New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team

The New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team, abbreviated NM1-DMAT, is part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). Created in 1984, the NDMS provides medical services to citizens across the United States after a disaster. These duties include providing hospital beds for use in the event of a disaster or military conflict as well as providing response teams of civilian medical personnel. These teams have the flexibility, training, and equipment to either respond to the scene of the disaster or act as reception teams if casualties were sent to their local communities.

DMATs are operated and supported by agencies within their own communities. One of the earliest DMATs, and the first in the western United States, was the team at the UNM Center for Disaster Medicine: the NM1-DMAT.

To find out more about the NM1-DMAT, please click on the links in the box to the right.  If you would like to submit a federal NDMS application to join the NM1-DMAT, please contact the Administrative Officer,  Kevin Napp at 505-803-6689 or kevin.napp@hhs.gov.