Presenters
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Dr. James M. Callahan, FAAP, FACEP (Keynote)
Dr. Callahan is a native of upstate New York and a graduate of St. Lawrence University and the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. He was appointed to the position of Director of Medical Education for the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2006. He also serves as an Associate Residency Director in the Department of Pediatrics. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
His current research interests include mild head injuries, mild traumatic brain injury (concussions) in children and adolescents, immunization practices in emergency departments, and prehospital care for children. He was a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Expert Panel which developed the CDC's Head’s Up: Concussion in Youth Sports program.
Dr. Callahan is a member of the National Steering Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP) program and Editor of the new BLS PEPP Textbook. He also serves on the Pediatric Committee and formerly served on the Emergency Medical Services Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics PREP - EM Editorial Board and a reviewer for five refereed journals pertaining to pediatrics and emergency medicine.
More about Dr. Callahan can be found below
Dr. Callahan will be speaking at the following events at the Focus EMS:
Dr. Alasdair Conn
Dr. Alasdair Conn was born in Sheffield, England. He completed medical school at University of Edinburgh, Scotland and did a research fellowship in surgery at University of Maryland; then, he completed residency in General Surgery at University of Toronto, Canada.
Previous appointments have included: Deputy Clinical Director of Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems; Medical Director, Maryland State Police Medivac Program; EMS Director, State of Maryland; Chief of Trauma, Boston University Medical Center; State Chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Trauma; and Chief of American College of Surgeons Region I Committee on Trauma.
Dr. Alasdair Conn currently serves as Chief of Emergency Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Boston MedFlight critical care transport program.
Alasdair Conn will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
DHART
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART) is based in Lebanon, NH at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire's only verified Level 1 Trauma Center. DHART crews provide both ground and air medical transportation services to the medical communities of Northern New England. In addition, DHART flight crews respond to public safety agency requests for medical evacuation of trauma patients from scenes of injury, and will transport to the closest Trauma Center in the region's five states.
The Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team will be presenting a 1.5 hour lecture on how and when to use a helicopter response. The DHART team will come with one of the helicopters and will discuss all aspects of medical flights.
Eric Jaeger, Esq., EMT-P
Eric is currently the Director and Senior Lecturer for the McGregor Institute of EMS in Durham, NH. As an EMS lecturer, his areas of specialization include the prehospital assessment and treatment of seizures. Eric also teaches in the paramedic program at the New England EMS Institute. He has instructor certifications in ACLS, PALS, PEPP and Traumatic Brain Injury, among others. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from MIT and a law degree from Boston College Law School.
Eric Jaeger will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
PediaSIM
Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI) is a company committed to developing learning tools that impact the education of our future doctors, nurses, first responders and military medics. They are an education company first, and are committed to providing technologically advanced learning tools. PediaSIM, by METI, plays such an important role in ensuring that a learner's first real exposure to the complexities and nuances of treating a critically ill child takes place when the stakes aren't high and the dangers aren't real.
Come run scenarios using the METI high fidelity human patient simulator, PediaSIM. The PediaSIM simulator breathes, blinks, has pupil response, bleeds, and even talks. During this 1.5 hour seminar that will run in each of the time slots, participants will get the chance to work as a team with this top of the line simulator to treat a variety of pediatric emergency medical problems.
Sue Prentiss, BA
Chief, N.H. Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
Suzanne Prentiss is chief of the N.H. Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and is responsible for overseeing the bureau's various functions. These include the dissemination of public education and information relative to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Statewide Trauma System. The Bureau is responsible for managing the training, testing, and licensing of EMS providers, units, instructors, training agencies, EMS dispatchers and EMS vehicles, including wheel chair vans. It is also responsible for facilitating the establishment and maintenance of a communications network that includes citizen access, EMS Units, healthcare facilities, local, EMS Regional Councils, county, and state agencies. Bureau Chief Prentiss serves in the position of Executive Secretary to the Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Coordinating Board, the Medical Control Board, and the Trauma Medical Review Board.
Suzanne Prentiss will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
Dr. Kurt Rhynhart
Dr. Kurt Rhynhart is a general surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center specializing in Trauma and Acute Surgical Care in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He served as a trauma surgeon in the Iraq war. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1996, performed an internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, in 1996-97, performed his residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, where he was chief resident from 2001 to 2003, and a fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, from 1999-2001.
Kurt Rhynhart will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
Chief Richard Serino
Richard Serino, Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) is Chief of Department, Boston EMS and Assistant Director of the Boston Public Health Commission. During his tenure as Chief, he has seen the agency expand and improve to become nationally recognized for the first rate services provided by the EMTs and Paramedics in the field. For more than fifteen years, Mr. Serino has served as an Incident Commander for over 35 mass casualty incidents and for all of Boston’s major planned events, including the Boston Marathon, Boston's Fourth of July celebration, Boston's First Night New Years Event, and the Democratic National Convention in 2004, a National Special Security Event (NSSE).
Mr. Serino oversees and helped develop the DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness and serves as Director of the Boston Metropolitan Medical Response System. Since 1998, Mr. Serino has been a member of the National Faculty for the Domestic Preparedness Program. He was also one of the original contributing members to the Department of Defense Domestic Training Program and Metropolitan Medical Response System. Since its inception, Mr. Serino has been involved with the Lessons Learned Information Sharing (www.llis.gov) network for emergency responders. As a consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Defense, Mr. Serino served on the 9/11 after-action assessment team to review medical consequence management policies and procedures. He was also part of the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine-Homeland Security DVATEX team which assessed US Naval medical facilities internationally. His experience and expertise has led to numerous invitations to speak at nationally recognized events and as guest lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Medical School and School of Public Health.
He is a contributing author for two recent publications on emergency preparedness, 'Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide', published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and 'In a Moment’s Notice: Surge Capacity for Terrorist Bombings', published by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. Serino attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives in State and Local Government program in 2000, completed the Kennedy School's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative in 2005, and recently graduated from the Executive Leadership Program, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. Mr. Serino is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, the International EMS Chiefs Association, and the Board of Directors for Metropolitan Boston EMS Council, as well as being Chair of the American Red Cross Blood Services Massachusetts Board of Directors.
Chief Richard Serino will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
Laurence J. Topliffe RN, BSN
Larry Topliffe currently is a clinical educator for the Shriners Burn Hospital in Boston where he coordinates and teaches classes to staff on Acute Care, Perioperative, Reconstructive and Outpatient Units. Larry has worked on a variety of projects and in different subjects including 3 years at the U.S. Army Reserve 399th Combat Support Hospital.
Larry Topliffe will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
Dr. Michael Witt
Michael Witt, M.D., is the new medical director of the pediatric emergency department at Elliot Hospital in Manchester. Witt joins Elliot from the division of emergency medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Witt graduated from New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, performed his residency at Cooper Hospital-University Med Ctr, Camden, New Jersey and a fellowship at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut.
Michael Witt will be speaking at the following event at Focus EMS:
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