Presidents of the Congress

David Williams - EuSEM President
A. Antoine Kazzi - AAEM President

Chairs of the Congress and Committees

Executive Committee Chairs:
Roberta Petrino (EuSEM)
Erik D. Barton (AAEM)
Dominique Pateron (SFMU)

Scientific Committee Chairs:
Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesgo (EuSEM)
Joseph R. Lex, Jr. (AAEM)
Ghazala Sharieff, Co-Chair (AAEM)
Frederic Adnet (SAMU de France)

Executive Committee:
Andy S. Jagoda (New York)
Edward A. Panacek (California)
Richard E. Wolfe   (Massachusetts)
Knox H. Todd (New York)
Gautam Bodiwala (UK)
Pinchas Halpern (Israel)
Ulkumen Rodoplu (Turkey)
Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland)
Claude Lapandry (France)
Marc Freysz (France)
Marc Alazia (France)
Dominique Lauque (France)
Abdulwahab Al-Musleh (Qatar)
Mohammad Shanti (Saudi Arabia)
Andrew Affleck (President IFEM & CAEP)
Hashim Allam (Egypt)

Scientific Committee
Ramon Johnson (California)
Amal Mattu (Maryland)
Larry Weiss (Louisiana)
Richard Shih (New Jersey)
Raed Arafat (Romania)
Nelson Pereira (Portugal)
John Ryan ( Ireland)
Federico Miglio (Italy)
R. Domergue (France)
S. Baque (France)
J. Schmidt (France)
Patrick Miroux (France)
Abdullah Al-Hodaib (Saudi Arabia)

Organizing Committee

Chairs of the Research Abstracts Forum

Chairs of the Healthcare Systems Forum
Philip Anderson (AAEM), Francesco Della Corte (EuSEM)  and Pinchas Halpern (EuSEM)

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

Chairs of the Disaster Medicine Track
Michel Debacker, Francesco Della Corte, Herman Delooz (EuSEM/EMDM) and (AAEM)

Chairs of the Neurological Emergencies Track

Chairs of the Prehospital Track
(NAEMSP), Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesgo(EuSEM)

Chairs of the Middle Eastern Conference

Other Organizing Committee Members
Walid Abujalala ( Qatar)
Munawar Al Hoda (Bahrain)
Jose Garcia Vinay (Mexico)
Abdullah Al-Hodaib (Saudi Arabia)

Abdullah Al-Hodaib ( Saudi Arabia)
Munawar Alhoda ( Bahrain)
Kumar Alagappan ( New York)
Philip Anderson ( Massachusetts)
Jamil Bayram (Illinois/Lebanon)
Helene Cardet (Bois Cocombes, France)
Gerard Cheron (Paris, France)
Christine Chollet (Creteil, France)
James Couvreaur ( Brest, France)
Mark Davis ( New York)
Chayan Dey ( Maryland)
Gos M.J. de Vries (The Netherlands)
Shreef Fyadh ( Egypt)
Aaron Hexdall ( New York)
Hugo Peralta ( Argentina)
Nadeem Qureshi ( Saudi Arabia)
Ed Sloan ( Illinois)
Naji Souaiby ( Lebanon)

Workshop Directors

Course # 1 - Ultrasound Workshop
Course Directors: Peter Thompson (UK) & Michael Lambert (USA)

Course # 2 - Noninvasive Ventilation Workshop Course Directors: Roberta Petrino (Italy) & Dianne Birnbauer (USA)

Course # 3 - Airway Management Updates Workshop Course Directors: Erik Barton (USA) & Volker Döerges (Germany)

Course # 4 - Pediatric Procedures Workshop Course Directors: Ghazala Sharieff (USA) & Yehezkel Waisman (Israel)

Course # 5 - Basics of Research in Emergency Medicine Workshop Course Director: Ed Panacek (USA)

Course # 6 - Advanced Wound Care Management Workshop Course Director: Scott Sherman, MD (USA)

Course # 7 - Advanced EKG Interpretation Workshop Course Director: Amal Mattu (AAEM) & Ulkumen Rodoplu (EuSEM)

Course # 8 - Hospital Disaster Preparedness Workshop Course Director: Francesco Della Corte (Italy)

Course # 9 - Advanced Casting & Splinting Techniques Workshop Course Director: Michael Burg (USA)

Course # 10 - Dealing with Car Crashes in the Field Workshop Course Director: Raed Arafat (Romania)

