Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) International Conference 2024
Date: January 19, 2024 - January 21, 2024
Overview of the conference
Now in its eighth year, QPEM’s conference goal is to provide high-quality, evidence-based updates for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.
Conference Objectives
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; will have improved critical thinking; be able to discuss research in PEM; and will incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.
- 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 the 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
Target Audience
Physicians
Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Pharmacists
Allied Health
EMTs
Trainees
Scientific Committee
- Prof. Khalid Al Ansari – Chair of Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Barbara Blackie - Senior Attending Physician - ED
- Dr Syed Haris Huda – Attending Physician, ED
- Ms. Ruth Adeola, Clinical Nurse Facilitator
- Ms. Laura Reid, Supervisor RT Services
- Ms. Shazia Akram, Clinical Pharmacist
- Ms. Leena Amine , Manager –Poison Control Center
- Dr. Nasser Haidar, Senior Consultant Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad
- Pro. Guillaume Alinier, Senior Consultant, HMC?
- Ms. Nora Senda – Director of Nursing-Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad