To be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, 1 Davey St, Hobart, the meeting will run from 17-21 November and will examine the theme of ‘The Changing Climate of Emergency Medicine’.
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With the climate, world and clinical environments radically and rapidly changing, the conference theme will examine the urgent and important issues facing emergency medicine; how accelerating changes will affect public health, hospital emergency departments, clinicians and our world; and what can be done to address the challenges.
Expanding on the meeting theme, speakers and sessions will canvass all the current controversial and not so controversial topics in clinical emergency medicine, with a range of important presentations and discussions.
The ASM is an important opportunity for emergency doctors from around Australia, New Zealand and the world to get together, learn from each other and catch up on the latest to improve their practice for the benefit of their hospitals, healthcare systems and patients.
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ACEM ASM 2019 Keynote speakers include:
- Professor Helen Berry - Professor of Climate Change and Mental Health at The University of Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health. Professor Berry will present on Climate Change and Mental Health, and discuss health and climate change issues during various plenaries and panel discussions.
- Associate Professor David Caldicott – Canberra-based Emergency Consultant, holding conjoint academic positions with the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. Associate Professor Caldicott will present to the conference on Cannabis In Australia – The State of the Nation, and on pill testing as part of a panel discussion on Science, Policy, People and Politics.
- Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton – Emergency Physician, past Chair of the ACEM Public Health Committee and current Director of Emergency Medicine Research at Monash Medical Centre. Professor Egerton-Warburton will present to the conference on Art, Design and Emergency Medicine, as well contributing to a panel discussion on Science, Policy, People and Politics, discussing alcohol and policy.
- Dr Fiona Kerr – Founder of the NeuroTech Institute, an independent body working at the intersection of neuroscience, emerging technology and ethical practice with a multi-disciplinary approach to investigating how humans shape each other, how technology shapes us and thus how we should shape technology. Dr Kerr will present to the ASM on Changing How We Think About How We Think, and Ensuring a Human Centric Technologised Future.
Aligning with the theme of the conference, a range of important discussions examining climate change and its intersections with global and community health, and emergency medicine will also feature at the ASM.
This will culminate in a Climate Emergency plenary on the final morning of the ASM (21 November), to feature:
- Professor Gretta Pecl – Director, Centre for Marine Socioecology; ARC Future Fellow, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Professor Pecl will present on Ocean Climate Change and the Implications for Human Health and Wellbeing.
- Professor David Bowman – Research Chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science in the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania; Director of the transdisciplinary University of Tasmania Fire Centre Research Hub; and Honorary Professor Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. Professor Bowman will present on Climate Change and Fire.
- Professor Helen Berry – (see above). Professor Berry will speak during the plenary on Climate Change and Planetary Health – The Lancet Countdown.
- Dr Aloima Taufilo Teatu – Emergency Registrar at the Colonial War Memorial (CWM) Hospital, Fiji, originally hailing from Tuvalu. Dr Teatu will speak on The Lived Experience from the Frontline of Climate Change.
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Background
ACEM is the peak body for emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand, responsible for training emergency physicians and advancement of professional standards. www.acem.org.au