Dr. Madad is a nationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogen preparedness and response. She is Senior Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal healthcare delivery system overseeing special pathogen preparedness and response efforts across 11 acute care hospitals in addition to post-acute/long-term care facilities and ambulatory care sites. She is Principal Investigator of NYC Health + Hospitals Institute of Diseases and Disaster Management and Health & Safety Lead of the Enhanced Special Investigations Unit of NYC Test & Trace Corp. In addition, Dr. Madad is Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. She is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and part of their COVID19 Taskforce, Alumni Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Program and Alumni Senior Fellow in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Informatics & Technological Enterprise Studies Program. Dr. Laura Iavicoli MD is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with special expertise in Emergency Management. She has been an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Elmhurst Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Mount Sinai Medical center for 20 years where she trains and teaches Emergency Medicine Residents, Internal Medicine Residents, and Medical Students in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Iavioli serves on numerous hospital committees devoted to emergency management issues, has attended over 90 specialty seminars and training sessions in emergency preparedness over a 20-year period and has delivered over 80 presentations to hospital staff on topics pertaining to disaster preparedness, including terrorism, mass casualties, blast injuries, psychiatric effects, decon, protective equipment, et al. Dr. Iavioli has been a Disaster Relief team member for over 10 years for NYC and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Her areas of interest include: Emergency Department Emergency Management, Quality, and Sexual Assault Response Team. Dr. Eric Wei is the Sr VP and Chief Quality Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals and the Interim Chief Executive Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health system in the United States, with 11 acute care hospitals, 5 skilled nursing facilities, 60+ community health centers, a home care agency, correctional health services, and an insurance plan, MetroPlus Health. NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst serves a population of approximately 2.4 million New Yorkers in one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the world. Dr. Wei leads the Office of Quality and Safety, focused on fostering a culture of safety, building quality improvement capacity across all 42,000 staff, aligning improvement efforts with system vision and strategic pillars, and becoming a data driven, high reliability organization. He is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician rotating through all 11 Emergency Departments in NYC Health + Hospitals.