Welcome
Welcome to the National Center for Medical Readiness at Wright State University. We invite you to learn about us and view our key focus areas as we work in the arena of civil medical readiness. The National Center for Medical Readiness’s approach to this important component to homeland security is unique as it is based in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boonshoft School of Medicine.
The consequences to humans, the victims of disasters and our patients both in and out of the hospital, are central to our mission. Our direct relationship with an academic department within a medical school impacts every programmatic theme within the center. Physicians provide key input to each of our four programmatic themes.
These four defining areas of civil medical readiness are human population risk assessment, human access care and evacuation, dynamic medical systems and healthcare systems recovery. These systems are unique in that they are defined for the first time in the modern, all hazards disaster era.
Our programs are also designed to incorporate the concept of civil-military interface. Our university sits in close geographic proximity to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the future home of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Collaborative relationships with the military, the private sector, and government at the local, state, and federal level guide our programs into the future.
More information about our programs is available on this web site. Should you have further questions about us, we invite you to contact us.
Mark E. Gebhart, M.D.
Director
About the National Center for Medical Readiness
The National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) is a community-wide effort to better prepare our community for large scale emergencies, such as a weather disaster, terrorist attack or hazmat situation. The Center was established by the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine and has been certified as a National Disaster Life Support Foundation (NDLSF) Regional Training Center.
 The NCMR is developing the Calamityville® Tactical Laboratory Project, a state-of-the-art, innovative, integrated, collaborative training and research facility to provide a one-of-a-kind training opportunity for the world's medical, public health, public safety, and civilian and military disaster response decision makers. Click here to see a virtual tour of Calamityville® as envisioned at one of the prospective sites in Fairborn, Ohio.
 The National Center for Medical Readiness seeks to "help the victims of natural and man made disasters and dangerous situations by providing the highest quality educational and operational programs for first responders and first receivers and to provide practical application of research to the medical readiness community by forming a national medical readiness consortium." Read our vision and mission statements on this web site.
In 2008, as the state of Ohio and specifically the Dayton area became increasingly aware of our progress with Calamityville®, we realized that the name we originally chose, Homeland Emergency Learning & Preparedness Center, no longer fit our total mission. Calamityville® will be a Center of Excellence for the Readiness and Resiliency of America's Healthcare System, therefore we have renamed the center National Center for Medical Readiness to reflect that vision. We also adopted a new logo (shown here) and changed the URL for our web site to medicalreadiness.org.
For NDLS Course information, contact:
Dan Kirkpatrick, R.N., M.S.N.
Assistant Director, Workforce Development
daniel.kirkpatrick@wright.edu
For AHA Course information, contact:
Leslie Mangas, EMT-P, EMSI
AHA/EMS Program Coordinator
Clinical Professional Associate
leslie.mangas@wright.edu
For more information about the National Center for Medical Readiness, contact:
Bill Harchick, EMT-B, CPM
Assistant Director, Operations
National Center for Medical Readiness
1615 Springfield St.
Dayton, Ohio 45403
(937) 775-7625
Fax: (937) 775-7626
william.harchick@wright.edu |