Medical Reserve Corps Manager
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Courtney Wetternach is the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Manager for the Health Emergency Response Office.
Courtney earned her BA from the University of Minnesota and her MPH from the University of California- Los Angeles. Trained as a health educator and epidemiologist, she has 14 years of experience and expertise in public health preparedness activities and is a recognized leader in medical countermeasure dispensing, NIMS/ICS, mass fatality, disaster behavioral health, health and medical coordination, training, exercise, performance management, and quality improvement. She also has five years of experience as the Emergency Management Director for Park Nicollet Health Services/Methodist Hospital.
Before coming to work at the University, Ms. Wetternach was a Principal Planning Analyst for the Hennepin County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Unit. She has managed responses to many incidents and events including the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse (2007), H1N1 pandemic influenza (2009), Republican National Convention (2009), Measles (2017), Super Bowl LII (2018), Hiawatha Homeless Encampment (2018), the NCAA Men’s Final Four (2019), and COVID19 (2020). She is a member of the Minnesota – 1 Incident Management Team (IMT) and has served as a subject matter expert for various state and national workgroups throughout her career.