PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
The University maintains a focus on outstanding teaching, individualized student
service and innovative research, including research focused on national defense.
Disaster Medicine and Management is part of the School of Science and Health,
which offers quality educational programs in science, mathematics, psychology
and the health sciences in full-time, part-time, day, evening, weekend,
on-campus and distance-learning formats.
ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK
The Albert Einstein Healthcare Network is a private,
not-for-profit organization with six major facilities and many outpatient centers.
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network’s primary mission is to provide compassionate,
high-quality healthcare to the Greater Philadelphia region. Albert Einstein Healthcare
Network is a leader in medical education and operates over 25 residency and fellowship
programs for physicians, dentists, pharmacists and physical therapists, along with
clinical rotations for medical students, nursing students, physician-assistant students
and others. The Department of Emergency Medicine delivers state-of-the-art emergency
care at four locations, operates a major Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center
and operates one of the region’s largest residency programs for emergency-medicine
physicians. Albert Einstein Healthcare Network also runs the region’s only fellowship
program for emergency-medicine physicians in disaster medicine and participates
in important medical research. The Center for Special Operations Training and Office
of Weapons of Mass Destruction Education is an excellent regional resource for education
and consultation.