SCHEDULE

7:30-8:15 Registration/Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:15 -8:30 Welcome
Thomas Platt, Ed.D, NREMT-P
8:30-10:00 "The Outs and Ins of Mass Casualty Incidents" * 1.5 con-ed hours
Doug Garretson, President/CEO, Center for Emergency Medicine
Joe Suyama, MD, Associate Professor, UPMC
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 "EMS Through the Ages" * 1.5 con-ed hours
Dan Swayze, DrPH, Vice President, Center for Emergency Medicine
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 "EMS and Patient Safety: The Nature of Error"
Owen Traynor, MD
  "End Tidal CO2: Not a Technology to Blow Off"
Micha Campbell, MD
  "Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault: What Emergency Providers Need to Know"
Valerie Krasneski-Schreiber, RN, MS
2:00-3:00 "Getting From Here to There— Pediatric and Bariatric Transport Considerations"
John Pierce, MBA, NREMT-P
  "Tackling Trauma in Tots"
Johanna Rosen, MD
  "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and the Patient with CO Poisoning"
Daniel Christopher, RN, MSN
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 "The Role of Simulation in Emergency Care Education"
Ron Roth, MD
  "Trauma: Where are We?"
Andrew Peitzman, MD
  "Drugs of Abuse: The New Drugs of 2012"
Anthony Pizon, MD

COURSE CO-DIRECTORS

Paul M. Paris, MD, FACEP, LLD (Hon.)
Chief Medical Officer, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc.
Walt Stoy, Ph.D., EMT-P
Director, Office of Education, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc.
Thomas E. Platt, Ed.D, NREMT-P
Associate Director, Office of Education, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc.
Brian P. Maloney, MS, EMT-P
Coordinator of EMS Education, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc.

FACULTY

Andrew Peitzman, MD
Mark B. Ravitch Professor
and Vice Chairman,
Chief of General Surgery

Anthony Pizon, MD
Assistant Professor,
University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine

Johanna Rosen, MD
Fellow,
Department of Emergency Medicine
CHP of UPMC

Owen Traynor, MD
Director of Pre-Hospital Care,
St. Clair Hospital
Medical Director for Paramedic Program,
Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc

Ron Roth, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh

Daniel Christopher, RN, MSN
UPMC Department
of Hyperbaric Medicine

John Pierce, MBA, NREMT-P
Coordinator of EMS Education,
Center for Emergency Medicine

Micha Campbell, MD, NREMT-P
EMS Fellow,
Department of Emergency Medicine
UPMC Presbyterian

Valerie Krasneski-Schreiber
RN, BSN, MS, CEN, SANE-A
Unit Director,
Emergency Department
UPMC Mercy