Oral history interview with Kelly McKinney, 2020
- Name
- McKinney, Kelly, 1961- (Interviewee)
- Hagen, Ryan (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Kelly McKinney, 2020
- Abstract
- Kelly McKinney discusses the onset of the pandemic, the preparations that NYU Langone made before the first cases showed up in New York, and how the hospital handled the first surge of patients. He discusses challenges around getting personal protective equipment and other critical supplies, and offers thoughts on the pandemic response at the city, state, and federal level
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Hospitals--Employees; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Medical care--New York (State); Emergency management; Hospitals--Emergency services--United States; Personal protective equipment; McKinney, Kelly, 1961-; NYU Langone Medical Center
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 34 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Originally from the Midwest, Kelly McKinney has degrees in engineering and public administration. At the time of this interview, he had lived in Manhattan for thirty years. He worked for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as an associate commissioner for environmental health before transitioning to the New York City Emergency Management Department after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Since then, McKinney has worked as an emergency manager. At the time of the pandemic, he had been running an emergency management profram at NYU Langone
- Note
- Interviewed by Ryan Hagen on June 16, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Kelly McKinney, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 18897885
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/0ybn-ce18