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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