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Craig DeAtley, PA-C, is the Director of the Institute for Public Health Emergency Readiness at the Washington Hospital Center, the District of Columbia’s largest hospital. Prior to this position he served as Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, specializing in Disaster Medicine and Field Operations. He also serves as the Assistant Medical Director for the Fairfax County (VA) Police Department and the Police Helicopter Unit, and was previously the Assistant Medical Director of the United States Customs Service and a Medical Specialist with the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team DC-1. Those positions include his working with the special operations personnel (SWAT, Civil Disturbance, Marine Patrol and Helicopter operations). He is a part-time affiliate attending physician assistant at the Fairfax Hospital Emergency Department in Northern Virginia and is Chairman of the Northern Virginia Emergency Response Coalition. In addition to being a Physician Assistant, he is a volunteer paramedic with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue and a member of their Urban Search and Rescue Team and serves as the team's Medical Team Coordinator. He served as the Hazardous Materials/Toxic Substances/WMD Task Force Leader for Project ER One, a project for the US Public Health Service/Office of Emergency Preparedness and was a founding member of NMRS-DC-1, the nations first US Public Health Service trained and equipped civilian NBC response team. For the past 11 years he has been working as a consultant with Titan-Research Planning Inc on projects related to DOD’s/DOJ’s WMD Domestic Preparedness Program, and a variety of HHS/CDC’s Public Health Department projects regarding preparedness and response. Each of these projects have led to his working with police, fire, EMS, hospitals, emergency management, and mental health and public health personnel to develop and exercise their Hazmat/chem-bio response plans. He also worked for the HHS Office of Emergency Preparedness in developing and facilitating a new Public Health Emergency Practicum Program for medical, emergency management, public health, and public safety personnel. His publications include recently serving as Editor and contributing author for Jane’s Mass Casualty Handbook Pre-Hospital Care-Emergency Preparedness and Response. More recently he served as the Co-Manager of the HEICS IV project done on behalf of the California Emergency Medical Services. This project led to the recent release of the new Hospital Incident Command System (HICS). He lectures on Incident Command and Protecting the Staff & Faculty and assists with the Conventional and Chemical MCI exercises.
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