Rear Admiral W. Craig Vanderwagen, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Chief Preparedness Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Summary: His views on, among other topics, his department's disaster-response missions, capabilities, and accomplishment; the PHS's team-orientation approach; IRCTs and the HHS "deployable force"; resiliency & prepositioning; and tsunamis & other natural disasters