Buena Vista Street Building, UTSA Downtown Campus
UTSA hosts April 8 lecture on health care and bioterrorism
(March 31, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio presents Col. Rasa Silenas, deputy director of the Development Center for Operational Medicine (DCOM) at Brooks City-Base, speaking on "Dr. Strange Bug: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bioterrorism," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 in the Buena Vista Street Building Aula Canaria (1.328) at the Downtown Campus.
Sponsored by the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts, the lecture is part of the new Social Sciences Lecture Series.
In her timely presentation, Silenas will put bioterrorism in perspective among other natural and man-made disasters, discuss how to prepare for it and suggest what good there may be in a disturbing world situation.
Silenas is a reconstructive plastic surgeon with a background in education, public health and humanitarian medical outreach. She founded DCOM as a think tank for the U.S. Air Force surgeon general.
DCOM studies military and civilian partnership in health care under challenging conditions including austere locations, natural disasters, combat and terrorism. Using its extensive network of regional governments, hospitals and industry, DCOM helped produce a pioneering regional bioterrorism response plan using existing resources.
According to a 2002 CNN survey, the plan makes San Antonio's preparedness second only to New York's, with far fewer resources.
For more information, contact Richard Gambitta, political science and geography, at (210) 458-5608 or Martha Luna at (210) 458-5883.
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