Carl Mangum, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing and has 20 plus years experience in disaster preparedness and response. He commands a federal disaster medical assistance team for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, having responded to multiple federal and state declared disasters. He also worked in the secretary’s Operations Center in Washington, D.C., during the 2017 hurricane season. Mangum serves with the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security on the State Citizen Corps Council and the Community Emergency Response Teams. On the local level he serves with the city of Byram and Byram Volunteer fire departments.

Dr. McCarter is a practicing emergency physician with special interests in disaster medicine and wilderness medicine. Dr. McCarter received his medical degree from the University of Mississippi in 2005. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2009 and joined the faculty that year. Dr. McCarter’s interest in the intersection of outdoor activity and health led him to become the director of the clerkship in Wilderness Medicine. He also serves as a medical director for the Center for Emergency Services helping the university community plan and respond to disasters locally and across the state.

Dr. Darsey is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is the medical director of the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services, an emergency response umbrella organization that includes a medical communications center (Mississippi MED-COM), a critical care transport division (AirCare), a Public Safety Support Division, and a traditional advanced life support ambulance service. He first obtained his EMT certification in 1998 in Dallas. He gained his bachelor’s of business administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Upon completing undergraduate education in Dallas, he returned to Jackson to complete a master’s in science and doctor of medicine degrees from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine from UMMC and is board certified in Emergency Medicine with active clinical practices in Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He has been involved in EMS for over 18 years serving as an EMT, paramedic, flight paramedic, EMT instructor and now medical director in a number of different EMS systems.

His clinical interest is in the field of emergency, critical care, and transport medicine specifically focusing on innovation, increasing scope of practice, and pushing evidence based clinical advances to first responders of all clinical levels. His academic interest focus on improving medical communications through enhanced radio networks, development of broadband applications, and improving medical education. His community interest are focused on the support of public safety professionals to reduce the mortality rates through innovation, and development of preventative, urgent and operational medical support programs for those servicing our communities.

Darsey has been the principal investigator in nearly $20 million of grants focusing on the clinical interest and academic interest of improving the communications, care and coordination of first responders, and the medical care that is provided in the field since 2010.

Dr. McKenzie is a professor in emergency medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, and completed his emergency medicine residency and a transitional internship in emergency medicine/anesthesiology at UMMC. He is the chair of the Emergency Medicine Quality Council and has a focus in training others in emerging infectious diseases, disaster management, and critical care medicine for paramedics. He is active in the U.S. military and the Mississippi National Guard for which he has been deployed for several operations. Dr. McKenzie’s clinical and research areas of interest include emergency medicine, disaster medicine, flight medicine, and wilderness medicine.

Dr. Jones obtained his medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and completed residency and a clinical research fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. His clinical research focus is on sepsis, life-threatening infections, and critical care. Dr. Jones has mentored numerous faculty members in career development grants, more than 30 residents and medical students in formal research methods, and multiple fellows in clinical trial research fellowships. Dr. Jones moved back to UMMC in 2011 as the director of research for the Department of Emergency Medicine. In 2013, he became chairman of the department and is presently principal investigator on an National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant (R01) and co-principal investigator on a Research Project with Complex Structure Cooperative Agreement and co-principal investigator on two other R01s and co-principal investigator on two Research Project Cooperative Agreements. In managing his departmental research efforts, he has developed a full-service clinical research support system. Dr. Jones serves on multiple editorial boards and federal grant review committees, has held national society offices, and has authored numerous peer reviewed and book chapter publications.