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Dr David Satcher, ex US Surgeon General, joins the DevelopingEM team

This year we have the pleasure to announce the involvement of Dr David Satcher in our program. Dr Satcher was the 16th Surgeon General, serving from 1998 to 2002, and was the first appointee to this position to also be a four star admiral. He was also the Director of the Centers for Disease Control […]

Site Visits to Havana Health Facilities

An exciting addition to our program this year will be the possibility for small group visits to health facilities in Havana. Tours of a hospital, a medical retrieval ambulance base and the Latin American School of Medicine have been organised by our Cuban liaison Dr Pedro Veliz. This option will soon be added to the […]

Presenter Profile – Peter Viccellio

Peter joined us in Havana and Salvador from Stony Brook University Hospital ED in New York, where he is the vice chairman and clinical director. In 2013 and 2014 Peter delivered some entertaining and information laden presentations on Toxicology, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Information Technology in EM, and Trauma as well as facilitating a station in Ashley Bean’s Ultrasound workshop in Havana. It is not a […]

Resuscitation Heavy Resource Light Cardiac Arrest Management: the Anti-ECMO

As you know Scott Weingart from EM:CRIT has come on board for DEM2015. Now he’s recruited Joe Bellezzo and Zack Shinar from EDECMO.org to host a new workshop for us in September. It’s a 90 minute session on Wednesday 16 discussing the approach to high quality resource light cardiac arrest management. E-CPR is all the […]

Stuart Swadron from EM:RAP joins us in Havana for DevelopingEM 2015

EM:RAP has supported DevelopingEM from the beginning and this year one of their biggest contributors Stuart Swadron is joining our faculty. Stuart began his career in medicine as a general practitioner in Canada. He emigrated to Los Angeles to pursue his passion for emergency medicine. He is currently Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Medical […]

Billy is Back!

Professor William Mallon rejoins us for DevelopingEM 2015 in Havana after contributing hugely to DEM2014 with 3 presentations in Brazil. This year he’ll be presenting on Practice Changing Trauma Articles and Updates in Cardiology. If he ever replied to his emails I’d ask him if he wanted to present this year wearing a Che Guevara Beret – we […]

CaribEDel Sponsorship Options- How You Can Help.

Supporting regional delegates is a concept central to the ethos of DevelopingEM. It’s an idea that we applied to both our conference in Havana and in Salvador. In total we have fully sponsored the attendance of over 100 regional delegates in the last two years. This sponsorship has included support for attendance at the plenary […]