WADEM is pleased to announce the pre-congress workshops that will take place on Friday, 2 May. The workshops are organized by our Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Infectious Diseases, Primary Care/Mass Gathering Medicine, and Counter-Terrorism Medicine. Registration information will be posted to this page soon!
Hour 1: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Hour 2: Travel Medicine for the Disaster Medicine Professional
Hours 3 & 4: Bio Attack Agents and Case-based Scenarios
This workshop will use table-top exercises (TTX) to showcase primary care and mass gathering medicine. It is targeted at primary care professionals (e.g., general practitioners, pharmacists, social workers, nurses etc.) and mass gathering medicine professionals that work or volunteer at large-scale events.
Learning Objectives:
Hour 1: Health Care Cybersecurity – Where Bits and Bytes Meet Flesh and Blood
Moderator: Ryan Hata, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Chair, WADEM Counter-Terrorism Medicine SIG
A review of the evolution of healthcare cybersecurity focusing on specific medical device vulnerabilities, ransomware-associated attacks, clinical infrastructure security, and key foundational concepts of connected healthcare delivery, this talk will present the epidemiology and impact of this increasingly prevalent problem. Distinct differences between prolonged network downtime and conventional disasters will be highlighted and the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on clinical outcomes in the setting of cybersecurity incidents will be showcased.
Hour 2: Digital Disease – Live Ransomware Clinical Simulation
Moderator: Christian Dameff, MD, Co-Director of the UCSD Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity
This session will feature a live clinical simulation scenario tasking an emergency medicine-trained clinician to address patient care challenges arising from a cybersecurity incident. Consisting of a combination of high-fidelity simulation tools, standardized patient actors, and one game but unwitting volunteer, this exercise will challenge the participant to manage atypical clinical situations without the ability to rely on connected medical technology or diagnostics. The exercise will take approximately 30 minutes and will be followed by a structured debrief where the moderator will review the exercise with the volunteer and explore the thought patterns, clinical choices, assumptions, and pitfalls revealed by the scenario.
Hour 3: Advancing Healthcare Ransomware Resiliency and Response
Moderator: Ryan Hata, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Chair, WADEM Counter-Terrorism Medicine SIG
This will be a 50-minute round-robin presentation discussing the preparedness and response work completed by UC San Diego’s Healthcare Ransomware Resiliency and Response Program (H-R3P). Dr. Dameff will provide background on the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as a funding mechanism and describe the H-R3P conception and project aims. A 10-minute question and answer will follow.
Expected Outcomes
The imperative for clinicians, administrators, governmental officials, and other leaders in health care to understand and effectively respond to the increasing challenge of cyberattacks is more important than ever. Through lectures by experts in the field, practical demonstrations, and the introduction of novel and unique solutions to the global threat of health care cyberattacks, this presentation aims to equip healthcare professionals, policymakers, and technology stakeholders with actionable insights and practical guidance to navigate the complex healthcare cybersecurity landscape.