Steve “Sid” Caesar
Director of IHS Emergency Services
Steve “Sid” Caesar was selected as the first Director of IHS Emergency Services
(IHS ES) for the Indian Health Service (IHS).
Mr. Caesar’s 22 years of public safety and disaster management career has
included experience in Police/Fire/EMS dispatching, Law Enforcement, Fire Service,
EMS service, and Fire/EMS education, in addition to his service to HHS.
Mr. Caesar has served HHS since 1992, as both an on call disaster responder and
as a career employee. Before moving to the Washington, DC area, he served the
Department as the Deputy Unit Commander for the Ohio Five Disaster Medical Assistance
Team (DMAT) based in Dayton, Ohio. He led responses to numerous disaster deployments,
including hurricanes, disaster mortuary missions, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and
the 50th Anniversary celebration of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
In 1999, Mr. Caesar joined the HHS Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) in
Rockville, MD in a full time capacity as an Emergency Response Officer. He managed
numerous disaster programs including the Telecommunications and Information Resources
Division of OEP. During his time at OEP, he was deployed to every disaster and
preplanned event the Department responded to, including spending over 3 months in New
York City after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
In 2003, Mr. Caesar moved to the HHS Office of the Secretary in Washington, DC. He
led the Response Technology Group (RTG) and its efforts to plan, build, and operate the
Secretary’s Operations Center (SOC). The SOC provides the Secretary of Health and Human
Services with a technologically advanced command and control center to manage the assets
and response of the Department in case of natural disasters or terrorism.
Mr. Caesar is a graduate of the Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University.
He also has earned an Associates Degree in Fire & EMS Administration. Presently, he is
completing a Masters Degree in Organizational Change from Hawaii Pacific University.
Sid holds numerous public safety certifications including Physical Security Protection
Specialist from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Sid is an FCC licensed
Amateur Radio Operator, holding and Extra Class License (NH7C). He is a native of the
Chicago area, growing up in Wheaton, IL and now resides in Rockville, Maryland.
Sid Caesar can be reached via email at Steve.Caesar@ihs.gov His telephone number is
301.413.1221
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Dean A. Ross
IHS Emergency Services Deputy Director
Dean's primary role is to coordinate and provide program management for the Agency's
Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services, and Security Program Services disciplines
through the development of planning documents and procedures that codify the processes of
IHS. He has developed the first Concept of Operations (CONOPS) in the Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS) that is National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant.
Mr. Ross was the former (2002-2005) Director of the DHHS Secretary's Operations Center
under Secretary Tommy Thompson, and also was the principal designer of the Center. Dean
also has designed the technology and business functions of many public health operations
centers in foreign countries including the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva,
Switzerland. In 1982 and 1986 Dean worked on major communications systems in mainland
China.
Dean worked for the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) as a command staff member
of Texas 4 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and as a full-time employee of the DHHS
Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP). He responded to various events of significance
including Tropical Storm Allison, 9/11, the Flight 587 Crash in New Jersey, and coordinated
the development of many the communications systems at the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Prior to his career at the DHHS he worked for the Department of Interior as the Fire
Management Zone Coordinator in the Southwest Area. He is a qualified Type III Incident
Commander with many years of providing coordination for wildland fire response and other
all-hazards emergencies. Dean has been a EMS provider for over 24 years and has a great
deal experience providing pre-hospital care in rural and austere settings. He also has
trained over a thousand EMT's as an EMS Instructor, Examiner, and Coordinator at several
universities and colleges in the south.
Mr. Ross is a Broadcast Engineer, and EMS Instructor, he holds 27 Certifications in
Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services, and Security. He is a graduate of the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He is a fixed-wing Pilot, and FCC licensed Amateur
Radio Operator (W5EGL). He is an native of the State of Texas, and resides in Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
Dean Ross can be reached at dean.ross@ihs.gov.
His telephone number is 301.413.1222
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Bruce Kevin Molloy, M.S.E.H., R.E.S.
Captain, U.S. Public Health Service
Captain B. Kevin Molloy has worked for over 27 years in the Indian Health Service and
has over 32 years of experience in various forms of emergency operations. Kevin first
started his career in emergency response when he was a Certified Water Safety Instructor
and Life Guard. This led him to become the Safety Director for a Commercial Whitewater
Rafting Company in the late 1970s where he was involved in numerous swiftwater rescues.
