The hybrid conference, to be held under COVID-safe protocols in Melbourne and online, is to be hosted by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) on behalf of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and will examine the conference theme, ‘Better care for a better world’.
With healthcare and humanitarian emergencies having been dominant global themes of recent years, ICEM 2022 will bring together experts from around the world, as they contemplate the big issues, themes and challenges in relation to delivering and improving emergency care on an international scale.
The conference will host a wide variety of global speakers, showcasing clinical and experiential topics, including research, trauma, paediatrics, toxicology, ultrasound aged care, leadership, pandemic and disaster impacts, equity, climate challenges, innovation and technology and much more.
Program highlights include the following plenary sessions:
- COVID-19: Lessons for emergency care and public health response
- Global emergency care in a post-pandemic world
- Clinical advances in global emergency care
- Why equity matters
- Equity through advocacy: lessons from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and The Pacific
- Overcoming the tyranny of distance: improving healthcare equity and access by bringing the emergency doctor to the patient
- Towards a sustainable planet: how will climate change impact the development and delivery ofemergency care?
- Resuscitating the planet: how can clinicians contribute to sustainability in healthcare?
- Environmental emergencies: clinical care in a warmer world
- Transformative technology: how is innovation advancing emergency care?
The full ICEM program and speaker list can be viewed via the hyperlinks.
