 Welcome
to the Medical Reserve Corps of El Paso County |
Vision
– To assist and interface with existing public health and
emergency response agencies and organizations in their response to
major disasters. To ensure the safety and effective use of vital
community medical resources. To develop and maintain an effective
plan and organization for use of non-hospital based community
resources. To develop and maintain the ability to rapidly deploy
alternate treatment facilities (Disaster Medical Aid Centers). To
support triage activities and care for minor medical emergencies
at sites other than
hospitals and enable volunteers to fulfill more effectively their
mission to ill and injured patients.
Mission – To organize and prepare
non-hospital based, medically related personnel to ensure the
physical, medical, mental and spiritual well being of the people
and families of El Paso County and South Central Colorado are met in the
event of a major disaster – whether man made or natural.
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MRCEPC
Medical Director |
 Brian Crawford,
M.D.
Dr Crawford is a Colorado native
emergency physician who received his M.D. from Creighton
University. Besides his time spent doing his regular job,
volunteering to serve as chief of the MRC Community Coordination
Committee he has provided humanitarian relief serving aboard
USNS Mercy as Medical Officer and Medical Liaison for Project
Hope post tsunami in Bande Aceh, Indonesia. This event led to the
honor of a personal invitation to the White House to meet with the
President of the United States.
Volunteer Spotlight |
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MRCEPC
Program Director |
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 Carol
Walker
On September 12, 2001 the El Paso County Medical Society
(EPCMS) Board of Directors recognized the need for working with
our community to assure that physicians were integrated into
disaster planning for the community and on November 1, 2001 the
first EPCMS Disaster Response for Health in El Paso County (DR
HELP) Task Force meeting was held to bring together all persons
and agencies involved in disaster planning in order to share and
coordinate information, plans and activation in a manner most
beneficial to our community. EPCMS CEO, Carol Walker, joined with
then president, Doctor Ripley Hollister, to assure that DR HELP
would be a lasting influence on disaster planning in El Paso and
Teller counties and secured a grant to become the first designated
Medical Reserve Corps in Colorado. Carol remains the Program
Director for the program and shares with all MRC Council members a
passion to assure the medical professionals are fully integrated
into disaster planning for our community.
cwalker@epcms.org |
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MRCEPC
Assistant Medical Director |
 Judith
U. Reynolds, M.D.
Judith was formerly the Medical Director at the El Paso County
Department of Health and Environment on Colorado Springs. She is
the Medical Director of Colorado College and of the Colorado
Springs Treatment Center. For twenty years, she was the clinic
physician for the Health Department's STD/HIV program and the
McMaster Center. She has lived in Colorado Springs for 29 years,
serving on many boards of non-profit organizations. Born in
Florida , she graduated for Colorado College with a degree in
Asian Studies. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine and
Addiction Medicine and has completed many hours of emergency
preparedness training including several weeks the the National
Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD.
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MRCEPC
Coordinator |
 Frankie
Gales, LPN
Frankie Gales graduated from the University of Colorado with a
BA in Biology. Simultaneously she attended LPN school at
Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Frankie was a member of the
Colorado Army National Guard and served in many different
capacities before retiring in August 2007. One capacity was as a
Military Police liaison to civilian emergency response agencies
during "Operation Columbine." Frankie has worked as an LPN /
Opthtalmic Technician for seventeen years and has authored
Pandemic Flu and Disaster Preparedness plans. Frankie has
furthered her interest in public health by becoming the
coordinator of the Medical Reserve Corps of El Paso County and is
the coordinator for several related grants administered by the El
Paso County Medical Society Foundation.
frankie@epcms.org
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