Special Early Bird Discount
Register before June 15, 2008 and
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Here is what you get:
Up to 27 hours of CME credit from the Wilderness Medical Society
Free Expedition and Wilderness Medicine textbook
Four and a half days of educational lectures and workshops
Network with elite medical professionals from around the world
Conference Information
Itinerary
Time
Activity
Speaker
Tuesday,
September 2
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Registration
6:00pm - 6:15pm
Welcome
6:15pm - 7:15pm
The Expedition Physician
Donner
7:15pm - 7:30pm
Break
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Shark Attacks
Auerbach
2 hours
Wednesday,
September 3
7:00am - 8:00am
Registration
8:00am - 9:00am
Marine Envenomations
Auerbach
9:00am - 10:00am
Living and Working Abroad
Bledsoe
10:00am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:30am
Submersion Injuries
Auerbach
11:30am - 12:30pm
Evidence Based Medical Kit
Callahan
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Hyperthermia
Erickson
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Water Disinfection
Donner
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Med Evac and Overseas Emergency Referral
Callahan
8:00pm - 9:00pm
The Matis Indians of the Amazon Jungle
Spielman
7 hours
Thursday,
September
4
8:00am - 9:00am
Evacuation Insurance
Manyak
9:00am - 10:00am
Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
Magill
10:00am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:30am
Snake Bites on Four Tropical Continents
Warrell
11:30am - 12:30pm
Toxic Plants and Mushrooms
Erickson
Afternoon Labs:
4 hours
Dental Workshop
Nweeia
2 hours
Improv Workshop
Donner
3 hours
Clandestine and Special Operations Medicine Workshop
Callahan
4 hours, not including workshops
Friday,
September
5
8:00am - 9:00am
High Altitude Medicine
Donner
9:00am - 10:00am
Venomous Arthropods
Warrell
10:00am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:30am
Legal Issues
Knutson
11:30am - 12:30pm
Hypothermia and Frost Bite
Kamler
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Roundtable
Moderated by Bledsoe
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Life-Threatening Tropical Medicine Emergencies
Warrell
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Staying Found
Donner
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dive Medicine
Cook
7.75 hours
Saturday,
September 6
8:00am - 9:00am
The Eye
Spielman
9:00am - 10:00am
Medicine at Sea
Johnson
10:00am - 10:30am
Break
10:30am - 11:30am
Rabies
Magill
11:30am - 12:30pm
Medical Teams in the Field
Townes
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Aerospace Medicine
Williams
4.5 hours
Course Objectives
The purpose of the Expedition Medicine conference will be to educate medical professionals regarding principles of working in foreign countries, extreme environments, and remote locations. Experts have been selected to cover the course material. The experts selected not only have impeccable academic credentials, but also vast experience in their chosen fields.
The target audience is the medical professional who ventures into remote locations and/or the medical professional advising patients who plan to go to, or have just visited, a remote destination. Physicians are the primary target but paramedics, nurses, and midlevel providers will also be in attendance.
