RONALD A. TOMO, MPA, CCP, CNA, NUHEALTH’S VICE PRESIDENT/CIO, TEACHING A SEGMENT ON MISSION TO HAITI ON SATURDAY JANUARY 9, 2011 AT BRIARCLIFF COLLEGE
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November 18, 2010
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RONALD A. TOMO, MPA, CCP, CNA, NUHEALTH’S VICE PRESIDENT/CIO, TEACHING A SEGMENT ON MISSION TO HAITI ON SATURDAY JANUARY 9, 2011 AT BRIARCLIFF COLLEGE
East Meadow, NY…Ronald A. Tomo, MPA, CCP, CNA, vice president/chief information officer of the NuHealth System, will be teaching a segment dealing with his mission to Haiti, at the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) Ham Radio University, New York City-Long Island section convention, at Briarcliff College on Saturday, January 9, 2011. The convention will include a day of education to share ideas, experiences, knowledge and fellowship among amateur radio operators. Tomo will speak during a fifty minute presentation about his relief efforts in Haiti following the earthquake in January 2010, as it relates to emergency communications. Having worked many disaster situations through his work in the United States Army Military Affiliated Radio System (MARS), he has excelled at handling effective, emergent communications.
“In an effort to share my insights and experiences obtained during my humanitarian trip to Haiti in January, I will be presenting to a communications group how to effectively deal with tactical and digital traffic communications. If you’ve not seen any of the Haiti Presentations from the Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) team that flew down to Haiti on a humanitarian mission, I urge you to attend,” said Tomo.
Tomo received his bachelor’s degree in management and a master’s degree in public administration, specializing in hospital administration from Long Island University. His systems training was obtained from a full certification program at New York University. He is a certified paralegal and has studied managed care systems and integrated delivery systems at the Harvard School of Public Health. He launched his amateur radio hobby in 1967, and runs his own television station, having worked and communicated with the space shuttles and the MIR Space Station. He is a Certified Level I, II, & III Emergency Communications Specialist, through the American Radio Relay League and holds an FCC Commercial third class radio telegraph certificate. Mr. Tomo has worked both in the hospital applications area (designing/building software and acquiring packaged software) and in the high technology arena (ATM WAN; video conferencing; LANs, etc.). Tomo has also published articles on patient education systems, medical office management systems, and physician billing systems. Mr. Tomo is an adjunct professor at Long Island University, teaching health care information systems and microcomputer application in health care. In the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Tomo has been a communications officer and served to build up several radio facilities in his division.
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