is a medical officer of a national disaster medical assistance team. DMATs are part of a rapid-response effort that sends out self-sufficient federal medical teams to areas after a disaster.

Doctors on the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), which began providing support on Jan. 2, told Shinagawa that the hospital would be unable to sustain itself unless it transferred patients ...

The writer is a family physician and member of a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team.

AT stands for assistance team. The acronyms are made by combining AT with the other alphabets representing Japan (J), medical (M), disaster (D), welfare (W), or health (HE). They are dispatched in ...