The Scientific Committee deals with the academic content including the design of the scientific program, the selection of speakers and the selection of presentation methods. A number of subcommittees have been set up under the Scientific Committee, which deals with sub-elements of the scientific program. Scientific Committee consists of international researchers and experts who have considerable knowledge of the pre-hospital area.
The members of the Scientific Committee will be announced as they get along.
| Andreas Claesson, Sweden | |
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 | Dr. Andreas Claesson, 43 years of age is a Ph.D, registered nurse (R.N) and paramedic still working within the emergency medical services (EMS) of Western Sweden since 20 years back. Claesson has a post-doc research position at the centre for resuscitation science at Karolinska institute, Stockholm Sweden focusing on novel methods for early defibrillation in OHCA such as SMS-lifesaving dispatching laymen and the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) i.e drones for saving lives. Andreas is chairman of the Swedish resuscitation council. |
| Cai Wenwei, China | |
 | Cai Wenwei, MD, Director of Emergency Department of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital. Deputy Director of Zhejiang Provincial Office of EMS. Member of Emergency Medical Branch of Chinese Medical Association. Member of Emergency Medical Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association. |
| David Waters, New Zealand | |
 | David has held various positions throughout his career. He is currently the Chief Executive of Ambulance New Zealand, Acting Chief Executive of the Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) and the President of the Aeromedical Association of Australasia (ASA). Prior to this, David held a number of positions at Standards New Zealand including; Standards Development Consultant – Health, Safety and Environment, Senior Project Manager - Health, Safety and Environment, and also General Manager – Standards and Development. |
| Doris Østergaard, Denmark, @DorisØstergaard | |
 | Doris Østergaard, is Professor in Medical Education and Simulation, and Head of the Regional Simulation Center, CAMES – Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, in the Capital Region of Denmark. The activities in CAMES are mainly related to postgraduate training for health professionals at a national, regional or hospital level. |
| Ervigio Corral Torres, Spain | |
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Fionna Moore, UK |
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 | DR Fionna Moore is Medical Director for South East Coast Ambulance Service. Fionna has served a as Chief Executive Officer of the London Ambulance Service, which is the largest public ambulance service in Europe. Joining the Service in 1998 as the first Medical Director Fionna has worked closely with the Service with responsibility for Clinical Governance, Clinical Audit and Research, and the Service’s Cardiac and Trauma Care strategies |
Freddy K. Lippert, Denmark, @FreddyLippert |
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 | Freddy K. Lippert, MD, Associate Professor, FERC, is CEO of the Emergency Medical Services in Copenhagen, Denmark. The EMS Copenhagen covers a population of 1.7 million, i.e. one third of the Danish population. The EMS Copenhagen includes the following: Emergency Medical Dispatch, ambulance services including physician manned mobile critical care units, psychiatric mobile unit, a medical hotline 24/7, responsibility and coordination of medical preparedness on behalf of all hospitals in the Capital Region. |
| Fredrik Folke, Denmark | |
 | Fredrik Folke is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the EMS Copenhagen, Denmark, with focus on prehospital emergency care, out- of-hospital cardiac arrest, public access defibrilation, and acute cardiac care. He has worked with epidemiology for more than a decade with a special focus on cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Besides reasearch, Fredrik is working as a senior cardiologist at Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Denmark. |
| Hans Morten Lossius, Norway |
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 | Hans Morten Lossius is Professor - MD PhD, specialist in anaesthesiology and intensivist. In the period from 2006 to 2015 Hans Morten was responsible for building up the Research and Development in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. Prof Lossius has been a driving force and a main supervisor in developing internationally published and implemented templates for documenting and reporting in several areas within Emergency Medicine. Together with his research group he has developed and published a modified nominal group technique method for developing such templates. Lossius initiated and supervised the Scandinavian phd-project “Scandinavian physician-staffed emergency medical services: Concept, epidemiology and documentation development”, which was fulfilled ultimo 2013. Prof Lossius has supervised projects testing the validity and reliability of such templates, and is currently involved in projects developing quality indicators both with the FinnHEMS, the Norwegian Air Ambulance, London’s Air Ambulance, and on a European level. |
| Hideharu Tanaka, Japan, @HideharuTanaka | |
 | Prof Hideharu Tanaka, M.D., Ph D., is a Professor, Director and Chairman of EMS system, Graduate School of Kokushikan, University. And researched Scientist, Disaster prevention, EMS and rescue institute of Kokushikan University. He is also Appointed President of Aisian Association of EMS: AAEMS (2015-2017), All Japan Paramedic education Association(JESA)2016-2018, Committee member of National Resuscitation Council, PAD Council of Ministry of Health Welfare and Labour, Board member of Japan Emergency Medical Society. His academic carrior include a medical degree from the Kyorin University of Tokyo in 1983. He completed his Doctor degree in Kyorin University graduate school of medicine/ EMSP fellowships in Tokyo Emergency medical Services (Tokyo EMS) and Attending as Medical director for Pre-hospital care in Tokyo Metropolitan Government. He obtained his Emergency physician board certification in emergency medicine in Kyorin university level 1 Trauma, Burn and CCM. Thereafter, He spend two year training as research fellow of Cook County Hospital, and University of Illinois. He also appointed guest professor of University of Bergen, Norway. He spent more than 20 years for staff surgeon for Trauma and Burn, And associate professor for Critical Care Medicine. |
| James Ward, United Kingdom, @JamesWard | |
 | James Ward has been Medical Director of the Scottish Ambulance Service since January 2014. He graduated from Glasgow University in 1987 and subsequently trained as a GP, working in practice for 18 years and being elected a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs in 2006. He moved into full time medical management in 2009 as Medical Director of NHS Western Isles. Since joining Scottish Ambulance Service his interests have extended to include the organisation of prehospital emergency care. He chaired the scoping group that developed Scotland’s Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy, launched in 2015. |
