Biography - Thomas D Phelan

Thomas D Phelan

Dr. Tom Phelan, is Program Director, Emergency and Disaster Management and Fire Science at APUS, President, Strategic Teaching Associates, Inc., and is a Founding Member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a member of the IBM Crisis Response Team, responding to Katrina, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami. He has served on the Board of PPBI, (former), currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Disaster Recovery Journal and the advisory board of the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP)and is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). Tom is a consultant to Virtual Corporation, the American Institutes for Research, and Vantage HRS and several government agencies.

His book,” Emergency Management and Tactical Response Operations, Bridging the Gap “(Elsevier, 2008), discusses the education of emergency managers.

Tom served with the Disaster Mortuary Response Team (DMORT) in St. Gabriel, Louisiana (2005), at the World Trade Center (2001), and received the New York State Senate Liberty Award for his service at Ground Zero. His clients include several corporations and government agencies.

Tom earned a Doctorate from Syracuse University, and has consulted and presented in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.

 
 

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