Homeland Security official, physician to lecture at Cornell on pandemic influenza

MOUNT VERNON — A top medical official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will speak Monday, May 14, at Cornell College on “Pandemic Influenza: National Perspectives and Local Preparedness.”

The lecture is at 11:10 a.m. in Hedges Conference Room of The Commons. Admission is free.

Dr. B. Tilman Jolly is associate chief medical officer for medical readiness in Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs. He has spoken and published extensively on injury control, trauma and emergency planning, and he has worked with the National Football League in emergency and medical planning for six Super Bowls. Jolly has practiced emergency medicine for 14 years in the Washington, D.C., area, most recently at Inova Fairfax Hospital, a regional trauma center for northern Virginia. He is also associate clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University. In 1998 he received a Public Service Award from the National Traffic Safety Administration for his work related to motor vehicle occupant protection.

The lecture is sponsored by the Cornell program Dimensions: The Center for the Science and Culture of Healthcare.