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The New York City Office of Emergency Management is urging residents to prepare for the first major heatwave of the season, expected next week. Meanwhile, the Department of Sanitation says there will be no trash, compost, or recycling pickup on Thursday in observance of Juneteenth. Plus, food writer Robert Sietsema takes us to overlooked dining spots in the heart of one of the city's busiest areas: Times Square.

Send us a textSummary: In this episode of the PIO Podcast, Stephen Kuhr shares his extensive experience in emergency management, discussing his journey from the New York City Emergency Medical Service to his role at Colorado Springs Utilities. He emphasizes the importance of crisis communication, the differences between public and private sector emergency management, and the critical lessons learned throughout his career. Stephen highlights the need for transparency and effective communication during crises, and he shares practical insights on integrating crisis communications into emergency management plans.Steven's BIO: Steven Kuhr has spent his career in Emergency Management, building a diverse portfolio of leadership positions across multiple sectors. Mr. Kuhr served as Director of Emergency Management, Enterprise Continuity, and Security Operations at Colorado Springs Utilities.While serving in this position, Mr. Kuhr oversaw crisis, risk, and resiliency operations for energy and water utilities and dam operations for Colorado's second largest city. During this 0time, Mr. Kuhr also served as a Director with the InfraGard-Denver and co-founded the Colorado Critical Infrastructure Alliance.Earlier, Mr. Kuhr served with the New York City Office of Emergency Management as a founding Deputy Commissioner, leading emergency operations and multi-risk emergency planning. Prior to that he served with the New York City Fire Department as EMS Deputy Chief and Special Operations Commander. Mr. Kuhr is a trusted Crisis Management Leader. He has advised elected officials, CEOs and “C-Suite” Leaders during complex emergencies, major disasters, and terrorist attacks. Mr. Kuhr is also a respected consultant, serving as Managing Director and Emergency Management Practice Leader at Kroll Inc., and President and Chief Operating Officer at Strategic Emergency Group LLC. Mr. Kuhr has advised a variety of organizations in several business industries and government sectors to include federal, state, and local government agencies, transportation (rail, aviation, seaport, and surface), financial, energy (electricity/natural gas), water/wastewater, dams, major league baseball, cable news,  commercial properties, defense, justice, law enforcement, and an agency serving people with disabilities and special needs.The Brandon T. Adams Audio ExperienceWelcome to The Brandon T. Adams Audio Experience, hosted by entrepreneur, investor,...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showOur premiere sponsor, Social News Desk, has an exclusive offer for PIO Podcast listeners. Head over to socialnewsdesk.com/pio to get three months free when a qualifying agency signs up.

Twenty-three years later, over a thousand families are still waiting for news of loved ones lost in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. Correspondent Scott Pelley looks at how efforts to search for and identify their remains have never stopped, driven by the promise made by the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Pelley visits their laboratory, which is using new advancements in DNA research and breakthrough techniques to provide answers for families holding on to hope. This is a double-length segment. Correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on a phenomenon that has long captured Hollywood: the outsized presence of Australians earning top billings and awards on the American silver screen – in front of and behind the camera. Wertheim interviews Aussie actress Sarah Snook and filmmaker Baz Luhrmann about the country's renowned training grounds for the dramatic arts, their pathways to international theater, film and television and the Australian mindset on stardom. Correspondent Lesley Stahl travels to the remote, Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, a tiny country that has fiercely protected its unique culture, declaring that within its borders, Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product. But today, the country is facing a crisis — 9% of its population has left Bhutan for higher-paying jobs abroad, so the government has launched a high-stakes plan to help the economy and lure young Bhutanese back by developing an entirely new city from scratch — what the King is calling a "mindfulness" city. This is a double-length segment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textWelcome back to the conclusion of our special two-part interview with retired Death Investigator and author, Barbara Butcher of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. Barbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than 5500 deaths, 680 of them homicides. She worked mass disasters, including 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and the crash of Flight 587.During this interview, Barbara opens up and lets us into the life of a death investigator being confronted with death and profound sadness on a daily basis and the toll it took on her physical and mental health. We also have a candid talk about alcoholism and her “rock bottom.” Barbara also shares her recovery from this deadly disease and the good that came from it.  I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.In today's episode we discuss:·      Tools of her trade as a death investigator. ·      The relationship she had with the cops and how they worked together to solve the crime.·      How the time of death gets determined in real life. Spoiler alert, not like what you see on T.V. or the movies.·      Advise for rookie death investigators or someone thinking about this job as a future career.·      Testifying in court. ·      What she misses the most about the job. ·      Faith in a higher power after being subjected to so much death and profound sadness.·      Why she wrote her book, “What the Dead Know” and why it is so popular.·      Her writing process.·      “You don't have that much time. Be kind.”Visit Barbara at her website!Purchase her book, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death InvestigatorCheck out Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER and When Breath Becomes AirCheck out my newest book, The Good Collar!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website.Support the show

Send us a textToday is episode one of a special two-part interview with retired Death Investigator and Author, Barbara Butcher of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. Barbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than 5500 deaths, 680 of them homicides. She worked mass disasters including 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and the crash of Flight 587.During this interview, Barbara opens up and lets us into the life of a death investigator being confronted with death and profound sadness on a daily basis and the toll it took on her physical and mental health. We also have a candid talk about alcoholism and her “rock bottom.” Barbara also shares her recovery from this deadly disease and the good that came from it.  I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. In today's episode we discuss:·      Her interview on the James Altucher Show Podcast and his notion that New York is dead, spoiler alert. She doesn't think so! ·      Her honesty and willingness to be vulnerable with her new book and this interview.·      Growing up in New York being the oldest of nine kids and her dad being on the New York Police Department rising to the rank of Deputy Inspector.·      Ghosts or other paranormal feelings being involved in 5,500 death investigations.·      Myths and misconceptions regarding alcoholism. ·      Barbara hitting rock bottom with her drinking and rising from the ashes. ·      How Barbara got the job with the New York Medical Examiner's Office as a death investigator and the training involved in her job.·      Her first time going to a death investigation solo.·      The job of the death investigator.Visit Barbara at her website!Purchase her book, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death InvestigatorCheck out Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER and When Breath Becomes AirCheck out my newest book, The Good Collar! Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website.Support the show

Claire de Mézerville López welcomes Raymond E. Kramer, J.D., to the Restorative Works! Podcast. Claire is joined by co-host, IIRP Vice President for Partnerships Keith Hickman. Judge Kramer joins us and provides a compelling narrative of how restorative justice, mediation, and peacekeeping circles have shifted the paradigm in administrative law, emphasizing the importance of human connection and relational repair. He discusses the challenges and successes of implementing these approaches in a rights-based, often bureaucratic, government setting, and shares stories that illustrate the profound impact of restorative practices on individuals and organizations. Judge Kramer is an Administrative Law judge and the Executive Director of the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Administrative Judicial Institute at the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH).  The Center serves as the New York City government's central resource for conflict resolution and restorative justice practices. Judge Kramer is an experienced mediator and is an adjunct professor of law at New York University Law School, where he co-teaches the Mediation and Advanced Mediation: Dispute Systems Design Clinics. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Professional Studies and New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he teaches Dispute Resolution, Conflict Management, and Negotiation.  Judge Kramer is a member of the New York City Bar Association, a Board Member for the National Association of the Administrative Law Judiciary (NAALJ), and a Board Member and past President of the New York State Administrative Law Judges Association (NYSALJA).  Judge Kramer received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Tune in to hear about the importance of restoring relationships in the workplace, the innovative efforts of the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution, and the broader vision of creating a more collaborative and supportive government environment.

Show Notes Five Minutes to Chaos has reached its 52nd episode, marking a significant milestone in the success of the podcast. The podcast has featured a diverse range of guests and panel episodes, covering various crisis events and innovative approaches to crisis management. For this special episode, Steven Kuhr discusses the topic of heat emergencies, which he believes captures the essence of emergency management. Key elements of managing heat emergencies include interagency collaboration, communications, public information, and the establishment of cooling centers. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Milestone 00:56 Conceptualizing the Podcast 03:21 Monologue Episode 04:14 Choosing the Topic: Heat Emergencies 08:08 History of Emergency Management in NYC 09:29 Heat Emergency in Chicago 11:25 Jerry Hauer and the Task Force 12:53 Interagency Collaboration 18:42 Reducing Heat Deaths 19:09 Monitoring and Intelligence 20:04 National Weather Service and Regional Calls 21:46 Emergency Operations Center 24:36 Communications and Public Information 27:27 Unity of Effort and Shared Situational Awareness 29:53 Cooling Centers and Transportation 32:17 Summary and Gratitude About Steven Kuhr Steven Kuhr has spent his career in Emergency Management, building a diverse portfolio of leadership positions across multiple sectors. Mr. Kuhr served as Director of Emergency Management, Enterprise Continuity, and Security Operations at Colorado Springs Utilities. While serving in this position, Mr. Kuhr oversaw crisis, risk, and resiliency operations for energy and water utilities, as well as dam operations for Colorado's second largest city. During this time, Mr. Kuhr also served as a Director with InfraGard-Denver and co-founded the Colorado Critical Infrastructure Alliance. Earlier, Mr. Kuhr served with the New York City Office of Emergency Management as a founding Deputy Commissioner where he led emergency operations and multi-risk emergency planning. Prior to that he served with the New York City Fire Department as EMS Deputy Chief and Special Operations Commander. Mr. Kuhr is a trusted Crisis Management Leader. He has advised elected officials, CEOs and “C-Suite” Leaders during complex emergencies, major disasters, and terrorist attacks. Mr. Kuhr is also a respected consultant, having served as Managing Director and Emergency Management Practice Leader at Kroll Inc., and President and Chief Operating Officer at Strategic Emergency Group LLC. Mr. Kuhr has advised a variety of organizations in several business industries and government sectors to include federal, state, and local government agencies, transportation (rail, aviation, seaport, and surface), financial, energy (electricity/natural gas), water/wastewater, dams, major league baseball, cable news, commercial properties, defense, justice, law enforcement, and an agency serving people with disabilities and special needs. Mr. Kuhr Hosts “5 Minutes to Chaos – A Podcast”, a weekly podcast available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, where he and guests explore the complexities of crisis management. Mr. Kuhr holds a Master of Science in Homeland Security Management and a Bachelor of Science in Emergency Management Administration. He is a Colorado Certified Threat Liaison Officer and held a certification as an Advanced EMT-IV Paramedic. Contact Information https://www.linkedin.com/in/skuhr/

Captain Rich Rotanz, a 23-year FDNY veteran who was also among the original members of the New York City Office of Emergency Management in the late 90's joins the program for Volume 56 of The Best of The Bravest: Interviews with The FDNY's Elite. In Memoriam: Police Officer Jonathan Diller (End of Watch: March 25, 2024) Connect With Mike Colón: X: https://x.com/mikeinnewhaven Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikecolo... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeC... LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/mikecolónnyc Media Website: https://mike-colon-media.com/ Consulting Website: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Business Line: 917-781-6189 Media Email: thecolonreport@gmail.com Consulting Email: mike@mcmediaeditingservicesllc.com Connect With Producer Vick: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prod... Listen To The Podcast: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast... Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/... PlayerFM: http://front.player.fm/series/... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/se... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podca... YouTube (Video Version): https://www.youtube.com/live/a... Sponsors: MC Media Editing Services: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Joe Murray, ESQ:https://jmurray-law.com/ Ryan Investigative Group LLC:https://www.ryaninvestigators.... Outro Song: Heart - Magic Man (1976)

Christelle Rohaut is the Founder and CEO of Codi (backed by a16z), where she's building the walk-to-work revolution. Codi offers turnkey, private office spaces with the most flexible terms on the market. In a matter of days, any company can find a space for their team, with full and part-time options, outsourced office management, and flexible leases. Codi has also created a Relief Fund to help businesses impacted by WeWork's struggles. Christelle is an Urban Planner who aspires to achieve positive social and natural impacts for happier livelihoods. She seeks to innovatively rethink urban systems to help cities be a happier place for all.(2:11) - State of Office market(13:58) - Feature: Housing Trust Silicon Valley(15:10) - What's wrong with traditional Coworking(21:43) - Types of buildings partnering with Codi(23:56) - Codi's WeWon't marketing campaign(29:34) - Collaboration Superpower: Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO & Co-founder) & Conchita Martinez (Spanish tennis champion & coach)

