Emergency Management Committee
Simon Sarkisian, MD, Chair
The Emergency Management Committee at Cooper University Health Care is a multidisciplinary committee that meets regularly with key hospital stakeholders to:
- Develop all-hazard emergency plans.
- Perform a hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA).
- Coordinate with other community agencies such as fire, police, EMS, public health, public works, the emergency management agency, hazardous materials unit, and ambulance dispatch center to encourage interoperability.
- Coordinate with the medical staff and each department of the facility.
- Assist in training stakeholders in the plans it develops.
Sub-committees
- High Consequence Infectious Diseases
- Military-Civilian Operations
- Decontamination Operations
Do you want to get involved with the Center for Disaster and Austere Medicine?
Contact Simon Sarkisian, DO, MS, FAAEM
Emergency Medicine Physician
Medical Director, Disaster Medicine
856.968.7572
sarkisian-simon@cooperhealth.edu