[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING DR. CARL TAYLOR

 Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I would like to make some remarks 
today about a committed and pioneering individual, Dr. Carl Taylor, the 
assistant dean and director of the Center for Strategic Health 
Innovation at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Taylor earned a 
bachelor's degree in political science from Marshall University, a 
juris doctor from the University of Miami, and is a Fellow at the Royal 
Institution in London. He serves on the State of Alabama's Department 
of Public Health bioterrorism advisory board and has been the principal 
investigator on nearly a dozen disaster related grants, including the 
grant that developed the Alabama incident management software system 
which he superbly presented recently to the Senate Subcommittee on 
Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness.
  This software system, referred to as AIMS, is an online hospital 
surge capacity and surge capability management tool used to support 
public health efforts during large-scale disaster response. This easy-
to-use system shows which hospitals have available beds, staff, and 
equipment in real time while allowing hospitals to request help or 
offer assistance to one another. During Hurricane Katrina, AIMS was the 
software tool used by the Alabama Department of Public Health to manage 
information from 83 hospitals and 7 medical needs shelters. AIMS was 
vital to Alabama's outstanding performance in delivering quality 
medical care to vulnerable individuals in a time of crisis.
  I commend Dr. Taylor for his leadership and creativity in developing 
this system that has application for the entire country. His work has 
the potential to save lives and reduce cost. This spirit of ingenuity 
is what keeps America strong.

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