Irwin Redlener

Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who gespecialiseerd in healthcare for underserved children, health care reform , and disaster planning, response, and recovery. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now (Knopf, 2006) ^[1]

Redlener is president and co-founder (with singer song-writer Paul Simon ) or Children’s Health Fund (CHF), director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at The Earth Institute – Columbia University . ^{[2] [3]} and Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center.

Redlener is a special advisor to New York City Mayor Bill Blasio said , with a focus on emergency management and planning to support and advice the administration’s citywide disaster preparedness and response efforts. ^[4]

Background

Redlener was born in Brooklyn , New York . He RECEIVED his BA from Hofstra University in 1964 and his MD from the University of Miami in 1969. In 1971, while a Paediatric resident at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Redlener left his program to serve as a VISTA physician in Lee County, Ark. ^[5] During this time, he with his wife, Karen, who was a fellow VISTA volunteer. The two port worked together since. ^[6]

Career

Redlener served as the director of the Paediatric intensive care unit at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. He’ll be worked on disaster relief policy making in Honduras, Guatemala, ^[7] and created a new Child Action Center to study and treat child abuse. In 1979, after a letter stint in neonatal intensive care at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, have Agent a private practice in Utica, New York, and became involved with Physicians for Social Responsibility. ^[8] Redlener ook served as head or outpatient kindergeneeskunde at Cornell / New York Hospital (1987-1990) and head of community kindergeneeskunde at Montefiore Medical Center (1990-2003). ^[9]

In 1985, Redlener joined the board of USA for Africa as the organization’s medical director and director of grants, where he with Paul Simon . ^[10] In 1987, Redlener and Paul Simon founded Children’s Health Fund to bieden healthcare to homeless and medically underserved children in New York City. The program Began with a single mobile medical unit funded by Simon and designed by Redlener’s wife, Karen. ^[11] More than 25 years later, the organization has 23 programs with morethan 50 mobile medical units. ^[12] Karen Redlener resten with the Fund Currently serving as the organization’s executive director. ^[13]

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Redlener was chairman of the National Health Leadership Council, a group of 300 health professionals who supported President Bill Clinton’s Candidacy. In 1993-1994, he was part of the White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform, serving as the vice-chairman or zijn Health Professional Review Group. ^[14] He was ook a founding member of the Task Force on Terrorism of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2001.

In April 2000 Redlener was Engaged by INS Commissioner Doris Meissner to bieden strategic guidance Regarding the management of the Elian Gonzalez case. He claimed in a letter to INS therein based on a 40-second video or 7-year-old Elian, he “is now in a state of imminent danger to his physical and emotional well-being in a home dat I consider to be psychologically abusive. “He urged dat de government redacteuren remove the” horrendously exploited “Elian from the” bizarre and destructive atmosphere “or his Miami relatives. ^[15] Eleven Cuban American doctors dismissed Redlener’s opinion for not” keeping obtained a medical history, Performed a physical Examination or other proper psychologische evaluations or Elian. ” ^[16] Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson zegt Dr. Redlener was “Neither a psychiatrist nor a Psychologist and who has never Examined the young Cuban refugee.” ^[17] Elian Gonzalez was Returned to Cuba two months later, where he had permanent bodyguards Assigned to im since the age of seven, enrolled in military school and in 2013 DECLARED: ” Fidel Castro is like a Father to me. I do not t profess to Have Any religion, but, if I did, my god mention anything be Fidel Castro. ” ^[18]

Redlener played will a lead role in the creation of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center, welke opened in 2001 ^[19] and he served as president of the hospital Until 2003. ^[20]

In 2003, Redlener joined the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University to Establish the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. Since 2003 Redlener has served as director of NCDP, working to verbeteren public policy and resources, as well as citizens’ individual preparedness. ^[21] In 2013, the NCDP moved from the Mailman School to join Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

In May 2009, Redlener was appointed to the National Commission on Children and Disasters. ^[22] In 2010, in part due to his research on the health effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil, ^[23] the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling appointed Redlener to serve as the Commission’s Special Consultant on Public Health. ^[24]

On November 15, 2012, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced dat he had appointed Redlener co-chair of the NYS Ready Commission, welke was tasked with finding ways to dat critical systems and services are Prepared for future natural disasters and other emergencies. ^[25]

On June 17, 2014, New York City Mayor Bill the Blasio named Redlener special advisor with a focus on emergency management and planning to support and advice the administration’s citywide disaster preparedness and response efforts. ^[26]

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