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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!
INTERNATIONAL & 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.
PLANETARY HEALTH IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Courtney Howard
The "Planetary Health in Emergency Medicine" track will bring together healthcare professionals to address the urgent intersection of climate change and emergency care. This track will explore the challenges posed by climate change on the emergency department (ED) and its patients, as well as actionable strategies to mitigate environmental harm and enhance resilience in clinical practice. Through a global lens, we will highlight innovative solutions and foster cross-cultural learning to improve our collective response to the climate crisis in the context of emergency medicine.
THE ED IN THE SYSTEM LEADING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY & 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
This two-panel track will provide a conversation about experiences in EDI in EM and strategies to mitigate biases. The first panel will examine ageism in EM with Ian Higginson, the impact of AI in EM with Samata Chororia, EDI perspectives on child maltreatment with Anna Karwowska, and Racism and gender biases in EM with Jennifer Bryan. We will include the patient care lens and also the provide lens discussing patient biases, personal and team biases, as well as organizational biases using guiding questions. The second panel will examine leadership strategies to mitigate biases external to the Emergency Department in national and international leadership work, collaborations with the media and organizational strategies to mitigate biases. Ample time will remain for a broader discussion with both panels including mitigating strategies and challenges encountered with these strategies in a conversation with the audience.
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, Dr. Marissa Antoniuk
The innovative Med Ed track will explore cutting-edge approaches to medical education in emergency medicine. Through a series of engaging presentations, panels and workshops, participants will delve into the future of competency-based education, discuss challenges and opportunities presented by AI integration into medical education, explore innovative teaching methods, and learn how to create a supportive and engaging learning environment, even in the age of access block! This track aims to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to optimize the learning experience, cultivate the next generation of emergency physicians, and improve patient care.
DRUGS AND DOSES: TOXICOLOGY AND ADDICTION
Track Chair: Dr. Sophie Gosselin
The Drug and Dose track will present topics that every emergency physician encounters in their practice, with an international scope, from resuscitation to withdrawal management. Panelists will discuss common situations and how best to approach them. Tox cases will no longer appear scary or complicated; with a cognitive framework to approach them systematically while integrating the latest evidence available.
DIGITAL EM AND TECH INNOVATION
Track Chairs: Dr. Kendall Ho, Dr. Grzegorz Waligora
Due to a combination of challenges emergency medicine experiences globally, such as overcrowding and health human resource shortage, and also the rapid introduction of technologies and AI into healthcare, digital applications are increasingly popular to be tested, tried, and implemented in emergency medicine. What examples are there in digital emergency medicine, and what technologies and AI approaches are being used? Where’s the evidence of them? How can we increase those approaches that have demonstrated evidence of success and scale them up locally, regionally, and even globally?
PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chair: Dr. Samina Ali
The pediatric emergency medicine track will help all who treat acutely ill and injured children through a review of scary but rare stuff (metabolic emergencies, EKG changes, pediatric resuscitation) and an update of evidence-based care for common presentations (anaphylaxis, febrile infants). We will also present easy ways to improve families' experiences and satisfaction in the ED through better social, emotional, and pain/sedation care.
RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chairs: Dr. Richard Fleet, Dr. Tim Baker
The Rural Emergency Medicine track will focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of providing emergency care in rural settings. Participants will gain a deeper understanding that rural emergency care is distinct, not deficient, and learn to identify context-specific adaptations that enhance patient care. The session will explore innovative models that have improved emergency care delivery in rural areas and discuss the role of technology in reshaping these practices. Attendees will assess how emerging technologies can either support or challenge the advancement of rural emergency medicine.
FRANCOPHONE TRACK
Track Chairs: Dr. Marcel Emond, Dr. Veronique Castonguay
Le volet francophone abordera un large éventail de sujets liés à la médecine d'urgence, y compris la formation médicale, l'amélioration de la qualité et de la sécurité des patients (QIPS), et les soins aux patients gériatriques et pédiatriques. Des intervenants de toute la francophonie apporteront un éclairage précieux sur les meilleures pratiques, les innovations et les approches collaboratives pour relever les défis rencontrés dans ces domaines critiques des soins d'urgence. Un parcours complet pour ceux qui se consacrent à l'avancement de la médecine d'urgence à travers une perspective francophone.
RESEARCH IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Track Chairs: Dr. Alix Carter, Dr. Kerstin de Wit
The research track will showcase high quality research and quality improvement work from around the world.