WCDM World Conference on Disaster Management

Below is the Poster Presentation Schedule for the 2009 WCDM.

Please check back for the 20th WCDM as we get closer to the conference.

Poster Presentations
Monday, June 22 and Tuesday June 23
on the Trade Show Floor

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Take time to visit the poster presentations. During the conference, presenters will be located at their posters during the following times on Monday and Tuesday.

This will give you an excellent opportunity to review their work, listen to a brief presentation of each Poster Presenter as well as network one-on-one with these presenters. Below is the preliminary Poster Presentation schedule.

Monday, June 22

Tuesday, June 23

Times Poster Presentation

12:15 - 12:35 pm      

CAN - Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification

Title: Canadian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-CP)

12:35 - 12:50

pm

SRI LANKA - Munas Kalden
Technical Advisor, Disaster Preparedness
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Title: Risk Communication, Community Preparedness and Governance - A Framework for Measuring Self Sufficiency and Sustainability

12:55 - 1:10

pm

USA - Dr. Mollie Williams
MD, SUNY Downstate/University Hospital of Brooklyn

Title: Factors Impacting Hospital Leadership Decision Making:
Evacuating and Sheltering in Place of Critically Ill Patient during Coastal Storm Surge

1:10 - 1:25

pm

CAN- Dr. Shyuemeng Luu
Assistant Professor, School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University

Title: The Determinants of Training Effectiveness of Emergency Medical Technician-1 (EMT-1) in Central Taiwan

1:30 - 1:45

pm

USA - Wenrui Huang
Associate Professor, Florida State University

Title: Frequency analysis methodologies for investigating 100-year extreme water levels in the coastal areas of USA

1:45 - 2:00

pm

CAN - Laurina Turcotte, FRCP Resident in Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto

Title: Utilization of Independent Flu Clinics in Pandemic Flu Plans: Lessons Learned From a Real-Life Simulation

 

2:20 - 2:35 pm

 

IRAN - Mehrdad Nazariha, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Natural Disasters Management, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran

Title: A Standard Model for Providing Water in Natural Disasters

Tuesday, June 23

Monday, June 22

Times

Poster Presentation

12:15 - 12:35

pm

CAN - Dr. Ziren Lu
Project Leader, Engineering Services Inc.

Title: An Effective Blast Analysis Method for Urban Security

12:35 - 12:50

pm

CUBA - Dr. Luis Romero
Latin American Center for Medicine of Disaster, CLAMED (Spanish abbreviation)

Title: Climate change on health, a challenge for developing countries.

12:55 - 1:10

pm

UK - Carolyn S Hayles, Dr, Queen’s University Belfast

Title: An Examination Of Decision Making And Knowledge Management Practices In Post Disaster Housing Reconstruction Projects.

1:10 - 1:25

pm
CAN - Debra Elayne Williams
Director, Program Support
Social Development, Finance and Admin - City of Toronto

Title: The Constant Messenger - How to get your organization to know what it needs to know before it needs to know it.

1:30 - 1:45

pm

CAN - David J Howell, President & CEO Associate Marketing International, AMI Business Resilience, Pandemic 101

Title: Pandemic Planning: Practical Experience, Methodology, Sustaining your Company’s Critical Functions and Post Pandemic Recovery

1:45 - 2:00 

pm

IRAN - Dr. Lida Safavizadeh, MD&MPH
IRAN UNIVERSITY OF Medical Sciences

Title: The Study on the rate of QAZVIN hospital preparedness in response to probable earthquake in Tehran (2007-2008).

2:05 - 2:20 pm

CAN - Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification

Title: Geospatial Presentation of Alerts, Notices, and Situational Awareness Information

2:20 - 2:35 pm

 CAN - Patti Gorr, Policy Analyst , Division of Aging and Seniors

Title: Seniors and Emergencies: creating change by building bridges between emergency management and gerontology sectors

 
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