with a children’s learning center and Tsunami museum. Closer to home Dr. Thompson has run resilience command centers in Sandy Super storm disaster in the Rockaways, NY and most recently in Haiti, Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico Hurricane disasters. In Puerto Rico she hand delivered 20,000 solar lights and water filtration systems to remote mountain regions and commanded five busy Miami warehouses delivering over 3 million pounds of aid (including US Virgin Islands and Dominica.) In 2012 Dr. Thompson was appointed the first official Ambassador to the Haitian Ministry of Environment where she works in reforestation, sustainable energy and cholera initiatives. In 2017 she helped the Haitian Parliament ratify the Paris agreement born from negotiations with world leaders at the Cop 22 climate change meetings in Marrakesh. For the past three years Dr. Thompson has worked as a rescue paramedic on the island of Lesvos Greece, the epicenter of the Syrian refugee crisis where millions have fled the war zones of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. She has helped rescue 10,000’s of refugees while running a busy trauma bus attending to hypothermia and Isis war wounds. Dr. Thompson has developed a network of over 30,000 volunteers, through her organization Third Wave volunteers, who help and support direct aid to refugees and disasters. Her latest program includes an innovative origami solar light used for lighting up the shores of Greece and the dark refugee camps of Europe. Dr. Thompson and her teams have hand delivered solar lights to over 80,000 refugees. In 2010, Thompson flew to Haiti with Sean Penn and ten doctors to help after the earthquake. Together, they ended up managing a 70,000-person IDP camp and field hospital alongside General Simeon Trombitas and the 82nd Airborne, who later honored her with the US Commanders 'Medal of Excellence'. In 2010 she was awarded the Order of Australia, the highest civilian medal given by the Australian Government and Queen Elizabeth II, for her volunteerism and her contributions to mankind and humanity. In Haiti Dr. Thompson co-founded We Advance, an organization dedicated to combating gender-based violence and advancing the health and safety of women and children throughout the Cite Soleil slums. Her award-winning documentary The Third Wave chronicles her volunteer experience in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in a Presidential Jury Screening presented by Sean Penn and Bono. She followed up with a book by Random House, The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story. With simplicity and humility, Thompson inspires everyone to service and to take action just as she has: as an everyday, average individual. She tailors her message on how ‘anyone can volunteer’, from a global scope to our own backyards

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and that “everyone is needed” Her motto is “It’s easy to be at the wrong place at the wrong time but its Leadership to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Dr. Thompson is represented by American Program Bureau and lectures worldwide in universities and businesses on: leadership, volunteering, sustainability, disaster preparedness and response, renewable energy, gender based violence and corporate social responsibility.

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