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Introduction

Violence has unfortunately been in human history since the dawn of time. With the growth of international emergency care, how humanity responds to violence has evolved. How knowledgable are you regarding the interface of violence and emergency care provision? For this session, we present three perspectives of violence as it relates to international and local emergency medicine.

Learning Objectives

• To gain an understanding of the epidemiology of global violence, and the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross is managing this.
• To gain insights into the epidemiology of emergency patients who present to the emergency department because of violence.
• To gain insights into the current creep of violence into the environment of an emergency department and ways to manage this.

Program

10:00-10:30am – Violence and global emergency care, an overview from the International Committee of the Red Cross

10-30-11:00am – Violence in the home, an overview of the effects of violence at home and patient presentation patterns to the emergency department

11:00-11:30am – Violence in the emergency department, a perspective of current trends and possible solutions

Date and Time

Timezone - United Coordinated Time

Wednesday 8 October, 10:00am -11:30am UTC

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All delegates will receive:

• Access to the session
• Digital acknowledgement of attendance
• Link to recorded presentations

Course fees

$45 AUD – Doctors and health professionals from high-income countries

$5 AUD – Doctors and health professionals from low- and lower-middle-income countries

$5 AUD – Residents/Medical Students/Health Professionals from low- and lower-middle-income countries

Note – the prices above are expressed in Australian dollars, with AU$1 approximately equivalent to 0.65 US dollars. Click here to check the cost in your currency.

Moderators

Dr. Simon Chu

Chair IFEM Emergency Medicine Practice Committee

Dr. Ankur Verma

Chair IFEM Trauma Special Interest Group

Speakers

Dr. Sandy Ingliss

Sandy is an emergency medicine specialist originally from South Africa and now based in Geneva. He is an Australasian trained FACEM and has worked in many different contexts and had some years back in South Africa, where he was involved in the early development of emergency medicine and trauma systems in his home province of Kwa Zulu-Natal. He joined ICRC in 2020 and has worked in the field in Sudan and Bangladesh and more recently in the ICRC Rafah field hospital in Gaza where he was the senior medical officer. He also works on board ships as expedition doctor to the polar regions. He now holds the position of Emergency Medicine specialist at the headquarters of ICRC in Geneva.

Dr. Yves Giebens

Yves is the Hospital Services Programme Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC.) Yves Giebens has been working for the ICRC since 2012 as a hospital administrator/hospital project manager in Afghanistan, Chad, DRC and as a health country director in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Israel, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Today, Yves is based in Geneva as the head of the ICRC’s global hospital program. Prior to the ICRC, Yves was a member of the board of directors in a Belgian general hospital in Antwerp and held other executive positions in the health domain. He lectured on the topic of hospital management at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and held a research associate position within the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

Yves has academic qualifications in Medical, Social Sciences, Gerontology from the Free University in Brussels (Belgium), Management & Healthcare Policy from the Catholic University in Louvain (Belgium). He studied Public Health at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) and is an alumnus of the European Healthcare Leadership Program at INSEAD (France).

Dr. Lai Heng Foong

Dr Foong is a Senior Emergency Staff Specialist based in Sydney who has a passion for Public Health, including Domestic violence, Disaster preparedness, Climate Change and Health, Indigenous Health and the social determinants of health. She has a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. As an emergency trainee she completed a research project on Domestic violence (DV) in patients presenting to the Emergency Department in Darwin, Northern Territory. She also trained as a Sexual Assault and Forensic Examiner. She is currently the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the Chair of the Public and Environmental Health Special Interest Group of IFEM. She has written and presented on DV and its health impacts at Parliament House NSW, medical conferences and continues to advocate for people who have suffered DV. She has presented on elder abuse at Trauma and Emergency conferences. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Bonnie Support Services, an organisation offering support to women and children escaping DV. The solutions for Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) requires a focus on safety, especially housing and financial, and multisectoral collaboration and a paradigm shift of FDV as a whole of societal issue, rather than in silos of health, law enforcement and advocacy.

Dr. Kavita Varshey

Kavita is an Emergency Physician and Disaster Medicine Specialist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, AUSTRALIA. She also has a special interest in medical education and simulation. Kavita is an alumnus of the European Masters of Disaster Medicine.

Kavita has attended and teaches on professional development courses in Disaster Medicine which include:

• Incident Command Structure (ICS)
• Major Incident Medical Management Course (MIMMS)
• Hospital Major Incident Medical Management Course (HMIMMS)
• CBR Disaster training Westmead Hospital
• AUSMAT team member course

Kavita is very involved in medical education and simulation. She has completed the Harvard Simulation Course and the Stanford Course in clinical teaching. Kavita is also involved with the operationalisation of the NSW Biocontainment Centre (NBC) at Westmead Hospital. The first unit of its kind in Australia designed to manage patients with possible or suspected high consequence infectious diseases.

Kavita has also been involved with the creation of a Code Black program at her hospital which has been instrumental in training staff to be aware of the possibility of violence within an emergency department, and to respond to it.