Organizing Committee Member
Paul Rega
Director of Disaster Medicine
University of Toledo
USA
Biography
Dr. Rega’s is the Director of Disaster Medicine Curriculum, EM Residency Assistant Professor, Dept of Emergency Medicine.His activities have been concentrated in education and research at the University of Toledo College of Medicine where he is an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine. He has been an emergency physician for over thirty years and has been board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine until his retirement. He currently has a number of semester courses relating to pandemics, global health, and disasters. Virtually all of his educational endeavors are multidisciplinary in nature (Medicine, Nursing, PA, Pharmacology, and Public Health) and make extensive use of simulation (Table-top and Functional exercises, High-Fidelity Simulations, Hybrid simulations, etc.). This association with the university has also resulted in a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and grants associated with disaster medicine, simulation medicine, and pandemic preparedness and response.
Research Area
Medicine, Nursing, PA, Pharmacology, and Public Health, Table-top and Functional exercises, High-Fidelity Simulations, Hybrid simulations, etc.