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Seminar

ED to the ICU: The COVID-19 Response

RSVP Required Open to the Public

Join the Belfer Center for a discussion on the U.S.'s COVID-19 response from the front lines of the pandemic - the Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit. This seminar will feature Dr. Laura Iavicoli, an Emergency Medicine Physician and SAVP for Emergency Management at NYC Health and Hospitals, and Dr. Amit Uppal, an ICU Physician and System Advisor for Critical Care. Dr. Syra Madad will moderate the session. 

Registration is required. Please click here to register in advance for this event. 

Note: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

Date: Time: - Location: Online
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About the Speakers

Headshot of Laura Iavicoli

Laura Iavicoli, MD, FACEP, is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician with special expertise in Emergency Management and a Senior Assistant Vice President of Emergency Management for NYC Health and Hospitals. She is an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and was employed for 20 years in Elmhurst Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she trained and taught Emergency Medicine Residents, Internal Medicine Residents, and Medical Students in Emergency Medicine. She has served on numerous hospital, local, and national committees devoted to emergency management issues. She has also led many publications, trainings, and seminars pertaining to disaster preparedness, including pandemic response, terrorism, mass casualties, blast injuries, psychiatric effects, decontamination, protective equipment, and many others. For over ten years, she participated as a disaster relief team member for NYC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 

Headshot of Amit Uppal

Amit Uppal, MD specializes in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is an assistant profession with the NYU School of Medicine.   He is the Director of Critical care and is the service-line lead for Critical Care across the NYC Health and Hospitals network.   He has played leadership roles in the critical care response during Superstorm Sandy, the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic.