Program Highlights

Below You’ll Find Just Some of the 12th World Congress Program Highlights

Keynote Presentations by:

Sharon W. Bryson, MC
Deputy Director, Office of Communications, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Transportation Disasters: Following our Compass
Guided by a safety and a moral compass, the NTSB works to improve safety while ensuring assistance to victims and family members impacted by tragic transportation disasters. This overview of recent events, presented by the NTSB’s Deputy Director of the Office of Communications, provides an understanding of the crossroads of the investigative process and the victim assistance response.

Honorable Richard A. Reed, MSW – confirmed
Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
Building Resiliency & its Role in the Continuum of Care in Crisis Management
 The White House is working to build national resilience by engaging partners at the community level: focusing on all aspects of the preparedness cycle & seeking to build community capability to withstand the impact of an event, rapidly respond, effectively recover, and adapt to changing conditions. Most notably, Hurricane Sandy will be discussed.

 

Thomas M. Scalea, M.D., FACS, FCCM
Physician-in-Chief, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
; System Chief for Critical Care Services, University of Maryland Medical System; 
Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery
; Director, Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
Humanism in Trauma and Crisis Care
This presentation will describe the evolution of humanism and its impact on trauma and crisis care. Dr. Scalea will address impediments to providing humanistic care in the high tech environment and will describe options for humanistic care in a crisis environment.

 

Presentations on these & many other topics:

  • Managing School Crises
  • The Bulletproof Mind
  • Helping the Combat Veteran in Crisis
  • Preparing to Deploy Your Team
  • Ethics-Based Leadership
  • Death Notification
  • Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Aviation CISM
  • Building Teams under Pressure
  • Post Action Staff Support Model
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Children and Trauma
  • Exploring Spiritual Assessments during Faith & Doubt
  • Comfort Dogs in CISM Work
  • Resilience in Healthcare
  • Acupuncture & CISM for First Responders
  • CISM and Cultural Diversity

 

Lessons learned from Major Incidents & Crises:

  • The Newtown, Connecticut Tragedy (December 2012)
  • Hurricane Sandy (October 2012)
  • Japanese Earthquake (March 2011)
  • Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse (August 2011)
  • Assassination Attempt on Congresswoman Giffords (January 2011)
  • Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting (August 2012)
  • Slave Lake Wildfire Disaster (May 2011)
  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster (April 2010)
  • Love Parade Festival Disaster (July 2010)
  • Multiple Firefighter Deaths in Furniture Store Fire (2007)
  • Iraq & Afghan War

 

Popular Program Returns with New Presentations!
Friday Evening Plenary Session / Military Symposium
February 22, 2013
7:30pm – 10:30pm
Dessert & Coffee will be served
Six important and timely presentations plus moderated Q&A, discussion and networking. Appropriate for the military, those who work with the armed forces community, or have an interest in traumatic stress and the military. Find the full details here.

 

And presentations by…

  • George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP
  • Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CTS
  • Lt. Col. Dave Grossman on “The Bulletproof Mind”
  • James T. Reese, MS, PhD on  “Ethics-Based Leadership”

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