We are very proud to announce a world-class field of plenary speakers, drawn from the cream of international Emergency Medicine. The following plenary sessions are confirmed:
‘Emergency Medicine, Public Health & Policy Making’
Wednesday, 27th June,
08:30 - 10:00,
Main Auditorium
 | Dr. Gautam Bodiwala (Chair)
Ex-President, IFEM
Gautam G. Bodiwala, CBE, DL
D.Sc. (Hon), MS, FRCS, FRCP, FCEM, FIFEM, FESEM, FRSA
President of IFEM, 2006-10
The First Elected President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Dr Bodiwala was also the First George Podgorny Lecturer (eponymous) at the ICEM and is awarded the Order of the Federation for his international. Nationally, he has been at the centre of the development of Emergency Medicine in the UK from the early 70’s, holding important positions in EM organisations and co-founded the Faculty and College of Emergency Medicine. Locally, he served as the head of the Emergency Department in Leicester for more than 25 years. During this period, he pioneered EMS, training programmes for doctors, nurses and paramedics, research and training in Emergency Medicine. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Leicester and
De Montfort University for his academic contribution. Her majesty the Queen Elizabeth II has made him the CBE, the highest order, for his national contribution. The Hospital Trust Board in Leicester named the new Emergency Department at the Leicester Royal Infirmary as ‘Gautam Bodiwala Emergency Department’ in recognition of his ‘distinguished’ services. Holding Honorary Fellowships of many Colleges, he is a keen researcher and published more than 80 papers in peer review medical Journals, chapters and Forewords in books and written a book.
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 | Prof. Chris Baggoley
Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government, AUSTRALIA
Professor Chris Baggoley is Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Government who provides advice and support to Ministers and the Department across the full range of health issues confronting the Australian community. He holds direct responsibility for the Department of Health and Ageing’s Office of Health Protection. Prior to his appointment Professor Baggoley was the Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. He was a former Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director with the South Australian Department of Health. Other medical positions include Professor-Director of Emergency Medicine at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital; Director of Emergency Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, Censor-In-Chief and President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges; and Chair of the Board of the National Institute of Clinical Studies. In addition to his medical degrees, Professor Baggoley holds an Honours degree in Veterinary Science from Melbourne University, a degree in Social Administration, FUSA, and has been awarded the Order of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.
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 | Prof. V. Anantharaman
Professor of Emergency Medicine, SINGAPORE
Prof V. Anantharaman is Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital and Advisor (Education & International Medicine), Singapore Health Services. He is also the Chairman, National Resuscitation Council, Singapore, Chairman, Chapter of Emergency Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Clinical Professor, National University of Singapore and Adjunct Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He was previously Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital, founder President of the Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore and the Asian Society for Emergency Medicine and Chairman, Emergency Medicine Services Committee, Ministry of Health, Singapore.
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 | Prof. Matthew Cooke
National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, Dept. of Health, UK
Professor Matthew Cooke
PhD MB ChB FRCS(Ed) FCEM DipIMC
Professor Matthew Cooke is the National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care at the Dept of Health in London and is also Director of the Emergency Care and Systems Improvement Group at Warwick Medical School. He led the development of new quality indicators to replace the four hour target in England and is now leading work on indicators across the whole of urgent and emergency care as well as work on service redesign. His research interests are in clinical systems improvement and systems approaches to patient safety. He continues to work clinically as an emergency medicine consultant at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham. |
 | Dr. Una Geary
Lead, National Emergency Medicine Programme, IRELAND |
| Prof. Art Kellermann
Director, RAND Health, USA
Arthur L Kellermann, MD, MPH, FACEP, FACP is Vice President and Director of RAND Health at the RAND Corporation, an independent research organization dedicated to objective policy analysis. He also holds RAND’s Paul O’Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis. Prior to joining RAND in 2010, he was a professor and associate dean at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. He founded Emory's Department of Emergency Medicine in 1999 and served as its first chair. He also established the Center for Injury Control at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Art has led or served on committees examining uninsurance, health promotion, emergency care, and biodefense. |
‘Clinical Decision Making in Emergency Medicine’
08:00 - 09:00,
Thursday, 28th June,
Main Auditorium
 | Prof. Patrick Croskerry
Professor in Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Pat Croskerry is a Professor in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Medical Education. In addition to his medical training, he holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology and Fellowship in Clinical Psychology. He has worked in the area of Patient Safety for the last 15 years and has given over 400 talks on the topic at local, national and international levels, including the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard Medical School. He established the first Canadian Symposium on Patient Safety in 2001 in Halifax, which continued annually until 2010. In 2006 he received the Ruedy award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada for innovation in medical education, and in the same year was appointed to the Board of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
His research is principally concerned with clinical decision-making, specifically on diagnostic error. He was a member of the organising committee of the first conference on Diagnostic Error in Phoenix, Arizona in 2008 and on the Los Angeles conference in 2009. He has published over 70 journal articles and 26 book chapters in the area of patient safety, and medical education reform. He is senior editor on a major text Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine published in 2009, and senior author of Diagnosis: Promises and Pitfalls due out in 2012.
