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Bioterrorism Response Planning for Local Health Departments

Author            : Pablo M. Gonzalez

Designation    :Director, Crisis Management Services

Company        : Telemus Solutions, Inc.

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Biography

Mr. Gonzalez is Sandia RAM-W certified and is the director of Crisis Management Services for Telemus Solutions, Inc. Telemus Solutions provides customized security consulting, advisory, research and training services for both public and private market sectors throughout the world. Telemus Solutions is based in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.

Prior to his work at Telemus, Mr. Gonzalez was the Manager for the Public Health Preparedness Office for Miami- Dade County, Director of the South Florida Regional Public Health Bioterrorism Preparedness Office and the Regional Public Health Co-Chair for Region 7 (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami- Dade & Monroe Counties) of the Governor’s State Wide Domestic Security Task Force organized by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He was the prime coordinator for all Department of Public Health WMD response plans in South Florida and chaired the planning committee for the Governor’s State Working Group on Terrorism.

Mr. Gonzalez and his staff were members of the incident command team sent to manage and mitigate the first recorded anthrax attacks against the United States. Mr. Gonzalez and his team responded to the contaminated American Media International building, where the environmental samples were collected for identification. Their findings were reported directly to CDC and the White House.

Mr. Gonzalez was tasked with developing the “South Florida Regional Bio-response System”. In addition, he is also a major contributor to the state-wide philosophy on terrorism response and a frequent lecturer at FBI Terrorism Briefings, the University of Miami’s Medical School, University of Central Florida, Miami-Dade Community College and Florida International University. He was also a member of the FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Task Force. Besides being an experienced Chief Fire Officer and Paramedic, Mr. Gonzalez has received specialized training from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST), as well as from the National Fire Academy, USAMRICD, FBI, Department of Defence, Texas A&M University, Health and Human Services, FEMA and is a graduate of the WMD COBRA training program.

Mr. Gonzalez has published numerous articles in both national and international venues, developed and moderated NACCHO’s fist nationally broadcasted bioterrorism table top exercise and is a frequent speaker at both national and international symposiums. Mr. Gonzalez has travelled to South America at the invitation of local governments to assist in the development of emergency response systems and was instrumental in developing a special taxing district in Barranquilla, Colombia, to fund emergency response services.

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