Maurice Ramirez

Current

• Founding Member at American Academy of Disaster Medicine
• Founder and President at High Alert, LLC
• Founding Member at American Board of Disaster Medicine

• Senior Physician / Federal Medical Officer at National Disaster Medical System
• Physician at State Medical Response Team
• Owner / Physician at Independent Emergency Physician (Sole Proprietorship)
• Professional Speaker at Independent Professional Speaker (Sole Proprietorship)
• Disaster Volunteer at Ad Hoc Response Teams

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Past

• Owner / Physician at Private Medical Practice (Sole Proprietorship)
• EMS Director / Medical Director at Franklin County

Education

• The Union Institute and University
• Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center
• Florida State University

• Valencia Community College
• Bishop Moore High School

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Recommended

16 people have recommended Maurice

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Maurice Ramirez’s Summary

I am the founder and president of the consulting firm High Alert, LLC. and an expert on both Disaster Preparedness & Corporate Leadership. I have served on expert panels with Congressional & Cabinet members. I am the Founding Chairperson of the American Board of Disaster Medicine and serve the nation as a Senior Physician-Federal Medical Officer in the National Disaster Medical System.

My new goal is to raise the "Culture of Preparedness" through corporate consulting, healthcare strategy consulting and even early child education.

In addition to programs for corporate leaders and healthcare executives, I have developed a program called “Rinse, Lather, Repeat”.

Stop, Drop and Roll has resulted in more children saving the lives of parents than parents saving the lives of children in household fires. Moreover, after three decades, the children of yesterday are the parents and grandparents of today, all having learned Stop, Drop and Roll.

Rinse, Lather, Repeat seeks to do the same for all hazards, not just fire. With Rinse, Lather, Repeat you can survive anything, anywhere, every time!

Rinse, Lather, and Repeat is curriculum for kindergarten students that focuses on five core activities:

1. Preparation and maintenance of a three-day "Go-Pak"
2. Knowledge of where to obtain reliable news and evacuation instructions
3. The memorization of local and out-of-state phone numbers for friends and family
4. The location of local shelters and local evacuation routes
5. The appropriate hygiene techniques for home, hospital or other community facility including hand washing to decrease spread of disease.

Finally, children will learn to decontaminate themselves. Unfortunately, health care workers still struggle with how to decontaminate a child. However, every child can be taught how to take a simple shower (not just wander around in the bathtub as so many kids do).

Maurice Ramirez’s Specialties:

Doing More with Less in Good Times and Bad;
Personnel Continuity & Resilience;
Business Triage;
InstaDecision - 4 Steps to a Blink Moment;
400% Healthcare Surge Capacity;
Expanding the Healthcare Highway;
Culture of Preparedness and Early Childhood Education;
Rinse-Lather-Repeat

Maurice Ramirez’s Experience

• Founding Member

  American Academy of Disaster Medicine

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Founding member of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine serving to guide the development of the Academy prior to its incorporation as a separate entity from the American Board of Disaster Medicine.

• Founder and President

  High Alert, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Provide Consulting & Keynote Speeches in the areas of Disaster Healthcare, Corporate Preparedness and Business Strategies for Good Times & Bad.
  
  Developed the Business Triage Model for the management of goals, outcomes and resources to ensure maximum goal achievement even during times of resource shortage.
  
  Developed the Continuous Integrated Triage model for healthcare mass casualty based on my reorganization of triage at the Louis Armstrong Int'l Airport in the first days after hurricane Katrina.
  
  Subsequently incorporated the Support Center / Family Center model of James Shultz, Ph.D. to create a model that allows for a healthcare surge of up to 400%.
  
  Expanded the "PIVOT" model for risk assessment which incorporates Probability, Impact, Vulnerability, Outrage and Threat, correlating these with concepts of Hazard and Risk while integrating concepts of Tolerance, Expectation, Preception and Reality to create a simple formula for predicting public response to an event.

• Founding Member

  American Board of Disaster Medicine

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  Founding Chairperson 2004 - 2007
  Guided the formation and incorporation of the American Board of Disaster Medicine from July 2004 though February 2007. Lead the organization through the formation of the Board and recruitment of its founding members. Lead the formation of the component Academy of Disaster medicine until its incorporation in 2006 when the Academy became an independent organization.
  