Mea Culpa welcomes another mighty Meidas Touch team member, Michael Popok, host of Legal AF. He is the Executive Managing Partner of the New York City Office of the firm  Zumpano Patricios & Popok. His national litigation, white collar and trial practice is based in New York and South Florida. Michael has over 30 years of experience as an accomplished trial attorney strategist. Most recently serving as a Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of a Wall Street global financial services firm, responsible for all of its litigation, trial, arbitration, investigatory, and employment matters. We are here to get his hot take on all of Trump's legal troubles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katharine Lau is the CEO and Co-founder of Stuf, a self storage startup delivering modern, tech-enabled storage to consumers and businesses. Stuf partners with real estate owners to monetize basements, garages, and other spaces in commercial buildings as storage, creating new cash flow opportunities for landlords while providing neighborhoods with a new amenity. Stuf was recognized by Fast Company as one of The World's Most Innovative Companies in 2022. Previously, Kat led the supply-side business of Industrious, the nation's leading premium workplace and coworking provider, where she pioneered an industry shift to asset- and liability-light agreements with property owners.(1:42) - Stuf origin story(5:46) - Target markets and type of buildings suited for conversions(10:00) - Business model & scaling CRE conversions(11:32) - Stuf's tech stack(15:02) - Feature: Housing Trust Silicon Valley(16:14) - Industrious transition from asset-heavy to asset-light(20:44) - WeWork's tumultuous office lease renegotiations(22:34) - Future of office uses(25:44) - Office-to-art space conversion(27:22) - Collaboration Superpower: Marie Kondo

John Collins speaks with Tim Kupferschmid, Chief of Laboratories for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Tim is also the current president of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. In this episode, Tim shares his thoughts on current events and issues facing today's forensic science laboratories, as well as the issues that will confront laboratory administrators in the near and distant future. Special thanks to our 2024 season sponsor, Promega.  References 2020 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Science Crime Laboratories Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - Laboratories DNA Gun Crimes Unit SCOTUS - Smith v. Arizona

Ryan Simonetti is the CEO and co-founder of Convene, a global hospitality company that owns and manages premium Meeting, Event & Workplace locations around the world. His unique expertise in real estate acquisitions, development, and finance has helped catapult Convene to become a pioneer in the commercial real estate industry. Ryan is also the co-founder & Chairman of Ease Capital, a digital-first commercial lending platform that combines data, technology & world-class customer support to streamline the multifamily financing process from end-to-end. Ryan has been recognized for his transformative achievements on Commercial Observer's inaugural Power PropTech List, Real Estate Forum's 50 Under 40 list, Inc. Magazine's '30 Under 30', a list of America's Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs; was named 'Top Entrepreneur' by Crain's New York, and was a finalist in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year® New York Awards. (3:00) - WeWork's bankruptcy impact on the Office industry(8:17) - Tech vs Real Estate valuations(11:13) - Feature: Housing Trust Silicon Valley (site)(12:26) - Office Markets comparison(16:44) - Convene's performance & KPI's(18:07) - Innovative experience management(25:11) - Office AR & VR adoption(29:07) - Ease Capital - tech-enabled Multifamily lender(31:52) - Collaboration Superpower: Michael Jordan

Introduction As the former Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management and Chief Disaster Officer for the American Red Cross in Greater New York, Kelly McKinney has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than 20 years, from the 9/11 attacks to Superstorm Sandy to Covid-19. He teaches crisis management at NYU and was recently appointed to FEMA's National Advisory Council. Nationally known for his writing and speaking on the principles and practice of disaster management, he is the author of "Moment of Truth, the Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them". His 5-minute video, The Essential Emergency Manager, has been viewed more than 125,000 times on YouTube. He is a professional engineer with a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and an MPA from Columbia University in the City of New York. Key Positions • Assistant Vice President of Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience at NYU Langone Health • Chief Disaster Officer, American Red Cross of Greater New York • Deputy Commissioner for Preparedness, New York City Office of Emergency Management • Associate Commissioner for Environmental Health, New York City Department of Health Contact Information https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-mckinney-2a990726 Twitter: @kellymnyc

Millard "Mitty" Owens is the Co-Director of The People's Solar Energy Fund. Mitty's thirty year public service career includes community development finance, philanthropy, arts and social change, and organizational and leadership development. Career highlights include the Ford Foundation (program officer in economic development and program related investments), the New York City Office of Financial Empowerment (Senior Deputy), NYU's Research Center for Leadership in Action (associate director and public policy adjunct), and Self-Help, the pioneering community development financial institution. The past three years have involved a special focus on impact investing aimed at exploring the opportunities and challenges in pairing social justice and finance. Mitty has lived in Zimbabwe and traveled extensively in the Global South. He has served on various economic and social justice boards (including the NC Minority Credit Union Support Center, Global Exchange, Grassroots Leadership, and the Lower East Side Peoples Federal Credit Union) and various arts boards stemming from his interest in art and social change, for which he earned a WK Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship. Mitty is a graduate of Yale University and holds an M.S. in Community Economic Development. He is a proud son of Brooklyn, and a proud and active single dad. Mitty's Slides A note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy. Best, Lev

Barbara Butcher, MPH, was Chief of Staff and Director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. She was responsible for overall agency management, strategy, and inter-agency relations. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.Butcher is regarded as a renowned expert in medicolegal death investigation, having spent 23 years at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), consulted on international mass fatalities, been a featured speaker at numerous national conferences, a published author, and taught at multiple medical institutions.Her prior roles at OCME included Medicolegal Investigator, Deputy Director of Investigations, and Director of Forensic Investigations, where her responsibilities included death investigations, disaster planning, victim identification, evidence, and missing persons. She oversaw the remains recovery effort at the World Trade Center site after 9/11 and helped manage the response to the crash of Flight 587, and investigated the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. As a medicolegal death investigator at OCME, she investigated more than 5500 death scenes and 680 homicides.Butcher also created the federally-funded Forensic Sciences Training Program at OCME and served as its Director. It was established as a national center to train practitioners, enforce standards, and promote best practices in the death investigation field.Butcher a has worked internationally, consulting for the World Health Organization and responding to the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and assisted in the disaster planning for the Hong Kong and Norwegian governments. She has been a featured guest speaker on Disaster Planning and Mass Fatalities at national conferences throughout the United States.Butcher was also an adjunct assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine and New York Medical College, as well as an instructor at Louisiana State University in the National Center for Biomedical Research.She has held many board and committee positions such as the subcommittee of the White House Commission on Sciences, Forensic Division and is currently a consultant for medico-legal death investigation working with forensic pathologists, educators, television and mystery writers. She is a popular speaker at conferences and lectures as well as less formal groups, including for mystery writers and forensics fans.Website barbarabutcherauthor.comBook What The Dead Know

Welcome back to the conclusion of our special two-part interview with retired Death Investigator and author, Barbara Butcher of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. Barbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than 5500 deaths, 680 of them homicides. She worked mass disasters, including 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and the crash of Flight 587.During this interview, Barbara opens up and lets us into the life of a death investigator being confronted with death and profound sadness on a daily basis and the toll it took on her physical and mental health. We also have a candid talk about alcoholism and her “rock bottom.” Barbara also shares her recovery from this deadly disease and the good that came from it.  I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.In today's episode we discuss:·      Tools of her trade as a death investigator. ·      The relationship she had with the cops and how they worked together to solve the crime.·      How the time of death gets determined in real life. Spoiler alert, not like what you see on T.V. or the movies.·      Advise for rookie death investigators or someone thinking about this job as a future career.·      Testifying in court. ·      What she misses the most about the job. ·      Faith in a higher power after being subjected to so much death and profound sadness.·      Why she wrote her book, “What the Dead Know” and why it is so popular.·      Her writing process.·      “You don't have that much time. Be kind.”Visit Barbara at her website!Purchase her book, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death InvestigatorCheck out Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER and When Breath Becomes AirCheck out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Do you enjoy gritty, action-packed real-life police dramas to get your fill of blood, heartache, and cop humor, and maybe even a little romance?I have partnered up with Michael Anderle and we have released a new crime fiction series called “Brew City Blues.” If you're a fan of Hill Street Blues, Southland, or Bosch you're going to love Brew City Blues! Brew City Blues is now live! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLR7FX27Avenging Adam Audiobook by Jodi Burnett Get 50% off Avenging Adam audiobook with this link! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Barbara Butcher is the former chief of staff and director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). Only the second woman hired as a death investigator in Manhattan (and the first to last more than three months), during her 23 years there she investigated more than 5,500 death scenes. She also created and directed the federally funded Forensic Sciences Training Program at OCME, taught at the New York University School of Medicine and New York Medical College, consulted for governmental agencies around the world, and spoken at disaster planning conferences across the United States. In What the Dead Know, Butcher delves into the journey that led to her unlikely career, revealing some surprisingly useful life lessons and stories about some of New York's most notorious crime scenes. ''Impossible to outwit'' (Entertainment Weekly), Kate White is the New York Times bestselling author of the psychological thrillers The Second Husband, The Fiancée, and The Secrets You Keep. Her other works include the Bailey Weggins mystery series and numerous popular career advice books for women. White formerly served as editor-in-chief of five major magazines, including a 14-year stint at Cosmopolitan. In Between Two Strangers, she tells the twisting tale of a woman who receives a large inheritance from a man she'd only met once before. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 7/18/2023)

Today is episode one of a special two-part interview with retired Death Investigator and Author, Barbara Butcher of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. Barbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than 5500 deaths, 680 of them homicides. She worked mass disasters including 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and the crash of Flight 587.During this interview, Barbara opens up and lets us into the life of a death investigator being confronted with death and profound sadness on a daily basis and the toll it took on her physical and mental health. We also have a candid talk about alcoholism and her “rock bottom.” Barbara also shares her recovery from this deadly disease and the good that came from it.  I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. In today's episode we discuss:·      Her interview on the James Altucher Show Podcast and his notion that New York is dead, spoiler alert. She doesn't think so! ·      Her honesty and willingness to be vulnerable with her new book and this interview.·      Growing up in New York being the oldest of nine kids and her dad being on the New York Police Department rising to the rank of Deputy Inspector.·      Ghosts or other paranormal feelings being involved in 5,500 death investigations.·      Myths and misconceptions regarding alcoholism. ·      Barbara hitting rock bottom with her drinking and rising from the ashes. ·      How Barbara got the job with the New York Medical Examiner's Office as a death investigator and the training involved in her job.·      Her first time going to a death investigation solo.·      The job of the death investigator.Visit Barbara at her website!Purchase her book, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death InvestigatorCheck out Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER and When Breath Becomes AirCheck out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Do you enjoy gritty, action-packed real-life police dramas to get your fill of blood, heartache, and cop humor, and maybe even a little romance?I have partnered up with Michael Anderle and we have released a new crime fiction series called “Brew City Blues.” If you're a fan of Hill Street Blues, Southland, or Bosch you're going to love Brew City Blues! Brew City Blues is now live! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLR7FX27Avenging Adam Audiobook by Jodi Burnett Get 50% off Avenging Adam audiobook with this link! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

In episode one of our Resilient Leadership mini season, Just Science sat down with Jamilla Dick-Quashie, Director of Health and Safety, and Meredith Rosenberg, the Department of Forensic Biology Deputy Director, with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to discuss their most successful strategies for creating a resilient workplace in the field of forensic science. In general, the forensic science workplace can be emotionally and physically taxing, as practitioners are expected to maintain a high quality of work while often being exposed to stressful or sensitive situations. In response to this challenge, many forensic science organizations are implementing mental health and resiliency programs that can help combat burnout and create a more adaptable workplace for their employees. Listen along as Jamilla and Meredith describe what it means to be a resilient workplace, the specific strategies utilized by the OCME, and suggestions for other organizations looking to find resources on workplace mental health. This episode is funded by the National Institute of Justice's Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (Award No. 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU). Some content in this podcast may be considered sensitive and may evoke emotional responses or may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

Introduction With 35 years of public service, Phil Parr has had the opportunity to respond to many of the nation's largest and most complex disasters, both as a local and Federal responder. Throughout his career Phil served in progressively greater leadership roles, gaining knowledge and expertise at each level. As a FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO), he has responded to and successfully handled a diverse array of disasters. As a Chief Officer in the New York City Fire Department, he was selected to serve in various high profile and eclectic positions that provided him a unique portfolio of public safety experiences. As a Deputy Director at the New York City Office of Emergency Management he navigated the challenges of large city response and recovery activities.   Key Positions -Federal Coordinating Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) -Deputy Director, New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) -Battalion Chief, New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Contact Information LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-parr-cem-mep-1a55a723/ Email: phil@lppconsultingservices.com

