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Igor V. Shafhid, M.D., founder and CEO of Global Strategic Resources, Inc., has developed and implemented training programs for both U.S. and Russia. He has trained regional and state hospital associations, physicians, first responders, SWAT teams (including Salt Lake City Olympic SWAT team, 2005), law enforcement, FBI, counter-terrorism units, fire fighters, paramedics, Civil Support teams (National Guard), U.S. Customs, and other military and government agencies. He also developed multiple responder level courses for the Department of Homeland Security Grants and Training Program. For the past seven years Dr. Shafhid has trained tens of thousands of responders and medical professionals to be prepared and to react quickly to foreign and domestic terrorism.

Dr. Shafhid, an international speaker and author, has shared the podium with government officials like the Surgeon General of the United States, and made presentations for the Secretary of Energy, Director of Homeland Security, and head of FEMA. He has been on numerous national and international radio and television stations (such as CNN, NBC, 700 Club) discussing today’s threats of terrorism and the dangers of nuclear and biological stockpiles sitting in unprotected regions of Russia. He is author of, Inside the Red Zone, a dramatic 352-page book that details his military service in the Soviet Army under their WMD classified operations and instructs the population on how to prepare for WMD disasters.

Dr. Shafhid graduated from the Russian Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a military officer and general practitioner (internal medicine). He studied military training on principles and tactics of Strategic and Ground Forces, and performed large chemical/ biological military field exercises in casualty collection units and organization of infectious disease control field hospitals, including military exercises known as "Nuclear Winter."

During the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant incident of 1986, Dr. Shafhid, then a medical cadet, studied the affects of radiation on overexposed military responders with acute radiation syndrome and chronic radiation illness. He also completed military training practices in the Strategic Rocket Division of Kapustin Yar Nuclear Test site in Russia. His studies included hands-on experience dealing with most military chemical agents and their effects on the human body. He received special training inside military infectious disease clinics on aspects of isolation precautions and contact work with contagious and non-contagious patients.

Dr. Shafhid's medical studies included aspects of military strategies and tactics of WMDs, along with programs on military toxicology, principles of military epidemiology, infectious disease control and prevention, as well as aspects of military and civilian quarantine. During his ten-year career in the Russian Army, Dr. Shafhid trained military personnel in all aspects of WMD, performed ambulatory services, and worked in the emergency extreme response program. He was involved in epidemiological control for overseas Soviet Military Special Service battalions and Ministry of Internal Affairs civilian employees.

Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dr. Shafhid is an excellent speaker on the subject of all Weapons of mass destruction, the international black market, terrorism, terrorist profiling, the communist threat, emergency preparedness, national civil defense issues, and current events on a global scale. Since coming to the United States in 1993, Dr. Shafhid has consulted with many military, government, and private business groups dealing with prevention and control of WMD, and protection for civilians against terrorist threats. He became a citizen in 1995 and holds a secret security clearance issued by the Department of Energy.

Dr. Shafhid has been keynote speaker, subject matter expert, and course trainer for numerous conferences and organizations including: