The Grady EMS Biosafety Transport Team in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ebola: A Global Issue
Alumni in the medical profession help to prepare for the treatment of patients with infectious disease, including a potential Ebola outbreak, stateside.
In early August, an ambulance and motorcade approached the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying Kent Brantly, M.D., a healthcare worker who had contracted Ebola. The first Ebola patient to be treated in the U.S., Dr. Brantly contracted the disease while serving as a missionary in Liberia.
Training and Drills Photos from media outlets all over the country displayed images of that motorcade and the paramedics who emerged, clad in white personal protective equipment. The meticulous planning that went into the transport of Dr. Brantly from Dobbins Air Reserve Base to the hospital was thanks in part to Alex 22
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Isakov, M.D., MPH ’87, an emergency medicine physician and executive director of the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) at Emory. Over the past 12 years, he and his EMS team developed policies, procedures and training for just this type of situation.