Health & Fitness
"Preparing for Disaster in the America" I'm producing a blog-talk radio show Tuesday’s @ 0700 Pacific. We expanded it across the country with an all hazards approach. Be my guest.
Our guest Tuesday April 15th is Dr. Peter Katona. Peter is Clinical Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an EIS Officer studying viral diseases and doing epidemic investigation; and at Apria/Corum Healthcare as their Corporate Medical Director. Peter has held appointments at Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training and the Los Angeles County Emergency Management Services Agency. He has been a member of the LA County EMS Agency Disaster Coalition Advisory Committee, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s National and Global Public Health Committee, the Pacific Council on International Policy’s Homeland Security Committee and served on the FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee. Peter served as Chairman of the UCLA Hospital Infection Control Committee. He has authored articles on medical informatics, medical education, influenza, polio, nutrition, bioterrorism, disasters and the future of health care. He is developing a project to do disease surveillance using social networking in Vietnam, and a project to study healthcare vulnerabilities to catastrophic disasters in Los Angeles. He is an internationally recognized authority on bioterrorism and has lectured throughout the world on this topic. He teaches a yearly Honors course at UCLA on terrorism and has edited the books Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network, and Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses, with a book on the vulnerability of healthcare to disasters in progress. He also maintains a private practice in infectious diseases and internal medicine in Los Angeles.
You may call in or email questions during the show at: (714) 242-5288 or george@thesouthbayshow.com
