On behalf of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine, we are excited to announce the Emirates Society Emergency Medicine Conference 2024 - ESEM24 to be held in the vibrant city of Dubai – United Arab Emirates from 11- 14 December 2024.
As we reflect on the past conferences and the success we have achieved together, I am filled with immense gratitude and pride in the collaborative spirit, dedication, and expertise that each one of you brought to the ESEM conference played a pivotal role in making it a resounding success in the International Platform.
ESEM conference Scientific Program brings forward the highest quality of education content fostering a deeper understanding of emerging trends, innovative practices, and the latest research in emergency medicine and will continue to develop its most popular Track Sessions, including Fulcrum Debates, Pick-A-Clue, Mortality & Morbidity, Target your therapy, Trauma, and other subbranches related to the field of emergency medicine; Plenary Sessions delivered by world-renowned speakers, pre-conference workshops advancing most updated hands-on techniques...
Our commitment to a global perspective has resonated, leading to increased international collaboration over the past years, and will continue to propel collective expertise to new heights.
We look forward to having the continued support of all our sponsors and stakeholders whose dedication to the advancement of Emergency medicine has made us achieve this milestone of success. We are encouraged by the passion, research, and innovation of Emergency Medicine researchers who contribute to the collective knowledge of the emergency medicine community, and we welcome you to become part of ESEM24 in Dubai – UAE.
Welcoming you to join us in Dubai as we come together to explore, collaborate, and advance the field of emergency medicine. Your participation is integral to the success of this conference, we look forward to having you with us at this largest international Emergency Medicine gathering in UAE.
Kindest regards,
Rasha Buhumaid President
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine
United Arab Emirates
Rasha Buhumaid
President Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine United Arab Emirates
Join us for the Emergency Department Quality Improvement Professional (EQUIP) Certification Course, organized by the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
This intensive 3-day professional development program also provides an optional certification exam to further validate your proficiency in this crucial domain.
The course aims to benefit emergency medicine physicians and nurse leaders interested in improving their own clinical practice, and potentially effecting system-wide change, through optimized emergency care delivery focused on patient safety and quality.
ESEM: Fundamentals of Medical Education is a 2-day, 17-hour course that provides participants with the knowledge and skills to become effective medical educators. Through a dynamic and interactive format, the course focuses on best practice, strategies, updates, and educational innovations to optimize the educational environment in your department. This course is designed for faculty at any career stage who work with trainees and are seeking a comprehensive foundation in medical education.
The goal of this course is to teach fundamentals of medical education to improve the teaching and learning in your department.
Course participants will learn from world-renowned experts in medical education techniques and best practices.
Vice President of Network Operations, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians Director of Operations/Senior Medical Director, Emergency Medicine, BIDMC Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School United States
Dr. Ahson Rabbani is the CEO of ChildLife Foundation since 2014, an ISO certified nonprofit based in Pakistan. ChildLife provides pediatric emergency care to a 1.5 million children annually – free of cost – through a network of 100+ public sector hospitals.
With a passion for learning, he acquired bachelors, masters and doctorate education from USA focusing on technology and management. His research interest is sustained behavior change for improved health.
In the first decade of his career, he worked at Fortune 500 companies at senior regional management roles honing his skills for managing large teams. For the last two decades he has played leading roles at some of Pakistan's largest philanthropic foundations in education and health.
His forte is leveraging local philanthropy and creating public-private partnerships for scaled impact.
David Chiu
Vice President of Network Operations, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians Director of Operations/Senior Medical Director, Emergency Medicine, BIDMC Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
United States
David Chiu, MD, MPH is the Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC, where he is part of a collaborative team that facilitates the operations of the emergency department including optimization of flow through the department. He is also a a developer for the division of emergency medical informatics. Dr. Chiu also serves as Vice President of Network Operations for the BIDMC physician group, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. He completed his residency and chief residency year at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a 2-year fellowship in emergency medicine informatics. Dr. Chiu obtained a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health as part of his fellowship. His interests lie in operational informatics, educational informatics, emergency medicine operations, and medical education.
