Our Guest Today: December 10, 2013
Posted by Wes Brooks
on Dec 10, 2013
Italo Subbarao, DO, MBA
Associate Dean, Quality Assessment
William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Subbarao is the Associate Dean, Quality Assessment at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He was formerly Director of the Public Health Readiness Office at the American Medical Association Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparednes,s an official AMA publication, and the Medical Director for the National Disaster Life Support Program Office. Dr. Subbarao is a leader in disaster response including terrorism and is recognized for his work in interprofessional competency development and assessment. He has provided field and technical support to the Haiti Earthquake, the Mumbai Shootings, Hurricanes Gustave and Ike, Hurricane Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, and other large scale events. He has published and edited over 60 books and articles and has been an invited speaker to many conferences which include US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations.
Dr. Subbarao is an emergency medicine physician and has completed additional fellowship training in Disaster Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Subbarao completed his emergency medicine residency training at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Muhlenberg, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he won three national resident research awards. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medical School joint DO/MBA program in Health Care Administration. He lives with his wife and son in Hattiesburg, MS.