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Sir Ranulph Fiennes joins WEM Conference ’15 line-up
We are delighted to welcome veteran explorer and writer Sir Ranulph Fiennes as guest speaker at the World Extreme Medicine Conference.
Fiennes was the first person to visit both the North and South Poles by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot, and in 1984 was recognised as the “world’s greatest living explorer” by The Guinness Book of World Records.
The veteran explorer is still breaking records and undertaking expeditions, and in April this year is taking part in the ‘toughest footrace on Earth’; the Marathon des Sables in Morocco. If he completes it, he will be the oldest Briton ever to have done so. Fiennes, who has written numerous books about his army service and his expeditions as well as a book defending Robert Falcon Scott from modern revisionists, is bound to be an enthralling speaker…
Now in its fifth year, the World Extreme Medicine conference challenges thinking, builds bridges and introduces new ideas about medicine at its most remote and austere. We join together in one arena, four disparate but overlapping medical fields; Pre-hospital, Disaster & Humanitarian, Expedition, and Extreme medicine, to present new ideas and experiences from leading experts in their field.
New for 2015, are speakers on nanotechnology, remote diagnosis tools, extreme physiology and endurance sports medicine. We will also be considering the impact of climate change on global health, as well as the impact of conflict on civilians.
Always keen to inspire debate, our Innovation Platform will see ambitious medics pitching their ideas for small research grants before an expert panel.
The conference opens for registrations on March 29th 2015
Dr Luanne Freer working with inspirational NGO Partners in Health, reports from West Africa
Ebola emerged in West Africa in late 2013 and has spread across borders, killing thousands and leaving behind survivors and shattered families.
Partners In Health has helped respond to the epidemic, aiming to address not only Ebola but also the “staff, stuff, systems, and space” challenges that hamper containment efforts. PIH has recruited and trained American volunteers, many of whom are now working to curb Ebola alongside West African partners in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Several share their reflections below:
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health
Partners In Health and Last Mile Health staff tour the Ebola Treatment Unit in Bong, Liberia, managed by the International Medical Corps.
Ebola emerged in West Africa in late 2013 and has spread across borders, killing thousands and leaving behind survivors and shattered families. Partners In Health has helped respond to the epidemic, aiming to address not only Ebola but also the “staff, stuff, systems, and space” challenges that hamper containment efforts. PIH has recruited and trained American volunteers, many of whom are now working to curb Ebola alongside West African partners in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Several share their reflections below:
Sorrow and Celebration
January 1, 2015–It is crazy busy here [in Port Loko district, Sierra Leone], and I’ve cried every day. Not despondent crying, but trying to be appropriate and grieve when I need to. One of our employees, a 52-year-old sprayer (they spray us down with chlorine as we are taking off the personal protective equipment) died yesterday. He was the sole caregiver for two young boys, who were two of our last admits of 2014 yesterday.
One 28-year-old father who survived Ebola was nursing his last child (his wife and other kids died two weeks ago), and we tried so hard to get his baby through. You know where this is going. His last family member, a 1-year-old tiny little girl, died yesterday. Our staff sobbed at the gate when he wailed and said she was all he had left in the world.
It guts me to see their grief. I can deal with the corpses and the horrible illness, but their grief is overwhelming when I think about what it must feel like. They have nothing, live in dirt-floor shacks with a few goats and have to haul their unclean water from the river, have no available health care, and then they lose their family? I’m crying just writing this. I, we, have so much to be grateful for.
But if I had to choose a way to spend New Year’s Eve (I was on the 4 p.m.-12:30 a.m. shift last night), it would be to be doing what I was doing. Giving sleeping pills and Valium to people who can’t sleep because of their suffering, feeding a starving little baby with no parents, sedating elderly encephalopathic adults. They just look terrified and mumble unintelligibly, but I can understand enough to know they are having awful hallucinations. And you know what? Sometimes they pull through, and I celebrate those victories; they keep me coming back.
We discharged nine survivors one day last week. I treated a case of cerebral malaria this week and transferred the patient to a government hospital that has one nurse on duty for 50 patients. I hope he gets his artesunate [medication for malaria], but we didn’t want him to catch Ebola just because he had the bad luck to catch malaria in the middle of this epidemic.
