Center for Emergency Medicine Tools and Talent

When

Friday February 12, 2016 from 8:15 AM to 4:30 PM EST
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Where

NEW LOCATION - DoubleTree by Hilton - Monroeville 
101 Mall Blvd
Monroeville, PA 15146  

 
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Contact

Benjamin D Ellis, Conference Chair 
Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc. 
412-647-5300 
ellisbd@upmc.edu 
 

The Tools and The Talent 2016 

Emergency Medicine/EMS: The Tools & The Talent is a continuing education program designed to enhance the knowledge of practicing medical professionals.

Emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and emergency/critical care nurses will benefit from attendance at this conference.

This program continues to be a Pittsburgh area resource for a wide variety of cutting-edge as well as basic emergency medicine education.

Registration Fee $75.00

The registration fee includes • Course Materials • Continental Breakfast • Lunch • Refreshments

Late Registration $85.00 (AFTER February 6th). Walk-In Fee $95.00

ACCREDITATION

Continuing education will be offered for all courses provided.

This continuing education activity was submitted for approval by the Emergency Nurses Association, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

toolslogoPLENARY SESSIONS

 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

The Future of Cardiac Arrest Care

Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD

 Professor of Emergency Medicine

Executive Vice-Chairman of Emergency Medicine

Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine Research

 

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

Advances in Stroke Care

  Brian Jankowitz, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Co-Director, Endovascular Therapy

Director, Neuroendovascular Fellowship Program


  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Compassion Fatigue

  Dan Swayze, PhD, MPH, MEMS

Vice President | CEO

Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA., Inc.

   

Christie Hempfling, BS, EMT-B

Community Health Team Manager

Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA., Inc.

 
AFTERNOON SESSIONS 
(You can attend one session per time slot. Each afternoon session has been submitted for approval of one hour of con-ed)
  

1:00 PM 

to

2:00 PM

Frank Guyette, MD

Advances in Hemorrhage Control

 

Maria Antonucci, MD

 Pediatric Trauma and Abuse 

 

Micha Campbell, MD

Entangled and Mangled Patients

 

BREAK

2:15 PM

to

3:15 PM

Mark Pinchalk, MS,EMT-P

Field Management of Crashing Patients

 

Jonah Thompson,NREMT-P

Medication Reconciliation

 

Tom Liebman, MBA, FP-C, CMTE

MythBusting Leadership

 

BREAK

3:30 PM

to

4:30 PM

Owen Traynor, MD

Things Are Not Always As They Seem,Part VI 

 

Vince Mosesso MD

Fluid Resuscitation for Severe Trauma