RE: Em Response

["Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov>]

Gerald,

One agency you might have missed is the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.  A Regan
Presidential Directive tasked the VA to provide treatment in the case of
radiological emergencies.  The VA took that tasking and interpreted it to
mean they should have a mobile response team.  I was on that team for awhile
and resigned.  They have approximately 20 personnel, nuclear medicine
physicians and health physicists.  They seem to be conducting training about
once a year.

The Office that runs that is called Emergency Medical Preparedness Office
[EMPO] and is headquartered at in Martinsberg, WV I think.

Hope this is helpful.

Peter G. Vernig
VA Medical Center

Usual disclaimer, any opinions expressed are mine, not those of the Medical
Center, Dept. or U.S. Government.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vavrina, Gerard A CPT LRMC
[mailto:Gerard.Vavrina@lnd.amedd.army.mil]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:33 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Em Response


Fellow RadSafers :
I'm looking for information on time, money and manpower spent each year on
US training for nuclear emergency preparedness/response. I'd like to present
a broad overview of the US training experience (particularly the military
and the DoD) in the past 5 or so years. 
I've looked on the FEMA, NRC websites and at several DoD Directives
(3150.8,5100.2,5134.8). These give good summaries of how our responses are
organized, but nothing really on the extent of the preparedness efforts
spent at the Federal, state and Local levels.
Any info provided would be much appreciated, I'm familiar with em response
at the user level, it's the big picture that's stumping me !
Please respond to Gerard.Vavrina@lnd.amedd.army.mil

Thanks !
GERARD A. VAVRINA, Ph.D.
CPT, MS
Chief, Health Physics Division, LRMC
Health Physics Consultant, ERMC

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
CMR 402
APO, AE 09180
Tel: (+49 6371 86) 7978
Fax: ( ) 8403
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