So that was my New Year’s Eve. Today I have the only day off I will have for an entire month, and I woke up to go on a 10K run on a relatively cool, breezy morning. I ran through several villages where little kids ran to the road yelling “abado!” (white person!), and adults said “Happy New Year and thank you!” (I am crying again—it’s so beautiful to have people from the community say thanks for what you are doing.) A few little kids ran along with me for a while, and we raced from sign to sign. It will be very difficult to leave this place when it is my time to go.
Luanne Freer
Article (c) Partners in Health
Winners of the ‘David Weil Extreme Medicine Award’ (DWEMA) 2014
The ‘David Weil Extreme Medicine Award’ (DWEMA) and is by invitation only and we are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 awards.
The sponsorship scheme was set up to enable worthy medical candidates a chance to attend the conference. The winners learnings would then be applied to medicine in extreme, front line, disaster and relief environments, helping turn advance medical care in the situations where typically treatment would be lacking. The award also serves to promote new qualified individuals who show great promise in the area of disaster, humanitarian and remote medicine.
Dr Sanjaya Karki
Born in the beautiful landscape of Nepal where he completed his early schooling. Dr Karki later graduated from Dow Medical College, Pakistan in 2003. Since then he has been actively participating in Nepal and elsewhere for the promotion of Emergency and Extreme medicine.
After finishing medical school he was involved in the department of Emergency in Kathmandu Medical College and teaching hospital, Nepal as a medical officer. In 2008 Karki completed the European official double masters in Health and Welfare from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and EHESS – Paris, France. Soon after he was involved with Ministry of Health in association of THE GLOBAL FUND and worked as monitoring and evaluation officer in different districts if Nepal, ministering the Malaria program.
With a great passion in humanitarian activities he later joined Medecins Sans Frontieres – Holland and was deployed in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Being highly committed to emergency medicine completed 3 years of residency in Emergency medicine in Norman Bethune College of medicine, China. After this he joined Grande International Hospital, Nepal in charge of the Emergency Department. He he advocated in the formation of the Emergency medical service and helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) .
He has been advocating the dire need of well equipped ambulances in underdeveloped countries like Nepal and elsewhere, where it is critical to saving lives.
Currently Dr Karki is working in the position of Scientific research fellow in the University clinic –Leipzig, Germany. He has been working to figure out if there could be any measures to detect lung cancer in the early stage even in the Emergency department. In addition to this he has been working at finding out the role of Phospholipid transfer protein in relation of COPD.
Dr Karki is writing a book about the protocol of emergency medicine.
Dr Therese White 
In April 2011 Therese was honoured to be chosen as the last UK medical student to experience a medical elective with NASA’s aerospace medical team in Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. It was a very special time to intern with the team as we were in preparation for STS-134 Endeavour- the second last ever space shuttle launch from the KSC.
During my time with NASA I trained with the Department of Defence, preparing for emergency contingency plans for launch day; explored the Space Life Science Lab and presented my research project entitled “Would I survive in space? Infectious disease and the US Space Program”. The project explored the medical obstacles that we need to overcome, to ensure safe long-haul space missions to optimise crew health. This internship sparked my fascination with aerospace medicine and how we can use microgravity as an innovative medical research platform.
Since July 2012 I have worked as a scientific advisor with The Exomedicine Institute, a unique space and technology organisation pioneering in microgravity research; of which Nobel prize winning physician Baruch Blumberg was a founding member. I have prepared a research proposal which outlines microgravity designed experiments in cystic fibrosis and gene therapy, diabetes and infectious disease. With the highly motivated, inspiring and talented Exomedicine team, there are exciting initiatives being prepared for microgravity research being launched and experimented on the International Space Station over the next three years.
Pre-Hospital Medicine Workshop with London’s Air Ambulance
London’s Air Ambulance & Extreme Medicine to host two-day Pre-Hospital Care Workshop
For 25 years London’s Air Ambulance has been at the forefront of pre-hospital emergency medicine, gaining a reputation for clinical excellence and pioneering procedures which have been adopted across the world.
