Workshop: Counter-terrorism medicine

This interactive 2-day intensive workshop is designed to assist clinicians, first responders, health service managers, relevant agency staff and policy makers manage a mass casualty, active shooter event, toxicological emergencies and other disasters.

Where: On-site at The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville

When: 8am  to 4:30 pm (approx) Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June

Cost: $990 for 2 days  (registered for 16 CPD hrs - ACEM, CICM, ANZCA)

Day 1: Mass Casualty, Active Shooter Workshop

This highly interactive workshop is led by Jonathan Papson and Nicola Walsham, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Department of Critical Care. Participants respond to an unfolding disaster, presented in stages interspersed with a range of scenarios and table top exercises.

Speakers include:

• Dr Jonathan Papson, Dr Nicola Walsham, Dr David MacRoe, Emma West, Dr Martin Dutch, Mr David Read CSC – Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne
• Prof George Braitberg AM - Director of Emergency Medicine Research Austin Health, Department of Critical Care University of Melbourne
• Prof Robert Gordon - Red Cross
• Associate Professor Derrick Tin -  Senior Fellow Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School BC
• Inspector Mark Doney - Victoria Police State Emergency and Support Command

Topics include:

• threat analysis
• pre-hospital response
• ED preparation
• ED management
• ballistic injuries
• damage control investigations
• psychological trauma
• tactical emergency casualty care
• the active shooter

Day 2: Humans Cause Harm: Terror, Combat and Poisons Workshop

On Day 2, participants focus on the emergence of counter-terrorism medicine, terrorist attack methodologies, the role of the media, toxicological mass casualties and the corresponding health service response.

Presenters include:

• Professor Erin Smith - CEO of the Dart Centre Asia Pacific
• Associate Professor Shaun Greene - Victorian Poisons Information Centre and Austin Hospital Clinical Toxicology Service
• Associate Professor Derrick Tin -  Senior Fellow Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School BC
• Mr David Read CSC – Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne
• Professor George Braitberg AM - Director of Emergency Medicine Research Austin Health, Department of Critical Care University of Melbourne

Topics include:

• counter-terrorism medicine
• terrorist attack methodologies
• principles of battlefield management
• journalism in terror events, disasters and war zones
• nerve agents form Tabun to Novichok
• Cyanide