Brazilian Fire Brigade Tour WTC Centers of Excellence
March 25, 2010

Senior officers from the Fire Brigade of the Federal District in Brasilia toured the FDNY World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the WTC Environmental Health Center as part of the brigade’s credentialing program.

“We wanted to better understand the United States’ response to large scale disasters,” said, Lt. Colonel Jose Francisco Goncalves, Jr., who is also a dentist. The group included doctors, nurses, psychologists and engineers who are senior managers in the brigade.

Kerry Kelly, MD and Joan Reibman, MD, medical directors of the FDNY and Environmental Health Center programs, led the tours.