Chairs of the Congress and Committees

Executive Committee Chairs
A. Antoine Kazzi (AAEM)
Roberta Petrino (EuSEM)

José Luis Casado Martínez (SEMES)
Guillermo Burillo Putze (SEMES)

Scientific Committee Chairs
Francesco Della Corte (EuSEM)
Andy Jagoda (AAEM)
Martín Tejedor Fernández (SEMES)
Santiago Ferrandiz (Spain)

Executive Committee
AbdulWahab Abubaker Al Musleh (Pan Arab Society)
Raed Arafat (Romania)
Helen Askitopoulou (Greece)
William Barsan (Michigan)
Erik Barton (Utah)
Charles Cairns (Colorado)
Axel Ellrodt (SFMU, France)
Michael Frass (Austria)
Pinchas Halpern (Israel)
Ghaleb Okla (New Mowasat, Kuwait)
John Marx (North Carolina)
Ed Panacek (California)
Ulkumen Rodoplu (Turkey)
Brian Tiffany (Arizona)
Knox Todd (Georgia)
Richard Wolfe (AAEM)

Scientific Committee
Diane Birnbaumer (California)
Roger Barkin (Pennsylvania)
Ivo Casagranda (Italy)
Philippe Dabadie (France)
Jean Emmanuel de La Coussaye (France)
Lewis Goldfrank (New York)
Patrick Goldstein (France)
Jerome Hoffman (California)
Ramon Johnson (California)
William Mallon (California)
Peter Rosen (Massachusetts)
S. Hunyadi Anticevic (Croatia)
Robert Simon (Illinois)
Judith Tintinalli (North Carolina)
Abdullah Al Hodaib (Saudi Arabia)
Kamal Badr (Lebanon)
Wolfgang Dick (Germany)
Joseph Epstein (Australia)
Gurkan Ersoy (Turkey)
Antonio Hernando (Spain)
Valentin Madrid (Spain)
Agnes Meulemans (Belgium)
Narciso Perales (Spain)
Patrick Plunkett (Ireland)
Antonio Quesada (Spain)
David Talan (California)
Andreas Thierbach (Germany)
Yehezkel Waisman (Israel)
Ron Walls (Massachusetts)
David Williams (UK)
Luis García-Castrillo Riesgo (SEMES)
Francisco Javier Montero Pérez (SEMES)
Francisco Javier García Vega (SEMES)
Ramón Nogué Bou (SEMES
Luis López Andujar (SEMES)

Organizing Committee

Chairs of the Research Abstracts Forum
John Richards (AAEM) and Peter Thompson (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Healthcare Systems Forum
Jeffrey Arnold (AAEM) and Pinchas Halpern (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Research Education Forum
Judd Hollander (SAEM) and David Yates (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Residency Education Track
Mary Jo Wagner (CORD) and Roberta Petrino (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Disaster Medicine Track
Michel Debacker (EuSEM/EMDM) and Carl Schultz (AAEM)

Chairs of the Neurological Emergencies Track
Ed Sloan (FERNE) and Francesco Della Corte (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Prehospital Track
Francis Mencl (NAEMSP), Raed Arafat and Helen Askitopoulou (EuSEM)

Chairs of the Middle Eastern Conference
James Holliman (CIEM) and Mark Davis (AAEM)
Ulkumen Rodoplu (EuSEM) and Abdullah Al Musleh (Qatar)

Other Organizing Committee Members
Alain Vadeboncoeur (Canada)
Hashim Allam (Egypt)
Gabor Kelen (Maryland)
Philip Anderson (Massachusetts)
Tomislav Petrovic (France)
Jeffrey Smith (Washington DC)

SEMES Members of the Organizing Committee
Manel Chanovas Borrás (SEMES)
Mercedes Carrasco González (SEMES)
Mikel Martínez Ortiz de Zárate (SEMES)
Jorge López (SEMES)

Workshop Directors

Emergency Ultrasound
Peter Thompson (EuSEM) and Michael Lambert (AAEM)

Non-invasive Ventilation
Roberta Petrino (EuSEM) and Dianne Birnbaumer (USA)

Airway Management
Volker Döerges (Germany) and Ron Walls (AAEM)

Pediatric Procedures
Ghazala Sharieff (AAEM) and Yezhekiel Waisman (Israel)

