Dan Hanfling
Dan Hanfling, MD, is special advisor to the Inova Health System in Falls Church, Virginia on matters related to emergency preparedness and disaster response. He is a board certified emergency physician practicing at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Northern Virginia's Level I trauma center. He serves as an Operational Medical Director for PHI Air Medical Group-Virginia, the largest private rotor-wing air medevac service in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has responsibilities as a Medical Team Manager for Virginia Task Force One, a FEMA and USAID sanctioned international urban search and rescue team. He has been involved in the response to international and domestic disaster events, including the response to the Izmit, Turkey earthquake in 1999, the Pentagon in September 2001, the response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005, and Gustav and Ike in 2008. Dr. Hanfling was intricately involved in the management of the response to the anthrax bioterror mailings in the fall of 2001, when two cases of inhalational anthrax were successfully diagnosed at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Dr. Hanfling is a founding member of the Northern Virginia Hospital Alliance. He has been appointed to the Virginia Secure Initiative Health and Medical Subpanel, the Virginia Department of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Advisory Committee, and numerous DHS and HHS advisory working groups related to emergency preparedness. He has been nominated to serve on the planning committee for a number of studies commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine on disaster related matters. He has testified before Congress on the issues of disaster preparedness, and lectures nationally and internationally on pre-hospital, hospital, and disaster related subjects. Dr. Hanfling has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on the subject of healthcare facility disaster preparedness.
Dr. Hanfling received an AB in Political Science from Duke University, completed a General Course at the London School of Economics, and was awarded his medical degree from Brown University. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and an Emergency Medicine Residency at George Washington/Georgetown University Hospitals. He is Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University and an invited member of the George Mason University School of Public Policy Advisory Board.
