May 8th, 2024 | 10:30am - 5:00pm

Goldwurm Auditorium, Mount Sinai Icahn Medical Institute, 1st Floor

1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029

Bringing together leaders in government and the private sector to discuss the future of healthcare readiness.

Keynote Panel: National Priorities for Readiness in the Post-COVID Era

  • Dawn O’Connell

    Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Paul Friedrichs

    Deputy Assistant to the President and Inaugural Director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR)

  • Robert Kadlec

    Former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

  • Jeff Gold

    President-elect, University of Nebraska System, Chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, member of the President’s COVID-19 Taskforce and the All Hazard 21st Century Threats Taskforce

  • Brendan Carr

    moderator, CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System

Lunch Poster Sessions

  • Clinical Factors Associated with Xylazine Positivity in Emergency Department Opioid Overdose

    Alex Manini

    Knowledge is Power: Situational Awareness Methodology for Evolving Healthcare Emergency Management Environments

    Angelo Belfiore, George T. Loo, Don Boyce

    Healthcare Labor Action Preparedness and Response

    Ryan M. Leone, R. James Salway, David Silvestri, Laura G. Iavicoli

  • The Mount Sinai Pathogen Surveillance Program: Detect and Defend

    Harm van Bakel, Ana Silvia Gonzalez-Reiche, Deena Altman, Sharon Nirenberg, Mark Green, Patricia Kovatch, Gopi Patel, Robert Sebra, Melissa Gitman, Juan David Ramirez, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Emilia Mia Sordillo and Viviana Simon for the PSP Study Group

    A Multidisciplinary Response to the Mpox Outbreak-2022

    Bernard C. Camins, Abigail R. Chen, Rebecca L. Choudhury, Aaron E. Glatt, Waleed Javaid, Jolion McGreevy, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Gopi Patel, Michael A. Redlener, Nicholas R. Sells, Lauren Singelakis, Krystina L. Woods

  • Institute for Climate Change, Environment and Exposomic Research

    Robert Wright, Rosalind Wright, Itai Kloog, Lauren Petrick, Perry Sheffield, Omero Harari, Heresh Amini, Syam Andra, Julio Landero, Elena Colicino, Manish Arora

    Supporting Patient Information Sharing and Collection in Pre-Hospital Care through Hands-Free Smart Glasses

    Enze Bai, Jared Kutzin, Zhan Zhang

    Mount Sinai at Home: Scope, Populations Served and Lessons Learned

    Jeffrey Epstein, Trini Truong, Samuel Ware, Joseph Meehan, Ania Wajnberg

  • Building capacity to identify and respond to public health disparities: the GREENER platform

    Rosalind Wright, Robert Wright, Heresh Amini, Pablo Knobel, Elena Colicino, Mike He, Maayan Yitshak Sade, Itai Kloog

    Cybersecurity Threats in the Healthcare Industry

    Rishi Tripathi, Tomislav Mustac

    Evaluating the Accuracy of a State-of-the-Art Large Language Model for Prediction of Admissions from the Emergency Room

    Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Prem Timsina, Dhaval Patel, Ashwin Sawant, Akhil Vaid, Ganesh Raut, Alexander W. Charney, Donald Apakama, Brendan G. Carr, Robert Freeman, Girish N. Nadkarni, Eyal Klang

Opportunities in Public-Private Collaboration to Improve Readiness

  • Tina Grande

    President and CEO, Healthcare Trust Institute

  • Jody Long

    Clinical Advisory Director, Point Click Care

  • Jane True

    Vice President, mRNA Commercial Strategy & Innovation and Global Pandemic Security Lead, Pfizer

  • Jeff Freeman

    Director and Special Assistant to the President, National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Uniformed Services University

  • Michael Redlener

    moderator, Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Readiness

Regional Approaches to Health System Readiness

  • Paul Biddinger

    Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer and Director Center for Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

  • Vikramjit Mukherjee

    Chief of Critical Care and Special Pathogen Program Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

  • Mike Anderson

    Principal, WittKieffer and Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

  • Laura Iavicoli

    Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health & Hospitals/Elmhurst & Professor, Mount Sinai

  • Mary O'Dowd

    former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health, Executive Director, Health Systems and Population Health Integration, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

All the Future Hazards: Specific Threats to Health Security

  • Don Boyce

    Vice President of Emergency Management, Mount Sinai

  • Rosalind Wright

    Dean for Public Health, Mount Sinai

  • Viviana Simon

    Professor of Microbiology, Co-Director of the Mount Sinai Center of Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness

  • Robert Wright

    Ethel H. Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science, Mount Sinai

  • Brendan Carr

    moderator, CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System