Building Clinical Care Capacity for Patients With Special Pathogens in Advance of the Next Outbreak

Lauren Wiesner¹, Jade Flinn¹, Brooke Brewer¹+10

• ¹Lauren Wiesner, MD, is Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Aaron Resnick, MA, is Program Director, Biocontainment Unit; Bethany Little, BSN, RN, NHDP-BC, is Nursing Operations Director and Training and Education Coordinator, Biocontainment Unit; Glenn Wortmann, MD, is Section Director, Infectious Diseases; Craig DeAtley, PA-C, is Director, Institute for Public Health Emergency Readiness; and Shane B. Kappler, MD, MS, FACEP, is Medical Director, Biocontainment Unit; all at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Lauren Wiesner is also an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Glenn Wortmann is also a Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases); and Shane B. Kappler is also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology; all at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Jade Flinn, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, is Director of Operations, Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, and Brian T. Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, FACP, FRCP(E), was Director, Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, and Director, Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit; all at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Brooke Brewer, RN, MS, CIC, is Program Manager, Infection Prevention; Natalie A. Schnell, BSN, RN, R-BC, CIC, is an Infection Prevention Nurse Educator; and David A. Wohl, MD, and William A. Fischer II, MD, are Co-Directors; all at the Special Pathogen Response Center, Region 4 Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC. William A. Fischer II is also Director of Emerging Pathogens, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. Sharon Vanairsdale Carrasco, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC, NP-C, CEN, FAEN, FAAN, is an Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, and Program Director, Region 4 Ebola and Other Special Pathogens Treatment Center, Emory University Hospital/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; both in Atlanta, GA.