Along with my Argentine counterpart, Alberto Machado, I have helped with organizing the scientific program for the Second Interamerican Conference on Emergency Medicine. As a boarded emergency medicine specialist, I have been based at the emergency department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and in many international venues. Education my passion, and my belief of bringing emergency medical education has been tested in India and Nepal, where I have put on CME courses for local physicians. I have also worked with residents and medical students at the Sihanouk Center of Hope in Cambodia. But my passion for Latin America was sparked with my involvement in PACEMD (www.pacemd.org) as co-founder, teaching emergency medicine in Mexico. My other passion, ultrasound, became the first emergency ultrasound course, disseminated not only throughout Mexico, but also in Panama, Argentina, and Ecuador. I also created an international high altitude and disaster course in Ecuador.
I am the ACEP ambassador to Argentina and France. Both countries are in a transition between the Anglo-American, and the Continental European model of emergency care. I have been fortunate enough to live in both places, and to experience how our colleagues live in these countries. That is why I am committed to making this conference a success! With all the global attention going to China these days, Argentina is an undiscovered gem. With its growing economy, it will also be the spotlight for our 4th International High Altitude Medicine Congress, on the flanks of Aconcagua, in January 2010.
Take advantage of the Second Interamerican Conference, not only for the education, but also for the experience of a lifetime!
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