The Stempel College alumna uses her disaster management expertise in the battle against an unrelenting pandemic
December 10, 2020 at 8:30am
Bridget Pelaez rushes in where there’s disaster. Last month that meant commanding a federal team of 20 critical care physicians and others as they answered a call for help at a hospital out west that was overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. (She declined to identify the exact location out of privacy concerns.)
The 36-year-old alumna of the Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work and assistant director for FIU’s Division of Operations and Safety has parlayed her compassion and deep training she holds EMT-paramedic certification, a nursing degree and a master’s in disaster management into a life of service to others.