Jonathan Edlow
Professor of Medicine & Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School
United States
Dr. Edlow is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and various causes of weakness and dizziness. He is an internationally renowned expert on neurological emergencies. Dr. Edlow’s ED operational specialty areas include ED quality assurance, ED physical layout and facilities redesign, physician professional development, and the creation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines. For the past 15 years, Dr. Edlow has contributed to the international development of emergency medicine in a variety of countries, participating in educational, quality assessment, and emergency care systems consulting projects. Practicing medicine since 1981, he is board-certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.
Majid Al Zarooni
United Arab Emirates
Majid Al Zarooni is an accomplished professional with a background as a paramedic, having joined the UAE’s first paramedic program in 2003. He has led several transformative initiatives in emergency services, including the establishment of marine and Air ambulance services in Dubai.
As the Director of Ambulance Operations at Dubai Ambulance, Majid has overseen operations during major international events like Expo 2020 and COP28, achieving top response times and survival rates. He also managed emergency ambulance operations during severe weather conditions in April 2023.
Majid is a key member of the Events Security Committee in Dubai, managing ambulance coverage for large-scale events.
Moiz Qureshi
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine
United States
Dr. Moiz Qureshi is a board certified ER physician in Dallas, Texas. Having completed his education at the prestigious 6 year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri Kansas City, he then completed his residency at Penn State University Hospital in Pennsylvania. While in residency he also completed his MBA from the Smeal College of Business at Penn State and then went on to complete a Disaster Medicine Fellowship as part of the program at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts. He was then recruited to be the medical director for a community hospital in rural Dallas and then transitioned to a more administrative focus as part of the largest free standing ER group in Dallas where he was the Director of Operations overseeing clinical operations for 9 facilities and a micro hospital. Dr. Qureshi has since transitioned to an entrepreneurial mindset and is simultaneously working clinically while also developing a consulting firm that focuses on ER optimization and efficiency and AI integration in both clinical and administrative capabilities.
Osama Kentab
Consultant King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital
Board certification in Emergency Medicine (FAAEM) – December 2010
American Board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (FAAP) – October 2000
Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency (FAAP-PEM) – June 1999
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) – October 1997
Arab Board of Pediatrics (ArabBP) – April 1995
King Saud University Fellowship in Pediatrics (KSUF-P) – December 1994
Rahim Valani
Associate Professor University of Toronto
Canada
Saleh Fares Al Ali
President - IFEM
United Arab Emirates
Ives Hubloue
University Hospital Brussels and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Joseph Bonney
President, African Federation for Emergency Medicine
Ghana
Sergey Motov
Attending Physician, Research Director Maimonides Medical Center
United States
Sergey M. Motov, MD, FAAEM
Dr. Motov is an Emergency Medicine Physician practicing in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Medical Academy of Latvia and completed his EM residency at Maimonides Medical Center. Dr. Motov is a Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Dr. Motov previously served as the Assistant Residency Director and Associate Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center where he has trained more than 200 residents.
Dr. Motov has been very passionate about safe and effective pain management in the ED. His true interests are geared towards perfecting the role of non-opioid analgesia in the ED and more refined and judicious opioid use in the ED. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered multiple presentations on regional, national, and international levels about safe and effective ED pain management.
Dr. Motov is actively involved in growing this body of work both nationally and globally and currently serves as a co-Chair of the Pain and Procedural Sedation Interest Group at AAEM.
Suneel Upadhye
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine Mcmaster University
Canada
Dr. Suneel Upadhye is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) since 2001. He completed his MSc in Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact in 2005. He is a founding member of the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) program since 2005, and was the inaugural Research Lead for the EM Researchers of Niagara (2017-current). He is currently involved as a Level II INGUIDE Methodologist in the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Guidelines for Reasonable & Appropriate Care in Emergency Room (GRACE) group, which creates EM-specific clinical practice guidelines for EM physicians worldwide. He is also the creator/curator of the nonprofit EmergencyGuidelines.ca website, providing guidelines summaries for the global EM audience. He has also been a founding member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) EM Working Group, which produces recommendations to reduce low-value care in Canadian ED settings. He has produced numerous award-winning abstracts and peer-reviewed publications with these activities. Current research interests include optimizing ED Low Back Pain care, evidence-based emergency medicine/knowledge translation, and implementing CWC EM recommendations into practice. He is also an avid scuba diver, mediocre golfer and erstwhile aspiring jazz musician…
Suneel Upadhye, MD MSc FRCPC
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, McMaster University
Staff EM Physician, Niagara Health
Taj Hassan
Consulant in Emergency Medicine Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
United Kingdom
Dr Taj Hassan is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and immediate Past President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2016 - 2019).
