Thank you for caring for our evacuees!
Drs. Mike Vengrow and Matthew Davis are
among the ��irst to volunteer
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Abbott Point of Care
Adapt Community Solutions — Samara
Novacek, Natalie West
Agape Clinic — Stephanie Bohan
Amerigroup — Yulandor Plater
American Red Cross
Baylor Scott & White Health — Rob
Monaghan and Liz Fagan, MD
BioTel EMS Systems, for their support
of EM physicians at the clinic —
Melody Gardner, LuAnn McKee
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas — Drs.
Frank Webster and Conway McDanald
Children’s Health — Lori Vinson, RN;
Dana Suell; Ashleigh Allison; Pat
Jackson
City of Dallas Offi ce of Emergency
Management — TC Broadnax, Jon
Fortune, Kevin Oden, Rocky Vaz
Dallas County Emergency Nurses
Association — Bre Ward, RN
Dallas County Health Department—
Wendy Chung, MD; Kyoo Shim
Dallas County Judge Jenkins’ Offi ce —
Ruby Blum
Dallas County Medical Society staff
DCMS Alliance, led by President
Barenda Hino, who, in the fi rst critical
days of clinic operation, contacted
382 nurses/other skilled workers to
volunteer — Mary-Pat Smith, RuLan
Hebeler, Margaret Jimenez, Rachal
Nettune, Sandy Debusk, Linda Frost,
Cindy Hudgins, Chris McDanald,
Diane Moy, Roberta Read, Lori Routh,
and friends Susan Mikeska, Brittney
Peterson, Allison Read
Denton County Health Department
Emergency Medicine Consultants/Care
Associates, PA — scheduled numerous
EM physicians and nurses. Special
thanks to Drs. Compton Broders and
Heather Owens, plus Jennifer Baine.
Green Oaks Hospital — Tom Collins,
Megan Wylder, Brandy Gallien
HASA health information exchange —
Jim Hoag, Gijs van Oort
Integrative Emergency Services
Local law enforcement agencies
Medical students — Jonathan Brewer,
Texas A&M HSC (special thanks to
Cristie Columbus, MD, Texas A&M
associate dean, Dallas campus), and
Luke Waggoner, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai
Medical Reserve Corps from Collin,
Dallas and Denton counties —
recruited physicians and nurses
Methodist Health System — Wes
Dunham
Metrocare Services — Drs.John
Burruss and Art Mirzatuny; Chad
Anderson, Jessica Martinez, Ashley
Rader, Jennifer Torres
North Texas Behavioral Health
Authority— John Henry, Craig Howell
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Disaster Management and Business
Continuity — Alex Eastman, MD;
Kaitlyn Cross; Jacob Kay; Jorie Klein,
RN; David McCarty; Chris Noah
Parkland Health & Hospital System Social
Services — Erica Bones, Colleen Bonner,
Esmirna Corona, Estelle Harris, Michelle
Hicks, Irma Lowry, Michelle Masullo,
Damian Narvaez, Kajal Patel, Erica
Sutton, Essie Zeno
Questcare at Medical City Dallas
Texas Health Resources — William
Craig, Bobbie Jackson, Stephen
Spencer
Texas State Guard, Texas Medical
Brigade
UTSW Department of Emergency
Medicine — Drs. Deborah Diercks, Ray
Fowler, Liang Liu, Brian Miller,
Ronna Miller, Brandon Morshedi, Ray
Swienton
UTSW Emergency Management &
Business Continuity — Samuel Gray
and Derek Trabon
UTSW Department of Emergency
Medicine/BioTel EMS System/Dallas
Fire-Rescue — Marshal Isaacs, MD
UTSW Division of Infectious
DCMS Alliance
members
scheduling
volunteers
for clinic duty
include RNs
RuLan Hebeler,
Mary-Pat Smith
and Rachal
Nettune; Chris
Strange and Mike
Strange, MD
Diseases— Drs. Carolee Estelle, Trish
Perl, Pranavi Sreeramoju, Julie Trivedi
UTSW faculty — Drs. Fernando Benitez,
Raashee Kedia, Caitlin Kibbey, Mandy
Pascual, Gilberto Salazar
UTSW medical students — Andy Tran,
Umaru Barrie, Jennifer Gueler, Mindy
Lee, Shannon Reinert, Vietvuong Vo
(special thanks to UTSW associate
deans of student aff airs Drs. Angela
Mihalic, Blake Barker, Shawna Nesbitt,
James Wagner)
UTSW Pediatric Emergency Medicine
— Halim Hennes, MD; Julie Lively
UTSW Department of Psychiatry
— Drs. Adam Brenner and Carol
Tamminga
UTSW residents — Drs. Sam Antar,
Lawson Floyd, Daniel Jackson, Jeremy
Rohrlich
VA North Texas Health Care System—
Mike Hoff man, Kim Fite, Cassandra Hall
Walmart Pharmacy, for providing the
evacuees’ medication through their
incredible pharmacy operation, at times
24/7. Walmart set up a free “store” in
the shelter where evacuees could get
whatever products they needed —
Linda Dowden, Kellye Moss, Shantay
Peloquin