Kevin then completed his Masters Degree and went to work for the Indian Health Service.
His first Federal response to a disaster was in the early 1980s, when the Colorado
River flooded for an extended period of time. He directed an environmental health
response to serve 5 reservations in three states. The response required coordination
between multiple entities and government programs. Soon after that, a steady stream of
national level disasters arose and Kevin became a key responder to those emergencies.
Recognizing that there were gaps in the emergency management process, his first official
action as the Chairman of the US Public Health Service Sanitarian Professional Advisory
Committee (SPAC) was to develop and direct the Emergency Response Subcommittee of the
SPAC. This began the process of establishing standardized training and response for
Federal environmental health response to emergencies and disasters.
Nationally known as an expert in the field of emergency management, Captain Molloy not
only has responded to numerous national disasters, he has also been heavily involved in
the development of emergency management plans and policies throughout the country. He
currently holds the position of National Emergency Operations and Security Manager for
the Indian Health Service as well as being Special Assistant to the Area Director and
Director of the Division of Emergency Management in the Nashville Area of the Indian
Health Service.
Captain Molloy is a Registered Environmental Sanitarian (RES) and holds a Bachelor's
Degree in Biology with minors in Environmental Science and Technology and Aerospace and
a Master's Degree in Environmental Health (MSEH). He is a graduate of the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center Physical Security Protection Specialist program and has over
15 years of experience as a security manager. He holds certifications as a scuba diver,
locksmith, Injury Prevention Specialist, Registered Environmental Sanitarian in the state
of Maryland and is a pilot with time in both fixed wing and rotary winged aircraft.
He has built and flown his own aircraft and has numerous hours as a Civil Air Patrol
Observer. He was also a Civil Air Patrol Squadron Commander for seven years. In this
capacity he was heavily involved in emergency response to disasters and in searches for
lost aircraft, as well as teaching aerospace education, cadet programs and emergency
services. He also has extensive experience as a vertical caver and has completed training
in vertical rescue techniques. His hobbies include restoration of antique motor vehicles,
G scale model railroading, and recreational flying of model aircraft and general aviation
and experimental aircraft. He is a FCC licensed Amateur Radio Operator (KG4CXH) and a
native of Tennessee, where he currently resides.
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LCDR Betty Hastings, MSW
Federal Coordinator, EMSC
LCDR Betty Hastings has served the US Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps
as a Clinical Social Worker, since 1997.
In October of 2003, LCDR Hastings was hired as the Emergency Medical Services for
Children (EMSC) Coordinator to IHS and as of June 2006, joined the newly formed Emergency
Services Program Team within IHS.
Since September 2005, Betty has served as Incident Commander for two IHS Mental Health
Missions and completed a three-month Detail in the Office of the Secretary of HHS to
respond to the White House Recommendations for the Katrina Lessons Learned Report.
LCDR Hastings served as Director, for HRSA's Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program as
Federal Project Officer to all TBI State Grantees, and National TBI Organizations.
In 1998 LCDR Hastings received her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of
Maryland with a concentration in mental health. Betty also serves as the Ancillary
Services Branch Director for the USPHS' Rapid Deployment Force Team and has served on the
US Public Health Service National Disaster Medical Assistance Team (PHS-1 DMAT), since
1999.
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David R. Boyd MDCM. FACS
National Trauma Systems Coordinator
Dr David R. Boyd is a General Surgeon with 23 years experience in the US Public
Health Service (PHS). The last 12 in the Indian Health Service (IHS), he was the
staff surgeon at the Blackfeet Community Hospital in Browning, MT.
Dr Boyd graduated from Central Washington College of Education in Ellensburg,
WA, with a Bachelors of Arts and Science in 1958. His combined majors were Psychology
and Pre-medicine. His medical education is from McGill University in Montreal, PQ,
Canada, graduating MDCM in 1963.
Dr Boyd did a rotating internship at the Cook County Hospital (CCH) in Chicago, IL.
He was drafted into the US Army, serving as Captain in the Medical Corps from 1964-66.
