| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast
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| 9:20 |
Welcome |
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Mary Hendrix, Ph.D.
President, Children’s Memorial Institute for Education and Research
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| 9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
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Barbara Cochran
President, Radio-Television News Directors Association
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| 9:40 |
Remarks |
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The Honorable Tom Ridge
Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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| 10:15 |
Introductions of scenario panelists by John McWethy
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Cate Cahan, Interim News Director, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) |
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Camille Edwards, News Director, WMAQ-TV, Chicago |
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Ron Huberman, Executive Director for the Office of Emergency Management & Communications, City of Chicago |
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Richard Jaehne, Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute |
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Ronald Sherman, Federal Coordinating Officer, FEMA Region V |
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Jim Webb, Chicago News Editor, Associated Press |
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Paul Ziemer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Health Physics, Purdue University
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| 10:20 |
Scenario Exercise
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| 12:20 p.m. |
Questions and Answers
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| 12:50 |
Buffet Lunch
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| 1:30 |
Break
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| 1:45 |
Obtaining Science and Technology Background Information |
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Randall Murch, Ph.D
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses
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| 2:00 |
Questions and Answers
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| 2:45 |
Rules of the Road: Incident command and preparedness |
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Richard Jaehne
Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute
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| 3:15 |
Questions and Answers
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| 3:45 |
Break
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| 4:00 |
Lessons Learned: Next steps for disaster and communications planning
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| 4:30 |
Wrap-up and evaluation
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| 4:45 |
Workshop concludes
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