Emergency Nursing
Gladys Mouro (Lebanon) and Ghaleb Okla (New Mowasat Hospital)

Chemical Weapons of Opportunity
Paula Burgess (ATSDR) and Michel Debacker (EMDM)

Advisory Board

Chairs
Guido Monga, Dean, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Alberto Manetta, Senior Associate Dean, University of California, Irvine

Presidents and Chairs of Sponsoring Societies
Luis Aguilera, President, SEMFYC, Spain
Andres Gimeno (SEMERGEN, Spain)
John Heyworth (BAEM, UK)
Ramon Morera (SCMFIC, Cataluña, Spain)*
Federico Miglio (Italy)*
J. Anton Teixido (SEMERGEN, Cataluña, Spain)*
Michael Kosnett (ACMT)*
Jacques Kopferschmidtt (SFMU, France)*
Marc Giroud (SAMU, France)
Robert Bass (NAEMSP)
Richard Hunt (NAEMSP)*
Hong Yong Kim (Korea)
Ubaldo Mengozzi (Italy)*
Anthony J Martin (Ireland)*
Mark Sabbe (Belgium)*
Gos de Vries (Netherlands)*
Roger Lewis (SAEM)*
Dar-Yu Yang (Taiwan)*
Stephen Hayden (CORD)*
Debra Perina (CORD) **
Hahn Shick Lee (Korea)*
Kumar Alagappan (AAEMI)*
Cobi Assaf (Israel)*
Andrej Brucan (Slovenia)*
Kwan Yu Chien (China)*
Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland)*
Mabel Vasnaik (SEMI, India)*
Milan Tichacek (Czech Republic)*
Branka Tomljanovic (Croatia)*
Ruben Gutierrez Luna (Mexico)*
Ulkumen Rodoplu (Turkey)*
Bengt Widgren (Sweden)*
Abdelwahab Almusleh (Pan-Arab Society)*
Raed Arafat (Romania)*
Theodor Fridriksson (Iceland) **
Mary-Claire Baby (Quebec)*


All of these societies are sending official representatives or delegations and are promoting the Congress to their members. They also give input into the program and provide speakers and moderators.

Listed advisory board leaders are being acknowledged for their support. Some nations have two names listed to reflect a change in the leadership since we started planning the Congress.

Other Regional Leaders & Advisory Board Members

Spain
Dolors Fores (SCMFIC, Cataluña)*
Albert Casasa (SCMFIC)*
Ramon Morera (Spain) (SCMFIC)
Juan Sanchez-Lloret (Spain)*
Josep Martinez-Carretero (IES, Cataluña)*
Andreu Claret (EIM)*

International
Vitor Almeida (Portugal)*
Valerio Gai (Italy)*
Fikri Abu-Zidan (United Arab Emirates)*
Jae Myung Chung (Korea)
David Cone (NAEMSP)*
Robert Shesser (Washington, DC)*
Paul E. Pepe (Texas)*
Nabeel Al Abdulrahman (Abu Dhabi)*
Jon Baldursson (Iceland)*
Denis Vella Baldacchino (Malta)*
Walt Stoy (Pennsylvania)*
Jassim Al Mehza (Bahrain/Arab Board)*
Ali Bidari (Iran)*
Jae-Myung Chung (Korea)*
Mohamud Daya (Oregon)*
Elhoussaine Louardi (Morocco)*
Aldo Panegrossi (SIMEU)
Cem Oktay (Turkey)*
Oktay Eray (Turkey)*
Bilal Kattan (Saudi)*
John Fowler (Turkey)*
Yun Sik Hong (Korea)
Zouheir Jerbi (Tunisia)*
Richard Nowak (Michigan)*
Cengiz Kayahan (Turkey)*
Tahir Ozisik (Turkey)*
Hamed Hamadeh (New Mowasat, Kuwait)*
Larry Gold (California)*
Sulaiman Al-Abbadi (Jordan)
Rashed Hijazi (Jordan)
Tammi Thomas (California)*
Yosef Leibman (Israel)*
Tawfiq Nasser (Gaza & the West Bank)*
Jamil Bayram (Lebanon)*
Hany Eteiba (Egypt)

* indicates this leader has expressed interest or commitment in personally representing his or her national society at the Congress.
** indicates he or she is not likely to come and that another society leader will be representing them.