Blaine Fisher

Blaine Fisher is a professor in the Emergency and Security Studies program in the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement (SoPA). He is an expert in health and medical issues in emergency management. Fisher serves on the Emergency and Security Studies Faculty Advisory Committee, SoPA's governing council and is a Faculty Fellow with SoPA and Newcomb College Institute. He was awarded the Percy Dyer Award for Academic Excellence in 2017.

Fisher, who has worked at Tulane since 2012 and has been with SoPA since 2015, is also the instructional technology specialist for the Innovative Learning Center at Tulane. He has held this position since January 2019.

Before that, Fisher was the training and compliance manager at Tulane, where he led the implementation of two corporate learning management systems that have resulted in a more compliant and resilient university. He is often considered the go-to person for instructional design and online learning for safety and compliance-related course-content.

Fisher was a critical care transport paramedic in New Orleans and a first responder/emergency management instructor at the Audubon Nature Institute from 2006-12.

Fisher holds a master’s degree in health care management from the University of New Orleans and a second master’s degree in liberal arts with a primary focus on anthropology and emergency management from Tulane. He is currently pursuing doctoral work at Louisiana State University for a PhD in geography and anthropology.