American officials vetoed Mr. Koch-Weser partly on the grounds that, in their view, he lacked sufficient international stature to run the I.M.F., which provides emergency financing to developing and distressed countries.
Mr. Coffey said he would devote much of his time to setting up a foundation with his wife, Dr. Mary Lee Coffey, an emergency-room physician, devoted to bringing new emergency medicine technologies to developing countries.
Biosurveillance; analytics; detection; emergency; preparedness To develop and implement a method for using emergency department records from a syndromic surveillance system to identify alcohol-related visits in New York City, estimate trends, and describe age-specific patterns.
For emergency personnel to develop excellent decision-making abilities, it is necessary to focus more on the non-technical skills.
His responsibilities ranged from managing water and sanitation projects in Uganda to developing an emergency aid program for street children in St .Petersburg, Russia.
As the role includes ensuring emergency medicine and the work of emergency departments continues to develop, a clear understanding of the health sector would be an advantage.
The state could be required to hire more caseworkers, for example, and to provide more psychiatric services to parents and children, to improve emergency shelters and to develop a strategy to attract more foster parents.
Emergency management aims to develop strategies and establish operations to decrease the potential impact of unexpected events (i.e., human or natural disasters).
The ongoing challenges constitute the environment in which the hospital-based specialty of emergency medicine needs to develop as part of a larger system.
The results of this study can be used to improve the safety of ship navigation during an emergency evacuation and to develop a safe and efficient ship evacuation system.