  Provided oversight and leadership through the process of creating Core Competencies, Envisioning and Implementing the use of Immersion Simulation as a physician testing method and the creation of a computer based didactic examination.

• Senior Physician / Federal Medical Officer

  National Disaster Medical System

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Public Safety industry)

  April 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Senior Physician with the Level 1 Disaster Medical Assstance Team based in Tampa, FL (DMAT-FL3). Served in federal deployments for hurricane Katrina (Louis Armstrong Int'l Airport - New Orleans, LA), hurricane Rita (Memorial Herman South - Houston, TX) and hurricane Wilma (Pembrook Pines Hospital - Pembrook Pines, FL).

• Physician

  State Medical Response Team

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Public Safety industry)

  April 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Physician on the Level 1 State Medical Response Team based in Tampa, FL (SMRT-FL3).

• Owner / Physician

  Independent Emergency Physician (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 1992 — Present (16 years 1 month)

  Emergency Physician as an Independent Contractor for multiple staffing companies at hospitals across Florida including:
  
  Florida Hospital Ormond Division - Ormond Beach, FL
  Pasco Regional Medical Center - Dade City, FL
  Highlands Regional Medical Center - Sebring, FL
  Southbay Medical Center - Sun City Center, FL
  Glades General Hospital – Belle Glade, FL
  Suncoast Medical Center – Largo, FL
  Florida Hospital Heartland Division – Sebring, FL
  Osceola Regional Medical Center – Kissimmee, FL
  Calhoun Liberty Hospital – Blountstown, FL
  George E. Weems Memorial Hospital – Apalachicola, FL
  
  Served on the residency teaching staff at Sun Coast Medical Center (2003-2004).
  
  Served as Chief of Staff at Weems Memorial Hospital (1998-2000)
  
  Served as Chief of Emergency Medicine and ED Director at Wems Memorial Hospital (1997-2000)

• Professional Speaker

  Independent Professional Speaker (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Events Services industry)

  March 1985 — Present (23 years 7 months)

  Professional Speaker providing Motivational Keynotes, Nutrition and Health programs, custom training and presentation of academic material in an Infortainment format to public, private, corporate and professional audiences.
  
  Clients have included:
  • Meeting Professionals International
  • Federated Stores
  • NASA
  • Zales
  • FEMA
  • Pfizer
  • Roche Pharmaceuticals
  • University of Miami
  • Florida State University
  • and (Your Name Here)

• Disaster Volunteer

  Ad Hoc Response Teams

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Public Safety industry)

  June 1980 — Present (28 years 4 months)

  Disaster Response Volunteer beginning in June 1980 as a recovery field worker clearing debris, later volunteering with the American Red Cross as a shelter volunteer and then shelter first aid provider.
  
  Volunteered as a physician at hurricane Andrew and subsequently in local and regional responses until 9/11. After the loss of my cousin in Tower 2, I returned to full time emergency medicine and updated my disaster / terrorism response skills finally joining NDMS/DMAT-FL3 and SMRT-FL3 while deploying with local services in Osceola and Brevard County, FL during hurricanes Charlie, Francis and Jeanne.

• Owner / Physician

  Private Medical Practice (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Medical Practice industry)

  September 1992 — December 2001 (9 years 4 months)

  Practiced as a Family Physician with subspecialty certification in Geriatrics, Sports Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine in several of Florida's urban and rural settings including Jacksonville, Panama City, Apalachicola, Kissimmee and Orlando.

• EMS Director / Medical Director

  Franklin County

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

  September 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 4 months)

  Medical Director for Emerency Medical Services (EMS and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Franklin County Florida.
  
  Developed and deployed multiagency disaster drills in cooperation with the Franklin County EOC manager.
  
  Developed treatment protocols for paramedicas and EMT's including stroke and heart attack protocols.
  
  Provided education for EMS and EOC on medical and CBRNE topics.
  
  Medical and EMS liason to Big Bend AHEC for Child and Sexual Assault Task Force.

