Edward (Ed) Durst brings over 16 years’ experience in both state and local emergency operations management and healthcare emergency management. He has developed and led numerous exercises, to include mass casualty response, hospital and governmental facility evacuations, and business and downtime continuity exercises, from conception through the after-action review process, utilizing the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) concepts. He has developed multiple annual hazard vulnerability assessments (HVAs), written both healthcare centric and state emergency operation plans, with an all-hazards focus encompassing the key elements of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, and he has led a 60-person hospital incident management team through both natural and manmade disasters and during cyber response incidents.