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
Emergency Department Quality Improvement Professional (EQUIP) Certification Course
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.
Director of Research Director of Innovation and Technology Core Faculty, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship Department of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, United States
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 / 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.
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.
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Jameel Abualenain
The General Supervisor of General Directorate of Emergencies
Disasters, & Medical Transportation
The General Supervisor of The National Health Emergency Operation Center
President, Saudi Society of Emergency Medicine (SASEM) 2019-2022
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.
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.