Introduction Jarrod Bernstein has broad experience counseling institutions with complex organizational structures through times of uncertainty and crisis. He has advised on crises in both the public and private sectors. Jarrod served in both the Bloomberg and Obama Administrations in senior Communications, Community Outreach, and Counterterrorism positions including Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and Associate Director of Public Engagement at the White House. He has been featured on CNN and other networks as an expert commentator on a variety of Homeland Security topics. Bernstein regularly advises clients in communications, government relations, disaster management, and combating bias. Key Positions -Assistant Secretary (Acting), US Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) -Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Intergovernmental Affairs, USDHS - Deputy Commissioner, Community Affairs, NYC Mayor's Office -Press Secretary, New York City Office of Emergency Management -Podcast Host - Jewish Insider Contact Information https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrodbernstein/

Jordan Neely, the man killed in chokehold on NYC subway, is remembered as an entertainer shattered by his mother's murder. Before Jordan Neely was killed on a New York City subway car this week, he was known for his swift Michael Jackson dance moves that entertained many — yet he struggled with the trauma his mother's murder had left him with at an early age. "He told me about how much his mother's passing impacted him. He disclosed that she was murdered, and her body was put in a suitcase," Moses Harper, an artist who knew Neely, told CNN. Harper and Neely became friends quickly after they met in 2009. When she took him under her wing, Neely opened up to her about how hard it was losing his mother as a young teenager. Neely's death triggers protests On Monday afternoon, Neely was killed after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran on a subway after Neely got on the train and shouted at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty and fed up with having nothing. A witness told CNN Neely -- who was experiencing homelessness, according to a source familiar with his case -- did not harm anyone nor did they see him armed with any weapon. The 30-year-old's death was ruled a homicide, but it does not mean there was intent or culpability, which is a matter for the criminal justice system to consider, a spokesperson for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said. The last time Harper saw Neely was in 2016 when she bumped into him on the subway and saw he was experiencing homelessness when he asked passengers for food. "I had never seen him like that before," she said. As reported by CNN Harper, who described Neely as a kind and sweet soul, said people from around the world have been reaching out to her about his death. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/van-silk/support

In this week's special Earth Day episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Amer Jandali, founder and CEO of Future Meets Present and a consultant to the New York City Office of Nightlife, about climate solutions for the nightlife industry in New York City. Jandali discusses how major metropolises can promote sustainable practices in the service industry and advocate for climate policy, how the New York City Office of Nightlife is engaging nightclubs in climate efforts, and the climate solutions that the nightlife industry in New York has been pursuing to date. References and recommendations: “Climate Solutions at Work” from Project Drawdown; https://drawdown.org/publications/climate-solutions-at-work “New York's Scoping Plan for Climate Action, with Maureen Leddy” from the “Resources Radio” podcast; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/new-yorks-scoping-plan-for-climate-action-with-maureen-leddy/ “Leave Looking Up” podcast; https://www.leavelookingup.com/ “Atomic Habits” by James Clear; https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits “We need the right kind of climate optimism” by Hannah Ritchie; https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23622511/climate-doomerism-optimism-progress-environmentalism

In episode four of our Unidentified Human Remains mini season, Just Science sat down with Katharine Pope, a Research Public Health Analyst at RTI International, and Elissia Conlon, a Special Advisor to the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, to discuss mass fatality incident management and disaster victim identification. A mass fatality incident includes any incident where there are enough fatalities to require the involvement of a special operation or organization, such as natural disasters, large transportation accidents, or terrorist attacks. In the event of a mass fatality incident, significant time and resources are often needed to manage the situation and identify as many victims as possible. Listen along as Katharine and Elissia discuss methods for identifying disaster victims, agencies that assist with mass fatality management, and developing best practices for disaster planning. This episode is funded by the National Institute of Justice's Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (Award No. 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU). Some content in this podcast may be considered sensitive and may evoke emotional responses, or may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

In episode one of our Unidentified Human Remains mini season, Just Science sat down with Dr. Kenneth Aschheim, Assistant Chief Forensic Odontologist for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, to discuss how dental evidence can be used to help identify human remains. Due to their strength, heat resistance, and lack of decomposition over time, teeth are one of the most resilient substances found in the human body. As a result, forensic odontologists can use the teeth of decedents to match with antemortem dental records in order to help identify unknown human remains. Listen along as Dr. Aschheim discusses the process of forensic odontology, the benefits of using teeth alongside other methods of human identification, and using technology to advance the field. This episode is funded by the National Institute of Justice's Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (Award No. 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU). Some content in this podcast may be considered sensitive and may evoke emotional responses, or may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

On episode 7, we speak to Kevin Cooper, a partner at Cooley's New York City Office, about the mergers & acquisitions practice area, what an acquisition & sale process looks like, and the types of issues that buyers and sellers need to consider in M&A deals. Follow and connect with us at our LinkedIn and Instagram More on HLEP at clinics.law.harvard.edu/hlep

Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency, and distressed investing. For this episode, Ben Finestone of Quinn Emanuel, David Dunn from Province, and Cesar Bello of Corbin Capital join us to discuss the litigation risks to private equity sponsors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, including potential fraudulent transfer and breach of fiduciary duty claims, what triggers prepetition investigation into a sponsor's conduct, and the role that litigation finance can play in reaching a fair settlement.   Ben Finestone Ben Finestone is a Partner with Quinn Emanual, a litigation firm with offices in 11 different countries on four continents. As a Partner in the firm's New York City Office, his areas of practice include Bankruptcy & Restructuring and Lender Liability & Other Banking Financial Institution Litigation.   David Dunn David Dunn is a Principle at Province, a nationally-recognized financial advisory firm focusing on growth opportunities, restructurings, and fiduciary-related services. As a Principle, he serves  in executive officer roles, as advisor to or member of boards of directors, in ad hoc and official creditors' committees, and as a Litigation/Liquidating Trustee, Plan Administrator, or Examiner.    Cesar Bello Cesar is a Partner for Research and Portfolio Management with Corbin Capital Partners, an independent alternative asset management firm offering multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing to clients throughout the United States.  He works mainly on the firm's private investment program, leading the litigation finance effort, while also focusing on private credit secondaries, structured credit transactions, manager seeding, and workouts.    What We Discussed in This Episode:   What are the litigation risks when a restructuring situation involves the distressed portfolio company of a private equity sponsor? Why has there been such a focus on the pre-petition conduct of sponsors? Does a pre-petition investigation into a sponsor's conduct always make sense? How do various causes of action, such as fraudulent transfer and fiduciary duty claims, typically play out after a Chapter 11 filing? Given the difficulty of proving fraudulent transfer claims, why do they remain significant targets for firms that provide litigation finance? Are breaches of fiduciary duties that give rise to liability fairly prevalent?  Or are these claims more often a scare tactic employed by creditors' committees? In light of the potential for breaches of fiduciary duty claims, should an individual board member of a distressed entity consider retaining separate counsel? How should a lawyer prepare a director or officer who will potentially testify in bankruptcy court? Are there specific ethical issues from the perspective of litigation finance? Could litigation finance be leveraged for debtor-in-possession financing?   Contact Information: Ben Finestone David Dunn Cesar Bello This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not to be construed as legal advice specific to your circumstances. If you need help with any legal matter, be sure to consult with an attorney regarding your specific needs.

As New York City goes, so goes Miami.  In today's podcast, we discuss recent office deals signed in New York City and discuss office demand and the gap between the haves and have nots.  Own a Class B or C office building in a major metro-market?  It may be time to consider major renovations or alternative uses. What can office landlords do to attract office tenants back to the office?  Tune in.   We track commercial real estate so you can focus on your business. Please consider liking and subscribing to the podcast.   For commercial real estate solutions, please visit www.blueboxre.com.  

The Garment Center - convenient to transportation - is working its way westward, from 42nd Street to about 34th Street - attracting tenants to the area's magnificent Art Deco and steel and glass buildings, to the popular Bryant Park, and to relative bargain rents. The area is trending upward; on a modified basis, people are returning to work, amenities are being enlarged and improved.

SPOTLIGHTS 1. Rihanna & ASAP Rocky are expecting a baby 2. Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from the view for 2 weeks after saying Holocaust ‘isn't about race' 3. Joe Rogan & The Rock: In a video statement he posted earlier this week on Instagram, the podcaster said he would “maybe try harder to get people with differing opinions” after musicians like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music from Spotify, citing Rogan's spread of vaccine misinformation. 4. Former Miss USA Chelsie Kryst cause of death has been ruled a suicide, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to PEOPLE Tuesday. She was 30 years old. MAIN TOPICS 1. FROM IGN: Jurassic World: Dominion Is the End of a Trilogy, But Not the End of the Series 2. FROM WWE: Ronda Rowsey Returns to WWE 3. The Hollywood Reporter: Sony Buys Bungie but not Halo 4. From Variety: Legendary Sells $760M Minority Stake to Apollo 5. From Variety: HBO Max Prepares to launch in 15 more countries in Europe #JurassicWorld #Rihanna #EntertainmentNews C O N T E N T S O F T H I S V I D E O 0:00 Intros 2:00 Spotlight 5:00 Main Topic O N T H E P A N E L: ▶ Chris Fagan @chriswfagan ▶ Daniel Dyer @dyercosplay ▶ Sarah Katherine @sarah_katherine_the_red S U P P O R T T H I S. C H A N N E L: ▶ Sent questions during live streams or anytime for We Got Your Mail at https://streamlabs.com/t3medias/tip F O L L O W O N S O C I A L M E D I A: ▶ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/t3medias Outro Song I Stay Lit by Str8 Money Kdog

Former Miss USA, Cheslie Kryst, died Sunday.  The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed that she died by suicide.  She was 30. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 9.3 million people experience thoughts of suicide.  The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates more than 700,000 people die due to suicide each year and that almost 77% of all global suicides occur in low and middle-income countries.  In this episode, we will share warning signs on How To Identify Someone At Risk For Suicide Online.  In addition, prevention resouces and how to get help.  In the US, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.  The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also provides contact information for crisis centers worldwide.  

In this segment, Beyond the Scope, we speak to pathologists about their pursuits and interests in and outside of pathology. On this episode, our host Dr. Nicole Jackson (@NicoleJacksonMD), an Associate Medical Examiner at the King County Medical Examiner's Office, speaks with Dr. Barbara Sampson, the first woman to lead the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. We'll hear their conversation about mentorship and leadership, as well as cutting edge techniques being used to identify decedents, find undiagnosed genetic diseases, track the opioid crisis, and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. What was it like to be in a New York City Medical Examiner on 9/11? How is the COVID-19 pandemic similar and different? What surprising public health discovery did Dr. Sampson play a role in as a Medical Examiner?   Featured public domain music: US Army Blues, BugaBlue

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Yvonne Nelson is the Head of Real Estate at the Office of the NYC Comptroller and directs such investment activities on behalf of the NYC Retirement Systems.

Christina Farrell Danka is a Partner for the Consumer & Retail practice at H.I. Executive Consulting, a leading global executive search firm focused on hiring Board, CEO, and Senior-level executives globally. Based in the New York City Office, Christina brings over a decade of high-level executive search experience in the retail, consumer, and fashion sectors spanning North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. She is passionate about recruiting diverse and inclusive leaders and her global knowledge and network gives access to the most talented individuals Her clients range from privately held to public, private equity, and venture-backed companies in a variety of consumer sectors, including retail, beauty, food and beverage, hospitality, fashion, sporting goods, and luxury She also has experience working with entrepreneurial and founder-driven companies, advising the leadership team through times of leadership transitions. Christina has placed candidates in functional leadership roles, general management and has core competence in recruiting across finance, operations, e-commerce, marketing, merchandising, buying and human resources. Previously Christina was the Director of Business Development at Martens & Heads!, a global boutique executive search firm specializing in consumer, retail and luxury. Prior Christina was in the Human Capital Management Practice at Goldman Sachs. She started her search career at CTPartners. Christina holds a bachelor's degree in English from Wesleyan University and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. Don't forget to check out my book that inspired this podcast series, The Caring Economy: How to Win With Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

Welcome to the Bridge Podcast. This week's guest is a Central Penn College graduate, who embodies what it is to be a student at Central Penn. Kirsten Gulotta is a principal in the New York City office of Deloitte Tax LLP, where she helps businesses in a variety of industries with indirect tax matters nationwide. In addition to her client service responsibilities, she serves as the US Indirect Tax Practice leader. This practice provides consulting, refund reviews, compliance, excise, severance, and property tax services to a diversified client base. In this role, she has overall responsibility for operations, marketplace, and talent matters occurring throughout the country. Kirsten has more than 15 years' experience performing the following indirect tax services on behalf of complex, high-tech, and multi-jurisdictional businesses, including Fortune 100 companies. She is a frequent speaker on various indirect tax topics.

Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist at Wellington Hospital. Her training in forensics at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the subject of the memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, co-authored with her husband, writer T.J. Mitchell. They have recently released the second Jessie Teska medical thriller Aftershock (the first was First Cut) and are appearing at events at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist at Wellington Hospital. Her training in forensics at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the subject of the memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, co-authored with her husband, writer T.J. Mitchell. They have recently released the second Jessie Teska medical thriller Aftershock (the first was First Cut) and are appearing at events at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Executive Director for the New York City Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes Deborah Lauter joins the Rev & Rabbi to discuss important initiatives to protect city residents from hate crimes

Today’s featured guest is Ari Lev Waldman. Ari was born in Peekskill, NY and is a 43-year-old Jewish male who stutters.  He has been married since June 2012 and has no children.  He lives in Brooklyn, NY and as a profession, he is an associate real estate broker specializing in office leasing in Manhattan for Lee and Associates.  I believe that there is healing in sharing and I would like to Thank Ari for sharing his story with us. For more information on Ari Lev Waldman:  Email:  awaldman@lee-associates.com Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonbeats.com/ Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena Leave a rating & review on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/my-stuttering-life/id1434435654?mt=2&app=podcast For correspondence: Pedro Peña, PO Box 1585, La Porte, Texas USA 77572

Show Resources: Brand and Demand Playbook Why Every Startup Marketer Should Be Using Conversation Ads Get in touch with Ryan MacInnis: Twitter – @RKMAC or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankmacinnis/ LinkedIn Learning course about LinkedIn Ads by AJ Wilcox: LinkedIn Advertising Course Contact us at Podcast@B2Linked.com with ideas for what you'd like AJ to cover. Show Transcript: There are four LinkedIn Ads, ad formats, and 11 plus variants of them. LinkedIn figured out the right combination to use, and they just shared it with us. 0:14 Welcome to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Here's your host, AJ Wilcox. 0:23 Hey there LinkedIn Ads fanatics. LinkedIn just published a really valuable playbook, which contains absolutely prescriptive recommendations about what combinations of ad formats to use, and when for maximum effectiveness. Today I sit down with Ryan MacInnis from LinkedIn Product Marketing. He's going to share his research that he and his team just published. Ryan is over sponsored messaging as an ad category and shares with us some of his excellent insights. So without further ado, let's hit it. Ryan MacInnis, thanks so much for joining us. I'm excited to have you here on the LinkedIn Ads Show. 0:57 Yeah, thanks so much AJ for having me. I appreciate it. 0:59 Oh, of course and super excited to get to chat about the new playbook that you guys just released. I know you've been working really hard on it for our listeners. So this is Ryan Mcinnis. He's in the New York City Office for LinkedIn. I'm assuming not during COVID times you're working out of the Empire State Building. 1:14 That is right. Yeah, no, I'm actually in Connecticut. So I can see the city, but I'm not currently working in it. 1:21 Perfect. Get away from the hustle and bustle. 1:23 Exactly. 1:24 And Ryan is over the sponsored messaging product in Product Marketing at LinkedIn. So super excited to get to ask him all these questions and hear an internal response. Awesome. Okay. A very first question. Ryan, tell us about you. You know, what are you into personally? What do you love about work? What are you responsible for? Give us all that good stuff. 1:45 Sure. Yeah. So I actually started my professional career as a Boston Globe sports journalist, and that was in the end of college, beginning of kind of my professional years and I was covering high school and college sports. So I fell in love with storytelling kind of early on, and was exposed to B2B marketing from there. And I spent a lot of time attending startup events, realized how hard it was to take something that was really complex and position it in a way that not only explained what it was or what it did, but made it really clear to somebody, I'm like, what value they could get from it. So that's how I got into marketing and more specifically, product marketing. And talking about sponsored messaging at LinkedIn, it's really a situation couldn't have been any better for me. I've spent the last five years or so running early stage marketing teams at startups, whether it be the first in marketing hire, or leading a team where the company is less than 100 people, messaging and chat bots and whatnot, were a huge part of our marketing strategy. So aside from doing the really early stage startup stuff, I spent a little bit of time at Twitter on their product marketing team for the developer platform called Fabric that was eventually sold to Google. And yeah, even though I had that big company, express I still do consider myself an early stage marketer, since a lot of the skills you know, the frameworks and go to market efforts have been super helpful in scaling conversation ads, which was a new format we launched back in March. So that's kind of me professionally, me personally, big into sports. I used to be a basketball referee, a high school basketball referee. So spent a lot of time doing that. And yeah, love reading as a former English major, I guess you're never former you're always an English major. But I do like to spend a lot of time reading and kind of disconnecting from a lot of the nonfiction business world. 3:36 Well, I love that you have experienced as an early stage marketer, you also have experienced in product marketing at larger companies. So I think that puts you in a really unique position to understand your advertisers, which we'll get into here in a few minutes but this is why I'm so excited to have you like showing us this playbook. This is super exciting about the playbook. So I know you told me in the pre-show chat This has been your three plus months in the making. share with us the story behind it. Tell us about the new new playbook and why you decided to tackle this kind of project. 4:07 Yeah, so I'll first just kind of talk about what it is. And I'll bury the lead on that. So it's our new brand and demand playbook. And really what it is, it's a combination of tactical advice on how you use our different ad formats in both feed and messaging, along with our newest features such as retargeting together to help you achieve your goals on LinkedIn. And then it's also a source of inspiration. Kind of the second half of the playbook are nine customer stories that not only share the successes in the tactics on how advertisers featured used something like carousel ads and single image ads along with message ads, but you can get a snapshot into what their framework is for how they deployed these things. And so you get everything from the creatives that they use the quotes from the people who really went went big on this and believe that this is gonna be a big part of the strategy. And then you also see benchmarks and results. And so what we wanted this playbook to be for the first time, is the ability to kind of tell that cohesive story of how do all of these formats that marketers have available to them today on LinkedIn, how do they play best together? And how do we recommend which formats to use based on which stage of the funnel you're trying to engage your audience and then also give people you know less about us and more about the successes of our of our customers? How do we give them enough of that true playbook so they can learn and seek inspiration from some of the best marketers doing it today? 5:31 Yeah, and what was the pain point? I'm assuming you guys were hearing customer feedback, people expressing a need or a pain, wanting certain kinds of information. How did you decide to even come out with this playbook? Yeah, I guess let's start there. 5:48 Yeah, definitely. So when I joined obviously conversation ads had just launched and we had more recently launched you know, video ads and retargeting was coming up right around the time that we're starting to think about this playbook. And we had conversations around how there really wasn't much advice on how to use these formats best together, even though we were seeing really good results from advertisers that were. And so it was solving a problem that many advertisers on LinkedIn, they kind of go into their strategies saying, this is the piece of content I want to promote. Here's the one format and I was personally guilty of this as a B2B marketer previously to and then you judge the success of the content based on how well it did there in that format without thinking about how other kind of like supporting cast members can help lift that up, ie, you know, text ads, or video or things like that. So what we're really trying to do is help advertisers be more successful and we believe that it wasn't until we had all of these things like the most engaging ways for you to capture someone's attention in video and conversation ads. And then of course, with retargeting and being able to really dig in and tap into that behavior that you were able to understand a bit better. You could actually figure out how you would connect the dots between running an ad in the feed with really trying to drive conversion and messaging, for example. So it was a really kind of a call that we wanted to answer on how we could help advertisers get more out of the tools that they had access to, even if, you know, some of the lines weren't super clear on what they can do with them. 7:20 And Ryan, this is awesome. I'm a huge believer in using other ad formats together to really multiply your efforts. And I didn't come to that understanding until I was in a quarterly business review with one of our clients. And LinkedIn gave us a report that said, here's how people click on your sponsored content ads, who haven't seen another ad format from you. And here's how they click when they when they have and it was like a 30% lift and I went, ah, there's the value. You may not see a direct ROI from any single ad format, but as you bundle them together, it starts completing the rest of the story. 7:57 Definitely. And to your point, exactly. I think it's helpful for a lot of marketers to understand not only the context of what somebody is doing or thinking about when they're on LinkedIn, maybe they're there to just passively browse. They're there to learn from their peers. Or maybe they're saying, hey, this helpful piece of content, or this webinar is going to help me get that next promotion in my career or, you know, make me a better, you know, insert job title. But the other thing that I don't think a lot of marketers realize is that everything that you're doing in the feed because it is the kind of most prime real estate you have on LinkedIn is essentially providing context and warming up people that you want to have as customers or convert on a big activity that you're promoting. So anything that they see in the feed is kind of contextual relevance for anything that they may see in their inbox. So if I were to want to promote an event, like we were talking about a few weeks back, like carousel ads in the feed to promote some of the speakers and so if I'm in the feed, I know that hey, this company is has this event coming up. I know that the speakers will be there and then maybe in my inbox because we can be a bit more targeted and tailored to an individual person, we can say, Hey Ryan, we know you're in Product Marketing at LinkedIn and this is a pain point that we think you're really going through right now. This is why you should attend this event, use our lead gen forms, and you can register right then and there. And you have the context as to why you're receiving that message. And you understand kind of what the value was in the feed. So to your point, the more that you can help these things work better together, the more successful a lot of these marketers will be. 9:25 Yes, and you are in a fantastic position. Seeing all of this data, I mean, as the platform you get to see anything that was touched with a lead form. You get to see the exact conversions happening, the confluence of all of these ad formats. So you're in amazing position to actually tell what combinations of things and I'm sure you're using really cool machine learning and AI algorithms to figure this out. But you now know what's going to be the best combination. And now you're sharing that with us. And quite frankly, in the past, I've seen quite a few of the playbooks that LinkedIn has created. And I would say they haven't exactly been brimming with actionable information. And I've gotten to review this one, and it's completely the opposite. I'm actually really happy with this one. What changed with this? And is this a pattern for the future? 10:12 Yeah, I mean, I definitely think it's going to be something we're going to look to do more of. I think it's important to say that a lot of the playbooks in the past were foundational kind of owner's manual guides that you could read and understand how products worked. And they were really important just to understand the nuts and bolts before you could kind of get into the tactical How do these work together? But there are definitely a couple things, especially during our time being you know, quarantined and spending more time at home that magnified this, that made this playbook kind of look like what it what it does, that you'll read. And the first thing is that obviously we have even shorter attention spans I think, than we did before COVID-19. Especially those that are balancing homeschooling, taking care of loved ones, kids and whatnot. And then the other thing that was really interesting is that many marketers felt like there was a window of time, or maybe they could innovate in ways that they couldn't have before. When many of their competitors were decreasing their spend or moving slower than they would in the past. And so we were really hearing a lot of feedback on, hey, we know that this is a window for us to gain a competitive edge or reach an audience in a way that might be a bit unexpected given that everybody's trying to reach them through email, for example, how can we innovate on that? And then the last thing that I think was was super interesting is that, you know, as a former advertiser on LinkedIn, I think there's a lot of preconceived notions about advertising is like, especially from what you've been exposed to. So maybe you only understand a sliver of the products that we offer, or you only understand a little bit of how we talk about targeting and how you can reach kind of the right persona within the right company that's really important for your ABM efforts. So that was kind of the behind the scenes thinking that went into this no nonsense approach, which is if I were a B2B marketer, and I needed something that was easy to digest during this time when everybody wants my attention. How can we create a piece of content that would be valuable for them? 12:05 Ryan and I think you nailed it. Thank you for that. As you were working to create this brand and demand playbook, I'm sure you were looking through a lot of different research. What do you feel like is your biggest bombshell that you experienced in researching? Was there anything that just stood out like a sore thumb? 12:23 Yeah, it's funny you use the word bombshell. Like I don't think it can be any more obvious to a lot of people once they've done it themselves. And once they've read the playbook, which is the opportunity cost of not using feed and messaging together is just enormous, right. And I think many advertisers are advertising just in the feed, which obviously is the most competitive real estate and even though you can reach millions of people there, it's extremely hard to get someone to take an action on a lead gen form. For example, most people come to LinkedIn to explore, to learn, to do these things mainly on a mobile device, you know, and so nothing is more jarring than clicking an image and a form pops up, and that be your only chance to really engage with somebody. So I think when we looked at a lot of what made our customers successful what we were seeing, particularly with how they were using, you know, video retargeting with ebook promotion and a single image ad and how they're actually putting together their own strategies for how these ad formats can work best for them. We really wanted to drive home this feed plus messaging narrative, because we knew that kind of warming up your lead that narrative would result in a subset of your audience seeing both to your point earlier. So seeing a piece of sponsored content, and then actually having that contextual relevancy on why they should convert in the LinkedIn inbox. And so when you know more people are being exposed to that context, ultimately you can lower your cost per lead and increase your lead gen form conversion rate, which is a lot of marketers are really looking for especially during this time. 13:54 Oh, I love it. And then this may be similar. I don't know you tell me if this is the same as bombshell, but what do you feel like was your biggest takeaway, or the biggest takeaway you'd suggest for advertisers after now having been through the playbook? 