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After repeated suggestions from our delegate body, DevelopingEM organised site visits to health facilities in Havana during our conference last year. It was one of the most popular activities we organised and our delegates got to see some of the internal workings of the Cuban health system first hand. This year our Sri Lankan team […]

This year your donations and registration are helping DevelopingEM to host its first Nursing Workshop. This workshop will be exclusively for local Sri Lankan nursing delegates and will be the first time DevelopingEM has included a nursing component to the program. Kate Curtis and Margaret Murphy from Australia, Keerthi Wanasekara from Sri Lanka and Ranujie […]

Matt Dawson, Stephanie Doniger and the Ultrasound Podcast Team return with their renowned 2 day course focusing on every aspect of critical care point of care ultrasound. You cant afford to miss this one! The NAEMSP team also return with their Medical Direction Workshop and the focus this year will be to look at strategies for success in […]

In the last few days we received some thrilling photos of the ultrasound machine, donated by DevelopingEM to the Mirabelais University Hospital in Haiti, in active point of care use. Hi Lee, Even though it is very late, I wanted to let you know how much the residents and staff in Haiti have valued the […]

After the success of our discussion sessions last year in Havana we’ve devoted an entire afternoon to open discussion of some of the most pressing issues facing the development of EM and Critical Care in South Asia and the region. The session on Tuesday 6th December 2016 will be hosted by Nilantha Lenora an EP […]

DevelopingEM teams up again with the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) to provide a pre conference workshop in EMS Medical Direction. This interactive course focuses on EMS in the real world and serves to enhance physicians’ expertise in EMS issues. Participants will receive a foundation upon which to function effectively as an EMS medical […]

Adult EM and Critical Care remains a core component of DevelopingEM. This year Brian Wright from Stonybrook New York returns to co-chair the session with Chula Goonasekera, an intensivist from Sri Lanka. Brian Chula Together they have collected a multi national group of experts to talk about all aspects of adult critical care. The short […]

The team from The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne headed by Professor Peter Cameron, approached DevelopingEM very early on, with an offer to coordinate our trauma day. After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami the Victorian Government assisted in the rebuilding and redesign of the Teaching Hospital Karapitiya in Galle. The responsibility for capacity development within the […]

That’s right – all the presentations from DevelopingEM 2015 Havana are now available at our PAST CONFERENCES Page. There’s some great stuff here from heavy hitters like Abernethy Welch Mallon Swadron Viccellio Holliman Hall Crocco Gausche-Hill Wallace Kumar and Wright amongst others. We think it’s one of the best programs we’ve ever put together and […]

One of the core components of this years’ program will be delivered by our regional colleagues from Sri Lanka and the region. The focus will be on how Emergency Medicine is developing in this evolving region. The session will be chaired by two of the major contributors to the DevelopingEM process. Nat Thurtle is an […]