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‘Prehospital Research: Challenges and Solutions’
17:00 – 18:00,
Thursday, 28th June,
Sponsored Symposium, Falck Foundation, Pre-Hospital Research
 | Ian Stiell, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa; Distinguished Professor and University Health Research Chair, University of Ottawa; and Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Dr. Ian Stiell is Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa; Distinguished Professor and University Health Research Chair, University of Ottawa; and Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He is internationally recognized for his research in emergency medicine with a focus on the development of clinical decision rules and the conduct of clinical trials involving acutely ill and injured patients treated by prehospital services and in emergency departments. He is best known for the development of the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule, and as the Principal Investigator for the landmark OPALS Studies for prehospital care. Dr Stiell is the Principal Investigator for 1of 3 Canadian sites in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) which is funded by CIHR, NIH, HSFC, AHA, and National Defence Canada. Dr. Stiell is a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies of Science.
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'Literature Update in Emergency Medicine’
08:00 - 08:45,
Friday, 29th June,
Main Auditorium
 | Prof. Richard Cantor
Professor of Emergency Medicine, SUNY, Syracuse, NY, USA
Richard M. Cantor, MD, FACEP, FAAP Dr. Cantor is Director of Pediatric Emergency Services at University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, Medical Director for the Central New York Poison Control Center, and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Upstate Medical University. He is nationally known for his work as a researcher and educator in the fields of pediatric emergency medicine and toxicology. He has held multiple leadership positions in the field of pediatric emergency medicine through ACEP and AAP. He has also served on the editorial and development boards of national curricula including APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource. He received the ACEP Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award in 1994 and the ACEP National Education Award in Emergency Medicine in 2002. In 2009, he published a textbook, Neonatal Emergencies, which has received a special commendation award from the 2010 British Medical Association Committee. He is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics and American Board of Emergency Medicine Joint Sub-board in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. |
‘Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome’
08:00 - 09:00
Saturday, 30th June,
Main Auditorium
 | Prof. Clifton Callaway
Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Callaway earned his MD in 1993, and his PhD in Neurosciences in 1992, both from the University of California in San Diego. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. Dr. Callaway was appointed Associate Professor in 2004, and received Tenure in 2007. He is the Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine Research. In 2009, he was appointed Vice-Chair of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Callaway has focused his academic career on being an investigator and a teacher of paramedics, medical students and physicians in the field of resuscitation medicine. |
 | Prof. Laurie Morrison
Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto, CANADA
Dr. Morrison is the Robert & Dorothy Pitts Research Chair in Acute Care & Emergency Medicine, Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital. She is the Director of Rescu, a resuscitation research program focusing on the evaluation and implementation of prehospital and transport medicine time sensitive interventions in acute emergencies (www.rescu.ca). She conducts systematic reviews and meta-analyses in topics pertaining to Acute Coronary Syndrome and Resuscitation and has established a collaborative network to conduct randomized controlled trials and outcome validation studies in prehospital resuscitation research. She is a US National Institute of Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Canada funded investigator within the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. She is a past Chair and current member of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support committee of the American Heart Association and on the Editorial Board of the 2010 guidelines in Resuscitation as the Co-Chair of the International Liaison Committee of Resuscitation Advance Life Support Taskforce in 2010. She is the current chair of the Research and Policy Planning Advisory Committee for Heart and Stroke Canada. She was born and educated in Peterborough Ontario, completed her undergraduate at Queens and her medical degree at McMaster. She completed postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine at McGill prior to completing her fellowship at U of T and returning to McMaster in 2000 to obtain a graduate degree in health research design. She has received the Canadian Medical Association award in mentorship; the May Cohen award and was recently celebrated for excellence in mentorship at U of T with the Department of Medicine Bob Hyland award. |
'George Podgorny Lecture'
08:45 - 09:30
Friday, 29th June,
Main Auditorium
 | Prof. Peter Cameron, Director of Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and current President of IFEM
Professor Peter Cameron is President of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and Head of the Critical Care Division which undertakes research in the areas of Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma, Transfusion, Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at Monash University. He is also Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Head of the Victorian State Trauma Registry, Associate Director of the National Trauma Research Institute and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety. Throughout his career he has attracted over $20million in competitive research funding, and his main research interests include trauma epidemiology, injury prevention and management, pre-hospital care and health services and systems research. Professor Cameron completed his medical undergraduate training at Melbourne University in 1981 and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine at Western Hospital, Melbourne 1987. An MD in Trauma Epidemiology was completed through Monash University in 1997. |