NYIT and CPE’s Symposium to Focus on Health Care Crisis Preparation for Long Island Businesses

Old Westbury, N.Y., June 14, 2007: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and the Long Island Chapter of Contingency Planning Exchange (CPE) will gather key health care professionals for a discussion to address “Effects of a Healthcare Crisis on Long Island Businesses: What You Can Do to Prepare.” The half-day symposium will be held at NYIT’s W. Kenneth Riland Academic Health Care Center Auditorium on NYIT’s Old Westbury, N.Y., campus on Friday, June 22, 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

The highlight of the event will be a mock health care crisis scenario moderated by Kenneth C. Rondello, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of emergency management and health services administration at Adelphi University, and Bill Raisch, director of New York University’s International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP).

Panel speakers include:

• Humayun Chaudhry (D.O. ’91), commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services and past assistant dean and chair of medicine at NYIT’s New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Connie Kraft, coordinator for the Regional Resource Center for Emergency Preparedness at Stony Brook University Medical Center
• Eileen Scanlon, RN, MSN, director for public health emergency preparedness, Nassau County Department of Health
• Charles Bauer, assistant vice president of business continuity, compliance, and special projects, Teachers Federal Credit Union
• Vincent Mazzarella, associate insurance examiner, New York State Department of Insurance.

Seating is limited. To register or for more information, please call CPE at 212.344.4003 or e-mail headquarters@cpeworld.org.

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