| Jerry Nolan, UK, | |
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| Jerry Overton, USA | |
 | Jerry Overton serves as the Chair of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, the organization charged with setting standards, establishing curriculum, and conducting research for public safety dispatch worldwide. |
| Lars S. Rasmussen, Denmark | |
 | Lars S. Rasmussen, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Consultant in Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia, Center of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His Ph.D. and doctoral thesis were focusing on long-term effects of anaesthesia on brain function but in recent years, his research has increasingly been dealing with resuscitation and trauma. |
| Ng Yih Yng, Singapore, | |
 | COL (Dr) Ng is the Chief Medical Officer of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. He provides medical oversight of the national emergency ambulance services, supports the ministry of health in EMS policy and legislation. Together with Ong, they drive the national EMS strategy and development of the EMS system. Ng also runs the SCDF myResponder mobile app, which allows 995 to alert nearby CPR trained volunteers to cardiac arrest victims and the national public access defibrillator registry to map AEDs and public education of CPR/AED. |
| Paul Gowens, UK, @paulgowens | |
 | Paul Gowens is currently a Health Foundation, Generation Q, Leadership Fellow and has recently completed his MSc in Leadership at Ashridge Business School. He is currently undertaking a secondment to the Scottish Government, Health and Social Care Directorate as a national clinical advisor with a wide portfolio including, out of hospital cardiac arrest and major trauma systems. Paul has over twenty five years of experience within the Scottish Ambulance Service and has fulfilled a number of key roles from a HEMS paramedic through to his current strategic role at Scottish Government. Previously Paul was the Head of Clinical Governance, Quality and Patient Safety and an active member of the Senior Management Team for the Scottish Ambulance Service. He has also had a number of external leadership roles, as Scottish council member for the College of Paramedics (UK) and sitting on the Allied Health Professionals Federation Scotland Board He is also a director for British Association of Immediate Medical Care Schemes (Scotland) and a member of the Scottish Trauma Audit Group. |
| Pierre Carli, France | |
 | Pierre Carli is professor and chairman of the EMS of Paris (SAMU de Paris) and the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department of Hospital Necker. Pierre Carli is an expert in the area of the prehospital care, cardiac arrest, emergency and disaster medicine. He is President of French Resuscitation Council and Vice-President of SAMU- Urgences de France (the French EMS). Pierre Carli has furthermore been involved in the management of Paris terrorist attacks, the H1N1 outbreak, and the Ebola pandemic. In 2009, he was appointed Chairman of National Board of Hospital Emergencies by the Minister of Health |
| Sang Do Shin, Korea, @Korea_ems | |
 | Sang Do Shin is working as a professor of the department of emergency medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine and Hospital and a medical director of Seoul Metropolitan Fire Department. He has served as a past -chairman, Asian Emergency Medical Service Council (AEMSC), a co-chair, Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcome Study, and chair of Pan-Asian Trauma Outcomes Study Research Network. He has published many articles on Emergency Medical Services Medicine, Trauma, Disaster Medicine, and Resuscitation Science. Shin has conducted nationwide projects on emergency medical service-assessed cardiac arrest and severe trauma since 2006 and many projects on development of national emergency care system in Korea. |
| Stefan Poloczek, Germany, @StefanPoloczek | |
 | Stefan Poloczek has been Medical Director of the Emergeny Medical Services in Berlin since 2011. Prior to this and during medical studies, he worked as an EMT.Stefan Poloczek is an anaesthesiologist and emergency physician and has extensive practical experience in the field of Emergency Medical Services. Stefan Poloczek holds a Masters degree in Public Health from 2003, with a thesis about the correlation between socioeconomic factors and the utilisation of EMS. Stefan Poloczek has worked in management of ADAC Air Rescue, a big HEMS operator, for several years and as head of the division for Infectious Diseases, Emergency Medicine and Emergency Preparedness in Health Care in the State Ministry of Health in Berlin. While undertaking this function, Stefan Polczek also acted as Head for the H1N1 pandemic task force. In 2011 he returned to Emergency Medical Services, where he was responsible for a system performing around 400.000 missions per year. |
| Vinay Nadkarni, USA | |
 | Dr. Nadkarni is medical and research director of the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He holds the institution’s Endowed Chair in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and has been an international leader for development and implementation of critical care and resuscitation science in both resource-rich and resource-poor environments. He has studied and is regularly invited to lecture on these topics at leading academic centers around the world. Dr. Nadkarni previously served as director of CHOP’s Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship program, the first such program established in the world, and has mentored and trained more than 100 physicians, advanced practice nurses, post-doctorate fellows, and international trainees in the course of his career. The Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at CHOP collaborates with scientists, engineers, industry, and human factors specialists to develop state-of-the art simulation techniques and simulators, provides advanced training in highly-realistic simulated environments, and offers consultation and training programs at the local, regional, national and international levels. Dr. Nadkarni is an active and influential participant in the most influential international societies and organizations in this field. For more than 20 years, he has volunteered with Operation Smile International to provide craniofacial surgical repair for more than 2,000 children in resource-limited settings. He serves on the Board of Directors of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, has chaired the American Heart Association’s International Committee, and currently is the chairman of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (which links the American Heart Association and resuscitation councils of Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and Africa). |
