Join us for this conference on health systems strengthening in emergency care, with a focus on capacity building in the long-term.
We hope to increase awareness of the needs and opportunities for emergency doctors, nurses , and practitioners based in the UK to get involved in global emergency care, and to provide an opportunity for networking for those already involved or interested.
Topics will include:
This event is co-organised with the Global Health Committee at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Call for posters
We are calling for posters describing your involvement in health system strengthening and/or capacity building in emergency care in low and middle-income countries. These are not meant to be research or audit abstracts and do not need to be structured along the usual 'objectives/methods/results/conclusion' structure.
300 words, A1 posters (A0 posters also accepted on a case-by-case basis).
Open to all specialties and professions.
Please send submissions to globalhealth@rsm.ac.uk
Submission deadline: Monday 5 August 2019
Chair: Dr Taj Hassan, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and President, Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Dr James Ducharme, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Humber River Hospital, Toronto, McMaster University, Hamilton and President, International Federation for Emergency Medicine
Dr Mbanjumucyo Gabin, Consultant, Kigali University Teaching Hospital
Dr Emma Fernandez, International Education Project Manager, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Dr Olivia Corn, Emergency Medicine Trainee, ST3 ACCS, Newham University Hospital
Posters and partnership table
Dr Stevan Bruijns, Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Emergency Physician, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Liz Tissingh, Partnership Lead, King’s Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo, King's College London
Dr Mir Saaduddin Ahmad, Emergency Medicine Consultant, ZABS Medical Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr Saleyha Ahsan, Filmmaker, Broadcast Journalist and Accident and Emergency Doctor
Dr Andrew Newton, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Somerset
Dr Ed Gold, Consultant, Pre-hospital Care and Emergency Medicine and President, Foundation Human Nature UK
Lightning talk speakers
Dr Richard Lowsby, Consultant, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Hooi-Ling Harrison, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Princess Royal University Hospital
Dr Barry Klaassen, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee and Ms Gwen Gordon, Clinical Educator, Nursing and Midwifery Directorate, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Dr Ffion Davies, Consultant, Emergency Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Dr Chetan Trivedy, Senior Lecturer, Emergency and Resuscitation Care, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London and Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital
Posters
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Jointly organised by the Oxford Empathy Programme, delegates will learn about the role and importance of empathy in healthcare from current research, education, policy, practice and patient perspectives.
This meeting aims to empower clinicians and other users of population health tools to confidently transform their use of data, to better help their patients.
Join us for the 4th year of this important meeting, where a faculty of prominent speakers from around the globe will discuss the importance of effective cancer control in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and highlight the magnitude of the disparities and issues that currently exist.
