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"Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda"
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The 14th annual
AEM Consensus Conference will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at the SAEM Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference, titled “Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda,” will seek to establish the research priorities for global health and emergency care for the next several years. Featured sessions include presentations by:
- Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH,Vice President for Global Health; Director, Emory Global Health Institute; Emory University
- Meena Nathan Cherian, MD, Emergency & Essential Surgical Care (EESC) Clinical Procedures Unit, Department of Health Systems Policies & Workforce, World Health Organization
- Myron Cohen, MD, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Public Health and Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN, Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Adam C. Levine, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director, Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Brown University Alpert Medical School; Clinical Advisor for Emergency and Trauma Care Partners in Health – Rwanda
- Margaret M. Murray, PhD, Director, Global Alcohol Research Program, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. National Institutes of Health
- Lee Wallis, MBChB, Head of Emergency Medicine, Provincial Government Western Cape; Head, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University; President, African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM)
Registrants for this conference will take part in establishing the research agenda by participating in the consensus-building activities at the end of the day. Proceedings of the conference will be published in the December 2013 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
For queries, please contact the 2013 consensus conference co-chairs:
Stephen Hargarten, MD , MPH (
hargart@mcw.edu)
Mark Hauswald, MS, MD (
markhauswald@gmail.com)
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD (
jhirs001@umaryland.edu)
Ian B K Martin, MD (
ian_martin@med.unc.edu)
Information and updates will be regularly posted in
Academic Emergency Medicine, the SAEM Newsletter, and on the journal and SAEM websites.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of Cincinnati and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Cincinnati designates this live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.