Kathy Rinnert, M.D.

• Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine/GEMSS Fellowship Director, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/Parkland Health and Hospital System
• Associate Medical Director, Dallas Metro Medical Response System (MMRS) for Anti-Terrorism and the Dallas Metro BioTel System (EMS), Dallas, Texas

  Dr. Kathy Rinnert, the GEMSS fellowship director is herself a former EMS fellowship trainee. Today she is an internationally recognized expert in preparedness and training for Weapons of Mass Effect (WME). In the late 1990's, as an Emergency Medicine faculty member at UT Southwestern, she developed master plans for the Dallas Medical Strike Team and Parkland Health & Hospital System which later became national models and were aggressively cited, pursued, and adopted after the events in the Fall of 2001. She has received numerous awards and commendations from such entities as the FBI and was a special consultant to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, reviewing federal recommendations for preperations in WME. She made her first formal presentation about the GEMSS fellowship in conjuction with the FBI at the February 2001 national EMS State of the Science meeting and recruited her first fellow soon thereafter. She currently serves as the Chair of the Disaster Committee for the Dallas County Hospital District.