His major interests include developing leadership skills for emergency physicians, the role of technology in decision support and global emergency care. He helped devise and led on the EMLeaders prog for RCEM.
Internationally, he has been involved in running leadership training programmes for the International Federation of EM (IFEM). He Chaired the IFEM group on Sustainable working Practices for the Emergency Physician in 2014. He is European Lead on the Board of IFEM & also International Chair of the Pakistan Society of EM.
Explain the basic process and medical trauma tenets from prehospital to final
disposition post trauma bay of the significantly injured patient.
Define the role of crisis resource management in trauma resuscitation.
Using cases and debrief techniques, understand the preliminary investigative and therapeutic processes
involved in the management of a significantly injured patient.
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Educational theory
Define learning and teaching
Identify the history and evolution of learning theory.
State the tenets of adult learning theory
Compare and contrast the merits and deficiencies of different learning
theories and
appraise their impact on the depth of learning.
Recognise the characteristics of surface and deep learning
Explore the effect of pressure on learning
Understand how to optimise the learning environment (Yerkes-Dodson,
Maslow HoN)
Discuss how to manipulate the power of experiential learning and
learning Styles to
teach more effectively (70:20:10, Learning styles)
Evaluate your own teaching competence and others’ through the stages of
teacher
development and discuss the impact of this on the depth of learning
Preparation
Apply the tenets of adult learning theory
Differentiate between aims, learning objectives and learning outcomes
Create learning objectives using the SMART method
Describe how to word objectives that indicate the degree of learning
and resources
required to meet them (Bloom's taxonomy)
Plan out a teaching session using the PARR method
Recognise how to use slides to supplement a teaching session
Use a lesson plan to structure a teaching session
Teaching
Discover tips to increase the impact of your speech and your presence
Engage in one-to-one teaching sessions, take part in group teaching
sessions and
deliver an individually prepared teaching session in front of a group with feedback
for each
Explore group dynamics and how to manage problematic group members
Feedback
Discuss the different types of feedback and their role and importance
(encouragement,
evaluative and coaching)
Use the SBI model to give feedback
Discover different methods of getting feedback and discuss their uses
and deficiencies
(post-its, traffic lights, one-minute paper, forms,)
Transport Medicine - Course Description
The workshop will provide a complete overview of the stages of a pre-hospital
response to a trauma emergency. The workshop will have a theory session before lunch, followed by a
practical session after lunch.
The practical session will be broken up into 4 separate practical stations. Each station will be as
follows: At the Ambulance, At the Control Center, At the Scene, and Transport too and handover at the
Hospital.
Over the recent decades, Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (PoCUS) has been gradually
proving itself as a valuable adjunct in management of critically ill patients and patients in cardiac
arrest. PoCUS is a fundamental tool that is quick, safe, inexpensive, and reproducible. It can identify
types of shock, identify reversible causes of arrest, monitor quality of chest compressions, and provide
guidance in ultrasound guided procedures.
This 1-day course provides basic and advanced ultrasound users a unique opportunity to learn how to
integrate ultrasound in critically ill and cardiac arrest patients. The course will maximize hands on
time and will include live scanning, team-based scenarios, and simulation. Attendees will also acquire
skills to perform ultrasound during pulse checks, safely and without compromising hands on chest time.
Roadside to Bedside Resuscitation: State of the Art
- Workshop Program
This workshop explores multiple themes in the resuscitation continuum spanning novel
techniques for a single patient through treatment of multiple and mass casualties as well as offering a
system-wide perspective on the treatment of the critically ill and injured. Our international panel of
world-leading clinicians and academics will whistlestop through the latest advancements in this space and
offer unique operational and strategic viewpoints.
Roadside to Bedside Resuscitation: State of the Art
- Workshop Program
Search and Rescue: Operational Medicine - Course
Description
To be updated soon..
Search and Rescue: Operational Medicine - Workshop
Program
To be updated soon..
Sedation Program - Course Description
The primary goal is that Emergency Providers meet the standards for patient safety set and become aware
of updates in the field of procedural sedation.
In medicine, children are not little adults. The same applies to pediatric POCUS. This workshop will aim
to introduce a unique opportunity for all those caring for children to learn basic concept, methodology
and application of Pediatric bedside ultrasound in pediatric Emergency.
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is a unique instrument that can be an integral part of your toolkit
during patient assessments in a variety of situations from the clinic settings to the Emergency Room.
This session will go through the basics of ultrasound, demonstrate how to use the machine, as well as
teach you the most used and essential pediatric POCUS applications.
Novice users will be able to understand the basic concepts with opportunity to experience real
applications in practical sessions in the presence of experts. Advanced users will be able to learn
challenges, pitfall and new revolution in the world of Pediatric POCUS.
By the end of this simulation-based workshop, you will be able to:
Understand the material required, the indications, and contraindications of the following high acuity
low incidence EM procedures: cricothyroidotomy, tube thoracostomies (chest tube insertion),
Pericardiocentesis, central line insertion, peripherally inserted intravenous access, Intraosseous
access, peripheral nerve block, Fiberoptic intubations.
List the steps how to perform the above-mentioned procedures by walking faculty through the steps of
the above-mentioned procedures.
Show how to perform the above-mentioned procedures under the observation and evaluation of the
faculty.
Decide on what procedure to perform based on a simulated clinical scenario.
Understand and manage the complications of the above-mentioned procedures.
Advanced Procedure Workshop - Course Objectives
By the end of this simulation-based workshop, you will be able to:
Understand the material required, the indications, and contraindications of the following high acuity
low incidence EM procedures: cricothyroidotomy, tube thoracostomies (chest tube insertion),
Pericardiocentesis, central line insertion, peripherally inserted intravenous access, Intraosseous
access, peripheral nerve block, Fiberoptic intubations.
List the steps how to perform the above-mentioned procedures by walking faculty through the steps of
the above-mentioned procedures.
Show how to perform the above-mentioned procedures under the observation and evaluation of the
faculty.
Decide on what procedure to perform based on a simulated clinical scenario.
Understand and manage the complications of the above-mentioned procedures.
Sedation Program - Course Description
The primary goal is that Emergency Providers meet the standards for patient safety
set and become aware of updates in the field of procedural sedation.
Sedation Program - Course Objectives
By the end of workshop, the attendees will be able to provide procedural sedation
and will know the following:
Goals of safe sedation.
Protocols and standards for safe and effective sedation.
Pre‐procedure sedation assessment.
Effective monitoring during sedation.
Considerations of Procedural Sedation in Pediatrics.
Considerations of Procedural Sedation in special populations.
Medications used in sedation.
Adverse events and managing complications.
Discharge criteria.
Search & Rescue: Operational Medicine - Course
Description
To be updated soon....
Search & Rescue: Operational Medicine - Course
Objectives
To be updated soon....
Operational Medicine to Roadside to Bedside
Resuscitation: State of the Art
To be updated soon....
Pediatric POCUS Workshop - Course Description
To be updated soon....
Pediatric POCUS Workshop - Course Objectives
To be updated soon....
Transport Medicine - Course Description
The workshop will provide a complete overview of the stages of a pre-hospital
response to a trauma emergency. The workshop will have a theory session before lunch, followed by a
practical session after lunch.
Transport Medicine - Course Objectives
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Trauma Course - Course Description
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Trauma Course - Course Objectives
Explain the basic process and medical trauma tenets from prehospital to final
disposition post trauma bay of the significantly injured patient.
Define the role of crisis resource management in trauma resuscitation.
Using cases and debrief techniques, understand the preliminary investigative and therapeutic processes
involved in the management of a significantly injured patient.