EUSEM Winter Days 2026 – Scientific Programme
Thursday, 19 March 2026
Opening Ceremony
Welcome to EUSEM Winter Days 2026
Time: 14:00 – 14:15
Frontline Military Medicine meets Frontline Emergency Medicine – A growing need to share skills and knowledge
Time: 14:00 – 14:15
Speaker: Robert Leach – Belgium
Keynote Lecture
The Future of Disaster and Prehospital Medicine in a Changing World
Time: 14:20 – 14:50
Moderators:
Plenary Session 1: Advances in Prehospital at the Extremes
Time: 14:50 – 15:50
Moderators:
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Lionel Lamhaut – France
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Vitor Almeida – Portugal
14:50 – 15:05 – Traumatic cardiac arrest and resuscitative thoracotomy: who survives?
Speaker: Zane Perkins – United Kingdom
15:05 – 15:20 – How do you train for rare events
Speaker: Kate Prior – United Kingdom
15:20 – 15:35 – Bringing increasingly complex care to the roadside (endovascular resuscitation)
Speaker: Lionel Lamhaut – France
15:35 – 15:50 – Medicine in extreme remote areas
Speaker: Jonathan Moisson – France
15:50 – 16:10 – Coffee Break
Plenary Session 2: Disaster Medicine & Mass Casualties
Time: 16:10 – 17:10
Interactive Session: Mass Casualty Triage: MCM in your ED
Moderators:
Keynote Lecture: Psychological Impact of War and Terrorism: The Medic as Target
Time: 17:10 – 17:40
Moderators:
17:40 – 18:00 – Evening Networking Session and Poster Presentations
Friday, 20 March 2026
Keynote Lecture
Overview of Recent Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
Time: 09:15 – 09:45
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Plenary Session 3: What Every EM Doctor Needs to Know About Military Medicine and Damage Control
Time: 09:45 – 11:05
Moderators:
09:45 – 10:05 – Lessons in Military Medicine We Have Forgotten/Relearnt
Speaker: Nicolas de l'Escalopier – France
10:05 – 10:25 – The C-ABCDE Approach in a Hostile Environment – Initial Stabilization Under Threat
Speaker: Vitor Almeida – Portugal
10:25 – 10:45 – Lessons Learnt from Ukraine
Speaker: Narhiz Dzhavadova – Ukraine
10:45 – 11:05 – Battlefield to Civilian Care: What EM Physicians Must Learn About Prehospital Damage Control
Speaker: Carmen Diana Cimpoesu – Romania
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
Plenary Session 4: CBRN Threats in the 21st Century: Preparedness and Response
Time: 11:30 – 12:30
Moderators:
11:30 – 11:50 – Preparing the Population for CBRN Attacks
Speaker: Benoît Vivien – France
11:50 – 12:10 – ECDC/CDC Specialist – Emerging Biological Threats
Speaker: Takoua Khzouri – France
12:10 – 12:30 – Detection at the Scene
Speaker: Hubert Gueriot – France
Keynote Lecture
International Disaster Response Coordination
Time: 12:30 – 13:00
Moderators:
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch Break
Plenary Session 5: CBRN, Triage and Case Studies
Time: 14:00 – 15:00
Interactive Session: CBRN, Triage and Case Studies
Moderator: Vitor Almeida – Portugal
Keynote Lecture
Preparing the Civilian Response to Military Casualties in Europe
Time: 15:20 – 15:50
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Closing Roundtable
Disaster Medicine in 2030: Priorities for Research, Training and International Co-operation
Time: 15:50 – 16:45
Moderator: Saleyha Ahsan – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Panel:
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Stéphanie Rist – Minister of Health, France
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Hosams Abu Meri – Minister of Health, Latvia
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Raed Arafat – Minister of Emergency Affairs, Romania
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Lee Wallis – WHO representative, Switzerland
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Steve Photiou – Chair, DM Section, EUSEM, Greece
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Catherine Bertrand – President, French Society for Disaster Medicine, France
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Abdo Khoury – Vice-Chair, DM Section, French Society for Emergency Medicine, France
Closing Ceremony
Time: 16:45 – 17:00
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