Next month, ahead of the World Extreme Medicine Expo, on the 6th and 7th of November, London’s Air Ambulance is hosting a two-day Pre-Hospital Care Workshop as a precursor to the Extreme Medicine Conference 2014 to give delegates and medical practitioners an insight into the work of the charity and to share some of its advanced practices.
The charity has achieved survival figures for traumatic cardiac arrest and pre-hospital thoracotomy, and success rates for adult and paediatric intubation, which are among the highest in the world.
The workshop will give practitioners the opportunity to get involved with medical demonstrations and scenario based exercises while also providing access to the senior consultants and paramedics responsible for London’s Air Ambulance governance, major incident planning, research and innovation.
Speaking about the event, consultant and education lead, Dr Gareth Grier said: “London’s Air Ambulance has treated over 31,000 patients, which we recognise is a huge amount of experience and learning developed over 25 years. By passing on this knowledge we can help to drive excellence in pre-hospital care standards”.
“Many of the techniques we have pioneered have become widespread as a result of being heard and talked about at events such as this one. During the workshop we will be showcasing some of our more recent innovations, REBOA being one of them, discussing the future of pre-hospital care, challenging conventional wisdom and hopefully, inspiring the next generation of trauma specialists”.
Earlier this year 
London’s Air Ambulance became the first service to perform roadside balloon surgery to control severe internal bleeding on a patient who had fallen from height. Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) is just one of the practical demonstrations delegates can participate in amid a programme that will look at biological terrorism, crew resource management at complex pre-hospital scenes and the role of a UK pre-hospital doctor in the international response to humanitarian disasters.
Programme Overview:
Day One
Seminar topics:
Introduction and overview of London’s Air Ambulance and Pre-hospital Care in the UK
The role of a UK pre-hospital doctor in the international response to humanitarian disasters
Biological Terrorism
Crew Resource Management at complex pre-hospital scenes
The medical response to major incidents in London
Workshops:
Pre-hospital advanced airway
Emergency thoracotomy
Emergency Neurosurgery
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA)
Day Two
Seminar topics:
Pre-hospital blood transfusion in civilian trauma
Damage control anaesthesia – lessons from Afghanistan and London
Opportunities for medical students in pre-hospital care
Paramedic scene leadership during advanced pre-hospital interventions
Defying medical dogma – case studies from the pre-hospital phase
The future in pre-hospital care Nanorobots and suspended animation
Workshops:
Various scenario based training exercises
We love simple new ideas that potentially save lives… GoodSAM
By day Mark Wilson is a Neurosurgeon at Imperial. He also works with London’s Air Ambulance. His specialist area is acute brain problems especially traumatic brain injury (and in particular it’s hyperacute management), but in his spare time he is the developer of a life-saving mobile phone called GoodSAM that crowd sources off-duty doctors, nurses and paramedics to local life threatening emergencies.
Mark has worked extensively overseas both clinically and as an expedition doctor. Locations include India, Nepal, the Arctic, South Africa, and Australia as a GP and as a researcher with NASA. His research areas include the effects of altitude and microgravity on the cerebral circulation, the former of which he extensively researched during the 2007 Xtreme Everest expedition.
He authored The Medic’s Guide to Work and Electives Around the World in 2000 which is now in it’s 3rd edition.
GoodSAM an App that crowd sources off-duty doctors, nurses and paramedics to local life threatening emergencies – GoodSAM. Please take a look and register!
** Ebola Breakout – urgent medic appeal from the British Red Cross **
From the British Red Cross We are looking to launch a recruitment campaign to recruit Doctors and Nurses to staff our urgent response to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. Working with the International Federation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies and we are working to provide additional staff for an isolation unit in Sierra Leone.
We are looking for are qualified and trained medical staff who will be able deploy for a period of around one month. Please note that if an individual is currently patient facing then there would also be a 3 week quarantine period at home in the UK before they could return to normal clinical work. These posts would be paid positions with the British Red Cross.
If any individuals are interested to apply we would ask them to send a CV and cover letter to [email protected]. We would then have a process of interview, training, medical check and briefing including discussions of insurance and security, before a deployment.
