Physician
Placement and Assistance
Team Leadership: Robert
Kenney, MD and Kenneth
Lempert, MD
Goals:
Provide nephrology expertise, and a means for deploying them,
for the management of dialysis and transplant patients during
a large-scale crisis. Provide assistance to physicians that
are displaced by disasters.
Accomplishments:
Work has begun with Federal representatives of to establish
a specific team of kidney specialists that would be mobilized
to provide assistance in the areas receiving kidney patients
from the disaster area under the National Disaster Medical System
of DHS. Training sessions on physician responsibilities and
expectations have been conducted during national training sessions.
Tools have been developed to help physicians prepare and respond.
The
Disaster-related Displaced Physicians’ List, hosted by
RPA and activated only in times of disasters, has two prime
functions. Click
here to view the list of displaced physicians. Or if you
are a displaced physician, click
here to submit your information online. For more information,
please visit the RPA
website.
Volunteer
for this team! If you are interested in becoming a
member of this Response Team, please read and sign the Physician's
Placement and Assistance Team's Charter and either provide
it to the Response Team leadership or acknowledge that you understand
the Team's activities and your responsibilities as a volunteer.
Next, join the Physician's
Assistance Response Team Listserv to get notified of upcoming
teleconferences and meetings and other activities.
Meeting
Minutes:
Publications:
