The 9th Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) International Conference
Date: January 17, 2025 - January 19, 2025
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
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