KCER: KIDNEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION

Physician Placement and Assistance

Team Leadership: Robert Kenney, MD and Kenneth Lempert, MD

Goals: Provide nephrology expertise, and a means for deploying them, for the management of dialysis and transplant patients during a large-scale crisis. Provide assistance to physicians that are displaced by disasters.

Accomplishments: Work has begun with Federal representative of DHHS to establish a specific team of kidney specialists that would be mobilized to provide assistance in the areas receiving kidney patients from the disaster area under the National Disaster Medical System of DHS. Training sessions on physician responsibilities and expectations have been conducted during national training sessions. Tools have been developed to help physicians prepare and respond.