2025 AccuWeather For Healthcare Webinar

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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more disruptive, putting healthcare facilities under pressure to respond quickly and effectively. When lives are on the line, healthcare leaders need the most accurate and most advance notice along with a good emergency plan to better protect patients and staff, reduce unnecessary patient evacuations, and better protect your reputation.

During this webinar, AccuWeather For Healthcare: Better Protecting Hospitals and Keeping Patients Safer When Severe Weather Threatens, experts from AccuWeather will share proven strategies and tools for preparing healthcare facilities for dangerous weather conditions, minimizing disruptions, and better protecting patients and staff.

Watch the on-demand version of the 2025 AccuWeather For Healthcare Webinar.

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Jonathan Porter - Expert

Senior Vice President, Weather Content and Forecast Operations and Chief Meteorologist, AccuWeather

Jonathan Porter is AccuWeather’s Senior Vice President, Weather Content and Forecast Operations and Chief Meteorologist.

He is one of AccuWeather’s most accomplished subject matter experts. In this key leadership role, he blends his background in meteorology, weather news forecasting, and information technology to collaborate with the world’s leading government meteorological services and other key data providers to acquire top-tier weather information and content to integrate the most advanced weather data and technologies into AccuWeather’s products and services.

Jon led AccuWeather’s B2B unit, AccuWeather For Business (formerly AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions or AES) for four years, delivering valuable new products to the company’s portfolio, to help businesses minimize losses and liability, while maximizing profits and operational efficiency. AccuWeather For Business achieved significant growth during his tenure.

Jon joined AccuWeather in 2004, after graduating from the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Meteorology and minor in Information Technology. For several years, Jon was a software engineer on a dedicated team, writing software to quickly and accurately process weather content through AccuWeather’s Enterprise IT Architecture. After serving as a Technical Account Manager, working directly with top global digital media partners to help them integrate data and content with their products, Jon was named Director of Innovation and Development in 2012 and promoted to Vice President of Innovation and Development in 2015.

A Connecticut native, Jon has always been interested in weather and decided that he wanted to be a meteorologist in the fourth grade. Growing up, he was always fascinated with East Coast snowstorms.

Jon is a Professional Member of the American Meteorological Society. In 2012, he was appointed to the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. He also serves on an alumni committee for Penn State’s Department of Meteorology. Jon frequently delivers presentations at conferences and professional meetings – specifically focused on the exchange of weather data and warnings.

Tyler Knowlton - Host

Director of Communications - AccuWeather

Tyler Knowlton joined the Plume Labs team in 2017 to lead the company’s strategic communications and community engagement efforts. He has over 15 years of experience in public relations, communications, and policy development. Since launching AccuWeather's Climate Impact Program last year he has been connecting journalists, academics and community groups with the data they need to protect the planet from two of its greatest threats: climate action failure and extreme weather.

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Andy Marshall - Panelist

Emergency Preparedness Manager, The University of Kansas Health System

Andy Marshall is a Registered Nurse with 15 years of experience in Emergency and Trauma nursing in academic medical centers. He currently serves as the Emergency Preparedness Manager for The University of Kansas Health System, where he oversees numerous healthcare facilities, including an academic Level 1 Trauma Center. The system’s emergency management program supports approximately 25,000 employees and medical staff.

Andy’s first significant experience in healthcare emergency management came during the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma F5 tornado. At the time, he was working in a local pediatric emergency and trauma center, where he played a critical role in the patient care response. This experience, combined with his ongoing work in emergency departments, sparked a deep passion for emergency preparedness. He became actively involved in planning and response efforts for Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) events.

That passion ultimately led Andy to transition into a formal emergency management role, where he continues to support the health system's preparedness and response capabilities while growing his expertise in healthcare resilience and crisis response.

In addition to his work at the health system, Andy serves as Chair of the Kansas Metro Healthcare Coalition and as Co-Chair of the MARC RHSCC Hospital Committee for the state of Kansas.

Matthew Merritt

Matthew Merritt - Panelist

Emergency Preparedness Manager, Novant Health

As the system emergency manager for Novant Health in the mid-Atlantic and south, Matthew Merritt supports preparedness to a mix of hazards facing healthcare including weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes to snow and ice. Matthew’s career has spanned 30+ years in several disciplines: EMS, fire, nursing, trauma program management, and various disaster response teams at the state and federal level. Matthew has a particular passion for the art and science of hazard communication.