14:07 Yeah, I think obviously, we talked about my first big takeaway, which is that the formats work best together, not in silos. And it's no secret that the majority of advertisers are looking to advertising the feed first and kind of messaging is an afterthought. And we're really trying to do is change that narrative and saying, how can messaging be a bit more of a not just a supporting cast member, but you know, maybe a second leading role and how you think about a particular audience. So that was kind of the biggest takeaway that I think a lot of people when they when they read the playbook, we'll see how prominent messaging is within each stage of the funnel and how we recommend using it, or even within the success stories at the end, a lot of our customers are using message ads and single image ads or video single image ads and message ads. And so there's a very healthy mix on how they can be powerful together. But, I think the other takeaway that many people will have is that there are so many people you can seek inspiration from and the willingness of these marketers who so graciously approved for a lot of their creatives and their strategy to be put in this playbook. They're great models for people to look at. And the best part is, is maybe 30% of them have similar tactics, like it's pretty unique the way that these marketers are thinking about it. So that's the biggest takeaway, aside from how these formats work well together, is that there's so many marketers who are doing this well today that you can seek inspiration from and coming out of it, not only will you have a better idea on how you can use these different formats and targeting facets, but also based on what industry, what region you're in, where you are in the world, kind of which story resonates most with you and how you can kind of seek inspiration from that. 15:46 Great! We as advertisers, I think we tend to think of each of the ad formats kind of in their own little silo. I tell people all the time, sponsored messaging ads are really good if you have a special VIP kind of offer, but don't use them if you don't have an offer that grabs them at first. And what we've found is so many advertisers have come back to us and said, hey, we actually found sponsored messaging ads to work really well as a retargeting ad for, you know, a different ad format. And it makes perfect sense. And one that I'm a little embarrassed that I did come up with. 16:23 No, and you're totally right. I mean, one of the success stories we've seen recently with conversation ads are advertisers using even if it's high intent behavior on your website, and using that as a retargeting audience for a conversation ad promoting an ebook download. You know, you wouldn't believe the successes that a lot of these advertisers are seeing when an audience has that context as to why they're being reached out to. Very similarly, with with marketers on their own websites, the ones who are really good from an automation perspective are able to give, you know prospects and people who are on LinkedIn a lot of that helpfulness. Like why are you asking me to read this message, why are you asking me to take action on this CTA and the easier you can make that decision, the better the experience, 17:08 Yeah, surrounding them so they've they've seen your brand before, they feel comfortable. There's already that know, like, and trust factor. It's a brilliant way to approach it. And then here in the brand and demand playbook, this is very prescriptive, as opposed to, I would say other playbooks or other content that LinkedIn has published before. What am I trying to say? It's much more prescriptive than other content that we've seen LinkedIn recommend before. How did you decide on the different recommendations? And I guess, how did you approach the different recommendations that are very prescriptive in here? 17:43 Yeah, that's a good question. I think as a product marketer, I look at three things on a weekly basis. The first is customer behavior. The second is sales feedback. And then the third is market dynamics, which obviously are are changing because of, you know, what's going on the world, but essentially that is what technology will marketer use today? If not tomorrow? And how can we understand like where we should be building products and making recommendations to to meet them where they want to be. And so I think for this playbook, it was the results that our customers are seeing that whereas was most important. So in my case, it was conversation as we've seen conversation ads grow a tremendous amount since launching in May, in March, rather, and I wanted to understand why advertisers were having success with it. And if they weren't, why they weren't. And for many times, more times than not, they were a result of using multiple formats together were conversation as were a key piece of that to your earlier point around how they can work best together. And so, as I mentioned earlier, like carousel ads to highlight speakers or even you know, product features, if you're trying to get somebody to buy in on the narrative of one platform to help them solve all your problems, maybe each tile tells that story or, or highlights a different aspect of your platform. And then conversation ads is a great way to get them to convert. So some of the things we're seeing you know, to be honest, is, you know, well over 50% lead gen form submission rates with some advertisers who not only are using conversation ads best practices, you know, really short, engaging content, two to three calls to action, using lead gen forms as your first CTA, but also having these formats be supportive. And what they're trying to do is, is anywhere from five to seven times higher than sponsored content alone. And so we started to pick up on what sort of behavior was most valuable to marketers that we wanted to share with even more marketers. And so the other source of inspiration as we were starting to think about this was what customers the success they were seeing with, you know, Lan, LinkedIn Audience Network and retargeting, so I'm kind of more on that, like reach in context layer. And so we took some of these findings, started to form some perspectives on which formats and targeting facets were the best for marketers to use based on what we were seeing from our best customers, and then how we watched an audience respond to it, that was really important as well. And so that's why you'll see a lot of visually engaging recommendations at the top of the funnel, like single image ads, carousel, ads, video, and even conversation ads, depending on if it's you know, kind of a brand play, or really trying to promote a blog post that is around a particular movement or whatnot. And then also, you can see, kind of towards the lower end of the funnel, where message ads or sponsored messaging is maybe more of an investment because as a prospect is lower down the funnel, there's more context, you've warmed them up a bit more, and now you're shifting to kind of the best place to have that intimate conversion opportunity, which is in messaging. So we decided on this based on a combination of what are our best customers doing today and why and then what behavior are we seeing, you know, members respond really well to LinkedIn? And how can we help marketers meet them where they want to be met? 20:47 You certainly won't hear me arguing with a 50% conversion rate. That's amazing. So for performance focused demand gen marketers, let's say testing out LinkedIn Ads for the first time. Let's give him a an imaginary budget of, let's say something like 10k, how would you approach a brand new account? Do you have any recommendations for what you'd put into which ad format and which audience and how? 21:13 Yeah, I think for performance focus dimension marketers, obviously, any type of retargeting would be extremely valuable. So if you've never advertised on LinkedIn before, that's totally fine. Maybe you're using some of our conversion tracking on your website. And so you can definitely plug in some of the high intent behaviors as audience types that you would like. So people who have converted on ebooks previously, or visited pricing pages or other high intent pages that you find valuable, and then for 10k, I really think you can get a lot of value right now with conversation as I'm not just saying that because I'm the product marketer for it. It's definitely a format that is the most delightful way possible to receive an ad right now. And what I mean by that is you have 500 characters or less to explain to somebody why you want their attention. You give them the ability to provide context, additional calls to action if they're just not quite ready to convert as opposed to you know, message to your point. An exclusive offer it's binary, either you convert or you don't. Conversation as are definitely a bit more informal. And you can, see a lot of great results for not a huge investment right off the bat. And then of course, we're talking about brand and demand, we're talking about feeding messaging, link text ads, dynamic ads, any way that you can kind of get your, your brand in the top of someone's feed, even if it's not, you know, right in front of them and in the feed itself, but on the side, kind of the right rail way of advertising. They are going to see that on LinkedIn and that is only going to help lift the conversion rates with conversation ads. So from a targeting perspective, definitely recommend an audience that is already warmed up in some capacity. And then I think for performance marketers if your goal is lead gen, obviously, that conversation ads right now paired with something like text ads, or even, you know, you can do something around like spotlight ads and whatnot. You can see really good results for for that 10k number. 23:08 Oh, beautiful. Thanks for that advice. And just digging into a little bit of what you've seen from conversation as because they are new. What are some of the best calls to action that you've found being successful with conversation ads? 23:19 Yeah, it's a good question because I think as a marketer, you're trying to understand and dig into exactly why people are behaving the way that they do. And so with conversation ads unlike message ads, you don't have a subject line, you don't have all of these great things when you can say as many words as you as you want, or at least much more than with conversation ads. And so the calls to action in the language that you use is very important. And I think what we're seeing anecdotally is is kind of this like passive and friendly way of using these call to actions particularly around lead gen forms. So if you are promoting an event, instead of register now, maybe it save my spot or you know, like, sign me up sort of thing. And I think that most people tend to look at these call to action is very formal. So I connect with a member of our sales team or download now it's like get your free copy, like get your free copy is a lot more informal, a lot less intimidating. And so from a CTA perspective, we always recommend you think that you're having a conversation with a friend or a colleague. And if I was trying to get you to read the playbook, I wouldn't send you an email and say, you know, click this link or, you know, click this button and download it now, I'd say, you know, like grab a free copy or something like that. So I definitely think a lot of the things that marketers are seeing success with an email right now and the language that they're using can definitely be transferred over to conversation ads. 24:47 Excellent. So how would you recommend dividing budgets between, let's say, the feed, messaging ads, and even right rail, do you have a rule of thumb that you'd follow? 24:58 Yeah, I mean, I don't have have anything prescriptive or I'm not going to at least try to make any of those recommendations here, but I would just kind of recommend based on what the goal is, if it's more brand focused, I definitely think investing a bit more in the feed makes a lot of sense with video with single image ads, really trying to understand the behavior of somebody on LinkedIn, especially with video retargeting now, so watching more than 25%, more than 50% and using that behavior to send them something more enticing. I think the feed is extremely valuable. And then I think as you move down the funnel with your audience, making sure that messaging is as much of your strategy as sponsored content. So sometimes that's 50/50 for people that I've seen a ton of success with sponsored messaging, but it should least be kind of that 70/30 60/40 split when you get towards the bottom of the funnel, or at least in that high intent consideration phase where you're trying to get someone to download an asset, attend an event, or things like that. Because we definitely see that people will give sponsored messaging and try, but compared to the amount that they're investing in sponsored content, I think that this playbook will help them think about it as more of a pillar of their strategy. 26:11 That's perfect. That's exactly what I think everyone here wanted to hear. So kind of going into back to your personal or business life here. What are you most excited about or looking forward to coming up right now? 26:23 Yeah, so obviously, this playbook is probably the thing that I've been looking forward to most. But I think much bigger than that, going to sponsor messaging specifically with conversation ads. I'm excited about getting a lot more of my former colleagues in the startup space, kind of this mid-market marketer to give conversation ads a try. I think the perceived notion that LinkedIn is an expensive place to advertise isn't wrong for people that don't have a strategy that helps them use all these things together really well. So you're not using retargeting Not thinking about kind of a very intimate audience and we're startups. And you know, smaller marketing teams fall in as they think that this is a place that's kind of unattainable for them to advertise. And that's not true at all. And so we have a blog post, that by the time this podcast comes out will be live. It's called why every startup marketer should be using conversation ads. And it's kind of like an open letter to myself, which is, if I had conversation ads, obviously, in previous roles, why should I be using it? What are some of the success stories we're seeing from a lot of these scrappy marketing teams that are trying to use their budgets really effectively? So I'm excited for more of these smaller marketers or those with a bit smaller budgets to really find a ton of great value out of conversation and specifically, and then how LinkedIn can be even more impactful for them. 27:50 Great, and we're going to link to the why every startup marketer should be using conversation ads down in the show notes will also link directly to the Brand and Demand Playbook. So all of you can can consume this and even follow along. So that's fantastic. Congratulations on the release of such an awesome asset. By the time any of you are hearing this, this should be available. So obviously Ryan and I are talking before it's fully released, and it's a big burden on his shoulders, and that will be lifted on Tuesday. So that's great. Yeah, Ryan, this has been fantastic. Just getting feedback from you and hearing really how marketers can better use the ad formats in tandem with each other. Do you have anything else you'd like to share with us or anything that LinkedIn advertisers should be paying attention to? 28:34 No, I think there's a lot of great things that we're coming out with from a product perspective, I think, you know, LinkedIn live and events and things like that are gonna be something we're gonna continue to invest in. If you are a conversation ads customer or you want to try it. We just came out with a new reporting feature called Flow Chart that I'd love to, you know, kind of plug which gives you CTA level, engagement, understanding verse similar to how you would think about it. Google Analytics or where people are dropping off in your conversation. And so I would definitely ask you to to look at that if you're thinking about conversation ends, or you want to understand how this new format can be helpful in your goals, because you're gonna learn a ton about the behavior of somebody in the inbox that you never had before. So that's gonna be great. 29:18 And I have definitely gotten a chance to check out the flow chart view of the conversation ads. And that was a brilliant addition. So thanks so much for that. And with that being said, thank you so much for being on the show, Ryan. Sure. Appreciate your insights. And is there any way that you'd want listeners to connect with you? 29:37 Yeah, sure. I mean, if you're active on on Twitter I'm at @RKMAC, or I'm on LinkedIn, you can you can find me there. 29:45 Perfect. And I'll go ahead and link both of those down below in the show notes. Ryan, thank you so much for being on the show, and we'll look forward to hearing from you soon. 29:53 Perfect. Thanks so much for having me, AJ. Appreciate it. 29:55 All right. I hope you enjoyed that talk I had with Ryan. I've got the episode resourcescoming up for you right now. So stick around. 30:07 Thank you for listening to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Hungry for more? AJ Wilcox, take it away. 30:18 Okay, the Brand and Demand Playbook that Ryan mentioned, I've got the link down there below. So definitely check that one out. I think you'll like having that one reviewed and on your hard drive. He also mentioned the blog post, why every startup marketer should be using conversation ads, I've got the link down below for that as well. It's definitely worth checking out. Ryan shared his Twitter handle as well as you can connect with him on LinkedIn. So I've got both of those links for you. And if you are new to LinkedIn ads, or you have an employee or a colleague who needs to learn it, definitely check out the course that I did with LinkedIn Learning. It's incredibly inexpensive and very valuable. And then take a look at your podcast player right now and see if that subscribe button is already lit up. If not, give it a nice loving touch. And while you're at it rate us of course, I'd love to see five stars on everything, but rate us whatever you legitimately think we deserve. And I would love to hear you review our podcast to on whatever service you're using. leave us a review and I'd love to read it aloud and help shout you out. With any show ideas, topic suggestions, any sort of feedback, hit us up at Podcast@B2Linked.com. And then with that being said, we'll see you back here next week, cheering you on inyour LinkedIn Ads initiatives.

