Master CBRNe and Gen. Galatas
10.28.2016
Brigadier General (ret’d) Ioannis Galatas, MD, MA (Army MC), is a retired military physician with +35 years of military industry experience. His is specialized in Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Board certified) and for more than two decades he served as Head of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Army General Hospital of Athens, Greece.
Since 2001 he has been involved in CBRNE operations as planner and instructor trained (including live agent training) in a number of countries abroad. His main passion is “Hospitals’ CBRN Defense & Preparedness in Megapolis Environment” and “CBRNE Design/Hardening of Critical Infrastructure” [airports, shopping malls, hotels etc]. During the 2004 Athens’ Olympic Games, he served as Commandant of the Olympic Hospital CBRN Response Unit – the only hospital-based specialized unit (70 people) deployed for the Games.
He holds a M.A. degree (with merits) on “International Terrorism, Organized Crime and Global Security” from Coventry University, UK (2010) and he is a PhD candidate at Athens Medical School, Department of Forensics & Toxicology.
His last appointment (as of August 2010), was as Head of the Department of Asymmetric Threats at the Intelligence Analysis Branch, Joint Military Intelligence Service of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff in Athens.
After retirement he is delivering CBRNE classes for Abu Dhabi Police Authority and continues to participate as invited speaker in many CBRNE/security conferences, congresses and workshops around the globe.He is also ad hoc advisor at the Joint CBRN Platoon, Hellenic National Defense General Staff.
Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly on-line “CBRNE Terrorism Newsletter” initiated in November 2005 and delivered freely to CBRNE-CT First Responders of more than 80 countries around the globe. He is also a Research Associate at "Center for Security Studies" (KEMEA), Athens, (under the Ministry of Public Order & Civil Protection).
Yesterday he was in our course as lecturer at the second level Master Course.
You can find an interview to the General HERE
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