Ray Pastore #1 -  with Disaster Epidemiologist Dr. K.C. Rondello on Coronavirus

Dr. K.C. Rondello serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Public  Health and Emergency Management at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY  For almost two decades, Dr. Rondello has served as a Disaster  Epidemiologist with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’  National Disaster Medical System. Assigned to the Multi-Specialty  Enhancement Team (MSET), he has been deployed to the organization to  critical emergency medical and public health support to regions of the  country overwhelmed by disaster. In this capacity, Dr. Rondello  collaborated with the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine  (Newark Branch) in developing an international isolation contingency  plan in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Other notable  deployments have included dispatch to the terror attacks on the World  Trade Center (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna,  and Ike (2008), the Great Tennessee Flood (2010), Superstorm Sandy  (2012), and Hurricane Maria (2017).  Dr. Rondello’s scholarly research focuses on the application of disaster  epidemiology to epidemic and pandemic planning and response and the  establishment and management of alternate medical treatment sites and  pharmaceutical points of distribution. He provides consultation services  to both governmental and nongovernmental organizations wishing to  become resilient against all hazards that threaten mission- critical  continuity of operations. Dr. Rondello was educated at Yale University  School of Medicine in the United States and Saint George’s Medical  School in the United Kingdom.