Alexander joined CHCANYS in September 2015. In his position as Director, Health Center Support, Alexander’s primary focus is the Emergency Management (EM) program. He is responsible for the development and implementation of CHCANYS’s federal, state, city and privately funded EM projects. In his role, he provides training / technical assistance to health centers to prepare for; mitigate effects from, and provide services to their patients and communities before, during and after a disaster or emergency situation. Alexander is also the co-chair of the Primary Care Association Emergency Management Advisory Coalition (PCA EMAC) and provides ongoing support to national EM initiatives.

Alexander also has more than ten years of experience working in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), including practice management and direct patient care in a Patient-Centered Medical Home setting.

Alexander holds a Master’s degree in Social Work with a specialization in Administration from Hunter College, New York and an active clinical license (LCSW) from New York State.

Anne Hasselmann is an experienced emergency planner, exercise developer/facilitator, curriculum designer, and trainer who has worked cooperatively with local, State, federal, and community partners in support of public health and medical preparedness and response for over 17 years. Since 2015, she has supported primary care preparedness and the emergency management program of Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS), including ways to integrate health centers into emergency response in NYC.

At DOHMH, Ms. Hasselmann developed strategic and operational plans to provide medication or vaccine to all New Yorkers following a bioterrorism incident, and led the largest Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) in the country. Ms. Hasselmann was the primary author and lead trainer for all NYC Point of Dispensing (POD) training curricula, and planned/participated in 13 exercises. She developed just-in-time, and in-person POD training, as well as 7 exercises to support the operational plans (mass prophylaxis; volunteer management; community outreach; and receipt, store and stage (RSS) operations) she wrote for Trenton, NJ (2012-2016).

Since 2011, she has served as a subject matter expert and reviewer for 10 emergency management courses offered by the National Training and Education Division of the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, including Health Care Coalition Response Leadership in April 2017. In 2011, she contributed to the development of a regional template for hospital emergency management plans in New Jersey. While with DOHMH, she participated in real-world response activities, including the 2009 H1N1 outbreak response; 2007 NYC steam pipe explosion; 2006 anthrax case in a NYC drummer; and has staffed the NYC Emergency Operations Center as part of ESF-8, and served as an on-call emergency manager for DOHMH.