Author: Mark Newcombe

Hearing the experiences of colleagues from around the globe has been one of the key features of DevelopingEM since our first conference in Sydney in 2012. Over the years we have had incredible presentations on wide ranging topics including Lead Poisoning in Nigeria The health effects of the US Embargo of Cuba The work of […]

Our good friend April Kam from Canada brings together an amazing group of experts for a top-notch Paediatric track. April returns for her third DevelopingEM and she has organised a group of old and new faces. Mary Langcake, Tanya Solano, Donovan Dwyer, and Suzanne Beno return to the team having helped DevelopingEM hugely in the […]

Peter and Gerard have joined our Medical Organising Committee and return with an amazing Trauma track for #DevEM2018 Fiji. They and a multinational group of presenters are covering topics that span the breadth of trauma management. Get a taste of how good this session is going to be- check the trauma track from last years’ […]

Professor Kate Curtis and her team return to DevelopingEM with an expanded Nursing workshop for local delegates. This year your donations and registrations are helping DevelopingEM to host a full day Nursing Workshop exclusively for Fijian and regional delegates. The first half of the day focusses on the HIRAID emergency nursing assessment framework with the afternoon […]

Jon returns to DevelopingEM as part of Brian Wright’s Adult EM and Critical Care Team. This is Jon’s fourth DevelopingEM and we remain enormously grateful for his expertise and support over the last 5 years. Palliative Care may seem out of place in a critical care track but it remains an important part of the […]

The winner of the all-around dude award in Colombo, Nick Taylor, returns to DevelopingEM. He’s dragging himself away from our nations’ capital Canberra to give us all the years’ best cardiology update. Nick is a self confessed ECG nerd and even if you think you know some heart stuff he will show that there’s even […]

David returns from Pittsburgh as part of Brian Wright’s Adult EM and Critical Care track. David has helped us out over the last few years and its great to have him back again. His presentations definitely meet the brief of aiming information at the senior clinician and giving them something they can take back to […]

Following the release of our complete program last week we would like to re-introduce our main track leads. We’re lucky to have our all our leads from 2016 returning to lead the core components of DevelopingEM. April (Paediatrics), Nat (Global and Regional EM), Brian (Adult EM), and Peter and Gerard (Trauma) all return after helping […]

DevelopingEM is now accredited for CME/CPD through the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM).  For each hour of conference and workshop education ACEM allocates 1 CME/CPD point. The program is now accredited for 33 points for the plenary from December 3-6, 2018 and 9 points for the NAEMSP Workshop on Sunday, December 2, 2018. North American, British and European […]