Resilience, Challenges and Opportunities: Initial Hospital Management of Ebola Virus Disease in a Large Teaching Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia

This free public event is sponsored by the Office of the Dean at Duke University School of Nursing. The objectives of the lecture are to: (1) trace the initial hospital response to the index of Ebola Virus Disease at JFK Memorial Hospital, (2) contrast resilience models in hospitals in the US and Liberia and (3) recognize shared vulnerabilities and describe the nursing role in supporting hospital-level resilience to crisis events. Mr. Priest directs the interdisciplinary Social Network Health Research Laboratory at IUSON. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship at the IU School of Medicine. His research and scholarship interests include healthcare crisis management and response, clinical disaster nursing, international disaster risk reduction, social media surveillance systems and inter-professional practice. To reserve your seat, please contact Athena Chamblee at athena.chamblee@dm.duke.edu or call (919) 684-9444.