Dr. Michael T. "Mick" Maurer is a crisis management expert prepared to train
individuals to be resilient for themselves, their families and their businesses in
New York and throughout the world in response to all hazards which include
terrorism and other potential manmade/systemic/natural disasters.
Mick is a Specialist in the areas of Crisis Management, Disaster Management Training,
Mitigation, NIMS Training, Public Administration Education, Incidents of National
Consequence Training, ICS Training, and Public Advocacy. As well as Mental Health All-
Hazards Disaster Planning, Trauma Counseling, Individual & Collective Responses to Disasters,
CISD, EAP, and Research & Analysis Methods in Disaster Management. Specializing in the
Impact of Violence, Disaster, and War & Terrorism upon Adolescent Development.
The 21st century has seen the publication of three new books by Moore that carry
forward certain dimensions of his thought.
In August 2007 Mick Maurer was hired by the American Red Cross in Greater New
York to became the Director, Disaster Training & Exercises. Dr. "Mick" Maurer is an
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology in the
Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (NYU), where he continues to
teach since 2001. He was a researcher and co-investigator at the NYU Center for HIV/AIDS
Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) from 1999-2001.
The Center for Management of the Division of Business and Legal Studies of the New
York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) announced in
August 2004 the hiring of Dr. Michael Maurer, as an Instructor for its new, one-year
intensive Business Continuity & Homeland Security certificate program.
Dr. Maurer is currently developing, for the Professional Studies Programs of the
Paul McGhee Division of New York University’s School for Continuing & Professional
Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Critical Infrastructure Protection degree program
with concentrations in Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Strategic
Intelligence, or Business Continuity. This degree will be taught entirely with
distance technology with an optional three-month summer residency at the
University. The degree is part of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for
Homeland Defense and Security University and Agency Partnership Initiative. The
Paul McGhee Division within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies was
created especially for adult students who want to go back to college and earn their
degrees.
Dr. Maurer has over 20 years experience of direct individual, couple/marital, family, & group
psychotherapy in combination with over 10 years of clinical supervision of therapists &
psychology doctoral interns/fellows. Along with sixteen years teaching experience (ten at the
college/six at the high school level) and over 25 years of adult education and training. He has
five (5) years direct planning experience in AIDS/HIV Title I/Title II application & planning
process for HRSA, & Pennsylvania State 106 Prevention; six (6) years Community Prevention
Planning for the CDC in Philadelphia and New York City; and two (2) years for the HUD
HOPWA programs. Dr. Maurer has over seven years experience at the Federal/State/Local
levels of public advocacy work, governmental relations, and lobbying on health care issues
(AIDS funding, VA formulary, Medicare reform, Medicaid reform, AIDS Prevention) and hate
crimes legislation. He has been involved with social/behavioral research on HIV medication
adherence, club drug use, and sexual behavior since October 1999. He was Principal
Researcher on a Demonstration Project on Workforce Training to Reduce Racial and Ethnic
Disparities in Mental Health Services. Dr. Maurer serves on the Board of Directors of The Body
Positive, Inc., a major HIV/AIDS services organization located in lower Manhattan in the
South Street Seaport (www.bodypos.org). He also volunteered at Body Positive as a Clinical
Supervisor for their group leaders. He was the Clinical Editor for EFFECTIVE PARENTING: 10
Steps to ADDing Good Behavior!, by Kyle F. Walsh, published in July 1997 for parents with
children diagnosed with AD-HD.
He was a full time faculty member in the Master of Public Administration program
at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) September 2001-August 2005, and
attained the rank of Associate Professor at MCNY in June 2003. Dr. Maurer was the
founder and the first director of the Metropolitan College of New York's Master of
Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program.
Established in the wake of 9/11, when the national landscape changed forever, an
emphasis on security and crisis management was born.
Dr. Maurer has also been the Director of Research for MCNY's Institute for
Homeland Preparedness and Disaster Management. Since June 2003, the Institute
has established a team of universities and first responders to address issues around
public safety and public transportation.
Mick represented the MCNY School for Public Affairs and Administration at the NORAD/U.S.
Northern Command Homeland Security Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC) meetings and at
the FEMA Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Conference in 2003 & 2004, as
well as represented NYU at FEMA in 2005. He also served on the Vulnerability Assessment
Review Committee for the Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence for the U.S. EPA. Dr.
Maurer is a member of the NYC Office of Emergency Management Citizen Corps Council. He is a
member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, and the American Society for
Public Administration Section on Emergency and Crisis Management, the Section on
Transportation Policy and Administration, and the Section on Public Administration Education.
At the June 8-10, 2004 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference Dr.
