DPRO co-founder, Dr. Frenchik is an attending physician and clinical director for Emergency Preparedness in the Emergency Department at Lynchburg General Hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia. Previously Dr. Frenchik was an attending at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. At ANMC, Dr. Frenchik was an instructor for the hospital’s nationally recognized Clinical Quality Improvement Course. He created a comprehensive triage training manual for the nursing staff resulting in improved triage, decreased waiting room times, and decreased Urgent Care lengths of stay. As an Army Reserve physician, Dr. Frenchik trains a large number of Army Reserve medics, using exercises and lectures on topics such as pre-hospital and battlefield triage, blast injuries, ballistics, and basic trauma management. Dr. Frenchik learned pre-hospital medical techniques as an active duty Corpsman in the United States Navy and as an air-rescue medic in San Bernardino, California.

For the 2005 Statewide Alaska Shield Northern Edge state-wide exercise, Dr. Frenchik designed a simple, easy-to-learn integrated patient triage, registration, and tracking system for ANMC in cooperation with the ER and ICU nursing staff. He also assisted in the development of the dynamic patient scenarios that were used in the exercise and spawned the idea of providing those scenarios nationally due to the overwhelming positive feedback provided by exercise participants and planners. He was instrumental in implementing the new patient tracking system that has been taught locally and nationally at the 2006 NDMS symposium. Dr. Frenchik continues to develop these novel and challenging dynamic patient scenarios as well as other assessment tools used in disaster preparedness exercises around the country.

DPRO co-founder, Dr. Frenchik is an attending physician and clinical director for Emergency Preparedness in the Emergency Department at Lynchburg General Hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia. Previously Dr. Frenchik was an attending at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. At ANMC, Dr. Frenchik was an instructor for the hospital’s nationally recognized Clinical Quality Improvement Course. He created a comprehensive triage training manual for the nursing staff resulting in improved triage, decreased waiting room times, and decreased Urgent Care lengths of stay. As an Army Reserve physician, Dr. Frenchik trains a large number of Army Reserve medics, using exercises and lectures on topics such as pre-hospital and battlefield triage, blast injuries, ballistics, and basic trauma management. Dr. Frenchik learned pre-hospital medical techniques as an active duty Corpsman in the United States Navy and as an air-rescue medic in San Bernardino, California.

For the 2005 Statewide Alaska Shield Northern Edge state-wide exercise, Dr. Frenchik designed a simple, easy-to-learn integrated patient triage, registration, and tracking system for ANMC in cooperation with the ER and ICU nursing staff. He also assisted in the development of the dynamic patient scenarios that were used in the exercise and spawned the idea of providing those scenarios nationally due to the overwhelming positive feedback provided by exercise participants and planners. He was instrumental in implementing the new patient tracking system that has been taught locally and nationally at the 2006 NDMS symposium. Dr. Frenchik continues to develop these novel and challenging dynamic patient scenarios as well as other assessment tools used in disaster preparedness exercises around the country.