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WE ARE NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS FOR THE 11TH ANNUAL WARREN WETZEL, MD TRAUMA / EMERGENCY MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM.
The Annual Warren Wetzel, MD Trauma / Emergency Medicine Symposium represents the only regional conference dedicated solely to the management of trauma patients. As such, it has been able to attract a nationally recognized faculty. New York City has 20 trauma centers, and the Symposium provides an important forum for the sharing of science and ideas related to trauma.
Program Goals
Physicians and nurses should be aware of the many complex management strategies available for the treatment of trauma victims in order to minimize complications and mortality. The educational goals of the Symposium are for the attendees to:
- Gain awareness concerning traumatic brain injury in the professional athlete
- Review current diagnostic and management practices in the penetrating neck trauma
- Recognize and understand the key issues in wilderness and environmental medicine
- Learn about and understand current controversies regarding the management of abdominal trauma
- Learn and become aware of new algorithms in resuscitating the blunt trauma patient
- Gain awareness of key issues central to managing the obese trauma patient
- Explore how trauma systems affect trauma triage protocols
- Introduce the healthcare professonal to related issues in gang violence
CME credit application with the NYC Health & Hospitals Corporation
CEU credit issued by the New York State Nurses Association
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Registration Is Now Closed!
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View Symposium Brochure
Off-site parking is extremely limited - please consider using mass transit.
There will be off-site parking with shuttle bus transportation to the symposium.
Off-site Parking Address:
Hutchinson Metro Center
1200 Waters Place
Bronx, NY 10461
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The 11th Annual Warren Wetzel, MD Trauma / Emergency Medicine Symposium
Date: May 13, 2009
Time: 7:00 A.M
Location: Nurses' Residence
Building 4
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2009 Keynote Speaker:
Blunt Trauma & Shock: A Decision-Making Conundrum
Frederick A. Moore, MD, FACS
The Methodist Hospital
Head, Division Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery
Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
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2009 Guest Speakers:
Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAWM
Professor of Surgery
Division of Emergency Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Alice A. Gervasini, PhD, RN
Nurse Director
Trauma & Emergency Surgery Service
Massachusetts General
Asher Hirshberg, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Director of Emergency Vascular Surgery
Kings County Hospital Center
Fred A. Luchette, MD, MS
The Gladys and Ambrose Bowyer Professor of Surgery
Director, Cardiothoracic Crital Care Services
Department of Surgery
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University Medical Center
Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Medical Director, The NFL Player Association
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University & University of Virginia Schools of Medicine
Merry McSwain
EMS Liaison
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sergeant Margaret O'Gara
Community Affairs, Youth Services
Police Department City of New York
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