Please mention ‘Expedition & Wilderness‘ when making contact
Of interest
Remote Medicine Conferences with EWM and Lindblad Expeditions …
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Workshops and Conference Accredited by The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
We are very pleased to announce that our conferences have been accredited by ACRRM.
About the ACRRM. The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is one of two colleges accredited by the Australian Medical Council for setting professional medical standards for training, assessment, certification and continuing professional development in the specialty of general practice. It also plays an important role in supporting junior doctors and medical students considering a career in rural general practice.
The College is committed to delivering sustainable, high-quality health services to rural and remote communities by providing quality education programs, innovative support, and strong representation for doctors who serve those communities.
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| Extreme Medicine Conference – Expedition & Wilderness Medicine (UK) – 2014-2016 | E1401EWUK | 30 Core |
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| Pre-Hospital Care Workshop with London HEM’s Expedition & Wilderness Medicine (UK) – London – 2014-2016 | E1402EWUK | 10 PRPD & 7 Core + 10 EM MOPS |
WEM Faculty Creates a media stir in the Space Medicine Arena
The genetic secrets of a species of frog that hibernates for months could hold the key to safer space voyages, say scientists.
Researchers from the University of Queensland, headed up by Extreme Medicine speaker Professor Craig Franklin, say that ability of the burrowing frog species Cyclorana alboguttata (pictured) to maintain muscle mass while dormant could help overcome the problem of astronaut’s own muscles deteriorating during long trips in zero gravity.
Although floating weightless in space is something many would-be astronauts dream of, this unique environment takes its toll – leaving muscles drastically under-used and causing a number of health problems from tendonitis to fat accumulation.
With a manned mission to Mars taking anywhere between 39 and 289 days depending on how close the planet is, astronauts would certainly benefit from anything that ensured they were in top physical condition upon arrival on the planet’s surface.
Scientists studying the frog say that that one of its genes known as ‘survivin’ could help. When faced with droughts in their native Australia, the frog survives by burrowing underground and covering itself with a cocoon of shed skin.
This keeps them relatively insulated from harm – but the survivin gene is necessary to protect them from their own bodies. Cells have many different ‘suicide mechanisms’ but one in particular kicks in to remove matter that is apparently damaged – something it judges by long periods of inactivity. Survivin stops this from happening.
“If we can understand the cell signalling pathways that confer resistance to muscle wasting, then these could be useful candidates to study in mammalian muscle atrophy,” said PhD student Beau Reilly in a press release.
“These could help to develop therapies to treat bedridden human patients or even astronauts, who frequently lose muscle tone when exposed to reduced-gravity conditions.”
This sort of research could be even more important for journeys into space further afield than Mars. If scientists can’t develop faster propulsion technology in the future then even travelling to nearby stars could take tens of thousands of years.
“I am fascinated in animals that survive in extreme conditions” said Miss Reilly. “I think humans and modern medicine could learn a great deal from organisms such as burrowing frogs”.
Meet Professor Franklin and a whole galaxy of other thought provoking speakers including NASA doc Micheal Barrett at the next Extreme Medicine Conference in London
London Air Ambulance join the Extreme Medicine Conference 2014 Lineup
We are privileged and humbled by all the support that this years Extreme Medicine Conference is receiving. We are so honoured that the London HEMS Team is joining us to offer a two pre conference Pre-Hospital Care Courses – talk about learning from the best!!
About London’s Air Ambulance is the charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London. The service provides pre-hospital medical care at the scene of the incident and serves the 10 million people who live, work and commute within the M25.
Based at The Royal London Hospital and founded in 1989, the service operates 24/7, with the helicopter running in daylight hours and rapid response cars taking over at night and in adverse weather conditions.
The team, which at all times includes an advanced trauma doctor and paramedic, perform advanced medical interventions, normally only found in the hospital Emergency Department, in time critical, life threatening situations. Missions commonly involve serious road traffic collisions, falls from height, industrial accidents, assaults and injuries on the rail network.
London’s Air Ambulance has an international reputation for clinical excellence and delivers pioneering procedures that have been adopted across the world.
