Effective responsiveness begins with training and practice before a crisis occurs.  When the time comes, Diogenec clients are ready with well-rehearsed crisis communications plans, emergency protocols, and clearly-defined processes to lead the organization forward to a “new normal.”

The Diogenec team maintains academic affiliations, including active faculty appointments, that provide access to current knowledge, emerging concepts, and ongoing research.  This active engagement has resulted in the creation of cogent educational and training initiatives that contribute to professional growth and institutional preparedness.

Diogenec staff has developed certificate and graduate programs, created a national training and response center, and developed policy and curriculum for chemical and biological warfare operations.  The convergence of practical experience, thought leadership, and adept instruction offers a superior resource for skill development, resiliency enhancement, and professional advancement.

Effective responsiveness begins with training, preparation and practice before a crisis occurs. When the time comes, Diogenec clients are ready with well-rehearsed crisis communications plans, emergency protocols, and clearly-defined processes to lead the organization to a "new normal."

The Diogenec team maintains academic affiliations that provide access to current knowledge, emerging concepts, and ongoing research. This active engagement has resulted in the creation of cogent educational and training initiatives that contribute to professional growth adn institutional preparedness.

Diogenec staff have:

• Developed organizational and operational concepts for homeland security training and deployment for federal medical personnel -- an ongoing engagement with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Northern Command, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
• Created Joint/Interagency Civil Support (JICSTIC) at Fort Dix, NJ, providing training to DoD, VA, and other Federal departments in medical aspects of homeland security and weapons of mass destruction.
• Instituted Army Reserve Physician Assistant Training Program.
• Conceptualized and hosted "Every Crisis is a Human Crisis," a seminar held at Georgetown University addressing the disproportionate impact of disasters and the roles, responsibilities, and liabilities of government and corporate leadership and governance. Discussion panels consisted of recognized subject matter experts led by former Surgeons General Koop, Satcher, and Carmona.

• Created a degree program in operational medicine, the core of a new school in national security studies within a major research university.
• Developed and delivered a course in domestic medical intelligence for a state department of health.

Even the most inspired leadership will fail if the message does not get across, or if it prompted unexpected consequences. Diogenec teams with leading risk communications experts to design, deliver, and evaluate your organization's message.

Effective communications and actionable plans live before, during, and after an event. Diogenec contributions to organization's resiliency have included:

• Developing, implementing, and testing hospital emergency preparedness and response plans for Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn, NY and HSC Pediatric Center in Washington, DC.
• Providing education concerning anthrax threat, prophylaxis, and treatment to uniformed Public Health Service response teams, regional referenece laboratory staff, and others in support of the CDC effort following the 2001 postal anthrax attacks.
• Developing force health protection programs for the military.
• Furnishing strategic planning, product development, and marketing services advice to an interactive wellness, health education and promotion, and population health surveillance consortium including expert advice on content and delivery mechanisms for health promotion, medical and dental readiness, mental health, and support resources for military members and their families.
• Conducting webinars on pandemic influenza preparedness for the financial sector in the state of Georgia and the Association of Independent Maryland schools.

The Diogenec Pragmatic Planning™ approach applies current learning theory to knowledge and skill development.  By challenging conventional thought with heuristically “wicked problems,” Diogenec training promotes the development of conceptual mastery and advanced judgment.  Diogenec has teamed with key teaming partners to offer dynamic training and educational offerings featuring virtual reality, immersive simulation, advanced modeling, course of action analysis, and real world experience.

Created by the developers of America’s Army, HumanSim™ by Virtual Heroes offers multimodal delivery of realistic, scenario driven learning that can be distributive administered in a single session or over time, in one location or around the globe.  HumanSim™ assessment features:

• Initial patient assessment
• Clinical competence measurement
• Cognitive and clinical performance under stress
• Immediate feedback using digital after action review (AAR) system
• Statistics tracking system linked through AAR to Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Practice of new or complicated skills or technologies without endangering patient or participant health or safety
• Dynamic Virtual Human Technology™, using embedded physiologicpharmacologic model, provides real-time, patient state transitions based on user input
• Multiple delivery platforms, including PC,
  PDA, game consoles, and web download

LeapWorks™ by Quantum Leap Innovations
(QLI) delivers advanced simulation and
optimization for infectious disease, chronic
condition, and injury analysis.  Scalable and capable of incorporating mid-process input, the LeapWorks™ portfolio facilitates decision support, course of action analysis, effectiveness of interventions (medical, social, behavioral), and outcomes assessment.