8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Welcome & President's Address

Ron Pirrallo, MD, MHSA, NAEMSP® President,

David Slattery, MD, Program Chair

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - The National Drug Shortage in EMS

J. Brent Myers, MD

Sabina Braithwaite, MD, MPH

9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Response Time Standards:  Are We Ready to Move to Patient-Based Criteria?

Ed Racht, MD

G. Lee Turpen II, CCEMT-P

11:00 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Prehospital Emergency Care Update

Jim Menegazzi, PhD, Editor

11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Research - Oral Abstracts Session 1 (#1-4)

1 -

2 - Stiell

3 -  Hong

4 - Shin

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Patient Safety in EMS: Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors

Sabina Braithwaite, MD, MPH

John Hoyle, MD

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Intubation/Hyperventilation Paradox

Daniel W. Spaite, MD

Josh Gaither, MD

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Pediatric Prehospital Intubation Revisited

Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD

Darren Braude, MD, MPH, EMTP

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Research - Oral Abstracts Session 2 (#5-8)

5 - Burnett

6 - Stiell

7 - Wayne

8 - Swor

8:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Research - Oral Abstracts Session 3 (#9-12)

 9 - Kule

10 - 

11 - Clemency

12 - Dixon

9:00 a.m. -9:45  a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - International Showcase - Greening-Up the Star of Life: Toward Sustainable EMS​

Lawrence Brown,PhD,MPH,EMT-P

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - The Studies That EMS Must Do​

 David Cone, MD

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Research - Oral Abstracts Session 4 (#13-16)

13 - McMullan

14 - Spaite

15 - Murphy

16 - Blanchard

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 - The Move Toward a National Standard for Mass Casualty Triage

E. Brooke Lerner, PhD

Phillip Coule, MD, MBA

Richard Schwartz, MD

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 - Automatic Crash Notification for EMS 911

Paul Stiegler, MD

Robert Bass, MD

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 - Rapid Fire Session: The Changing Landscape of Out-of-Hospital Airway Management:   
1) Extraglottic Airway Devices 
2) Does Video Laryngoscopy Change the Playing Field; Intubation During CPR

3) Maximizing Airway Performance and Safety

1) Darren Braude, MD,MPH,EMTP

2) Marvin Wayne, MD

3)Chief Scott Vivier, EMT-P

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 2 - Tactical Emergency Casualty Care

E Reed Smith, MD, EMT-B

Geoffrey L. Shapiro, EMT-P

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 2 - Using NEMSIS Data to Improve your EMS System

Jeff Beeson, DO

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 2 - Advancing the EMS Agenda of the Future: the San Diego Beacon Community Health Information Exchange​

James V. Dunford, MD

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 3 - Rapid Fire Session --  Lessons Learned from Local Disaster Response: 
1) Indiana State Fair Collapse
2) Integrating EMS Physicians into Special Operations: The Brewer Street Crane Incident
3)  Superstorm Sandy

1) Daniel O'Donnell, MD

2) Jeremy Cushman, MD, MS, EMTP

3) Ricky Kue, MD, MPH and Allen Yee, MD

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 3 - Defining Value in EMS Care-Moving from Action to Outcome

Marc-David Munk, MD, MPH

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 3 - The National Pediatric Readiness Project

Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD

Katherine Remick, MD

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Utilization of Helicopter EMS

Frank Guyette, MD

Doug Floccare, MD, MPH

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Rural STEMI Problems are Urban STEMI Problems​

Don Rice, MD

Kevin Mackey, MD

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Navigating the DEA Regulations​

Ray Fowler, MD

11:15  a.m. - noon

GENERAL SESSION - The Path to Subspecialty Certification in EMS

Debra Perina, MD

Jane Brice, MD, MPH

John Moorhead, MD

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Awards Luncheon

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Fatigue and Safety in EMS

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Daniel Patterson, PhD, NREMT-P

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Physician Scene Response as an Integrated Component of an EMS System​

Christian Martin-Gill, MD

Brian Clemency, DO, MBA

James MacNeal, DO,MPH,NREMT-P

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - From Global to Local: National EMS Research Agendas​

Ian Blanchard, MSc, EMT-P

Blair Bigham, MSc, ACPF, EMT-P

Niamh Cummins, PhD

Jan Jensen, ACP, MAHSR

Lynn White, MS

4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION - Top 10 Articles​

Blair Bigham, MSc, ACPF, EMT-P

Jon Rittenberger, MD, EMT-B

Michael Millin, MD