The 9th Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) International Conference

Overview
The Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) Annual Conference is proud to celebrate its 9th Anniversary. Its goal is to provide high quality, evidence-based updates for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.
At the end of the conference, our multidisciplinary participants will have expanded knowledge on a variety of key topics; be able to recognize and manage common yet potentially serious conditions; be able to discuss research in pediatric emergency medicine; and be able to incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.
Conference Objectives
- Recognize serious illness and injury in children presenting to the ED
- Discuss the best evidence in the management of critically ill neonates and children
- Manage a variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, behavioral, and technology-assisted presentations in children
- Review the best articles in PEM for the last year
- Analyze cases using best evidence to critically plan management
- Evaluate clinical pathways in use in pediatric EDs
- Incorporate quality and patient safety goals into daily practice
- Evaluate academic practice in PEM
- Review the interventions needed for a variety of toxicological ingestions
- List the red flags and detail a systems approach when managing trauma
Reward Credits CME: Pending Approval
Target Audience
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Allied Health
- EMTs & Trainees
Scientific Committee
- Prof. Khalid Al Ansari – Physician / Chair
- Dr. Nasser Haider (PEC) Physician – Co. Chair
- Dr. Syed Huda – Physician. Chair
- Ms. Leena Amine – Pharmacist – member
- Ms. Laura Reid – Respiratory Therapist – member
- Prof. Guillaume H. Alinier – Prof Guillaume Alinier, Director of Research – EMS – HMC member
- Ms. Nora Sendad (PEC) – Director of Nursing – member
- Mr. Maher M Salem – Pharmacist – member
- Ms. Beverly Jo – Clinical Nurse Facilitator – member
- Mr. Frankie Familaran – Nurse Educator – member
- Dr. Muhammad Islam – Physician – member
- Dr. Yazeed Eldos – Physician – membe
- Dr. Nadeem Jilani – Physician – member
- Dr. Sohail Ghani – Physician – member
- Dr. Omair Syed – Physician – member