Mays assists with HSC Disaster Day

Each year, students from the Texas A&M Health Science Center Colleges of Medicine and Nursing, School of Public Health, and the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, as well as the Corps of Cadets and hundreds of community volunteers, gather at Texas A&M’s Disaster City. The goal is the largest student-led, interprofessional emergency response simulation.  Participants practice in this scenario to be better prepared to respond to real emergencies.

This year, Mays Business School was asked to help the students of the planning committee project manage the event in the months leading up to the event. Since early Fall 2018, management student Ryan Rusy has been embedded with their steering team and nine committees, helping to bring order to the (staged) chaos.

This year’s scenario was the explosion of a Level 3 Biohazard lab, with actors portraying victims with various injuries and illnesses. Rusy worked with Management Executive Professor Michael Pace (MGMT) throughout the Fall 2018 and early Spring 2019 semesters to determine the right size of project management to deploy. After the event, he will produce reports and meetings to help the program continue to improve in subsequent years.