Government Services Symposium 2012
April 2-April 5, 2012
The Village at Squaw, Olympic Valley, CA

SCHEDULE

Monday, April 2

0700-0730    Registration & Breakfast

0730-0740    Welcome --- LTC Melissa Givens, MD, MPH, FACEP

0740-0835    Combat Medicine Ethics--The Easy, the Hard, and the Excruciating—CAPT James Ritchie, MD, FACEP

0835-0930    Military Keynote from the Office of The Joint Chiefs of Staff—Major General Douglas J. Robb, DO

0930-0945    Break

0945-1040   Treating Pain in Your ED—LtCol Vikhyat Bebarta, MD, FACEP

1045-1140   Evaluation of the Agitated Patient in the ED – Joan Mavrinac, MD, MBA

1145-1400 Consultants Lunch—LtCol Mark Antonacci, MD, FACEP; CAPT Andrew Johnson, MD;
                                                            COL Ian Wedmore, MD, FACEP

1400-1455   Altitude Illness--  COL Ian Wedmore, MD, FACEP

1500-1555  Pre-Hospital Homeostatic Damage Control Resuscitation—LtCol Peter Anderson, MD

1555-1615  Break

1615-1700  Medical Advances During the Korean War—LTC Bret Ackermann, DO, FACEP

1705-1800  Make it Stop! Persistent Crying in the Young Child—Maj Torree McGowan, MD, FACEP

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 Activities

1815-1945 GSACEP Board of Directors Meeting (all members invited)

2000-The Resident Reception

2000-Board of Directors Dinner

Tuesday, April 3

0700-0730   Breakfast in the Exhibitors Hall

0730-0825 Ophthalmologic Trauma—COL Robert De Lorenzo, MD, FACEP

0730-0910 Research Forum: Review of Staff Posters—Col Shawn Varney, MD, FACEP
0920-110   Research Forum: Review of Resident Posters

0830-0925 Risk Stratification:  What to Do with a Negative Stress Test – CAPT James V. Ritchie, MD, FACEP

0925-0940   Coffee Break with Exhibitors

0940-1015  Evaluating Fever Post Deployment   --LCDR Gerard DeMers, DO

1015-1110  Battlefield Care –LTC Robert Mabry, MD

1110-1500  Main Meeting Room: BREAK

1200-1500   Wilderness  Course –COL Ian Wedmore, MD, FACEP (Please pre-register online for this outdoor course. We will assemble in the main lobby area)

1430-1500 Coffee /Snack Break with Exhibitors

1500-1600  Deployment Toxicology—CPT Joseph Maddry, MD

1500-1715 LLSA Review 2011—COL John McManus, MD, FACEP (Please pre-register online)

1615-1800 Operational Medicine Panel—MAJ Rachel Villacorta-Lyew, MD, chair.

1715-1800  ABEM: Emergency Medicine Continuous Certification (EMCC);  Assessment of Practice Performance (APP) – Stephen Scherr, MD

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1815-2000 Opening Reception –all invited

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Wednesday, April 4

0700-0730  Breakfast with Exhibitors

0730-0815   Critical Care EUS and Why Emergency Ultrasound Will Change Your Life—MAJ Eric Chin, MD

0730-1105  Oral Board  Review Course—COL Marco Coppola, DO, FACEP; Gillian Schmitz, MD(Must pre-register online. This course is limited to 16 attendees.)

