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Emergency Management in Hospitals & Healthcare 2026
Emergency management (EM) is often taught in the context of community, provincial, national and international emergencies. There is currently a gap in disaster and emergency management (DEM) education and training when transitioning from a generic and public emergency management context to a hospital and health care setting. Emergencies affect hospitals differently and require unique approaches to EM efforts. Hospitals and healthcare facilities also experience very specific emergencies of their own. This speaker series aims to address some of these topics through knowledge transferring and sharing and to inform professionals in the DEM field who are working in these settings and those who are transitioning to the healthcare field or studying DEM from a healthcare context.
Speaker: Mary Charters – Chief Provincial Health Emergency Management Officer, Health Emergency Management BC (HEMBC), Provincial Health Services Authority
Speaker: Shailee Benson – Emergency and Disaster Management Specialist, Hamilton Health Sciences
Speaker: Shane Fitzpatrick – Emergency Management Officer, AHS Emergency/Disaster Management, Calgary Zone
Speaker: Michael Wrobel – Project Manager, Emergency Preparedness, Unity Health Toronto
Speaker: Jeff Whyte – Regional Lead, Security and Safety Services, Horizon Health Network
