Past event: Medical Support Operations Conference

Confronting the Challenges of Expeditionary Medicine

Traditionally, medical support operations have focused on trauma and emergency response. Whilst these issues remain part of the fundamentals of medical support operations, the scope of operations is broadening at an alarming pace. Due to the complexity and unfamiliarity of recent operations, such as the Ebola case in West Africa, significant flaws in training, resources and logistics have been identified leading to potentially life threatening inefficiencies.

Medical Support Operations provide you with a unique opportunity to network and learn from industry leaders, NGOs and military end users’ experience in dealing with the broadened scope of overseas medical support operations in order to ensure effective collaboration and execution of care as medics are set to work in increasingly remote and diverse environments.


Key topics to be addressed in Medical Support Operations include:

  • Provision of education and training both pre-deployment and in operations to the wider community such as procedures to minimise the spread of infection
  • The need for NGO and military knowledge exchange and collaboration
  • Requirements in enhanced communication and logistics to extend the ‘golden hour’
  • Past experience analysis and lessons learned from recent experiences in areas including the West Africa region


Why you should attend Medical Support Operations:

  • Learn from industry and NGO case studies of expeditionary medical operations and best practice to maximise medical and personnel resources
  • Assess how requirements are set to alter in order to adapt to the changing dynamic of medical operations including logistics, communications and data exchange
  • Gain an understanding of new developments in medical operations including equipment, software and medical sundries to increase the quality of expeditionary care
  • Drive your training and education initiatives to prepare your personnel in an era of isolated and increasingly autonomous environments in which the range of responsibility and care required is expected to extend

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Speakers

Chairman

  • Major General (Ret'd) Alan Hawley, Former Director General of the Army Medical Services, British Army

2015 Speakers

  • Colonel John Mammano, Chief of Medical Readiness Division, US European Command (EUCOM), US Army
  • Colonel Armando Torner Alonso, Medical Branch Commander, Joint Operations Command, Spanish Army
  • Shahnawaz Rasheed, Medical Director and Consultant Surgeon, Humanity First
  • Emma Mumford, Head of the Emergency Surgical Unit, Save The Children
  • Frank Jörres, (Confirmed speaker TBC), German Red Cross
  • Alan Butterfield, Head of Operations and Field Support, Civil-Military Coordination Section, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
  • Evert-Jan Slootman, Seconded Medical Expert/Advisor, European External Action Service
  • Robert Balazs, Technical Officer (Medical) - Operational Logistics Planning and Support Programme Office, NSPA
  • Jonathan Barden, Humanitarian Advisor, Stafffing lead (UK) – Ebola Crisis Unit, Department for International Development
  • Lieutenant Colonel Milos Bohonek, Head Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Central Military Hospital – Military University Hospital Prague, Army of the Czech Republic
  • Major Claus Lie, Specialist Intensive Medicine, Danish Army
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ralf Hagen, Department of Tropical Medicine, German Army
  • Colonel David Ross QHP L/RAMC, Parkes Professor of Preventive Medicine, British Army
  • John English, Disaster Management Coordinator West and Central Africa, British Red Cross
  • Benoit Silve, Director, Institut Bioforce
  • Mr Charles Beadling, Director, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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Pre-Conference Workshop Day 19th May 2015
  • Danish Air Force: Infectious Disease and Preparedness Workshop ( Starting at 12.00)
Conference Day One, 20th May 2015
Including morning and afternoon coffee and networking break and a networking lunch

Conference Day Two, 21th May 2015
Including morning and afternoon coffee and networking break and a networking lunch

The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.

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Venue

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Venue & Accommodation

Copthorne Tara
Scarsdale Place, Kensington
London,
W8 5SR , United Kingdom
Website:  http://bit.ly/1DXKO9r
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7937 7211

Accommodation
Travel and accommodation are not included in the conference fee; however we have put together a HotelMap that displays discounted accommodation for hotels in the area near to Medical Support Operations. The map displays live availability and allows you to book directly with each hotel: https://www.HotelMap.com/pro/MY6U6

Please note: We will never recommend, approve or appoint any third party rooming service to act on our behalf. Please be extremely wary if you are approached by any such companies. We will always endeavour to negotiate the best available rates for you so please use the Hotel´s website link provided.

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Event details
Organizer : IQEU
Event type : Conference
Reference : ASDE-4697