Expedition Medicine National Conference

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The Expedition Medicine National Conference has been designed to provide “best of service” educational opportunities to medical professionals interested in practicing in remote or extreme environments, or consulting on patients who have returned from these isolated locations.  Learn more about the course online at www.expedmed.org.

Course Benefits

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.

Dates

September 2-6, 2008

Location

RENAISSANCE, Washington DC Hotel
999 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 2001 USA
Hotel reservation information available here

Schedule

	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
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
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
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
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

Tuition

Registration Type	Before April 15	After April 15
Physician	$797	$897
Non-Physician	$597	$697

Registration

Online registration is available by clicking here.

Additional Course Information

Sponsor

The Expedition Medicine National Conference is sponsored in part by ACEP and Pennsylvania ACEP.

Target Audience

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.

Accreditation

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 ACEP and Pennsylvania ACEP.  The American College of Emergency Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Emergency Physicians designates this educational activity for a maximum of ­29.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 29.25 hours of ACEP Category 1 credit.

More detailed information is available online at www.expedmed.org.