Maurer was on a panel to discuss the "Challenges of New Disaster and Emergency Management
Programs", and facilitated the discussion on "Disaster/Emergency Management Core
Curriculum Breakout Session - Graduate Level." At the February 24, 2005 14th Annual
Symposium on Contemporary Urban Challenges -Post 9/11 Cities: The Terrorist Threat and Its
Implications for Planning and Policing Urban Areas, held at Fordham University School of Law
Dr. Maurer was part of the panel discussion: “The Bottom Line: Government Obligations and the
Distribution of Resources.”
Dr. Maurer served as a member of the DOD Contingency Team for Operation Desert Shield/
Desert Storm for Mercer, Burlington, & Camden Counties of the NJ National Disaster Medical
System Hospitals. He was responsible for debriefing & prevention of PTSD for Triage and EMA
Teams assigned to McGuire Air Force Base/Ft Dix Medical Center, NJ Primary Receiving
Center. He was a member of the CISD team for Mercer County, NJ paid and volunteers fire
departments, and a Fire Fighter Support Counselor, for the FEMA 9-11 Project Liberty
Program at the Institute for Community Living.
Education & Training
Mick holds a D.Min. in Pastoral Counseling from the Chicago Theological Seminary, "Health
Panels: Evaluation, Community, and the Chemically Dependent Religious."; a MTS in
Spirituality from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, "The Formative Influences on
Adrian Van Kaam: As Integrated in the Science of Formative Spirituality."; a BA in Psychology
with a minor in Substance Abuse Counseling from St. Mary's University of San Antonio. As
well as studied Individual Psychology at the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, and Modern
Psychoanalysis at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. He received advanced Substance
Abuse Counselor training at the Alcohol & Drug Education for Teachers Training Program in
Chicago; at the Central States Institute of Addiction in Chicago; the Employee Assistance
Institute at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University; and with The Professional
Addiction Counselor Training Program in New Jersey.
In the Army he received Combat Medic (91B) training from the U.S. Army Medical Training
Center, Basic Psychiatric Procedures (91F) training from the U.S. Army Medical Field Service
School, and Social Work/ Psychology Procedures (91G) training from the U.S. Army Academy
of Health Sciences. Dr. Maurer was sent by the Army to attend a special training program in
alcoholism counseling at the School for Public Hygiene of the Johns Hopkins University
Medical Center. He was given the Z qualifier to his Military Occupational Skill to designate
Drug & Alcohol Counseling. While in the Army, he was assigned to units such as the U.S.
Army Drug and Alcohol Suppression Activity, Camp Hardy Motivational Training Facility,
Outpatient Psychology at Brooke Army Medical Center, and the Detox Unit at the U.S. Army
Hospital-Japan. He has also had training in Shock, Trauma & Stress Control by the American
Counseling Association & the Mental Health Counselors Association, and Critical
Infrastructure Orientation from the US Army National Guard. Dr. Maurer has also completed
FEMA courses such as Principles of Emergency Management, Emergency Planning, Effective
Communication, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Leadership and Influence, Developing
and Managing Volunteers, Exercise Design, and the FEMA/CMHS Crisis Counseling Assistance
and Training Program. He has studied at the University of Maryland-Far East Division,
Cardinal Glennon College of St. Louis, Universite Laval in Quebec Cite, Baylor University, and
at the Institute for Formative Spirituality at Duquesne University.
Currently writing Managing the Aftermath of Disaster: Reducing the Social and
Psychological Impact on Communities for Greenwood/Praeger Press. As a title in the
Praeger Series Disaster Trauma Psychology.
individuals to be resilient for themselves, their families and their businesses in
New York and throughout the world in response to all hazards which include
terrorism and other potential manmade/systemic/natural disasters.
Mick is a Specialist in the areas of Crisis Management, Disaster Management Training,
Mitigation, NIMS Training, Public Administration Education, Incidents of National
Consequence Training, ICS Training, and Public Advocacy. As well as Mental Health All-
Hazards Disaster Planning, Trauma Counseling, Individual & Collective Responses to Disasters,
CISD, EAP, and Research & Analysis Methods in Disaster Management. Specializing in the
Impact of Violence, Disaster, and War & Terrorism upon Adolescent Development.
The 21st century has seen the publication of three new books by Moore that carry
forward certain dimensions of his thought.
In August 2007 Mick Maurer was hired by the American Red Cross in Greater New
York to became the Director, Disaster Training & Exercises. Dr. "Mick" Maurer is an
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology in the
Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (NYU), where he continues to
teach since 2001. He was a researcher and co-investigator at the NYU Center for HIV/AIDS
Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) from 1999-2001.
