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Chair: Kristen N. Kolleda, CEM, healthcare@iaem.com
Vice Chair: Dennis (DJ) Phalen, healthcare@iaem.com
Vice Chair: DAvid Blacksberg, healthcare@iaem.com
Board Liaison: Randy Pommenville, CEM, IAEM-USA Region 7 President, USARegion7President@iaem.com
Staff Liaison: Terry Lightheart-Sadler, CEM, terry@iaem.com
IAEM-USA members interested in participating in this caucus should email the caucus staff liaison to join.
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Guidelines
The mission of the Healthcare Caucus is to represent emergency management issues unique to healthcare. The purpose of the caucus is to provide emergency managers within the healthcare arena a voice on a national and international scale to ensure their needs are being addressed by government and industry officials. (from the 7/23 Policy Guidelines)
In addition to the annual goals and priorities established at the IAEM-USA Annual Conference, the Caucus will always address the following standing goals:
General Membership: The IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus General Membership meets via conference call every 4th Friday of the odd months at 11:00-12:00 p.m. ET.
2024 Caucus General Membership Meetings are scheduled as follows:
To add these meetings to your calendar, please email healthcare@iaem.com and a Microsoft Teams invite will be sent to you.
To be an official member of the IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus, as reported to the IAEM-USA Board, an individual must:
An IAEM-USA member in good standing shall become a member of the group through the method established by teh IAEM-USA Administrative Policies and Procedures (APPS) and shall remain a member of the group perpetually, while eligibility requirements continue to be met, or until such time that the member indicates their desire to end membership in the group. All members who meet these eligibility requirements are Voting Members.
The IAEM Healthcare Google Group is open to anyone working in or affiliated with healthcare emergency management. Vendors, with the intent of selling to this group are prohibited, which allows the list serve to be a forum for best practice sharing within healthcare emergency management practitioners. To join the IAEM Healthcare Google Group, start here: https://groups.google.com/u/o/g/iaem-healthcare.