Michael Reilly, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Dr. Reilly has over 25 years of multidisciplinary experience in prehospital medicine, public safety, inter-governmental relations, public health, and emergency management. He has been published in the world’s leading disaster medicine and public health preparedness journals, and received international awards and recognition for his work on trauma systems and health systems in the context of disaster and public health preparedness. Dr. Reilly is an internationally recognized expert and author in the areas of emergency medical services, public health, and health system preparedness and response, with direct experience in responding to mass casualty events and public health emergencies. Dr. Reilly co-authored a textbook titled Health Care Emergency Management: Principles and Practice by Jones and Bartlett Publishers in 2011, which is used at numerous colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

Dr. Reilly is an expert in the areas of public health emergencies, disaster and first responder worker safety, and hazardous materials response and has served as a subject matter expert for OSHA on the development of a national training curriculum for healthcare workers in the area of patient decontamination from hazardous substances incidents at hospitals. Dr. Reilly has contributed numerous textbook chapters in the field of disaster medicine and public health preparedness. Dr. Reilly is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness and served as the Guest Editor for the Journal’s CDC/ASPR/NIH joint sponsored special issue on the response to, and public health impact of, Hurricane Sandy.

Dr. Reilly is the former director of the Center for Disaster Medicine at New York Medical College. During his tenure he was the founding director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters, an Associate Professor of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Formerly, Dr. Reilly served as the Director of the Division of Planning and Response, at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the course director for toxicology.

Publications

Featured Publications

Long-term Recovery From Hurricane Sandy: Evidence From a Survey in New York City.: Petkova EP, Beedasy J, Oh EJ, Sury JJ, Sehnert EM, Tsai WY, Reilly MJ, Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2018 Apr 12 2 172-175
Investigating the Public Health Impact of Hurricane Sandy: Reilly MJ, Degutis LC, Morse SS Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2016 3 10 301-303
Part 9: First aid: 2015 International Consensus on First Aid Science with Treatment Recommendations.: Zideman DA, Singletary EM, De Buck ED, Chang WT, Jensen JL, Swain JM, Woodin JA, Blanchard IE, Herrington RA, Pellegrino JL, Hood NA, Lojero-Wheatley LF, Markenson DS, Yang HJ, Resuscitation 2015 Oct 95 e225-61
Part 9: First Aid: 2015 International Consensus on First Aid Science With Treatment Recommendations.: Singletary EM, Zideman DA, De Buck ED, Chang WT, Jensen JL, Swain JM, Woodin JA, Blanchard IE, Herrington RA, Pellegrino JL, Hood NA, Lojero-Wheatley LF, Markenson DS, Yang HJ, Circulation 2015 Oct 132 16 Suppl 1 S269-311
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness of health professions students: a multidisciplinary assessment of knowledge, confidence, and attitudes.: Markenson D, Woolf S, Redlener I, Reilly M, Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2013 Oct 7 5 499-506
Lessons from Sandy--preparing health systems for future disasters.: Redlener I, Reilly MJ, N Engl J Med 2012 Dec 367 24 2269-71
Hospital referral patterns: how emergency medical care is accessed in a disaster.: Reilly MJ, Markenson D, Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2010 Oct 4 3 226-31
Utilizing paramedics for in-patient critical care surge capacity.: Reilly MJ, Markenson D, Am J Disaster Med 2010 5 3 163-8
Education and training of hospital workers: who are essential personnel during a disaster?: Reilly M, Markenson DS, Prehosp Disaster Med 2009 24 3 239-45
Comfort level of emergency medical service providers in responding to weapons of mass destruction events: impact of training and equipment.: Reilly MJ, Markenson D, DiMaggio C, Prehosp Disaster Med 2007 22 4 297-303

Books

Health Care Emergency Management: Principles and Practice

Michael J. Reilly and David S. Markenson (Ed.) (2011). Sudbury, MA, Jones and Bartlett