The Center for Management of the Division of Business and Legal Studies of the New
York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) announced in
August 2004 the hiring of Dr. Michael Maurer, as an Instructor for its new, one-year
intensive Business Continuity & Homeland Security certificate program.
Dr. Maurer is currently developing, for the Professional Studies Programs of the
Paul McGhee Division of New York University’s School for Continuing & Professional
Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Critical Infrastructure Protection degree program
with concentrations in Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Strategic
Intelligence, or Business Continuity. This degree will be taught entirely with
distance technology with an optional three-month summer residency at the
University. The degree is part of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for
Homeland Defense and Security University and Agency Partnership Initiative. The
Paul McGhee Division within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies was
created especially for adult students who want to go back to college and earn their
degrees.
Dr. Maurer has over 20 years experience of direct individual, couple/marital, family, & group
psychotherapy in combination with over 10 years of clinical supervision of therapists &
psychology doctoral interns/fellows. Along with sixteen years teaching experience (ten at the
college/six at the high school level) and over 25 years of adult education and training. He has
five (5) years direct planning experience in AIDS/HIV Title I/Title II application & planning
process for HRSA, & Pennsylvania State 106 Prevention; six (6) years Community Prevention
Planning for the CDC in Philadelphia and New York City; and two (2) years for the HUD
HOPWA programs. Dr. Maurer has over seven years experience at the Federal/State/Local
levels of public advocacy work, governmental relations, and lobbying on health care issues
(AIDS funding, VA formulary, Medicare reform, Medicaid reform, AIDS Prevention) and hate
crimes legislation. He has been involved with social/behavioral research on HIV medication
adherence, club drug use, and sexual behavior since October 1999. He was Principal
Researcher on a Demonstration Project on Workforce Training to Reduce Racial and Ethnic
Disparities in Mental Health Services. Dr. Maurer serves on the Board of Directors of The Body
Positive, Inc., a major HIV/AIDS services organization located in lower Manhattan in the
South Street Seaport (www.bodypos.org). He also volunteered at Body Positive as a Clinical
Supervisor for their group leaders. He was the Clinical Editor for EFFECTIVE PARENTING: 10
Steps to ADDing Good Behavior!, by Kyle F. Walsh, published in July 1997 for parents with
children diagnosed with AD-HD.
He was a full time faculty member in the Master of Public Administration program
at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) September 2001-August 2005, and
attained the rank of Associate Professor at MCNY in June 2003. Dr. Maurer was the
founder and the first director of the Metropolitan College of New York's Master of
Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program.
Established in the wake of 9/11, when the national landscape changed forever, an
emphasis on security and crisis management was born.
Dr. Maurer has also been the Director of Research for MCNY's Institute for
Homeland Preparedness and Disaster Management. Since June 2003, the Institute
has established a team of universities and first responders to address issues around
public safety and public transportation.
Mick represented the MCNY School for Public Affairs and Administration at the NORAD/U.S.
Northern Command Homeland Security Defense Education Consortium (HSDEC) meetings and at
the FEMA Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Conference in 2003 & 2004, as
well as represented NYU at FEMA in 2005. He also served on the Vulnerability Assessment
Review Committee for the Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence for the U.S. EPA. Dr.
Maurer is a member of the NYC Office of Emergency Management Citizen Corps Council. He is a
member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, and the American Society for
Public Administration Section on Emergency and Crisis Management, the Section on
Transportation Policy and Administration, and the Section on Public Administration Education.
At the June 8-10, 2004 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference Dr.
Maurer was on a panel to discuss the "Challenges of New Disaster and Emergency Management
Programs", and facilitated the discussion on "Disaster/Emergency Management Core
Curriculum Breakout Session - Graduate Level." At the February 24, 2005 14th Annual
Symposium on Contemporary Urban Challenges -Post 9/11 Cities: The Terrorist Threat and Its
Implications for Planning and Policing Urban Areas, held at Fordham University School of Law
Dr. Maurer was part of the panel discussion: “The Bottom Line: Government Obligations and the
Distribution of Resources.”
Dr. Maurer served as a member of the DOD Contingency Team for Operation Desert Shield/
Desert Storm for Mercer, Burlington, & Camden Counties of the NJ National Disaster Medical
System Hospitals. He was responsible for debriefing & prevention of PTSD for Triage and EMA
Teams assigned to McGuire Air Force Base/Ft Dix Medical Center, NJ Primary Receiving
Center. He was a member of the CISD team for Mercer County, NJ paid and volunteers fire
departments, and a Fire Fighter Support Counselor, for the FEMA 9-11 Project Liberty
Program at the Institute for Community Living.