0815-0900   Special K (Ketamine) for Special Ops LtCol Peter Anderson, MD

0905-1005 Disease Mimics: Differentiating Disease Processes with Similar Presentations –MAJ Eric Tomich, DO

1010-1105 Top 10 Articles of 2011 –LCDR David Bruner, MD

AFTERNOON BREAK

1430-1500 Last Chance to Visit with Exhibitors

1500-1555   Anal-Rectal Emergencies  COL Marco Coppola, DO, FACEP

1600-1655  New Speakers Forum—LCDR David Bruner, MD, moderator

1700-1755  New Speakers Forum—LCDR Lanny Littlejohn, MD, moderator

 

Wed. Afternoon VHA Breakout Sessions

1400-1455 Occult Blunt Trauma—Trevor Mills, MD

1500-1555-Management of Low-Acuity Chest Pain—Angel Colon-Molero, MD, MBA

1600-1655  Information and Time-Management in the VHA  --Frank Zwemer, Jr, MD, MBA, FACEP;  Pamela Dugle, RN, BSN, MSN

1700-1755-EDIS Data MGMT and ED Patient Flow Improvement  --Suresh Kari, MD, MBA

 

Thursday, April 5

0730-0800  Breakfast  (outside main meeting room) 

0800-1600- Basic Ultrasound  MAJ Jeremy Johnson, DO; MAJ Brooks Laselle, MD (Must pre-register)

0800-0855 Career Progression & Success  --Col Linda Lawrence, MD, FACEP

0900-0955 Update on the VHA  --Robert Jesse, MD, PhD, FACC

0955-1010  BREAK

1010-1040  Round Robin:  Commanders

1040-1110 Round Robin: Department Chiefs- LTC Timothy Barron, DO, FACEP, moderator

1110-1140 Round Robin Operation/SOF

1140-1210 Round Robin  Academic/Research Col Robert De Lorenzo, MD, FACEP, moderator

Thursday AM VHA Breakouts

1010-1105 Peer Review in the VHA and VHA tort cases – Janet Henderson, MD, Pharm D, FACEP; Frank Zwemer, Jr., MD, MBA, FACEP

1110-1210-  Patient Order for ED Patients and Inpatients Being Held in the ED— Ralph Atkinson, MD, and Lynda Hemann, MD.

1215-1330  Lunch on Own

1330-1415  Emergency Medicine in the White House –MAJ Scott Young, DO

1415-1500  The importance of Being an Advocate – Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP

1500-1515  BREAK

1515-1600 Prescription Drug Abuse in the Military –LtCol Vikhyat Bebarta, MD, FACEP

1600-1645  Alice in Wonderland Through the EM Looking Glass –LTC J. Dave Barry, MD, FACEP

 

MEETING ADJOURNS.

GSS 2013 will be March 3-6 at The Crowne Plaza Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American College of Emergency Physicians and GS Chapter ACEP. The American College of Emergency Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Emergency Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 30.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 30.00 hour(s) of ACEP Category I credit.

FACULTY

COL Bret T. Ackermann, DO, FACEP:  Commander,121 Combat Support Hospital; CDR. Brian D. Allgood Army Com. Hosp.; Deputy CDR, U.S. Army Medical Activity-Korea; Adjunct Assist. Professor, USUHS

LtCol Peter Anderson, MD:  Group Surgeon and Medical Director for the 724th Special Tactics Group, Pope AAF, NC.

LtCol Mark Antonacci, MD, FACEP:  Air Force Consultant for Emergency Medicine  to the Surgeons General

Ralph Atkinson, MD: Section Chief, Emergency Medicine Ambulatory Care Service (11 C) Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL.

LTC Timothy Barron, DO, FACEP: Chief, Emergency Department, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, VA

LTC J. Dave Barry, MD, FACEP: Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program; Clinical Toxicologist,  NMC, Portsmouth, VA

LtCol Vikhyat Bebarta, MD, FACEP: Chief, Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, SAMMC, San Antonio, TX

LCDR David Bruner, MD: Assistant Program Director, Curriculum Development, NMC Portsmouth, VA

MAJ Eric Chin, MD: Assoc. Program Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship; MS Clerkship Director, Emergency Ultrasound, SAMMC; Assist. Prof. Military & EM, USUHS

Angel Colon-Molero, MD, MBA, CPE, FACH: Deputy Chief of Staff, Orlando VA Medical Center;  Assist. Professor, Univ. of Central Florida College of Medicine

COL Marco Coppola, DO, FACEP: ACEP Council Speaker, 2011; Academic Vice Chair, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, John Peter Smith Health Network; Adjunct Clinical Professor  Emergency Medicine, Univ. of North Texas Health Science Center and Touro University; Deputy Brigade Surgeon, Texas Medical Brigade, Texas State Guard. 

