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Tracks
May 25-28, 2025
Comprehensive offering of tracks designed to take your EM practice to the next level. Tracks include:
GERIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Rosa McNamara
This comprehensive session on Geriatric Emergency Medicine equips you with the essential skills, knowledge, and advocacy tools to provide high-quality care for older adults in the ED. It delivers practical updates from the latest research, bedside strategies to improve outcomes, and guidance on managing complex issues such as frailty, elder abuse, and healthcare inequalities. Key topics include preventing unnecessary admissions, addressing harms associated with ED boarding, and making evidence-based decisions about advanced diagnostics.
RESUSCITATION, TRAUMA, AND CRITICAL CARE
Track Chairs: Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak, Dr. Joe Nemeth
Resuscitation Unleashed: Pushing the Boundaries of Acute Care Step into the high-stakes world of resuscitation where seconds matter, and lives are saved. This dynamic track will explore cutting-edge approaches to trauma, critical care, and cardiac arrest management, blending science, innovation, and practice. Engage with global leaders as they share game-changing insights and challenge conventional paradigms.
POCUS
Track Chair: Dr. Daniel Kim
Point of care ultrasound is a transformative tool that helps clinicians make better management decisions and improve procedural safety. This track is for both POCUS novices and POCUS experts. It will expand your use of POCUS to critically ill children as well as critically ill adults presenting with chest pain, dyspnea, or shock. You will learn how to level up your use of cardiac POCUS to assess for significant valvular disease that may change your clinical decision making. This track will also explore novel applications with the use of POCUS in the work up of infectious diseases like HIV and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Lastly, it will provide an update on how to use POCUS in the most evidence based manner by reviewing the most important POCUS papers from the past year. Make sure you attend this track to connect with POCUS enthusiasts from around the world!
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY (QIPS)
Track Chair: Dr. Lucas Chartier
In a world where resources are few and challenges are many, building and sustaining a strong infrastructure for quality and safety activities is primordial to ensure excellent patient outcomes and experience. In this track, international experts will describe leading approaches to provider-friendly improvements to patient care. We will also bring to the IFEM audience the ever popular 'CAEP Brag & Steal' session, where presenters 'brag' about their innovative projects so that audience members can 'steal' them back to their own department for the betterment of their patients and colleagues!
HARD CORE EM - JUST THE FACTS
Track Chairs: Dr. David Carr, Dr. Paul Atkinson
This track is the cornerstone of the International Congress for Emergency Medicine 2025 in Montreal, delivering concise, high-impact clinical content for frontline emergency physicians. Featuring a lineup of globally renowned experts, Hard-Core Emergency Medicine – Just the Facts focuses on core topics that define the specialty: rapid decision-making, evidence-based care, and critical interventions in high-stakes environments. Through streamlined, clinically relevant presentations, participants will gain actionable insights to enhance their practice and deliver optimal care where it matters most – in the department. This track will run continuously throughout the congress, offering fast-paced, clinically focused content that aligns perfectly with the intensity and demands of emergency medicine practice.
DISASTER EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Daniel Kollek
Wondering how to respond to a mass casualty , prepare for a Formula 1 race event or get ready for the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse? Perhaps you need to prepare for an event but do not know how to exercise for it? How about Improv anyone - yes, improv and disasters - curious? This track will review those topics present the most recent disaster literature and more. Stuff you will not see anywhere else - you should be there!
GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Amanda Collier
The Global EM track will focus the growth of EM as a specialty around the world. It will particularly highlight knowledge and experiences from practitioners in a broad range of resource-limited settings, equitable care of vulnerable populations and education in newly developing EM systems.
ENVIRONMENT AND ITS CHALLENGES
Track Chair: Dr. Courtney Howard
Details to follow.
LEADERSHIP AND WELLNESS
Track Chair: Dr. Rod Lim
In today's fast-paced and challenging clinical environment, the demands on leaders are greater than ever before. This track will delve into important topics in leadership and wellness, exploring different strategies presented from physicians from around the world. Join us for engaging sessions, where leaders and wellness experts share their insights into strategies and practices for maintaining personal well-being while leading others. You'll learn about the latest research, hear inspiring programs that work in other centers, and discover practical tools to implement in your own leadership journey. No matter who you are, this track offers valuable takeaways to help you thrive both professionally and personally.
EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSIVITY, AND ACCESSIBILITY
Track Chair: Dr. Constance Leblanc
Details to follow.
EMS
Track Chair: Dr. Eli Segal
Advancing prehospital care worldwide: Cutting edge topics & EMS systems evolution.
MEDICAL EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Track Chairs: Dr. Tamara McColl, Dr. Andrew Hall, Marissa Antoniuk
Details to follow.
DRUGS AND DOSES: TOXICOLOGY AND ADDICTION
Track Chair: Dr. Sophie Gosselin
Details to follow.
DIGITAL EM AND TECH INNOVATION
Track Chair: Dr. Kendall Ho
Details to follow.
PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Samina Ali
Details to follow.
RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chairs: Dr. Richard Fleet, Dr. Tim Baker
Details to follow.
FRANCOPHONE TRACK
Track Chairs: Dr. Marcel Emond, Dr. Veronique Castonguay
Details to follow.
RESEARCH IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chairs: Dr. Kerstin de Wit, Dr. Alix Carter
The research track will showcase high quality research and quality improvement work from around the world.