Tuesday May 22, 2012
General Sessions:
Injury Patterns & Treatment Trends from the Battlefield - Colonel Warren Dorlac, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Director CSTARS; Cincinnati, Ohio

Special Operations Mission - John Steinbaugh, Master Sergeant, Special Forces Medic, US Army, Special Operations Command

Tragedy in Tucson - Brad Bradley, EMT-P, EMS Chief, Northwestern Fire Department
Breakout Sessions:
Wildland Firefighting Survival - JP Harris, Battalion Chief (retired), Los Angeles County Fire Department

Current Gang Trends - Sergeant David Auner, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Hemostatics & Tourniquets - Kenji Inaba, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Division of Acute Care Surgery - LAC+USC Trauma,
Program Director – Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University Southern California

Leading with Purpose in Wildland Fires - Scott Jones, Assistant Chief (retired), Los Angeles County Fire Department; Robert Doyle, Deputy Chief, Glendale Fire Department

Disaster Planning in the Outback - Richard Johnson, MD, MPH, Health Officer, Mono and Inyo County

Non-Lethal Weapons
- Kenji Inaba, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Division of Acute Care Surgery - LAC+USC Trauma, Program Director - Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University Southern California

Dangers of Major Faults (San Andreas vs. Japan)
-Lieutenant Bobby Wyche, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Traveler’s Diseases
- Frank Meyers, Epidemiologist, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego
Wednesday May 23, 2012
General Sessions:
New Initiatives in EMS - Howard Backer, MD, MPH, FACEP, Director of California Emergency Medical Services Authority

The Violent Patient - John Valenzuela, EMT-P, Assistant Fire Chief, Tempe Fire Department
Breakout Sessions:
Legal 101 for Emergency Responders - John Valenzuela, EMT-P, Assistant Fire Chief, Tempe Fire Department

Emergency Burn Treatments - Richard Grossman, MD, FACS, Founding Medical Director, Grossman Burn Centers

Technical Rescue Command - Jim Pearson, Fire Captain, San Bernardino County Fire Department

The Arab Awakening - Ebrahim Ashabi, Author of “Evolution of Radical Islam: Jihadist plans to conquer the world”

Acute Management of Spinal Cord Injuries - Kara Snyder, RN, MS, CCRN, University of Arizona Medical Center

Lessons from the Chili Earthquakes - Howard Backer, MD, MPH, FACEP, Director of California Emergency Medical Services Authority

Sexploitation - Gretchen Means, Deputy District Attorney, San Diego District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit

Thursday May 24, 2012
General Sessions:
The Stealth Jihad in the United States and the Islamist Terror Threat Post- Bin Laden - Joseph A. Ruffini, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.) Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist
Breakout Sessions:
The EMS Response to Active Shooter Incidents - Jim Morrissey, EMT-P, MA, Tactical Paramedic and Medical Program Director for the San Francisco FBI SWAT team and the Disaster and WMD Coordinator for Alameda County Emergency Medical Services

Arson Murders and Fire Death Investigations
- Detective Ed Nordskog, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Radiological Emergencies - Ken Miller, MD, Medical Director, Orange County Fire Authority; Medical Team Manager on Urban Search & Rescue, California Task Force 5

EMS Behind the Walls - Jorge Gomez, RN and Allen Francis, RN, Statewide Emergency Medical Services Liaison Nurse, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation / California Prison Health Care Services

Homicide Investigations - Crime Scene Management - Detective Mark Lillienfeld, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Community Resilience - Alonzo Plough, MD, MPH, PhD, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Public Speaking - Zachary Hall, Ed.D, Speech Communications Instructor, Cuesta College

Social Media
- Captain Mike Parker, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Who Let the Dogs Bite?
- Kay Thompson, RN, BSN, Rady Children’s Hospital