Maurice Ramirez’s Education

• The Union Institute and University

  PhD, Clinical Nutrition and Disaster Medicine Studies, 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Doctoral Thesis: A Comparison of Sublingual vs. Intranasal Routes for Administration of Vitamin B12 to Human Subjects (Cyanide Antidote)

• Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center

  DO, Osteopatic Medicine, 1987 — 1991

  Ophthalmology Teaching Assistant: 1989 to 1989,
  CPR Instructor: 1988 to 1990,
  Osteopathic Manipulation Teaching Assistant: 1988 to 1989
  Phlebotomy Teaching Assistant: 1987 to 1987,
  Basic Cranial Table Trainer Viola Frymann: 1988 to 1989,
  Osteopathic Research: 1987 to 1988 & 1989 to 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Sigma Sigma Phi -- Osteopathic Honor Society

• Florida State University

  BS, Biology & Nutrition, 1982 — 1986

  Instructor for Screening Clinic Volunteers (1984 to 1986)
  Graduate School Classes 1984 to 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Cum Laude Graduate,
  President's List,
  Dean's List,
  National Honor Scholar (Full Support)
  Florida S.T.A.R. Scholar (Full Support)

• Valencia Community College

  AA, Duel Enrolled - General Studies, 1981 — 1982

  Duel Enrolled at Bishop Moore High School 1981 to 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  Magna Cum Laude graduate,
  (62 credit hours earned in 11 months)

• Bishop Moore High School

  Diploma, College Prep (Duel Enrolled), 1978 — 1982

  Duel Enrolled at Valencia Community College 1981 to 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  National Honor Society

Additional Information

Maurice Ramirez’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Maurice Ramirez’s Interests:

Application of established theory, practice, procedure or process to new industries, new markets and new problems to create new and unique solutions.

Maurice Ramirez’s Groups:

National Speakers Association
International Federation for Professional Speakers
National Disaster Medical System
American Academy of Disaster Medicine
American Board of Disaster Medicine
National Disaster Life Support Educational Consortium

•    Business Continuity Management Information eXchange
•    American Red Cross
•    Christian Professionals
•    LIONs "LI Open Networkers"
•    HomelandSecurity
•    National Honor Society
•    National Speakers Association
•    Hilton Diamond Honors
•    Expertise for Hire
•    Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    Speakers and Panelists
•    National Speakers Association Cigar PEG Members
•    Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
•    NASA
•    American Heart Association
•    Friends of the United States of America
•    American Academy of Disaster Medicine
•    Disaster Healthcare
•    PADI Scuba Divers
•    Disaster Law
•    Event Planning & Management:
•    FSU Alumni and Students
•    Personnel Continuity & Resilience
•    Consulting Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Management
•    Networking Orlando
•    Valencia Community College Alumni
•    Des Moines University Alumni & Students
•    Sigma Sigma Phi - Osteopathic Honor Society
•    American Osteopathic Association
•    American Medical Association
•    International Federation for Professional Speakers
•    American Association of Physician Specialists
•    National Disaster Medical System
•    Linked 2 Leadership
•    Public Speaking Network
•    Business Continuity, Information Security Assurance and Compliance Management
•    Traveling Consultants
•    Emergency Management and Homeland Security Professionals
•    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
•    Crisis, Emergency & Disaster Recovery Professionals
•    Union Institute & University
•    9/11 - Never Forget
•    HARO--Help A Reporter Out
•    Global Keynote Speakers Association
•    Florida State Alumni- Central Florida Chapter
•    Dinner with the Expert
•    Ask the Experts
•    National Emergency Management Resource Center [NEMRC]

Maurice Ramirez’s Honors:

Board Certifications:
Disaster Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Family Practice
Geriatric Medicine
Sports Medicine
Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
Clinical Nutrition Specialist
Medical Review Officer

Special Certifications:
Mass Decon for Healthcare First Receivers - Instructor
National Disaster Life Support - Instructor
Advanced Disaster Life Support - Instructor
Core Disaster Life Support - Instructor
Basic Disaster Life Support - Instructor
Advanced Radiation Life Support
Advanced Disaster Medical Responder
DHS/FEMA Incident Command System
DHS/FEMA Basic & Advanced Field Operations
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Basic Cardiac Life Support

Honors & Honor Societies:
Sigma Sigma Phi - National Osteopathic Honor Society
Student Osteopathic Medical Association Service Scholarship
Gold Key National Honor Society
President’s List: Florida State University
National Merit Scholar
Florida STAR Scholar

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