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New Office Location

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Good Morning Everyone,

Yesterday we officially moved our office location from ECMC to the UB Gateway Complex which is where our corporate offices are located. I wanted to update everyone and provide all of you with our new address and contact information. If you need to mail anything you should now send it to:

UB Emergency Medicine EMS

77 Goodell St. Suite 420

Buffalo, NY. 14203

If you need to contact us via phone or send something via fax that would be:

716-829-5500 (Office)

716-645-9701 (Fax)

Please make note of this. All mobile device numbers and emails remain unchanged.

Thanks

East Shelby EMT Course

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Greetings,

Attached is a flyer regarding an EMT Course being held at the East Shelby Fire company. If interested please reach out to Sue.

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/East-Shelby-EMT-Course.docx

Substance Use Disorder/ Mental Health Course – Erie County

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Greetings Everyone,

Attached is a flyer on an upcoming course for Substance Use Disorder/Mental Health that will be held at the Erie County Training Center in Cheektowaga. The class is scheduled for Aug 30th and will run from 8-5. This will be presented by the State and registration is required. Please make sure to register early as there are only 30 seats available (link is located on the flyer)

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SUD-Considerations-Flyer-Erie-County-No-Zip.pdf14.pdf

 

Pediatric Disaster Science Symposium

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Greetings Everyone,

See below from EMS-C

Pediatric Disaster Science Symposium

Agency: NICHD, NIEHS, NASEM

Date: August 1-2, 2022, online

The Action Collaborative on Disaster Research (ACDR) is associated with the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The ACDR will convene a free, virtual symposium of government, academic, clinical and community stakeholders, and subject matter experts to scope perspectives, information, and scientific needs related to disasters affecting child populations. Meeting discussions will support high-level prioritization of pediatric disaster science foci and opportunities for alignment and synergy of scientific efforts to collective and effectively advance pediatric disaster science; as well as set the stage for capacity building around evidence-based practices and scientific discovery to improve outcomes of children.

When: August 1, 2022 (8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET) and August 2, 2022 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)

Where: Public participation for this symposium is virtual and free.

More information and registration can be found here: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNIHNIEHS/bulletins/32063b0

Please share with your networks and agencies!

Stay safe and be well,

Amy

Amy Eisenhauer

EMS for Children Program Coordinator

EMS Liaison to Coverdell Stroke Program

Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems

 

Virtual Training Program: On the Front Lines of the Overdose Crisis: A Training for First Responders

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Greetings Everyone,

See Attached:

Catskill Hudson AHEC is a non-profit organization with a mission to improve access to quality healthcare in the 11-county region we serve. We wanted to share information for an upcoming (free and virtual!) training that we are offering as part of our Opioid Response Program. On the Front Lines of the Overdose Crisis: A Training for First Responders will take place on Thursday, July 28th from 12-1pm via Zoom.

We have exciting speakers lined up from PAARI and Plymouth County Outreach as well as Fire Chief Will Mueller. They will be discussing the importance of peer support, non-arrest pathways to treatment, and address myths related to the overdose crisis.

I attached a flyer with the registration link embedded but the link can also be found here. Please email me at kmadormo@chahec.org with any questions. We hope to see you there!

Thank you,

Kayleigh Madormo

Opioid Response Program Coordinator

Catskill Hudson Area Health Education Center
60 Park Lane, Suite 1
Highland, NY 12528
(845) 883-7260

www.chahec.org

Peter L. Brodie, BS, AEMT

Deputy Chief, Data and Informatics Unit

EMS Data Manager

Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/First-Responder-Training-7.28.2215.pdf

Virtual Narcan Training Opportunity

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Greetings Everyone,

WNY Rural Area Health Education Center and Spectrum Health and Human Services have partnered together to bring you a Virtual Narcan Training Opportunity on July 25th. If interested please refer to the flyer.

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Narcan-Training-7.25.2224.pdf

FF Cold Weather Research Study

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Greetings Everyone

Dr Andrew Poreda is one of our Medical Directors out of UBMD Emergency Medicine and he is looking to do a study on effects of cold weather on FF. He needs participants for this study. If you, or know someone, that might be interested please share this information with them. Thanks

Feel free to post the attached flyer in your firehalls.

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FF-Cold-Research-Flyer.pdf

EMS Provider and Agency Leadership Briefing

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The Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems is pleased to remind EMS Agency Leaders and EMS Providers about the EMS Agency Leadership and EMS Provider Briefing scheduled for July 2022:

Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 16:00 Event # 161 351 3939 Password: LEADERS2022

Program Address: https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/onstage/g.php?PRID=56d1f534f1cd77a13b3e604308ec1279
Program Password: LEADERS

Please take note of the following:

If you are planning to attend the EMS Agency Leadership and EMS Provider Briefing and have a question, please complete the online form (https://apps.health.ny.gov/pubpal/builder/survey/nys-covid-19-response-ems-agency) before 14:00 on the day of the briefing so your question will be ready
If you don’t receive an invitation directly, please complete an online form (https://apps.health.ny.gov/pubpal/builder/survey/ems-agency-leadership-and-ems-pr) to receive invitations automatically for future briefings.

Take Note: The July 14, 2022 EMS Agency Leadership and EMS Provider Briefing will be the only scheduled briefing in July 2022!

We encourage all participants to sign into the meeting no later than 10 minutes in advance of the meeting

Thank you for all that you do!

Peter

Peter L. Brodie, BS, AEMT
Deputy Chief, Data and Informatics Unit
EMS Data Manager
Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems