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Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Tuesday, August 19th
9:00am - 4:30am
  • Location: Hilton Downtown, Lexington, KY
  • Time: 9:00am - 4:30am

co sponsor: Kentucky Department for Public Health

Conference/Event: Kentucky Department for Public Health Preparedness Summit

August 19-20, 2025

Hilton, Downtown Lexington, KY

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CEU available

CHES CECH pending approval 

 Day 1 – Tuesday, August 19

Time 

Main Room

Breakout Room 

Breakout Room

8:00am-9:00am 

Networking and Registration 

9:00am-9:05am 

(5 mins) 

Welcome 

Grant Gillion 

 

 

9:05am-9:25am 

(20 minutes) 

-Welcoming and Opening Remarks - Dr. Connie White

 

 

9:25am-10:25am  (60 minutes)

Keynote Speaker 

211 - Andrea Brown

United Way of Kentucky

   

10:25am-10:35am 

(10 minutes) 

Years of Service Awards  

Grant Gillion 

Sandy Darling

 

 

 

 

 

10:35am-10:50am 

(15 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

 

10:50am-11:50am 

(60 minutes) 

Integrating Access and Functional Needs (AFN) to Plans & Exercises - Maria Church (Maria – 30 mins)

 

Reintroducing TRAIN – Tom Kellmer

(Train – 30 mins)

Introduction to Disaster Epidemiology & Shelter Surveillance – Dr. Allison Siu, Dr. Doug Thoroughman & Kristy Bolen

 

11:50am-12:50pm 

(60 minutes) 

Networking/Working Lunch 

 

12:50pm-1:50pm 

(60 minutes) 

From Planning to Practice: LHD Roles in a HCC MRSE

Margaret Hibbs & Tina Massengill

Clean Water Access During Emergencies 

- Dave Carney

Regional Epi Rapid Fire Presentations –Epidemiologists

1:50pm-2:05pm 

(15 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

2:05pm-3:05pm 

(60 minutes) 

Kentucky Wastewater Surveillance System (KYWSS) - Dr. Nancy Johnson

 Infectious Disease Hot Topics – Lee Hundley & Carrell Rush

 Kentucky Emergency Response Management Information Tracking (KERMIT) – Doug Eades

3:05-3:20 

(15 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

3:20pm-4:20pm 

(60 minutes)

 

 

 

 

Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch Updates:

 

PHEP Deliverable Recap 2024-2025 (25) - Aaron Denny & Tina Massengill

 

HPP Deliverables (15) –

Ken Kik

 

MRC Update (20) –

Maddie Burgess  

Regional Epi Deliverables Discussion - Kristy Bolen

 

4:30pm – 4:35pm

(5 minutes) 

Day 1 Closing Remarks

 

 

 

Day 2 – Wednesday,  

Time 

Main Room

Breakout Room 

Breakout Room 

 

9:00am-9:10am 

(10 minutes) 

Welcome 

 

 

 

9:10am-9:40am 

(30 minutes) 

Keynote Speaker 

Amy Potts & Luke Hamlin - BHDID – Enhancing Wellbeing: Benefits of Behavioral Health Support

 

 

 

9:40– 9:50am 

Break and Networking

 

9:50am-10:50am 

(60 minutes) 

2024 Kentucky Jurisdictional Risk Assessment for Public Health Preparedness – Dr. Ritchie Taylor, WKU

   

 

10:50am-11:00am 

(10 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

 

11:00am-12:00pm 

(60 minutes) 

From Breach to Blueprint: KY’s Cybersecurity Responses and Lessons Learned - Courtney Marshall, MPH & Melissa Hall, BS

LHD Continuity of Operations Plan Assessment – Margaret Hibbs & Russell Rains

The Success of Starlink and the Luke Bryan Farm Tour -

Janine Edelen & Chris Spaulding

 

12:00pm-1:00pm 

(60 minutes) 

Networking Lunch/Working Lunch 

 

 

 

1:00pm-2:00pm 

(60 minutes) 

The Cyber Threats Are Real – Clyde Roark, CISA

 

 

 

2:00-2:15p 

(15 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

 

2:15pm-3:15pm 

(60 minutes)

Cyber Security Exercise –

Clyde Roark, CISA

 

 

 

3:15pm-3:30p 

(15 minutes) 

Break and Networking 

3:30pm-4:30pm 

(60 minutes)

Cyber Security AAR –

John Hunt & Jimmie Hampton

 

 

 

4:30m-4:35pm 

(5 minutes) 

Day 2 Closing Remarks 

 

 

                 

 


 

 


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