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Clark Staten
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR/LECTURER:
Clark Staten is a U.S. Army veteran, former police officer, and former certified paramedic. Staten retired in 1995 as an Asst. Chief Paramedic and a twenty (20) year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department. He has participated in and managed more than 12,500 emergency responses. Chief Staten has been a frequent lecturer on the tactics and political implications of domestic and international Terrorism, Street Survival, Hazardous Materials, Chem/Bio Consequence Management, Media Relations, Management & Motivation Methods, Productivity, Mass Casualty/Disaster Management, Computers and Information Systems, Security planning, Crisis Intervention & Critical Incident Stress, and several other specialized rescue and security topics.
Staten is a certified DoD Domestic Preparedness Instructor-Trainer and has taught at the U.S. Army Chemical school at Ft. McClellan, AL. He has also been employed as a contract counter-terrorism instructor for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, NATO and a number of law enforcement, Fire, and EMS agencies. Staten also produced instructional materials concerning Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that were used in the U.S. Army Command and Staff School on "Homeland Defense," and was contracted to assist in the preparation of a course for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in regard to damage assessment and remediation for WMD incidents.
In 1998, Staten was appointed to be the Emergency Management Advisor to the International Association of Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP), and in 1999 received the IACSP 1999 National Leadership Award. In March of 2000, Staten was named to the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism Task Force.
Chief Staten has taught a variety of emergency-related topics at more at more than than 160 international, national, regional, state and local conferences. Staten has also appeared on the CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CBC, FOX, and the Voice of America (VOA) networks in regards to terrorism, crisis, and other emergency issues. In 2001, Staten was hired as an on-air consultant and analyst for FOX news (WFLD-TV) in Chicago. Staten also was a frequent guest on the Batchelor & Alexander Radio Show on WABC in New York City.
Staten is also the founder and Executive Director of the Emergency Response & Research Institute (ERRI) in Chicago, IL. Since 1990, he has been the Sysop (System Operator) of the EMERGENCY Bulletin Board Service (BBS). The ERRI network provides computer databased retrieval, reference, world-wide-web and media services to Police/Fire/EMS/Intelligence and Military personnel from throughout the world.
Under Staten's direction, ERRI also provides research, consulting, evaluation, and management services to government, emergency service agencies and corporate entities. He currently is also the publisher of the computer based EmergencyNet NEWS Service, which is distributed daily on the internet by ERRI, and is the supervising webmaster of the ERRI world-wide-web site (emergency.com).
Chief Staten has published or been interviewed in more than one-hundred and fifty (150) articles in such publications as: The Associated Press, Scripps Howard News Service, Bottom-Line Business, The Los Angeles Times, 911 Magazine, Security Magazine, Emergency Medical Service Magazine, Information Security Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsbytes, Firefighter's News, Counter-Terrorism & Security Reports, Newsday, Miami-Hearld, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun, Rescue/EMS Magazine, Journal of Emergency Medical Services, Firehouse, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Fire Command, Wired News, CNET News, Bloomberg Business Reports, Annuals in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Preparedness News, EMS Management Advisor, EMT Journal and is the principal author of the book "Emergency Response Guide To Terrorism (5th Ed.)".
Full curriculum vitae available upon request.
For more information:
Emergency Response & Research Institute
6348 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
(773) 631-3774 Voice/Voice Mail
(773) 631-4703 Fax
(773) 631-3467 Emergency BBS/Modem
E-mail: webmaster@emergency.com
Website: http://www.emergency.com
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