He returned to surgical training at the University of Maryland and was a "Shock-Trauma
Fellow" at the developing Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems
(MIEMSS). He returned to the CCH surgery program and became the "Resident Director" of
our nation's first civilian Trauma Unit (TU). He established the first "Computerized
Trauma Registry" under an NIH grant. He wrote the plan and later implemented the
Illinois Statewide Trauma and Emergency Medical Services System from 1971-74.
He was also the Illinois State Medical Disaster Officer responding to the various
floods, tornados, major train and airplane wrecks, and mass gatherings. He initiated a
more rational and coordinated disaster response system, utilizing the designated Trauma
Centers of the EMSS and their Trauma/EMSS Coordinators as lead personnel evaluate the
problem, and initiate the appropriate medical and hospital response, activate the
transportation and communication components, and coordinate with environmental health,
and other agencies, including Civil Defense. He designed and implemented an effective
statewide EMSS communications network (The MERCI System) with multiple patching
capabilities to Fire, Police, and Disaster Agencies.
In 1972 he testified before the US Congress on the need for a National EMS System. He
wrote the clinically relevant parts of PL 93-154, "The EMS Systems Act of 1973". He was
appointed National Director of the Office of EMSS in PHS, DHEW and later DHHS. In this
capacity he worked with public and private sectors, state, territorial, local and tribal
governments, health and safety, professional, public advocacy and political interests in
EMSS. He worked closely with IHS and the initial EMSS program.
Dr Boyd left the Federal Government in 1983 and established a private EMSS consulting
firm working with domestic and international clients. He returned to clinical work in
emergency medicine in 1991. He was the general surgeon at the Blackfeet Community Hospital
in Browning, MT since 1993 and Clinical Director (CD) there in 2002-03. He is currently
the National Trauma Systems Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Services (ES), Indian
Health Service (IHS), Rockville, MD.
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Pete Decker
EMS Fleet Manager
Pete has worked with Native American EMS since 1978. He retired from the IHS
in 1997 as Chief of the IHS Headquarters EMS Branch. Since that time he has
continued to manage the HIS-GSA shared Cost ambulance program, supported the NNAEMSA
and provided advice and consultation to tribal EMS programs throughout the country.
In 2001, Mr. Decker co-authored a comprehensive national-level study of Unmet Needs
of Native American EMS.
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Michelle Begay
Program Analyst
Education:
Michelle Begay graduated from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ in 2001 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. In 2006, she graduated from Northern Arizona
University, College of Business Administration with a Master of Science in Management with
Honors. Michelle Begay is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. In May 1996, Michelle
graduated from the Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy. Michelle has several law
enforcement certifications from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal Bureau Investigations,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Interests/Hobbies:
Michelle enjoys running long distances and has participated in various half and full
marathons. On June 29, 2007, she participated in the Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon in
Anchorage, AK for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training. Michelle enjoys
traveling and spending time with her children.
Accomplishments:
Michelle has over 11 years of law enforcement experience. From 1996 to 1999, as police
officer and police detective, she investigated major felonies occurring on the Tohono
O'odham Nation in a joint team effort with the Federal of Bureau Investigations Safe Trails
Task Force. From 1999 to 2003, she promoted to Sergeant and supervised the Criminal
Investigations Division and was honored in April 2001 for Outstanding Service by the United
States Attorney's Office, District of Arizona for serving victims of crime. In 2003, she
was promoted to Lieutenant and was in command of Patrol, Community Policing, Grants, and
Training Divisions. From 1999 to 2007, she served on the Tohono O'odham Domestic Violence
Task Force, Pima County Law Enforcement Managers Association, Southern Arizona Law
Enforcement Managers Association, Effective Sex Offender Management Task Force, Pima County
Domestic Violence Task Force, Tohono O'odham Suicide, Traffic Safety and Methamphetamine
Coalitions. In 2006 and 2007, she presented at national conferences for the Office on
Violence Against Women and the Center for Southwest Law and Policy on Domestic Violence and
the Intersection of Methamphetamine and Domestic Violence. In 2006, Michelle completed the
Indian Health Services Injury Prevention Fellowship with a focus on interpersonal violence.
Her research project, "Improving Domestic Violence Law Enforcement Response on the
Tohono O'odam Nation" is published in the October 2007 issue of the Indian Health Service
Health Provider. Michelle also served as the Tucson Area representative from October 2005 to
July 2007 for the National Indian Health Service Tribal Steering Committee on Injury
Prevention.
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