Professional Faculty:
Scot Phelps is the full-time Professor of Disaster Science at the Academy and an emergency management consultant with clients who include hospitals, state governments, Health Canada, and Fortune 100 companies. He also teaches healthcare emergency management New York Medical College, business continuity at Western Washington University, and volunteers as Certification Commissioner and Vice-Chair of the Healthcare/Hospitals Caucus of the International Association of Emergency Managers. He is a Certified Emergency Manager (IAEM), a Certified Business Continuity Professional (DRII), and a FEMA-qualified Master Exercise Practitioner (Healthcare). He is on the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Emergency Management and the trade journal Continuity Insights.
He is a popular speaker, and has presented multiple times at:
- the World Conference on Disaster Management;
- the International Association of Emergency Management Conference;
- the FEMA Higher Education Conference;
- Continuity Insights (a perfect review of 5.0 for knowledge, preparedness, presentation, and content from over fifty participants at 2010 conference);
- WCDM-Australia ("This was a killer - perfect, challenging, life-changing"-2009 Workshop Participant), and;
- Emergency Management Australia.
- He has also presented at the New Zealand Emergency Management Conference, the New Zealand Business Continuity Conference, and at conferences in Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan.
Previously, Professor Phelps was the Program Director/Associate Professor for the Graduate Certificate in Emergency & Disaster Management in the Department of Health & Human Services at Southern Connecticut State University and for the Master's in Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management at Metropolitan College in New York City, served as Assistant Commissioner of Emergency Management at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, as Manager of Emergency Life Support Programs at Phelps Memorial Hospital, and as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Earlier, he was a paramedic and paramedic instructor in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut for almost two decades.
Professor Phelps holds a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School (where he served on the National Health Law Moot Court team), a Master's in Public Health in both Health Policy & Health Administration from Yale Medical School (where he was a Farr Scholar and a Schlesinger Fellow), and a Bachelor's in Anthropology with honors from Columbia University.
He is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, and the federal courts and maintains paramedic certification in New York.
Phelps (et al) on business continuity from the 2011 Continuity Insights Conference:
Guest Co-Facilitators (NYC and Toronto)
Guest Co-Facilitators will include emergency management professionals and academics from around the New York City metropolitan area, and will participate at least once a month to add to the discussion. Confirmed Guest Facilitators include:
Nick Cagliuso- Nick is Corporate Director, Emergency Management for Continuum Health Partners in New York City. He previously served as Coordinator, Emergency Preparedness for NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, where led emergency management efforts across its 40 acute care, long term care and specialty sites in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Texas, served in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Office of Emergency Management. Nick holds faculty appointments in Metropolitan College's MPA in Emergency and Disaster Management and New York Medical College’s Master of Public Health Program in its Center for Disaster Medicine. Crain’s New York Business magazine named him to its prestigious 2007 “40 Under 40 Rising Stars” list of New York City’s up-and-coming leaders.
Carol L. Cwiak- Carol holds a PhD in Emergency Management with a second doctoral degree in law. She is a full-time faculty member with North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Emergency Management Program since 2006 and focuses her research on emergency management’s identity and the professionalization process. Dr. Cwiak has served on the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services Advisory Committee as the president of North Dakota InfraGard and is a member of many professional committees and groups.
Angela Devlen- Angela is Managing Partner at Wakefield Brunswick, Inc a Healthcare Management Consulting firm. She has 18 years experience in healthcare, operations, and disaster management with several years leading emergency management & business continuity in Boston-based healthcare systems, holds a Bachelor's degree from Boston University, and is a Master Business Continuity Planner (MBCP). She is a founding board member of the Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO) and the co-founder and current President of Mahila Partnership.
Garrett Doering-Garrett is the Director of Emergency Management at Westchester Medical Center and the former Director of the Hudson Valley Regional Resource Center, where he was responsible for coordinating preparedness activities for over 30 hospitals in a 7-county region north of New York City. Garrett holds a Master's Degree from the University of Maryland and holds both CEM and CBCP certifications. Garrett is the author of the Exercise Design chapter in the new book, Healthcare Emergency Management.
Nitin Natarajan-Nitin is Coordinating Director within the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is responsible for the oversight and management of the Department’s Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Program, Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program and the Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8 Logistics Program.
Alain Normand-Alain is the Manager of the Emergency Measures Office for the City of Brampton, Ontario since 1999, where he was instrumental in having Brampton achieve the World Health Organisation's International Safe City designation in 2007. He has been President and Vice President of the Ontario Association for Emergency Management and continues as a Director of the Board and Chair of the Education Committee, and is a Professor at York University and Sheridan College, teaching a broad spectrum of emergency management courses. He is a member of the Canadian Standards Association technical committee on Emergency Management and Business Continuity, and is a participant in the establishment of the new National Standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity.
Brian Silva- Brian is the Program Manager, Emergency Preparedness & Management for the Primary Care Development Corporation in New York City, an Exercise Planner for the American Red Cross, and Team Member at Kenyon Worldwide Disaster Management. Brian previously served as Watch Commander at New York City Office of Emergency Management (NYCOEM) and IAEM Student Region President. Brian holds a MPA in Emergency & Disaster Management from the Metropolitan College of New York.
Jared Shapiro- Jared is the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for the New York State Department of Health representing seven counties in the Lower Hudson Valley Region of NY and New York City. He serves as the liaison and point of contact for Health Facilities, Emergency Managers, HHS, FEMA, State Police, FBI, and State Department of Health staff and regional and central offices concerning emergency preparedness, CBRNE and terrorist response. He has over 15 years of experience in emergency services as a paramedic, as Chief of the Woodcliff Lake Fire Department, and as Deputy Commander for the NJ-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team. He holds a Bachelors of Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, a Masters of Public Health with a focus in Public Health Preparedness at New York Medical College, and is a PhD candidate in Emergency Management at Capella University.
Matthew Ziemer - Matt is currently the Emergency Preparedness Program Manager at the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) where he oversees all aspects of CHCANYS' Emergency Preparedness activities, statewide. His work with CHCANYS involves building upon the emergency management capacity of over 60 Federally Qualified Health Centers and Look-Alikes. In coordinating CHCANYS' response to the H1N1 pandemic, he helped to integrate Community Health Centers across New York into State and local planning efforts. Matt holds an MPA in Emergency and Disaster Management from Metropolitan College of New York.