SECOND ANNUAL MEDICAL CONFERENCE

DISASTER MEDICINE AND HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS:

Lessons Learned from International Experience
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011
1 PM to 4:30 PM
Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto
155 College Street, 6th Floor

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS:
DR. OFER MERIN, Chief of IDF Field Hospital, Haiti; Trauma Surgeon and Deputy Director General, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem. “Medical achievements in times of crisis”

DR. PETER CHU, Trauma Surgeon, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Associate Professor, U of T; “Medical humanitarian missions to the developing world (Haiti & Africa)”

DR. SANDY BUCHMAN, Palliative Care Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital; Assistant Professor, U of T; President-Elect Chair of the Board, College of Family Physicians of Canada. “Strengthening competency in palliative care at St. Luke’s Hospital Zomba Central District, Malawi”

DR. BERNIE GOLDMAN, Cardiac Surgeon, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Professor, U of T; Chairman, Save A Child’s Heart’ Canada. “Providing critical cardiac care for children from under-developed countries”

LEYA ARONSON, RN: Hospital for Sick Children and North York General Hospital, “Medical humanitarian missions in Guyana”

MAJ. VIVIAN McALISTER, Trauma Surgeon, Professor, UWO, DART (Canada’s Military Disaster Assistance Response Team), “Haiti with Op Hestia”

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1) Presentation of medical issues that arise from treating patients in the context of disaster relief and humanitarian missions
2) Education about humanitarian work carried out by various medical organizations
3) Information about the necessary steps required to organize and carry out successful humanitarian or disaster relief missions

This event is accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada — 3 Mainpro-M1 credits and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada — 3 Section 1 credits.