It is with great gratitude and excitement that we welcome you to join us on the successful journey of one of the biggest Emergency Physicians gathering in UAE, the Emirates Society Emergency Medicine Conference 2023 - ESEM23, to be held from 6-9 December 2023 at Abu Dhabi, the capital city of United Arab Emirates.
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine Conferences held annually has grown to be one of the most sought-after conferences in the international platform, providing the highest quality of educational content presented by our stellar line up of speakers from around the world, more strengthened with ESEM’s International collaborations.
ESEM23 will present the highlight of the conference -Plenary sessions on three days along with the parallel sessions. The conference will also include an exhibition of the most updated technology and market updates. ESEM conference, like every year, is bringing in this year as well the most attended tracks, including Fulcrum Debates, Pick-A-Clue, Mortality & Morbidity, Target your therapy, Trauma, and other subbranches related to the field of emergency medicine.
With the interest and positive remarks we have received from ESEM22, we are encouraged this year as well to include innovative workshops and courses, which we are confident will bring a more enriching experience on the first day of the conference. We witnessed last year the overwhelming interest among researchers in becoming a part of the abstract submission, and with our strong belief in the importance of research in EM, especially in our region, the facilitation of abstract submissions will be evaluated by the Abstract Review Committee, and the best abstracts will be selected for oral or poster presentation during the conference.
On behalf of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM), I welcome you to ESEM23 and 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
Abstract Submission
This is your chance to share your cutting-edge research, innovative ideas, and practical experiences in emergency medicine with your peers and colleagues. By submitting your abstract, you will have the opportunity to showcase your work and contribute to the advancement of emergency medicine knowledge and practice.
Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out in your career, we encourage you to submit your abstracts and be a part of this exciting event. With a diverse range of topics and sessions, there's something for everyone at ESEM23
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to showcase your work and connect with fellow emergency medicine professionals from around the world. Submit your abstracts now and be a part of ESEM23!
Submit your nominations for the second edition of ESEM Awards – Celebrating the journey of ESEM! The awards will recognize and appreciate the experts and deserving healthcare professionals in the field of Emergency Medicine.
Her Excellency Dr Farida Al Hosani, Executive Director of Infectious Diseases at Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre and Official Spokes person for the UAE Health Sector
Member of WHO PIP Framework Advisory Group. Adjunct Associate Professor UAEU, Board Member of Rahma Cancer Care Association, Board Member of Abu Dhabi Cycling Club. In her role, she is focused on setting the Centre’s strategic plans and overseeing their implementation in line with the goals and objectives of the Communicable Diseases Sector and the UAE and Abu Dhabi’s strategy. Building on her extensive experience and knowledge in the healthcare sector H.E. Dr Farida leads the operational and planning elements of communicable diseases surveillance and monitoring including E-Notifications, Premarital Screening, Malaria Control, Vaccinations, Occupational and Environmental Health and outbreak response and management, at ADPHC. As the Official Spokesperson for the UAE Health Sector, H.E. Dr. Farida holds the responsibility of communicating the latest updates along with public health and safety measures to the community. Leading pandemic preparedness and vaccination initiatives, her role has supported the UAE’s accomplishments as an expert in addressing the pandemic. H.E. Dr. Farida AlHosani is the first Emirati female to join World Health Organisation’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework Advisory Group in 2022. She is serving in her personal, expert capacity, for a period of three years. Her key goal as a member is to improve and strengthen the sharing of information about influenza viruses with human pandemic potential, and to increase the access to vaccines and other pandemic related supplies for developing countries. As a leader in health strategic planning and public health excellence in Abu Dhabi, H.E. Dr. Farida has held numerous leadership positions over the past 12 years, enhancing her comprehensive perspective of the rapidly transforming public health industry. H.E. Dr. Farida serves as the Head of the UAE Abu Dhabi Research Committee for COVID-19, and the Head of the Executive Team for the COVID-19 vaccine in Abu Dhabi. She holds a master’s degree and PhD from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and a master’s degree in Security and Strategic Studies from the UAE National Defense College.
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
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.
Kenneth Dittrich
M.D., ABEM, FRCP(C) Chairman, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Emergency Department
Dr. Ken Dittrich is a Canadian, Consultant ER physician with over 35 years post residency experience. He has been working at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi since 2003. Presently is the Chairman (A) of theEmergency department. Prior to his employment at SKMC, he worked 16 years at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine , at the Oregon Health Science University, USA in 1984. He has his American Boards in Emergency Medicine, and as well is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ( Specialty in Emergency Medicine ) of Canada. He has a special interest in Trauma care and in education.
Dr. Ffion Davies
President, International Federation for Emergency Medicine Consultant Emergency Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester UK
Dr Ffion Davies is President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine and works as a Consultant Emergency Physician at the University Hospitals of Leicester, UK. She is sub-specialist trained in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. Ffion’s main clinical interest is in multi-professional education. For over 20 years Ffion has acted in leadership roles or as advisor at national level in the UK. She is the Medical Lead for The Children’s Air Ambulance charity, a national PICU/NICU helicopter retrieval and ECMO service. Ffion has worked within IFEM for 13 years and was elected as President in 2022. IFEM’s vision is “A world where all people, in all countries, have access to high-quality emergency medical care”. IFEM works to connect and help those working in emergency care, promote the development of a trained workforce who are skilled and recognised as qualified specialists, and to use its global influence to assist its member national societies in continuously improving their service to patients.
Richard Wolfe
MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School USA
Wolfe has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC since 1999. He trained for three years in emergency medicine at Denver General Hospital, where he subsequently became Associate Residency Director and Residency Director for Emergency Medicine. In 1994, he became the Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Wolfe teaches internationally and nationally in ED operational topics such as designing integrated emergency departments, ED quality, ED workflow management, ED leadership, and the relationship between emergency medicine specialty training with ED quality of care and operational efficiency.
Eric Revue
Head of the Emergency Dept and prehospital EMS Lariboisière Hospital,SAMU of Paris, France
Chair of the prehospital section of EUSEM Scientific Committee of the French Society of Emergency Medicine. Experience in Disaster Medicine, Management and Leadership ,Toxicology, Scubadiving and Hyperbaric accidents.
Jameel Talal Abualenain
MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, CHSE Saudia Arabia
Associate Professor and Consultant of Emergency Medicine. President, Saudi Society of Emergency Medicine. General Supervisor, The National Emergency Operation Center, and Ambulance Services.
Trauma Course - Course Description
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.
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
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Search and Rescue: Operational Medicine - Workshop Program
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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
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Search & Rescue: Operational Medicine - Course Objectives
To be updated soon....
Operational Medicine to Roadside to Bedside Resuscitation: State of the Art
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Pediatric POCUS Workshop - Course Description
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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.