The Institute for Pre-Hospital Care. For twenty-five years, London’s Air Ambulance has been a leader in the development and practice of pre-hospital care. Through its research, innovation and education activities, as well as the professional affiliations and publications of its clinical leadership, it has influenced clinical guidelines, governance standards and the practice of numerous air ambulances, in the U.K. and abroad.
The Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance (www.IoPHC.co.uk) was founded in 2013 to build on and expand this influence. Its mission is to drive excellence in pre-hospital care standards and practice through research, innovation and education; and by fostering collaboration across medical disciplines and institutions dedicated to improving outcomes for people afflicted by critical injury and illness.
In 2014, The Institute created, and will deliver, the UK’s first undergraduate degree in pre-hospital medicine, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London.
Join us at Extreme Medicine 2014 #extremeexpo #LDNairamb
Sir Ranulph Fiennes endorses Extreme Medicine Conference
Extreme Medicine Conference 8-11 November 2014, Royal Society of Medicine, London
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is delighted to endorse the Extreme Medicine Conference Series. The subject matter, close to his heart, brings together the disparate but complimentary, and often overlapping fields, of Extreme & Expedition, Humanitarian & Disaster and Pre Hospital Care medicine.
It is medicine that saves the lives of not only the most remote explorer but also populations devastated by natural disasters, covering the most in need in the most vulnerable of places.
The conference serves to bring global leaders in these areas to share knowledge, network and introduce new equipment and techniques as well as presenting cutting edge research. It is this excellence in extremes which Sir Ranulph is proud to be associated with.
Photo (C) Martin Hartley http://
Professor Craig Franklin joins the Extreme Medicine Conference line up
Craig Franklin Deputy Head of School, Professor in Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
We are delighted to welcome Professor Craig Frankln to our speakers lined up for the next Extreme Medicine Conference in London. Biologist and Professor of Zoology at The University of Queensland, Australia, Craig Franklin has been studying fish, sharks, frogs and reptiles for more than 25 years.
Craig acts as the Director of Research for the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, chair of the Animal Section for the Society for Experimental Biology (London, UK) and an editor for the Journal of Experimental Biology (Cambridge, UK).
Examining how animals respond to environmental change and how they function within their environment has taken Craig on expeditions from the tropics to the poles. Craig has published over 200 scientific articles, including papers in the prestigious journals Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the Royal Society.
The underlying emphasis and direction of Professor Franklin’s research deals with the flexibility and plasticity of physiological systems in organisms especially in response to extreme conditions and environmental change. He ask questions about how animals interact with their environment and takes an integrative approach, examining animal performance and then explores the physiological, biochemical and molecular changes and mechanisms that underlie the whole animal traits.
Professor Franklin, is a strong proponent of wildlife conservation and has a number of research projects assessing the impact of environmental change and human disturbance on threatened species. He maintains a strong interest in highlighting the threats to the conservation of wildlife in Antarctica, which he covers in his book “Antarctica Cruising Guide” AWA Press. He has undertaken 10 research expeditions to Antarctica.
He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes during his career, including being appointed as an Australian Professorial Fellow by the Australian Research Council; receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborg, Sweden; and receiving the President’s Medal from the Society for Experimental Biology, UK. He is also acknowledged as an outstanding teacher, being a recipient of The University of Queensland Award for Excellence in Teaching and a finalist (twice) in the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
London Air Ambulance joining us Extreme Medicine Conference 2014
The world famous London Air Ambulance team will be joining the Extreme Medicine Conference in 2014 not only as highlighted speakers
during the main conference but also partnering to deliver a pre conference trauma workshop.
London’s Air Ambulance features in BBC Two – An Hour To Save Your Life (#AHTSYL) – 3-part series starting 4th March, 9pm
This new series looks at innovations in emergency medicine and the improvements in patient outcomes as a result of doctor-led pre-hospital care and fast-tracking heart attack/cardiac arrest, stroke and trauma patients to specialist centres.
It was filmed over the summer of 2013, spending two months with London’s Air Ambulance including with our Physician Response Unit (PRU), a medical emergency fast response team who are tasked to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, at The Royal London and London Chest Hospitals and with the London Ambulance Service. Filming also took place in Nottingham and Birmingham.
