Killarney, Ireland – 2023
Killarney, Ireland – 2023
More than 650 delegates from over 46 countries gathered at the Killarney Convention Centre in May 2023 for WADEM’s first in-person congress in four years to present their research, exchange ideas and experiences, and (re)connect with friends and colleagues. Special thanks to Lord Nigel Crisp, Dr. Saleh Fares Al-Ali, Dr. Ronan Glynn, Prof. Virginia Murray, Prof. Tony Redmond, and Dr. Flavio Salio for their plenary presentations.
WADEM would also like to acknowledge the special sessions and workshops organized by the WHO Kobe Centre, NO-FEAR Project, Stronger Together – Cooperative Action to Respond to Cross-Border Emergencies, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, and Prof. Jeffrey Franc. These activities greatly contributed to the scientific program.
WADEM would especially like to thank all the delegates, many of whom traveled long distances, for joining us Killarney! The wide variety of professions and nationalities represented truly make the congress a dynamic event.
Access the Abstracts, Poster Gallery, and Slide Decks
Within the Oxford Abstracts platform, congress delegates can access the full-text abstracts for all the oral, lightning, table top, and poster presentations from WADEM 2023. Many of the presentation slide decks and posters are also available for viewing and download (if the presenters provided permission to share).
The full program at the following link – https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/e/wadem-2023/program. If you click on sessions in the online program, you’ll be able to access any slides or posters that have been shared by the presenter(s).
Congress Photo Albums
Several photo albums have been put together from the congress and can accessed using the following link – https://www.flickr.com/photos/wadem-2023/albums.
Watch the Presentations from the Plenary Hall
Watch the keynote presentations from the Killarney Congress in May 2023. Several sessions from the congress are also available for viewing below including Education, Training, and Simulation: Session #1, Care Under Fire – Conflict and Hybrid Medicine, and Health Systems and Hospital Overcrowding: Session #2.
Education, Training, and Simulation Session #1 (WADEM 2023)
Session Date: 10 May 2023
Watch the presentations from the first Education, Training, and Simulation session from WADEM 2023.
- Innovator/Influencer - Education and Training in Disaster Medicine: To Simulate or not to Simulate - Prof. Ives Hubloue
- "Baby Steps" for Baby Breaths–How Incremental Changes Changed Our Performance - Rahul Goswami, MBBCh, FACEM
- Exploring Irish Faculty Members' Experiences of Delivering a Multi-modal Medical Education Course in a Resource-limited Environment - Roy McKenna MB, BCh, BAO
- Participants' Experience of Completing Trauma and Critical Skills Training in a Resource-Limited Environment - Anna O'Leary, MBBcHBAO
- Integration of Simulation-Based Exercises and Practical Skills into a Public Health Emergency Management Curriculum - Samantha Noll, MD
- Disaster Management Simulation–A Novel Virtual Exercise - Mazen El-Baba MSc, MD
- Twenty Years on from WCDEM-13, Melbourne 2003: Impact of the Melbourne Statement - Joe Cuthbertson, PhD
- The Quality of Hospital Disaster Plans in Belgium: Evaluation Research. Development and Content Validity of a Questionnaire to Define the Quality Key Performance Indicators Influencing Hospital Disaster Preparedness: A Modified Delphi Study - Christel Hendrickx, CCRN, MSN, EMDM
Care Under Fire - Conflict and Hybrid Medicine (WADEM 2023)
Session Date: 9 May 2023
Watch the presentations from the Care Under Fire session focused on conflict medicine and hybrid warfare from WADEM 2023. Please note there are some graphic images in the slides and the content has been age-restricted (18+) by YouTube. Clicking on the image above will open the presentation recording in YouTube.
- Eric Weinstein, MD - Innovator/Influencer
- Areej Abdel-Fattah, MBChB - "A Scoping Review of the Literature on Landmines in Egypt and their Resultant Disaster Impact"
- John Quinn MD, PhD, MPH, EMT-P - "Ukraine Report from the Field: TCCC in the Multidomain Battlespace"
- Roxane Richter, PhD, EMT - "Triage, Trauma, and Civil Unrest: Decreasing Critical Care Overcrowding and Nursing 'Undertriage' Praxes at the University of Gondar Public Hospital, Ethiopia"
- Zakaria Mani, PhD - "Emergency Nurse Roles, Challenges, and Preparedness in Hospitals in the Context of Armed Conflict"
- Erica Nelson MD, PhM, MAS - "The Integration of Point-of-Care Ultrasound into Practical Trauma Training in Ukraine: A Case Study Highlighting Feasibility, Satisfaction, and Pre- and Post-Training Comfort with the Technology"
- Jessica Ryder, MBBS - "Prehospital Whole Blood Transfusion Training in Ukraine: A Case Study Highlighting the Efficacy of Collaboration and Advocacy"
Health Systems and Hospital Overcrowding Session #2 (WADEM 2023)
Session Date: 11 May 2023
Watch the presentations from the second Health Systems and Hospital Overcrowding from WADEM 2023.
- James Phillips, MD, FACEP - "A Paradigm Shift in Terrorist Attacks"
- George Voicescu, MD, PhD(c) - "Mapping Nurses’ Advanced Roles in Emergency Departments Globally"
- Linda Katirji, MD - "A Hole in the Safety Net Failures of the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic in Kentucky"
- David Oldenburger, MSc, PhD(c) - "Deployed in Disaster: Exploratory Study of Personnel Deployed into Ontario Long-Term Care Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
- Niamh Cummins, PhD - "Clinician Consensus on 'Inappropriate' Presentations to the Emergency Department in the Better Data, Better Planning (BDBP) Census: A Cross-sectional Multi-center Study of Emergency Department Utilization in Ireland"
- Filippo Boroli, MD - "Development and Implementation of Prioritized Care in a Tertiary Hospital Intensive Care Unit During the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic"
- Maiko Yoshida, MD, PhD - "Use of Postmortem Computed Tomography in Disaster Victim Identification: Current Japanese Methods and Challenges"
