Featured Speakers
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Chief Experience Officer
University Medical Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Course# MEM20003
Course Dates: April 14 - 18, 2020
Meet the Faculty – Aloha Reception: April 15, 2020 • 6:00pm-7:00pm
What Makes this Course Stand Out:
- Keynote Speaker Diane Birnbaumer
- Advanced EKG workshop with Amal Mattu
- World Class Speakers
- Focus on High Risk Topics
- Hands on Small Group Workshops
- No Pharma Industry Funding
Course Directors
Carol Chen, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth Kwan, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
William Shyy, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Overview
High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.
Objectives
The objectives of this conference are to improve competence in diagnosis, treatment, performance of procedures, and patient counseling for neurologic, oncologic, traumatic, cardiovascular, infectious, pediatric, respiratory, and toxicologic emergencies.