The 2022 ATSPA Annual Conference was a success. Below you can click on the title of each presentation for a PDF of the slides. Thanks again to our attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors. We hope to see you and your colleagues in 2023.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

7:30 am – 5:15 pm           Conference Registration Open 

7:30 am – 3:45 pm           Exhibits open 

7:30 – 8:30 am                  Breakfast Buffet

8:30 – 9:30 am                  Opening Remarks and Awards Presentation

9:30 – 10:30 am                With Collaboration and Mutual Respect, All is Possible: Reducing Gunshot Death through A Public Health Model

                                            (Templeton Lecture) 

                                            Eric Toschlog, MD, FACS, FCCM - Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Trauma       

                                            Medical Director, Program Director, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina

                                            University

10:45 – 11:45 am              Geriatric Acute Care Surgery Update 2021            

                                            Robert Barraco, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCP – Chief Academic Officer, Lehigh Valley Health Network

11:45 am – 1:00 pm          Networking Luncheon  

1:00 – 2:00 pm                   EMS Response to Civil Disturbance

                                            Michael Reihart, DO, FACEP, FAEMS – Regional Medical Director, Emergency Health Services Federation

2:15 – 3:15 pm                   Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence  

                                            Mae Reale, MA – Health Education Specialist, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

3:15 – 3:45 pm                   Beverage Break 

3:45 – 4:45 pm                   Traumatic Brain Injury: It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint!   

                                             Susan Baro, DO – Trauma Surgeon, Geisinger Medical Center

                                             *With special guest Jackie Lithgow and family

5:00 – 6:00 pm                   Networking Happy Hour 

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

7:30 am                               Conference Registration opens     

7:30 – 1:15 pm                   Exhibits open   

7:30 – 8:30 am                   Breakfast Buffet    

8:30 – 9:30 am                   Win When: Bringing Equity to Action (Hersperger-Pryor Lecture)  

                                             Kevin Jenkins, PhD – CEO, Konquered Healthcare Solutions

9:45 – 10:45 am                 Nurse-Physician Communication: How it Affects Patients and Providers                                                                               

                                             Andrew Bernard, MD – Chief of Acute Care Surgery, University of Kentucky

10:45 – 11:15 am               Beverage Break

11:15 am – 12:15 pm         Survive. Connect. Rebuild: An Overview of the Trauma Survivors Network

                                             Katherine Joseph, MPH – National Trauma Survivors Network Coordinator, American Trauma Society

                                             Andrew Oberle, MHA – Executive Director, Oberle Institute, St. Louis University

12:15 – 1:15 pm                 Networking Luncheon

1:15 - 2:30 pm                    The Management of Pediatric Burns

                                             Paul Glat, MD - Chief of Plastic Surgery and Director of Burn Unit, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children           

2:30 – 3:30 pm                   Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center: Response to October 1 Mass Casualty Event

                                             Dorita Sondereker, RN, BSN, CEN, CFRN, TCRN - Regional Program Director, HCA-HealthTrust

3:30 – 3:45 pm                   Raffle Drawing & Closing Remarks