Disaster Management ECHO Program

Archived ECHO Session Recordings

Disaster Management ECHO Series Recordings
Session 1: Pediatric Disaster Planning and Management: Making Sure the Kids are Alright 
• Regina Yaskey, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, shares the importance of pediatric preparedness and the role of pediatric health care providers in disaster planning.
Session 2: Natural Disasters
• Sonya McCormick, Public/Private Partnership Program Manager for Oregon Office of Emergency Management and Dr. Scott Needle, Chief Medical Officer of Elica Health Centers, discuss preparedness strategies for natural disasters and key components to disaster response.
Session 3: Emerging Infections and Outbreaks: COVID-19
• Mark Cicero, Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and Dr. Dele Davies, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discuss the current COVID-19 issues specific to children and disaster planning strategies for pandemics.
Session 4: How to Prepare Yourself and Your Colleagues for a Disaster: Part 1
• Mark Cicero, Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, shares strategies for disaster planning and ways to use exercises and drills to test disaster plans.
Session 5: How to Prepare Yourself and Your Colleagues for a Disaster: Part 2
• Rachel Marek, Medical Director of Pediatric Hospitalist Program, Texas Children’s Hospital the Woodlands, shares strategies for personal and family preparedness and best practices for incorporating children in live crisis drills and exercises (such as active shooter drills).
Session 6: Behavioral Health Support
• Alison Schonwald, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Touchstone Neurodevelopmental Center, discusses the importance of talking to children after a disaster, how to offer psychosocial support to children/families, and how to prevent and address compassion fatigue.
Session 7: Ethical Considerations for Disaster Planning
• Douglas Diekema, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses ethical considerations and questions for the development of disaster plans, emphasizes the importance of transpareny in disaster planning, and how to incorporate ethical considerations during a crisis.
Session 8: Family Reunification: Strategies for Fostering System-level Connections
• Linda Neumann, registered nurse and school nurse, and Sarita Chung, Director of Disaster Preparedness at Children's Hospital Boston, discuss the importance of family reunification plans and strategies and the importance of relationships and partnerships between systems for disaster planning.
Disaster Recovery ECHO Series Recordings
Session 1: The Importance of Including Response/Recovery in Disaster Planning 
• Mark X Cicero, MD, FAAP, discusses reasons and strategies for incorporating response and recovery in disaster planning.
Session 2: Keeping Kids Healthy During Disaster Recovery 
• Scott Needle, MD, FAAP and Linda Neumann, RN, discuss ways pediatricians can partner with schools during ​.
Session 3: This session was not recorded
Session 4: Moving Forward During COVID-19 Response and Recovery
• Scott Needle, MD, FAAP discusses strategies for addressing practice setting challenges and how to address family and community challenges.
Session 5: Behavioral and Mental Health Concerns During Recovery: Families
• Alison Schonwald, MD, FAAP, discusses strategies for addressing heightened mental health concerns of children and adolescents, including trauma informed practices.
Session 6: Supporting your Care Team During Disaster Recovery
• Alison Schonwald, MD, FAAP, discusses strategies to adapt to constantly changing expectations and how to recognize and address depression and anxiety among your care team. 
Session 7: Recovery from the Economic Impact on Pediatric Practices
• Suzanne Berman, MD FAAP, and Stephanie Glier, MPH, discuss strategies for addressing current challenges of pediatric practice.
Session 8:  After Action Approaches: Using Data to Inform Future Strategies
• Elizabeth Harvey, PhD, MPH, discusses how to assess successes and failures of disaster response and recovery and discussed how to determine the best strategies for collecting and analyzing data to inform future approaches. 
Disaster Management Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion ECHO Series Recordings
Session 1: Learning from the past: discrimination in health care, public health, and other systems
• Steve Caddle, MD, MPH, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Child and Adolescent Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, describes forms of discrimination in disaster preparedness and response, the impact of discrimination and inequity on health, and responses at various levels to address discrimination and foster health equity.
Session 2: Families as key partners: why and how to engage families first
• Pat Frost RN, PHN, MS, PNP, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, former County Emergency Medical Services Director and Vice Chair for the National Pediatric Disaster Coalition, and an advisor and project lead for the ASPR-funded Region V for Kids and Pediatric Pandemic Network, discusses why the family voice is key to disaster management, describes the unique needs of families who have been historically marginalized, and gives examples of how to successfully engage with families
Session 3: Disaster Management for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
• Tobi Adeyeye Amosun, MD, FAAP, Assistant Commissioner of Health for the state of Tennessee and Jacinta Cooper MD, PhD, FAAP, Assistant professor of pediatric emergency medicines at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, describe the unique needs of CYSHCN during disasters and public health emergencies.
Session 4: Practicing EDI principles: engaging diverse stakeholders from the community
• Ramon E. Gist, MD, FAAP , Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, talks about the importance of building community resilience, understanding the key role community partners play, and the importance of building effective partnerships between diverse partnerships when it comes to supporting EDI practices in disaster management.
Session 5: Practicing EDI principles for disaster management: engaging you organization
• Joelle Simpson, MD, MPH, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Chief of Emergency Medicine, and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC, discusses strategies for identifying and developing EDI champions within one’s organization, conducting EDI needs assessments, and understanding the importance of ongoing professional development related to EDI.
Session 6: Improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in disaster management efforts
• Ardith Aspaas, BSN, RN, Indian Health Service Emergency Medical Services for Children Nurse Consultant, in the Division of Nursing Services, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, describes examples of community efforts to measure progress in addressing EDI efforts.