Illinois

Chicago

60612

Adjunct Assistant Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Sambanis is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Program in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UIC’s School of Public Health and Regional Health Safety and Environmental Manager for Henkel (a Fortune 500 Company). For more than thirteen years, he has focused on practicing risk management and regulatory compliance in Chicago, Illinois. His work has included environmental assessments, emergency response, business continuity, resilience characterization, and remediation for a variety of public and private sector clients.

Dr. Sambanis academic accomplishments includes being a GIS, Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), and HAZUS expert, which, in combination with his strong quantitative background, creates the ideal profile for his current research involving risk visualization and decision support content for managing disasters or measuring resilience. His past research includes evaluation of a geospatial health risk computer program funded by the USEPA known as Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), implementing the CDC BRACE climate change adaptation framework for the state of Illinois, and developing a Private Sector Integration Plan for the creation of logistical inventory software to be used during a disaster response event. He previously appeared on CNN as an emergency management subject matter expert advocating for updating outdated 911 systems and developing a federal funding model.

Specialties include but not limited to project management, researching and lecturing in the fields of environmental risk assessment, mitigation, resilience, health and safety, sustainability and emergency response

Dr. Sambanis is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Program in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UIC’s School of Public Health and Regional Health Safety and Environmental Manager for Henkel (a Fortune 500 Company). For more than ten years, he has focused on practicing risk management and regulatory compliance in Chicago, Illinois. His work has included environmental assessments, emergency response, business continuity, resilience characterization, and remediation for a variety of public and private sector clients.

His academic accomplishments includes being a GIS, Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), and HAZUS expert, which, in combination with his strong quantitative background, creates the ideal profile for his current research involving risk visualization and decision support content for managing disasters or measuring resilience. His past research includes evaluation of a geospatial health risk computer program funded by the USEPA known as Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), implementing the CDC BRACE climate change adaptation framework for the state of Illinois, and developing a Private Sector Integration Plan for the creation of logistical inventory software to be used during a disaster response event.

Specialties include but not limited to project management, researching and lecturing in the fields of environmental risk assessment, mitigation, resilience, health and safety, sustainability and emergency response.

An emergency management subject matter expert specializing in resilience.

Yes

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