Harvard/IAEM Think Tank Discussion on Leadership During the COVID 19 Pandemic. Panel featuring: Pete Gaynor, Administrator, FEMA, DeAnne Criswell, Commissioner, New York City Office of Emergency Management; Leonard Marcus, Co-Director, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and moderated by Richard Serino, former Deputy Administrator, FEMA, currently Senior Fellow, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,

What happens once someone passes away during the COVID-19 pandemic? To date, close to half a million people have died from the novel coronavirus. In the span of three months, New York City experienced over 35,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 and other unrelated causes, forcing the megacity to undertake the largest domestic fatality management operation in recent history. Director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for the Virginia Department of Transportation, John Scrivani, shares his experience returning to his hometown to help coordinate the city's transfer and recovery of decedents. Guest Bio John Scrivani has been working in the Emergency Response / Management community for over 27 years. John has served as the Deputy State Coordinator for Disaster Services at the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, as the Incident Commander of the New York City Hurricane Sandy Debris Task Force where he was charged with overseeing the removal of all storm related debris in New York City and as New York City Office of Emergency Management Deputy Commissioner of Operations. Scrivani also serves Deputy Director of the Special Operations Division at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), where he also oversaw operations and safety for the World Trade Center Potential Human Remains Recovery Project and managed the ME Special Operations Response Team. For 14 years, John worked as a member of the NYPD, where he retired as Commanding Officer of the Emergency Services Unit Hazardous Materials-Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team and Training School. He was also a member of the NYPD elite Emergency Service Unit. John currently serves as the Director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for the Virginia Department of Transportation. Find COVID-19 Heroes on: Facebook - https://bit.ly/3dSnhhw Instagram - https://bit.ly/2WaFW0O Twitter - https://bit.ly/3aOspRW Youtube - https://bit.ly/2zxok7N The Web - https://bit.ly/3bTAlSC --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/covid19heroes/support

For weeks, the entire world caught its breath and set its eyes on New York City, the new epicenter of COVID-19 after Wuhan, China and Lombardy, Italy. To date, the metropolis has experienced over 200K confirmed cases and 20,000 related deaths. A city with a long history of trauma and resilience following 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, we wonder: How has the pandemic redefined the notion of a catastrophic event? Kelly McKinney, a long-time Emergency Management leader and the current Senior Director of Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience at NYU Langone Health, provides a detailed answer. Guest Bio Kelly McKinney has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day. As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he led the city's response to Hurricane Sandy. As Chief Disaster Officer for the American Red Cross he rushed to the aid of people affected by train crashes and building collapses, most notably the March 2014 Con Edison gas explosion on 125th Street in Harlem. He is the founding principal of Emergency Management Americas, a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to advance the profession and practice of emergency management. Nationally known for his writing and speaking on the principles and practice of disaster management, he is the author of Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them. He is a professional engineer with a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and an MPA from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a board member of the All-Hazards Consortium and of the Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management in New York City. Currently, he is the Senior Director of Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience at NYU Langone Health, a world-class academic medical center based in New York City. Twitter - @kellymnyc Find COVID-19 Heroes on: Facebook - https://bit.ly/3dSnhhw Instagram - https://bit.ly/2WaFW0O Twitter - https://bit.ly/3aOspRW Youtube - https://bit.ly/2zxok7N The Web - https://bit.ly/3bTAlSC --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/covid19heroes/support

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring guests on COVID-19-related issues, including the President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International, the Executive Director at the Center for Election Innovation & Research, and the former Chief Spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management. Topics range from a discussion on how businesses should prepare to reopen to holding an election and dealing with a natural disaster amid a pandemic.

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring guests on COVID-19-related issues, including the President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International, the Executive Director at the Center for Election Innovation & Research, and the former Chief Spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management. Topics range from a discussion on how businesses should prepare to reopen to holding an election and dealing with a natural disaster amid a pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio special featuring experts on COVID-19, including the chief of medicine at St. Joseph's University, a former spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and a leading child psychologist. Topics range from a discussion about the virus itself to a better understanding of the emergency response to tips for parents trying to navigate their family through this pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio special featuring experts on COVID-19, including the chief of medicine at St. Joseph's University, a former spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and a leading child psychologist. Topics range from a discussion about the virus itself to a better understanding of the emergency response to tips for parents trying to navigate their family through this pandemic.

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio special featuring experts on COVID-19, including the chief of medicine at St. Joseph's University, a former spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and a leading child psychologist. Topics range from a discussion about the virus itself to a better understanding of the emergency response to tips for parents trying to navigate their family through this pandemic.

Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio special featuring experts on COVID-19, including the chief of medicine at St. Joseph's University, a former spokesman for the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and a top economic analyst. Topics range from a discussion about the virus itself to a better understanding of the emergency response to a better understanding of the economic disruption resulting from the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Kelly McKinney, the former Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management and Author of "Moment of Truth" joins us for a very in-depth​ discussion about 9/11 and Emergency Management. Paul and Amy discuss everything KEMA Conference and Earthquake information for Pennsylvania.The Keystone Emergency Management AssociationKEMA - www.kema-pa.comKEMA Conference - www.kemaconference.comFollow KEMA on social media:Facebook - Keystone Emergency Management Association & KEMA Conference Twitter - @keystoneEMA & @kemaconferenceLinkedin - Keystone Emergency Management AssociationKEMA Emergency Management ConferenceOctober 27-29Blair County Convention CenterAltoona, Pa#KEMACon2019The KEMA PodcastHost - Paul Falavolito @paulfalavolito on TwitterCo-Host - Amy Amer @amykatea conference@kema-pa.org#KEMAPodcastShow Sponsor: AlertsUSA.com and enter the special promo code mentioned in this episode to save 25% on their annual alert package.Follow Kelly McKinney on Twitter: @kellymnycPurchase "Moment of Truth" here: https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Truth-Nature-Catastrophes-Prepare/dp/168261591X/ref=nodl_Listen to the KEMA Podcast on Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts and give us a 5 Star Rating if you enjoyed the show.*For more Paul Falavolito podcasts, visit www.paulfalavolitopodcast.com

This week we talk to Kelly McKinney about his book The Moment of Truth. Kelly takes us into the life of a typical emergency manager on their worst day of their career, when the big one happens. Kelly is a great story teller and is able to weave real events into how an emergency manager handled the disaster. This book is not just full of a few good stories, you will learn the principles of emergency management as well. Guest BioKelly McKinney has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day. As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm.He rebuilt the city's disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said "Planning makes perfect”. As Chief Disaster Officer for the American Red Cross he rushed to the aid of children and families affected by disaster, most notably the March 2014 Con Edison gas explosion on 125th Street in Harlem. He is the founding principal of Emergency Management Americas, a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to advance the profession and practice of emergency management.He is a professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently, he is the Senior Director of Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience at NYU Langone Health, a world-class academic medical center based in New York CityRelated ShowsLinks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-mckinney-2a990726/Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellymnycWebsite: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Moment-of-Truth/Kelly-McKinney/9781682615911Email: kellymnyc@gmail.comAdvertisersTitan HST https://www.titanhst.com/Emergency Managers Leadership Conference www.emlc.us

David Conover producer of BEHOLD THE EARTH film.  David was born and raised in a New England family with strong ties to the sea and a tradition of active storytelling. He founded the production company Compass Light almost thirty years ago and has delivered award-winning productions to clients and broadcasters including the Science Channel, PBS Nova, Nat Geo, and many others around the world. Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth's processes. He earned a bachelor's degree from Waynesburg University and a master's from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. https://inconvenientfacts.xyz Kelly McKinney, Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them Kelly has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day.  As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he led the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy. He assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm. He rebuilt the city’s disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said “Planning makes perfect.”   Dedication: Police Officer Amy Caprio, Baltimore County Police Department, Maryland, End of Watch Monday, May 21, 2018

David Conover producer of BEHOLD THE EARTH film. David was born and raised in a New England family with strong ties to the sea and a tradition of active storytelling. He founded the production company Compass Light almost thirty years ago and has delivered award-winning productions to clients and broadcasters including the Science Channel, PBS Nova, Nat Geo, and many others around the world.Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth's processes. He earned a bachelor's degree from Waynesburg University and a master's from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. https://inconvenientfacts.xyzKelly McKinney, Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for ThemKelly has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day. As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he led the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy. He assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm. He rebuilt the city’s disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said “Planning makes perfect.”Dedication: Police Officer Amy Caprio, Baltimore County Police Department, Maryland, End of Watch Monday, May 21, 2018

David Conover producer of BEHOLD THE EARTH film.  David was born and raised in a New England family with strong ties to the sea and a tradition of active storytelling. He founded the production company Compass Light almost thirty years ago and has delivered award-winning productions to clients and broadcasters including the Science Channel, PBS Nova, Nat Geo, and many others around the world.Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth's processes. He earned a bachelor's degree from Waynesburg University and a master's from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. https://inconvenientfacts.xyzKelly McKinney, Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for ThemKelly has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day.  As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he led the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy. He assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm. He rebuilt the city’s disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said “Planning makes perfect.” Dedication: Police Officer Amy Caprio, Baltimore County Police Department, Maryland, End of Watch Monday, May 21, 2018

David Conover producer of BEHOLD THE EARTH film. David was born and raised in a New England family with strong ties to the sea and a tradition of active storytelling. He founded the production company Compass Light almost thirty years ago and has delivered award-winning productions to clients and broadcasters including the Science Channel, PBS Nova, Nat Geo, and many others around the world.Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth's processes. He earned a bachelor's degree from Waynesburg University and a master's from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. https://inconvenientfacts.xyzKelly McKinney, Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for ThemKelly has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day. As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he led the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy. He assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm. He rebuilt the city’s disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said “Planning makes perfect.”Dedication: Police Officer Amy Caprio, Baltimore County Police Department, Maryland, End of Watch Monday, May 21, 2018

Lou Russo, a partner in Goldberg Segalla’s New York City Office, discusses discovery challenges in the context of international arbitration.  Lou begins by addressing the most significant differences between how discovery is treated in courts versus forums of arbitration.  In particular, Lou delves into ways arbitrators can control forms of e-discovery and some of the challenges parties face in exchanging documents across borders.  Lou also gives his thoughts on strategies to limit the cost of discovery as well the management of copious documents when engaging in international arbitration.

Introduction: Mitti Liebersohn was born in Israel, moved to Australia when he was 3, and finally set roots in the United States when he was 13 years old. Mitti has more than 30 years of experience representing many of the nation’s premier corporations in transactions totaling well in excess of 25 million SF. As President and Managing Director of Avison Young’s New York City Office he is responsible for business development, growing revenue and building strategic industry relationships to elevate the company’s position in both the New York City marketplace and nationally as well. Prior to joining Avison Young, Mitti served as Vice Chairman at Jones Lang LaSalle, where he oversaw numerous national account portfolios, and prior to 2011, served as a Vice Chairman at Cushman & Wakefield, where he was named one of the company’s top 20 brokers internationally for fifteen consecutive years. An avid collector of hand signed vintage guitars by legends in the music world; Mitti has two sons and is happily married to his wife Melissa Greeenwald. Episode Notes: At 3:12, Mitti Liebersohn discusses working in a dog store while going to school for television production at Hofstra University. At 4:20, Mitti informs us on how he got his start in the real estate industry at Sutton & Town brokerage. At 6:24, he talks about the biggest risk he has taken in business. At 11:47, Mitti stresses why one needs to be surrounded with the best. At 13:21, he shares Arthur Mirante’s convincing words, which ultimately sealed the deal in Mitti joining Avison Young. At 17:05, Mitti points out that he is always on the search to find out how the best coaches are the best coaches. At 17:54, he explains AY’s “no team model” and internal competition within firms that utilize the team model. At 21:41, Mitti’s unsolicited advice is to “Don’t work out of a state of fear.” At 22:12, he notes that he is a classic car fanatic. At 23:08, Mitti Liebersohn reflects on his successful career in the real estate industry.

Jordan Dressler, the director of the recently created New York City Office of Civil Justice, discusses Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ambitious five-year plan to provide free or low-cost legal assistance to every low-income New Yorker facing eviction, deportation, or other potentially life-altering civil proceedings. The interview focuses in detail on the benefits this guarantee is … Continue reading Improving Access to Civil Justice: A Conversation with Jordan Dressler →