Education & Training
Mick holds a D.Min. in Pastoral Counseling from the Chicago Theological Seminary, "Health
Panels: Evaluation, Community, and the Chemically Dependent Religious."; a MTS in
Spirituality from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, "The Formative Influences on
Adrian Van Kaam: As Integrated in the Science of Formative Spirituality."; a BA in Psychology
with a minor in Substance Abuse Counseling from St. Mary's University of San Antonio. As
well as studied Individual Psychology at the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, and Modern
Psychoanalysis at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. He received advanced Substance
Abuse Counselor training at the Alcohol & Drug Education for Teachers Training Program in
Chicago; at the Central States Institute of Addiction in Chicago; the Employee Assistance
Institute at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University; and with The Professional
Addiction Counselor Training Program in New Jersey.
In the Army he received Combat Medic (91B) training from the U.S. Army Medical Training
Center, Basic Psychiatric Procedures (91F) training from the U.S. Army Medical Field Service
School, and Social Work/ Psychology Procedures (91G) training from the U.S. Army Academy
of Health Sciences. Dr. Maurer was sent by the Army to attend a special training program in
alcoholism counseling at the School for Public Hygiene of the Johns Hopkins University
Medical Center. He was given the Z qualifier to his Military Occupational Skill to designate
Drug & Alcohol Counseling. While in the Army, he was assigned to units such as the U.S.
Army Drug and Alcohol Suppression Activity, Camp Hardy Motivational Training Facility,
Outpatient Psychology at Brooke Army Medical Center, and the Detox Unit at the U.S. Army
Hospital-Japan. He has also had training in Shock, Trauma & Stress Control by the American
Counseling Association & the Mental Health Counselors Association, and Critical
Infrastructure Orientation from the US Army National Guard. Dr. Maurer has also completed
FEMA courses such as Principles of Emergency Management, Emergency Planning, Effective
Communication, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Leadership and Influence, Developing
and Managing Volunteers, Exercise Design, and the FEMA/CMHS Crisis Counseling Assistance
and Training Program. He has studied at the University of Maryland-Far East Division,
Cardinal Glennon College of St. Louis, Universite Laval in Quebec Cite, Baylor University, and
at the Institute for Formative Spirituality at Duquesne University.
Currently writing Managing the Aftermath of Disaster: Reducing the Social and
Psychological Impact on Communities for Greenwood/Praeger Press. As a title in the
Praeger Series Disaster Trauma Psychology.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
and Mick Maurer
and Mick Maurer
NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and Mick Maurer
and Mick Maurer
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-PA
and Mick Maurer
and Mick Maurer
Richard Tafel, LCR ExDir
and Mick Maurer
and Mick Maurer
| Dr. Maurer was the founder and the first director of the Metropolitan College of New York's Master of Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program. Established in the wake of 9/11, when the national landscape changed forever, an emphasis on security and crisis management was born. |
Mick has been featured both locally and nationally in:
• MCNY Launching Disaster Management Program: Designed in Response to 9/11, It will train Emergency Managers,
Lucadamo, Kathleen; The New York Sun: 2003 Dec 22
• Terror prep: A booming field, Skenazy, Lenore; New York Daily News: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
• NORAD And USNORTHCOM Tap Academia To Answer Questions, Lowe, Merrie S., NORAD/USNORTHCOM Public Affairs
Office; April 02, 2004
• IT Support of Homeland Security to be Focus at Research Center, Willoughby, Mark,; Computerworld, January 28, 2004
• Some Colleges are Developing Disaster-Management Programs, Dunham, Kemba; The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2004
• Earning Masters in Disasters, Blumberg, Deborah L.; Downtown Express, Volume 17, Issue 8/July 16-22, 2004
• As Anxiety Grows, So Does Field of Terror Study, Hoffman, Claire; The New York Times, September 1, 2004
• MCNY Launching Disaster Management Program: Designed in Response to 9/11, It will train Emergency Managers,
Lucadamo, Kathleen; The New York Sun: 2003 Dec 22
• Terror prep: A booming field, Skenazy, Lenore; New York Daily News: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
• NORAD And USNORTHCOM Tap Academia To Answer Questions, Lowe, Merrie S., NORAD/USNORTHCOM Public Affairs
Office; April 02, 2004
• IT Support of Homeland Security to be Focus at Research Center, Willoughby, Mark,; Computerworld, January 28, 2004
• Some Colleges are Developing Disaster-Management Programs, Dunham, Kemba; The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2004
• Earning Masters in Disasters, Blumberg, Deborah L.; Downtown Express, Volume 17, Issue 8/July 16-22, 2004
• As Anxiety Grows, So Does Field of Terror Study, Hoffman, Claire; The New York Times, September 1, 2004
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About Dr. Michael T. "Mick" Maurer
www.MickMaurer.com