COL Robert De Lorenzo, MD, FACEP: Chief, Dept. of Clinical Investigation, SAMMC, San Antonio, TX

LCDR Gerard DeMers, DO: Adjunct EM Staff Physician at Naval Medical Center San Diego

Pamela Dugle, RN, BSN, MSN: Nurse Manager, ED, Gainesville, FL

LTC Melissa Givens, MD, MPH, FACEP: Command Surgeon, Special Operations Command AFRICA

Lynda Hemann, MD: Director, Emergency Department, Iowa City VA, Iowa.

Janet Henderson, MD, Pharm D, FACEP : Assist Chief of Medicine, Director of Emergency Department, VAMC Hampton, VA; Assistant Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Dept. of Medicine.

Robert Jesse, MD, Ph.D., FACC: Under Secretary for Health in the VA; Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Health System.

CAPT Andrew Johnson, MD: Navy Emergency Medicine  Specialty Leader to the Surgeons General.

MAJ Jeremy Johnson, DO: Ultrasound Fellowship Director, Dept. of EM, Darnall Army Med Ctr., Ft. Hood, TX

Suresh Kari, MD, MBA:  Section Chief, Emergency Medicine (11C) VA Medical Center, Memphis TN 38104. Assist Professor, Medicine, UT Health Science

MAJ Brooks Laselle, MD: Fellowship Dir., Emergency Ultrasound, Dept of EM, Madigan Army Med., Ctr, Ft. Lewis, WA

Col Linda Lawrence, MD, FACEP: Commander, 31st Medical Group Aviano AB, Italy;  Assoc. Professor, Dept of EM, USUHS; Past President, ACEP.

LCDR Lanny Littlejohn, MD : Med Director, TCCC; Staff Physician, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, NMC, Portsmouth

LTC Robert Mabry, MD: Director, Military Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Program, SAMMC, San Antonio, TX

CPT Joseph Maddry, MD:  Staff physician; Medical Toxicology Fellow, Rocky Mt. Poison Center, Denver, CO.

Joan Mavrinac, MD, MPH, FACEP: Attending Physician, Emergency Department, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, PA

Maj Torree McGowan, MD, FACEP: Staff Physician, David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA

COL John McManus, MD, FACEP: Director, U.S. Army EMS; EMS Fellowship Program Dir., SAMMC; Clinical Assoc. Prof., EM, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio

Trevor Mills, MD, MPH: Chief, Emergency Medicine, Northern California Healthcare System

CAPT James V. Ritchie, MD, FACEP: Director, Simulation Lab, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA

Stephen Scherr, MD: Chief, Emergency Department, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, CA

Maj Gen Douglas J.Robb, DO: Joint Staff Surgeon, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C

Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP: Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California

MAJ Eric Tomich, DO: Staff Physician, SAMMC, San Antonio, TX

Col Shawn Varney, MD, FACEP: EM Physician/Medical Toxicologist; SAUSHEC-EM Assistant Program Dir. for Research; Assist. Prof., Military & Emergency Medicine, USUHS

MAJ Rachel Villacorta-Lyew, MD : Staff Physician, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown Univ., Wash., D.C.

COL Ian Wedmore, MD, FACEP: Army Emergency Medicine Consultant to the Surgeons General; Asst. Prof., USUHS; Chief, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Madigan.

MAJ Scott Young, DO, FACEP: White House Physician,  White House Medical Unit, Washington, D.C.

Frank Zwemer, Jr., MD, MBA, FACEP: Section Chief, Emergency Medicine Primary Care Service (171 ED) McGuire VA Medical Ctr., Richmond, VA; Professor, Associate Chair, Dept. of E M Virginia Commonwealth University