Registration is now open for this year’s ‘Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Research in Ireland’ Conference, which returns to the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare on Wednesday 13 November, with a pre-conference networking event the previous evening.
Following the success of the inaugural conference in 2023, this year’s conference agenda will once more promote and inspire pre-hospital emergency care research in Ireland, while also showcasing international research expertise.
There will also be several interactive presentations and five break-out sessions throughout the day, led by Irish and international experts in pre-hospital research, in addition to the launch of PHECC’s Research Strategy.
International guest speakers will include:
Dr Jamie Vassallo works in Major Incident Triage, Division of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr Claire Park MBE is a Consultant in Pre-Hospital Medicine for London HEMS, and Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at King’s College Hospital.
Dr Philip Cowburn MBE is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine working in Bristol who has been active in pre-hospital care since 2004.
J.D. Heffern is a Chief Paramedic for Indigenous Services Canada with the Government of Canada.
Paige Mason is Special Operations Tactical Paramedic with the Ottawa Paramedic Service in Canada.
Dr Alan Batt is Paramedicine Programme Lead at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Michelle O’Toole is Teacher/Practitioner in Leadership, Professionalism and Resilience at RCSI’s School of Medicine and Principal Investigator of HUGS@Home research programme, for which she won the Highest Quality Research Award at the recent UK EMS Research Conference in Cambridge.
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Register here (registration fee is €20 per conference delegate). All queries can be emailed to [email protected].
Snapshots of some leading pre-hospital researchers who gave keynote presentations during ‘Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Research Conference 2023’ ……
Associate Professor Kelly-Ann Bowles, Head of Department and Director of Research for the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and Dr Alan Batt, Paramedicine Programme Lead at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada; and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Prof Helen Snooks, Professor for Health Services Research and Research Lead for the Medical School at Swansea University, UK.
Prof Julia Williams, Professor and Research Lead for Paramedic Science and an Associate Dean of School (Research) in the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
