PCP Symposium 2022 - Major Incidents
We are glad to say this year's national Pre-hospital Care Symposium is hosted by the Prehospital Care Programme (PCP) based at Barts and the London School of Medicine!
The symposium will feature a series of talks in the mornings, followed by interactive workshops in the afternoon. There is also an opportunity for students to submit abstracts for a poster presentation, as well as an exclusive opportunity for some students to present their research in the afternoon. The event will be held on Zoom and is free to attend! More information about the schedule and speakers will be released here in due course.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Sign up here. Please note that you MUST sign up for a ticket using a healthcare affiliated or university email address.
Any questions, please get in touch with our conference officer: pcpconference@gmail.com
The symposium will feature a series of talks in the mornings, followed by interactive workshops in the afternoon. There is also an opportunity for students to submit abstracts for a poster presentation, as well as an exclusive opportunity for some students to present their research in the afternoon. The event will be held on Zoom and is free to attend! More information about the schedule and speakers will be released here in due course.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Sign up here. Please note that you MUST sign up for a ticket using a healthcare affiliated or university email address.
Any questions, please get in touch with our conference officer: pcpconference@gmail.com
Morning schedule9:30 Welcome 9:45 Mass Casualty Triage Dr Riccardo Stucchi 10:30 Natural Disasters - 2004 Tsunami Dr Paul Luckin 11:15 Break 11:25 Student Perspective on a Major Incident Connor Maxwell 12:10 Lunch See the full schedule here.
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Afternoon schedule13:00 Sponsor talk: BMA 13:05 Professionalism Through the Lens of Disaster Dr Ruth Berggren 14:00 Workshops Disaster Medicine Bandwidth Role of the Police Zoning Multiagency Involvement 16:00 Close of Day |
Speaker announcementWe are delighted to announce our first speaker! Dr Ruth Berggren will be discussing her experiences during Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans in 2005.
Dr Berggren directs the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at UT Health San Antonio. In this role, she teaches ethics and professionalism while nurturing empathy and humanitarian values. Dr Berggren arrived at UT Health San Antonio in autumn 2006 after an eventful stint at New Orleans' Charity Hospital, where she stood by patients in the HIV ward during Hurricane Katrina until all were safely evacuated. Most recently, she has been active in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as a member of San Antonio's Health Transition Team and a special adviser to Bexar County. |
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Our next speaker is joining us from Australia! Dr Paul Luckin is an anesthetist in Brisbane. He was a Paramedic before studying medicine in South Africa, spending 8 years in a Mountain Rescue Team. Paul served on the Tasmanian Ambulance Service Medical Advisory Council, was Director of Advanced Airway Management training and President of Royal Life Saving Society Tasmania.
Paul is now Director of the National Police Search and Rescue managers Course and provides advice on survivability during SAR operations to the Australian Maritime Authority and to Police across Australia. He is a Captain in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, serving in Bougainville, East Timor, Solomon Islands, the Bali bombs, Banda Aceh following the tsunami, and in Afghanistan. Paul will be talking about the response to natural disasters. He will be sharing his experiences of his response to the 2004 Boxing day tsunami. |
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Our next speaker is Dr Riccardo Stucchi who will be joining us from Italy. Dr Stucchi has a wide range of experience in mass casualty incidents and disaster medicine. He is the current head of AAT 118 Milano and Monza Brianza.
He will opening our conference with a talk on how to triage in mass casualty incidents. |
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Our final speaker is our very own Connor Maxwell. Connor is a final year medical student at Barts. He is part of the Prehospital Care Programme SSC and an alumnus of the Prehospital Medicine iBSc.
He will be sharing his experience of attending a major incident as a student. |
