Speakers: Barbara Daly, Director of Training and Technology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital & Steve Crimando, Principal, Behavioral Science Applications

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Join the MHSDA for this webinar featuring Barbara Daly, Director of Training and Technology, Security & Emergency Management Department, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Steven Crimando, renowned behavioral threat expert. The speakers will examine how security concerns in healthcare have changed pre and post pandemic and what we can expect going forward as we start to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions. The webinar, hosted by Everbridge, will focus on targeted violence, workplace violence, pre-attack behavioral indicators, and warning signs in some of the recent healthcare-related planned attacks. Joseph Sweeney, Senior Director of Security, Hospital for Special Surgery, MHSDA will serve as moderator.


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About the speakers

Barbara Daly, Director of Training and Technology, Security and Emergency Management Department, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Barbara Daly was a Special Agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 30 years in the New York field office. Prior to her retirement, she was one of the Crisis Management Coordinators and helped coordinate the FBI’s response to both large-scale planned events, such as the UN General Assembly and the US Open, as well as mass casualty and emergency events. From 2008 to 2017, she supervised the joint FBI/NYPD Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF), which was the first task force of its kind.

For over a decade, Barbara also served as the FBI New York’s primary Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Coordinator - the liaison between local, state and federal law enforcement entities and the FBI’s five Behavioral Analysis Units, as well as for the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database (VICAP). Barbara was involved with the FBI’s Active Shooter program from 2007 to 2019 and regularly speaks on the topic of identifying, assessing and managing emerging threats and targeted attacks.

Steve Crimando, Principal, Behavioral Science Applications

Steve Crimando is a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS), Diplomate of both the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and the National Center for Crisis Management, as well as a Certified Homeland Protection Professional (CHPP). He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and the U.S. Department of Justice-Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

With nearly three decades of front line crisis response experience, Steve was a responder to the 1993 and 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, New Jersey’s Anthrax Screening Center and other major disasters and acts of international terrorism. He serves as a consultant and instructor for multinational corporations, government agencies, major city police departments and military programs, as well as an expert to the media and the courts in the area of crisis prevention and intervention.

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