This book, Medical Response to Terror Threats, provides expert analysis to professionals across diverse disciplines who share a common interest in ensuring that our medical and health communities understand how to mitigate, manage, and respond to hazards, threats, and injuries caused by terrorism.

It is based on the NATO Advanced Research Workshop that took place in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 7-9 2008. This two-and-a-half-day event was organized by the Terror Medicine International Center, the Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis & Forecasting, and the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response.

The Workshop was designed as an executive-level, educational event for medical professionals. It created a space to share scholarship and provided networking opportunities between attendees and the participating Subject Matter Experts.

The Workshop covered the following topics:

Assessment of the medical threat of various types of terrorist attacks; conventional and non-conventional

The special medical threat of suicide bombings

Review of the unique epidemiology associated with terrorist attacks

Pre-hospital and hospital management of terror-related Mass Casualty Events (MCE)

Analysis of case studies and presentation of best practices

Lessons learned and Standard Operating Protocols (SOP) expertise

On behalf of the International Center of Terror Medicine, the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, and the Interdisciplinary Center of Technological Analysis and Forecasting, we thank our NATO delegates and the participants. We also thank you the reader for your interest in this book and invite you to join us for future workshops and seminars.

The Editors and Co-Directors of the Workshop,

Aaron Richman

Shmuel Shapira

Yair Sharan