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by Kurt Gottschalk

When asked how old he was when he started working in emergency response, Jason Moats, Ph.D., took a moment to consider the question.

鈥淲ell, if you mean the first time I gave CPR to someone,鈥� he offered, 鈥淚 was 13.鈥�

Dr. Moats, an adjunct professor in 成人动漫网站鈥檚 program, was raised saving lives. His mother was an emergency medical technician (EMT) and his father a volunteer firefighter, and he learned emergency management while learning to teach it to others.

鈥淚 grew up in southern Indiana,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 was a member of a rural emergency response team. I went all around the state teaching people fire response.鈥�

Teaching at Adelphi is just a part of Dr. Moats鈥� work in training professionals to deal with emergency situations. Based in Bryan-College Station, Texas, Dr. Moats is program director for TEEX, the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, under a $22 million contract with the (DHS). With three different programs for first responders, TEEX trains 160,000 people a year in classes that can last from four hours to several days. Even more are trained through mobile and online courses, he said.

For the last three years, Dr. Moats,听who, at the 2015听Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas, was named Reviewer of the Year.听has also taught an online course at Adelphi from his Bryan-College Station home base. He said he appreciates the University鈥檚 focus on serving its students, the move toward the virtual classroom being an example.

鈥淎delphi is pretty flexible and really student centered,鈥� he said.

Dr. Moats teaches eight to 10 Adelphi students per semester. Although he teaches a virtual course, he visited the in 2014 when he attended a DHS training held here that covered sports and special events.

鈥淟et鈥檚 say you have a concert or a sporting event and something unexpected happens, like the bleachers collapse or there鈥檚 a fire or a bomb threat, or a madman with a gun comes in,鈥� he said. 鈥淣ow we鈥檝e got an incident that breaks out; I鈥檓 dealing with how do you get the community back to a state of being normal.鈥�

While the course work is fairly standardized, the classes Dr. Moats teaches can be adapted according to region, such as covering wildfires in one part of the country and railroad accidents in another. Storms and flooding are a bigger concern on Long Island, for example, than they are in other areas.

鈥淲e teach based on needs, but overall it鈥檚 a pretty straightforward course,鈥� he added. 鈥淭here are also immediate needs, like Ebola or other infectious diseases, so we鈥檙e adaptable to those sorts of regional things.鈥