Session 24 Today's guest is Dr. Judy Melinek, a New York Times bestselling author and a Forensic Pathologist based in California. She documented her journey through her fellowship training in her book, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner. One important thing to note is that Pathology isn't actually a required rotation in medical school, one reason that it's not commonly under the radar of most medical students. Listen to our discussion about the field of Forensic Pathology and how you can explore if this is something you're interested in. [01:20] Working as a Forensic Pathologist Dr. Melinek does some academic work. She is currently affiliated with UC Davis as a Research Associate. Forensic Science students from their Master's and undergraduate programs shadow her but she isn't presently on staff at any academic institution. Most forensic pathology jobs tend to be for government agencies, either a coroner/medical examiner's office. Any academic affiliation usually tends to be in the clinical instructor's status teaching residents and medical students. Dr. Melinek did her fellowship in Forensic Pathology from 2001 to 2002 and then she did another fellowship in Neuropathology from 2002 to 2003. In 2001, she started working as a Forensic Pathologist because even during fellowship, she got paid doing autopsies being part of the coroner/medical examiner's office, specifically working for the New York City Medical Examiner. [02:49] The Road to Forensic Pathology Dr. Melinek only figured out she wanted to become a forensic pathologist until later since she wasn't exposed to it as a specialty in medical school. She stresses this is something we need to further discuss and explore because it's a real failing in our medical education that pathology is relegated to second year academic discourse but there is no required pathology rotation in medical school like there is for internal medicine or general surgery. It's only something people have to discover on their own. Dr. Melinek got exposed to Pathology in second year medical school just like all medical students and then they offered this post-sophomore fellowship in pathology, which is an extra year you take in medical school between second and third year and work in the pathology department. You're just like a resident and you get paid but you're not just a resident or MD yet. But it's an opportunity for them to expose people to pathology in a more hands-on level. She basically did this post-sophomore fellowship in Pathology having wanted to take a gap year between college and med school. But she got in off the waiting list and she was afraid she would lose her spot if she decided to defer. So she found this as an opportunity to take a break but still be doing medicine and working at the same hospital she was training at. Dr. Melinek describes it as a great experience having been exposed to multiple different rotations in pathology including the blood bank, autopsy, and surgical pathology. Also during that time, she was allowed to do research and she actually decided to do research with the liver transplant team. That's when she fell in love with surgery and decided she wanted to be a surgeon. But everybody in Pathology convinced her to be a pathologist. Upon finishing medical school, Dr. Melinek matched in Surgery and went to a General Surgery residency and lasted for only six months until she collapsed from exhaustion and decided she wanted to be a Pathologist realizing it was a better fit for her personally and professionally. Because of her impressive work, the pathology department at the UCLA Medical School had saved her a spot outside the match so when she quit surgery, they gave her a spot to start in July. Dr. Melinek claims it was the best decision she ever made. [05:40] Post-Sophomore Pathology Fellowship and Demand This type of fellowship is sponsored through ACGME and the American Board of Pathology. The organizations that accredit pathology residency programs allow a year of pathology while you're still in medical school and it accounts towards your residency. This existed when Dr. Melinek was still in medical school. (Upon checking on the internet, some institutions that offer this program today include UCLA, Stanford, Duke, and West Virginia University. Check with the institution you’re interested in getting into if they offer such program.) Of the six post-sophomore fellows they had during her time, three ended up in Pathology. Dr. Melinek says this program helps people who are interested in the field to pre-select and also it cements their interest. It's an easy way to get people interested in it. She adds that Pathology is easy to recruit for once you're exposed to it. It's such a wonderful field. It's so intellectually stimulating. People are really nice. It has pretty decent work hours and not as physically or emotionally grueling as some of the other specialties can be, especially surgery. Dr. Melinek thinks it's easy to recruit but the problem is it's not a required rotation in medical school so it's not in the radar of a lot of students. It's not something they think about. As a result, there are only about 700 or so board-certified forensic pathologists practicing in the United States, which is half of what they need for the demand. She sees job openings that are open for months and even years because there is just not enough forensic pathologists to fill. Dr. Melinek therefore highly recommends the field for medical students to consider in terms of job security and opportunities. [07:51] Surgery versus Forensic Pathology Dr. Melinek got drawn to surgery because of it's hands-on nature and you get to fix things, as a practical person that she is. However, she wasn't attracted to the field's lifestyle and found it to be too exhausting. She was on call every other night and she had to watch her attending physicians cycle through multiple marriages and being there late at night for long hours, sacrificing their family times and their own mental health in exchange for the career, which she thought as unnecessary. She believes it's a financial burden and a cultural problem in the field and that you really don't need to train surgeons this way as there are more reasonable programs in general surgery. What Dr. Melinek likes about pathology is the reasonable hours. She basically was drawn to it primarily because of that exposure she had in medical school though at that time she didn't have the passion for it that she had for surgery. She felt disconnected from patients and that she wasn't being a real doctor. People do criticize that which of course Dr. Melinek thinks is such a crap. Anyway, she felt disconnected from patient care and from the action and excitement that surgery had until she did her forensic pathology rotation at the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. [09:22] The Work of a Forensic Pathologist When she was a resident in Pathology, they did rotations in different fields and she went to the New York ME's office for a one-month rotation. There she fell in love with the field, being able to go to crime scenes, testify in court, and interact with police officers and with family members of those who had died. She finally got that variety and excitement she was missing. Dr. Melinek wants people to understand that this is the pathology work. You're not just in a lab doing autopsies and looking at microscopic slides all day. You do a lot of field work, going out to scenes as well as a lot of work interacting with a lot of families on the phone. You testify in court at least once a month on average for her. You also interact with lawyers as you try to explain the science to them. Basically, you're built in as an academic and a teacher even though you're not officially in an academic environment. Dr. Melinek finds herself educating family members about the disease process that killed their loved ones over the phone. She finds herself teaching juries about science so that they can make a good decision about guilt or innocence about civil liability. She considers herself a teacher, just not in formal academic setting. [10:55] Traits of a Good Forensic Pathologist You have to be curious and to be the kind of person who digs more into something when it doesn't make sense or it sets off your BS meter. A lot of medical specialties are not going to have all the answers and you have to take the best pass forward given the limitations of your time and financial resources. But in forensics, you have time. They have an expression in forensics that is kind of tongue in cheek, "They're still be dead tomorrow." On the plus side, it means you can work on a case the next day and not have to rush it. The other aspect of that is you can put this off 24 hours and think about it. You can look up another article or contact your colleagues and wait. There's no rush in those cases for you to come up with conclusion. What's more important is for it to be rigorous, accurate, and defensible. [12:12] A Day in the Life of a Forensic Pathologist Dr. Melinek currently works three days a week at the Alameda County Sheriff/Coroner's Office and sometimes fill in on Mondays or Tuesdays if other people are sick or on vacation. Her typical day at work is waking up at 6:00 to 6:30 am and gets a text from her boss informing her of the number of cases she has. She gets her kids off to school and then driver to the office which is a 40-minute commute for her. She gets in at around 8:40 am. She reviews the cases and paperwork generated by death investigators from the office who are deputy coroners and they're the ones who went out to the scene and collected the dead body. They have a clinical summary about what happened to the deceased, whether they were ill or drug abusing, or when they were last seen alive, when and how they were found, the condition of the body. All of these are in the report. They review the reports and then split it up among themselves. In her current office, there is one chief forensic pathologist and four assistants who stagger their schedule so there's usually two or three of them on a given time. From 9am to noon, they go in the morgue doing the autopsies. A typical autopsy takes about an hour or an hour and a half at the most if it's a homicide case. Some cases can take multiple days where she would do two hours one day and two or three hours another day or splitting them up over several days. But majority of the cases can be done in an hour to an hour and a half. In the afternoon, she does paperwork, field phone calls, talk to lawyers, and also does her consult work. In addition to working for the coroner's office, she is also an independent forensic consultant so she can get hired usually by attorneys and sometimes family members to do a second autopsy or give an opinion in a case of wrongful death, whether civil or criminal cases. She looks at paperwork and reports and gives them her opinion. Sometimes, she gets called to testify for court. [15:00] Percentage of Cases For the bodies that she's doing an autopsy for, their causes of death are a mix. About 10-20% of her cases are homicides, which is disproportionate compared to what you see on television. The remaining 80% is a mixture of natural deaths, people who are elderly or young people with natural disease but haven't seen a doctor. They either died at home or en route to the hospital or in the street and they don't know why they died. Then when she does the autopsy, she finds natural diseases, heart disease being the most common as well as lung disease from smoking and complications of obesity on the natural death spectrum. Another equal percentage of cases comprise accidents which are predominantly motor vehicle fatalities and overdoses. They can make it to the hospital and survive for a period of time but they'll still come to their office because any case that is sudden, unnatural, or violent gets evaluated by the medical examiner. A smaller percentage would be suicides. Dr. Melinek reckons it's 20% homicides, 80% split up between natural, accidents, and suicide. [16:35] Call Schedule and Crime Scenes In her current position as a contract pathologist, she doesn't take calls. The only person on call is the chief forensic pathologist and she estimates that he gets called out to scenes maybe once or twice a month at the most. In the previous job she held at the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office, there were four of them who would split up calls. So they'd be on call for one week at a time, which means you just get called out at night to crime scenes and she gets called out about once a month. It would be unusual for her to called out twice in the same week, and it's usually once a week. Most people may think that when you're being called out in a crime scene, they'd imagine CSI, Bones, or Dr. House. In reality, Dr. Melinek says it depends on the case. When she was In San Francisco, they get called out just for homicide, which are clear cut cases or those where they suspected a homicide. If she went out to a scene, it would have already been cordoned off by the police with a lot of police activity and the medical examiner would be the one would come in underneath the line. First, you have to sign in so they have a log of who comes in and out of the scene. You have to have your personal protective gear, gloves, booties, depending on the condition of the scene. The first thing they do when they get there is get basic information from the police officers at the scene about what happened, how was the body found, were shots fired, what did people hear or see, what are witnesses telling you. Then they go over to the body. They don't move it until after it's been photographed. A lot of time on the scene is typically spent waiting for the crime scene unit photographers to do their work and document everything with photography and video. And only then can they move the body, take a look, and assess the injuries so they can give the homicide detectives at the scene an idea of what they're seeing on the body and some leads about things they can question witnesses about. When asked about how she gets used to seeing these crime scenes, Dr. Melinek explains that all of medicine is a desensitization process. She remembers the first time she came in and got introduced to a cadaver on her first year of medical school and she freaked out. She knew she would be dissecting a cadaver because that was part of medical school and she's always been fascinated in human anatomy and how the body works. She says there's always a gross out factor but you still find yourself getting drawn to it. You actually get desensitized over the course of medical school, the first time you see a delivery or an autopsy or you do surgery and you see somebody's chest wide open with a heart beating. It's shocking yet you're trained sufficiently to do your  job and follow the lead of the people with you in terms of learning how to cope with the stresses of the job. Dr. Melinek finds that forensic pathology is actually less stressful than taking care of living patients for which she has done both. When taking care of patients, there are demands of the patients and families which can be unreasonable. They're in pain and suffering. They're not happy. So she found it more stressful given that and it was harder for her to separate from that and forget about it once she gets home than it is for her dealing with the horrible things she sees on the daily basis because she knows they're no longer suffering and out of their misery. She deals with this by thinking it's her job to make sense of this chaos and give some closure to the family and answers to the legal system that can help repair the mess that a few seconds of impulsivity created. [21:05] Postgraduate Training for Subspecs After finishing medical school, the minimum is three years of anatomic pathology residency and one year of forensic pathology fellowships. That's a total of four years of postgraduate training before you can go and work at a medical examiner/coroner's office. Dr. Melinek did surgery first and then when she went to pathology, she didn't know she wanted to do forensic so she did both four years of anatomic and clinical pathology. Anatomic and clinical pathology combined make you more marketable for working in a hospital setting. Clinical pathology involves laboratory medicine so it involves managing the laboratories at the hospital, the blood bank, the hematology lab, the toxicology lab, the microbiology lab. It involves learning how the test work, the assays work, and how to supervise and manage the equipment and the technologists who work there. So instead of the minimum three, Dr. Melinek did four years of residency and then two years of fellowship, one in forensic pathology and the other one is forensic neuropathology, which was a program that her fellowship placed at the New York City Office. A typical neuropathology involves working in a hospital setting where you're diagnosing tumors and doing surgical pathology. It's a two-year program where one year is spent examining brains and doing surgical pathology while the other year is spent doing research in order to be board-certified. Instead, Dr. Melinek just did one year of examining brains in a forensic setting. It's both brains and spinal cord taken out of the autopsy in cases where the death is sudden or violent, sometimes they have gunshot wounds, sometimes history of seizure disorder, sometimes without any history and the pathologist out of prudence, saves the brain and spinal cord for a more thorough analysis by a neuropathologist. They would slice the brain and spinal cords and then look them under the microscope to make a diagnosis of things like Alzheimer's disease or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) which is injury caused by repeated concussions. [23:41] Competitiveness and Testing the Waters Dr. Melinek says it's not competitive to become a forensic pathologist, in fact, it's easier compared to other specialties and subspecialties. She adds that a lot of pathology programs don't fill. This is actually surprising to her because it's a great, fun job, especially now that she's hitting middle age and a lot of her friends and colleagues that have gone into other specialties are hitting burnout but she's not tired at all. She actually has colleagues in their early 80's and are still practicing because they love what they do. Everyday is something new. Everyday is challenging. If this is something you're interested in or you just want to test the waters, Dr. Melinek recommends that you do well in your histology and pathology coursework in first and second year of medical school. Then start talking to your teachers, most of them are in the pathology department at your hospital. Find out about doing rotations with them and see if you can shadow them. Go down to the surgical pathology division and find out when they have their rounds or when they have their teaching cases. Sometimes they have resident conferences where they sit around the microscope and they look at slides. They always have extra room for medical students. She further says there really are not enough medical students who are interested in this field so they get so excited when someone shows up. You can just set up the microscope, listen in and look at the pretty pictures. If you get dizzy looking at the microscope, just look away when they're moving the slide and look back when they got it fixed. Lastly, start reading about the subject. She recommends doing rotation in your third and fourth year. It's going to have to be an elective. And if your medical school is affiliated with a coroner/medical examiner's office, she recommends taking an elective at least one week there to see what they do. Even if you don't end up going into forensic pathology, say you're interested in internal medicine or surgery, you will still benefit from it because it will give you a perspective that nobody else has and it will help you understand how to prevent death in your patients. [26:47] Osteopaths, Subspecialty Opportunities, and Interaction with Other Specialties Dr. Melinek explains there are plenty of opportunities for osteopathic students in forensic pathology. Having a DO is not an impediment in getting either a residency or fellowship in general pathology or forensic pathology. She has several DO friends who have gone through the program. The only frustrating thing for them sometimes is keeping abreast of the osteopathic manipulation requirements necessary for licensure and continued certification, which can be annoying since it's not something they use everyday but they just take the courses and do it. Other subspec opportunities after forensic pathology include neuropathology, anthropology, pediatric pathology, and cardiac pathology. Dr. Melinek doesn't work directly with other specialties but she interacts with them through medical records like when she gets charts from people who have died and she calls the primary care doctor of the deceased to get more information. More of them are psychiatrists such as issues pertaining to substance abuse and suicidality and cohort population. She also interacts with geriatricians especially when they don't write death certificates properly and she'd have to educate them about how to properly code or write a death certificate that would be accepted by the Department of Public Health. She also interacts with other pathologists and consults with them on their cases and getting additional information about things like unusual tumors or those less common in their cohort. She sometimes get unusual disease process she doesn't see frequently enough to be able to diagnose right way that's why she sees the importance of being affiliated with or have relationships with hospital pathologists to help guide you. Her advice to those getting into geriatrics to schedule an elective rotation during medical school in the pathology department or at the medical examiner/coroner's officer to give them a better appreciation of who it is doing the job and why they do it and how they're trained. It would also teach them to write proper death certificates so they don't run into trouble as they mature as practitioners. [30:45] Other Special Opportunities Outside Practice Dr. Melinek considers doing extra witness consult work as the most lucrative and rewarding where you get hired by either family members to do a second autopsy when they don't trust the first autopsy or if the coroner/medical examiner has declined to do the autopsy saying it's not within their jurisdiction but the family members will sometimes want an autopsy anyway so you can do private autopsies in that setting. As for legal cases, Dr. Melinek finds that her consult work is a lot more challenging than her work for the coroner/medical examiner with regards to the complexity of the cases. If something's going to court, it's because of a dispute, which is something people don't agree with. It can be challenging to review all the materials and come to some sort of consensus or opinion that can bring the sides together which she finds very rewarding. [31:45] What She Wished She Knew Before Starting Forensic Pathology She wished she had known how political it could be. Although it wouldn't have changed her opinion since she still would have chosen the same path, she thinks she would have been a little bit more prepared for it emotionally and mentally for some of the challenges that the field has, especially for issues that officer-involved shootings or in-custody deaths, high-profile cases such as when a celebrity dies. She finds it stressful to be the one that everybody is search answers for and having the pressure of the family and media and supervisors are trying to get you to come up with an answer quickly. And as she reiterates, forensic is best done over time meticulously and slowly so you can come up with a thorough answer that's defensible. Granted there are some circumstances like in surgery when someone is bleeding out where you have to work quickly, but in majority of cases in medicine, you do have some time. And if anybody is trying to rush you or do a stat on something that doesn't need that level of urgency, you should immediately put the brakes on and slow down because that's when you're going to screw up. Dr. Melinek insists this is an important lesson to pass on to anyone that it's important to take your time and do a thorough job otherwise you're going to miss something if you're stressed and under outside pressure. [33:40] Media Training Dr. Melinek says most of the training comes on the job itself. Having a good fellowship program and having good mentors who are willing to teach you about it especially if you go to a good urban area as opposed to a suburban area, you will get exposure as there will be high profile cases and stuff in the press. You have to learn from your colleagues and the staff you work with on how to manage it. She adds it's worthwhile later in your training once you've already become a forensic pathologist to take some time to do media training and learn how to work with media professionals to answer questions in an interview setting. Give sound bites to the press and interact with them so you're able to get your message across. Media training is something you're not going to get in medical school. You're not going to get it on the job and it's something you essentially have to seek out and pay for yourself. She did it a few years ago when the her book, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner came out, which she co-authored with her husband, T.J. Mitchell. It's a book about her forensic training. She had to learn how to interview and how to talk to the press and the training she did for the book publicity has reaped rewards as a forensic pathologist as well because it has taught her how to interact with the press in high-profile cases. [35:20] The Most and Least Liked Things about Forensic Pathology What Dr. Melinek likes the most is the excitement and unpredictability of it and the fact that she is here to serve anyone. When she walks into the morgue every morning and gets the list of cases, it could be someone wealthy or poor, a really famous person or someone unknown. She compares it to a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. Death is like that as well as life, you don't know what you're getting in the morning and you just have to learn how to roll with the punches and deal with it the best way you can. She adds how rewarding it is to be able to help family members. She loves having patient contact in terms of relating with the family members of the deceased who are her patients too, helping them with grieving, closure, and understanding the process. What she likes the least is true with any job and it's dealing with nasty people. Sometimes you have to interact with people under stress or micromanaging supervisors. Working at a sheriff/coroner's office, some of her immediate supervisors are not physicians so they don't understand medicine. She finds it frustrating sometimes to explain to them what she does and why it's important in terms of getting the financial or time support she needs. [37:53] Changes in Forensic Pathology Over the Years Dr. Melinek has seen changes in her career in the past fifteen years such as the advent of CT scans with 3D imaging coming into the forefront which is becoming more common not only in the hospital setting but also in the medical examiner's setting. Genetic testing has also advanced tremendously so now they have access to genetic tests for sudden cardiac death genes, things that can predispose someone to channelopathies or risk factors for sudden cardiac death that they can communicate to families. There now changes in histopathology in terms of the quality of slides they're getting, the scanning capacity, digital forensics, being able to share information. The basic techniques are the same since you're still have to cut a dead body and you're still going to need your scalpel and scissors. There is virtual autopsy where people use CT scans or MRI to diagnose certain diseases but ultimately, autopsy is the gold standard and you can't use a virtual autopsy to diagnose an infectious disease and you still need to take a sample from the body and grow it in a laboratory. Or you still need the microscopic sections of the heart to diagnose cardiac defect. Radiology is good to a certain degree but autopsy is the gold standard and still relied upon on most court settings. Lastly, if Dr. Melinek had to do it all over again, she would still have chosen the same specialty. In fact, she would have skipped surgery and went straight into this field. She also wishes to leave a message to medical students. In medical school, she got the impression that once you choose your specialty, that's it. And if you fail out of your residency or hate it, you're stuck and you're not going to be able to find another residency. It's going to be difficult for you to switch. About 1/3 of doctors switch their specialties at some point in their career, whether during residency or after it and then they do a separate residency. Some do it halfway through a career even in their 50's. Dr. Melinek wants students to be aware that switching is possible. You're not a loser if you hate your residency or you're miserable. There are other options. Sometimes places will take you outside of the match, other times you can go through the match again and you will find a position that fits. Sometimes it's also not the career but the job. It may be the right career for you, which is the right specialty but you just happen to be in a bad residency program or a bad job environment with a bad supervisor and sometimes switching jobs is the solutions. But there are options out there so don't feel like you're not going to be able to find a position in medicine because you're not happy where you are currently. [41:15] Working Stiff Dr. Melinek explains the impetus for writing her book, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner. While she was in medical school, she had a professor who encouraged them to keep a journal to document their transition from lay people to medical people, how they learned the terminology and how they became doctors. When she decided to do forensic pathology and was starting the fellowship, she thought how inaccurate all of these televisions shows are and nobody knows about the forensic process she's going to be going through in the next year so she decided to start writing her journal. Everyday, in her one-hour commute to work and another hour going back, she had two hours a day for writing, using a handheld device where she kept a journal. At the end of her fellowships for two years, she had a baby and restructure the journal by cases. She had to take it out of chronological order to get a case-based narrative. She was working so she had to hand it to her husband, T.J.Mitchell who was an English major at college and had been working as a writer for other people. The couple basically sat on it for about ten years. It was the tenth year anniversary of 9/11 that changed things for them and it was no longer personal history but what she had experienced was history since Dr. Melinek was one of the thirty forensic pathologists in New York City at that time of the World Trade Center attack. She was the rookie in the team, arriving in July and had two months to training before that attack happened. This then became a big part of her diary as well and tackling those chapters were the most difficult for her. She didn't want to write a book specifically about 9/11 but something that would encourage students and experts in different fields to understand what it is they do and what the training process is like. Now, the couple are transitioning to a detective fiction novel they're working on. If you're curious, there some shows working with consultants. In fact, Dr. Melinek has consulted on some shows in the past such as ER. The problem is they have to do change certain scenes in order to move the plot along. They do have consultants but they don't always listen to them. [45:30] Final Words of Wisdom If you're interested in pursuing this field, Dr. Melinek recommends you check out her website www.PathologyExpert.com and linked to that is her blog. Specifically check out Dr. Melinek’s  blog post about the steps to becoming a forensic pathologist, addressed to students at different levels of their training, what to do if you're in high school, college, medical school, or in residency, as well as a paragraph each about the next steps and what you should look for. Links: Dr. Melinek’s  blog post about the steps to becoming a forensic pathologist Dr. Melinek’s website: www.PathologyExpert.com Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Post-Sophomore Pathology Fellowship Programs: UCLA School of Medicine WVU School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass

Joe Bruno, the former Commissioner of the New York City Office of Emergency Management discusses how the city coped with the massive destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy. He details their processes for mobilizing a wide variety of city agencies, state & local governments, federal agencies and private sector partners to meet the needs of the regions's citizens.