title: Enhancing medical and public health capabilities during times of crisis.
abstract: Terrorist attacks and other catastrophic events will create demands that severely challenge the capacity of the medical/public health system. To meet the surge, a cadre of professionals should be trained to operate around the nucleus of medical/public health officials. At New York University, an inter-institutional team is considering specific roles for and an approach to training dentists to enable these health care professionals to supplement medical/public surge needs based upon informatics systems that provide critical information.
authors.forename: Walter J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Psoter
authors.forename: Marc M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Triola
authors.forename: Douglas E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: E Dianne
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Rekow
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D003815:Dentists; D004189:Disaster Planning; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011634:Public Health; D023481:Terrorism; D014481:United States