Across the three programmes, nine patient stories are featured, five of these are involving London’s Air Ambulance in the pre-hospital phase. The key clinicians involved in each patient case conducted in-depth retrospective interviews so the style of the programmes is very much clinicians taking the audience through what happens.
Watch the film here…
World Extreme Medicine Expo – what it’s all about… from Expedition & Wilderness Medicine on Vimeo.
Extreme Medicine 2013 – to the delegates
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Great film about the pre conference workshop
Prior to the World Extreme Medicine Conference in Boston we ran, with the very generous assistance of numerous Boston emergency services organisations an amazingly worthwhile pre conference workshop concentrating on the learnings from dealing with mass casualties.
This video explains more;
WARNING SOME GRAPHIC SIMULATED IMAGES
Pre-Trauma Disaster Simulation Workshop from Gloria Tokics on Vimeo.
WEM Awards for Excellence in Remote Medicine (winners announced)
The awards will be presented at the World Extreme Conference on October 28th 2013 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center.
It gives us great please to announce the winners of the EWM Awards for Excellence in Remote Medicine; the winners are…. (drumroll please)….
Company or Organisation of the Year
This award is presented to the company or organisation that has made an exceptional impact on extreme medicine: one that has strived to excel and has set new standards in their fields of expertise, whether it is in research, product or leadership.
2013 Winner – The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston for their utter professionalism in reaction to the tragedy of the Boston Bombing
‘Boston’s trauma centers have been widely praised for saving dozens of Marathon bombing victims, treating one person after another who arrived at their doors with limbs torn off or mangled, some patients having lost most of their blood’. Boston Globe‘When bombs went off at the Boston Marathon on April 15, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) CIO John Halamka found himself dealing with the kind of the emergency few drills could ever prepare you for. As bombing victims were brought into his downtown hospital and the city went into lockdown, Halamka and his team began to parse a nightmare situation…. Then it got worse. Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was bought to Beth Israel… and Halamka, a prominent figure in the bioinformatics world, had to deal with a very unique challenge’
Person of the Year
This award recognises outstanding healthcare professionals who have made a significant contribution to the specialised area of extreme medicine. These contributions, whether they have been in research, leadership, innovation or mentorship, must have had a lasting impact in extreme medicine and nominees must have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to developing this specialised industry.
This years Person of the Years awards will be announced at the prize giving ceremony at Harvard Medical School on the evening of the 30th of October
Product of the Year. A new catagory for 2013. A single product which exemplory in its design and usage.
This years winner is the new generation QuikClot Gauze
‘Every major conflict throughout history produces a medical miracle. This conflict’s miracle is QuikClot’. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN
(embedded with the U.S. Marines 2003) Z-Medica website.
‘For the first time in history, we’ve put the ability to quickly stop bleeding from superficial wounds, minor cuts and abrasions into the hands of anyone who can tear open a package and follow a few simple directions. In addition to products for emergency response, we continue to innovate and deliver life saving products – for the soldier, fireman, first responder, law enforcement officer and surgeon. When blood loss is the concern, QuikClot® is the answer’.Z-Medica website.
The EWM awards are geared to keep all of us in the industry motivated and are dedicated to everyone involved in extreme medicine, no matter how great or small their involvement.
The awards recognise the achievements of some of the most inspiring personalities and companies that are associated in one form or another in the growth of the Remote Medicine industry.
Final speakers program for Extreme Medicine 2013 | Harvard Medical School, Boston
An amazing array of speakers ranging from Astronauts to Everest summiteers, from humanitaritian to pre hospital care experts are gathering next week at the Harvard Medical School Conference Centre in Boston for the annual Extreme Medicine Conference.
The final polish has now been applied to an amazing an speakers program – and if you are one of the few people without a ticket yet they can be purchased here…
The International World Extreme Medicine Conference and Expo 2013 will host some of the very best speakers from around the world, who are amongst the leading figures in remote extreme medicine fields, including expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster, and relief medicine. Alongside the daily lecture series will be exhibitions from focused industry leaders, showcasing products and services to meet your extreme medicine needs.
**’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 Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 33.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity’.
EXTREME MEDICINE 2013 CONFERENCE