EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AGENDA
2017 METRO FIRE CHIEFS CONFERENCE
The Challenge of Change
Monday, April 10, 2017
6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m.
8:05 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
Registration
Housekeeping and General Announcements
Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, Metro President – Welcome & Opening
Remarks
8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, Metro President – Introductions of
Sponsors, members and Recognition of First Timers
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Jim Pauley, President & CEO, National Fire Protection Association
– NFPA Update
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
USFA Administrator, TBD (If an appointment has not been
made prior to the conference, Denis Onieal will provide an
update.)
9:30 a.m. – 10:00
Dr. Raj Nagaraj, Chief Technology Officer, Deccan
International – Recent Advances in Using Predictive Modeling
and Other Techniques for Effective Prevention Programs
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Break
Chiefs Richard “Smokey” Dyer & Joe Jardin – NFPA 1700,
Preparing SOPs for Structural Attack
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Stephen Kerber, Director, UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute
– Research Update
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
12:45 pm – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Dr. Denis Onieal – Fire Incident Data
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell – FireCARES, NFORS, Exposure App
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
CFO Mark Jones – Capital Investment: The challenges of
protecting Australia's Capital City
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m.– 4:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.- Midnight
Break
Business Session #1
Welcome Suite
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Breakfast
Registration
Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr - General Announcements
Harold Schaitberger, General President, International Association
of Fire Fighters: IAFF Update
8:45 am – 9:15 a.m.
Chief John Sinclair, IAFC President & Chair of the Board and
Mark Light, IAFC CEO & Executive Director: IAFC Update
9:15 am – 10:15 a.m.
Chiefs Ken Block, Dave Downey, Maurice Kemp, Daryl Osby
and Commissioner Joe Finn – Cancer in the Fire Service: What
We’re Doing and What Needs to be Done
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break
Casey Grant – Fire Protection Research Foundation: Continuation
of Above with Casey Leading the Discussion on the Latest
Research
Jay Tarley, Physical Scientist – NIOSH/NPPTL’s Post-Market
Activities: Certified Product Investigation Process (CPIP) and the
Importance of Evidence Collection.
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
President/Senior Principal Paul Erickson – HOT Zone Design:
Reducing Cancer in Firefighters
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.– 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Chief Steve Dongworth – Fire Fighter Mental Health: A Proactive
Chief Tim Beckett – Our Journey to Workplace Mental Health
Road to Mental Readiness Program (R2MR)
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Chief Ted Collas – Mobile Integrated Health and the Fire Service
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m.– 4:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.- Midnight
Break
Business Session #2
Welcome Suite
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Breakfast
Housekeeping and General Announcements
Chiefs Otto Drozd & Roderick Williams – The Pulse Attack
(Including the counseling component)
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
CFO Roy Wilsher, Chief Fire Officers Association/Chair of the
National Fire Chiefs Council -- Marauding Terrorist Firearms
Attack (MTFA)
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break
Chief John Butler – Active Shooter-Assailant & Public Access
Bleeding Control Program
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell – All Hazards: Have a Plan
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Chief Ron Siarnicki – The National Fallen Fire Fighters
Foundation’s First Responder Center for Excellence for Reducing
Occupational Illness, Injuries and Deaths, Inc.
Lunch
Chief Derrick Sawyer – An Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction:
It’s Not What You Think It Is!
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Chief Brian Cummings and Eric Rosoff, Executive Manager
of the Career Survival Group – Career Survival in the Fire
House
3:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.- Midnight
Business Session #3
Closing Ceremony
Welcome Suite
Thursday, April 13, 2017
DEPARTURE – ALL DAY
Early Breakfast