Course # 11 - Emergency Medicine Residency Director Workshop (CORD) Course Director: Mary Jo Wagner (USA)

Advisory Board

Presidents and Chairs of Sponsoring and Co-Organizing Societies

Suleiman Abbadi ( Jordan)
Silvio Aguilera ( Argentina)
Abdulwahab Al-Musleh (Pan-Arab/PASTEM)
Kumar Alagappan ( New York)
Vitor Almeida ( Portugal)
V. Anantharaman ( Singapore)
Raed Arafat ( Romania)
Jacob Assaf ( Israel)
Ahmed Balma ( Tunisia)
Michel Debacker ( Belgium)
Vito Giustolisi ( Italy)
Marko Gricar ( Slovenia)
Yoon-Sik Hong ( Korea)
Patricia Kunz Howard ( Kentucky)
Juliusz Jakubaszko ( Poland)
Luis Murillo Jimenez ( Spain)
Sam Kini ( South Carolina)
Ago Korgvee ( Estonia)
Rick F.L. Lau ( Hong Kong)
Elhoussaine Louardi ( Morocco)
Vit Maracek ( Czeck Republic)
Anthony Martin ( Ireland)
Jose Luis Casado Martinez ( Spain)
Alastair McGowan ( United Kingdom)
Federico Miglio ( Italy)
Luis Imenex Murillo ( Spain)
Cem Oktay ( Turkey)
Jacob Or ( Israel)
Osama el Orabi ( Egypt)
Hugo Peralta ( Argentina)
Rajhans Prasad (India)
Luis Cunha Riberio (Portugal)
Marc Sabbe ( Belgium)
Aleksander Sipria ( Estonia)
Ugo Sturlese ( Italy)
Robert Suter ( Texas)
Milan Tichacek ( Czech Republic)
Branka Tomljanovic ( Croatia)
Dinas Vaikaitis ( Lithuania)
Laurent Vanier ( Canada)
Bengt Widgren ( Sweden)
T.W. Wong ( Hong Kong)
Dar-Yu Yand ( Taiwan)
Antoine Zoghbi ( Lebanon)
Mariska Zwartsenburg (The Netherlands)
Tariq Linjawi (Saudi Arabia)
Luis Lopez (Mexico)

Other Regional Leaders & Advisory Board Members

France:
Karim Tazarourte (France)
Jean-Emanuel De la Coussaye (France)
T.J. Francillon (France)
Marc Maignan (France)
Jacques Levraut (Nice, France)

Pan-Arab Region:
Nabeel Abdulrahman Ansari (Bahrain)
Fikri Abu-Zidan (UAE)
Jassim Al Mehza (Bahrain)
Kamal Badr (Lebanon)
Imad Dandan (Lebanon)
Osama El-Orabi (Egypt)
Rashed Hijazi (Jordan)
Taha Ibrahim (UAE)
Zouheir Jerbi (Tunisia)
Nejib Karoui (Tunisia)
Bilal Kattan (Saudi Arabia/Lebanon)
Osama Kentab (Saudi Arabia)
Elhoussaine Louardi (Morocco)
Gladys Mouro (Lebanon)
Kazi Omar (Oman)
Mohammad Shanty (Saudi Arabia)
Antoine Zoghbi (Lebanon)
Mohamed Al-Asfoor (Bahrain)
Osama Awad (Bahrain)
Nabil Al-Ansari (Bahrain)

International:
Abdulah Al-hodaib (Saudi Arabia)
Helen Askitopulou (Greece)
William Barsan (Michigan)
Tom Beattie (UK)
Thomas Cesario (California)
Herman Delooz (Belgium)
Lewis Goldfrank (New York)
Jerome R. Hoffman (California)
C. James Holliman (Pennsylvania)
Muayad Khalid (Qatar)
Alberto Jose Machado (Argentina)
John Marx (North Carolina)
Edgardo Menendez (Argentina)
Mohamed Mikati (Lebanon)
Gladys Mouro (Lebanon)
Gunnar Ohlen (Sweden)
Peter Rosen (Wyoming, Massachusetts)
Andrew Sama (New York)
Indrani Sheridan (New York)
Agnes Meulemans (Belgium)
Patrick Plunkett (Ireland)
Benno Wolcke (Germany)
Giovanni Vacca (Italy)
Rajko Vajd (Slovenia)
Andrej Zmave (Slovenia)
Nancy Bonalumi (ENA)
Jih-Chang Chen (Taiwan)