IMA-WF Conference - IMA’s 100 Year Anniversary - 11 - 14 Dec 2012 Program subject to change
Monday – 10/12/12 Tel Aviv
11:00 to 15:00 IMA - World Fellowship Leaders Meeting (by invitation)
17:00 Welcome Cocktail & Tour - Nachum Gutman Museum
Day 1, Tuesday – 11/12/12 Sourasky Center at Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
08:15 Depart from Hotel
08:45 to 9:15 Welcome Reception
Session I: Moderated by Dr. Tzaki Siev-Ner
09:15 to 09:40 Opening Ceremony Dr. Leonid Eidelman, President of the IMA Dr. Yoram Blachar, Past President of the IMA Dr. Tzaki Siev-Ner, Vice President of the IMA and Chairman of the Organization of State Employee Physicians Dr. Moshe Kostiner, Vice President of the IMA and Chairman of Clalit Health Services, Doctors Association Dr. Zeev Feldman, Chair of the IMA World Fellowship Dr. Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association Brigadier General Dr. Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General of the IDF
09:40 to 10:00 Words from Prof. Zeev Rotstein, Director General of Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital
10:00 to 10:20 100 Years of the Israeli Medical Association - Dr. Leonid Eidelman
10:20 to 10:45 Highlights of Eretz Israel’s Physicians - Prof. Nissim Levy
10:54 to 11:10 The Israeli Healthcare System - Dr. Yitzhak Berlovitz
11:10 to 11:30 Tomorrow’s Medical Technologies – Prof. Arie Orenstein
11:30 to 11:50 Break
Session II: Moderated by Dr. Moshe Kostiner
11:50 to 12:15 100 Years of Medical Research in Israel - Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld
12:15 to 13:00 The Scientific Associations – Historical and Current Perspectives
Internal Medicine Association – Dr. Dror Dicker Gynecology Association – Prof. Moshe Ben-Ami Pediatrics Association – Prof. Matitiahu Berkovitch Family Physicians’ Association – Prof. Shlomo Vinker Ophthalmology Association – Prof. Hanna Garzozi Psychiatry Association – Prof. Moshe Kotler
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch
Session III: Moderator TBD
14:00 to 16:00 Scientific Presentations: International Speakers
14:00 to 14:20 Targeted Intra-Operative Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer: TARGIT-A Trial- Updated Analysis of Local Recurrence and First Analysis of Survival and its Potential Role in the Management of Screen Detected Breast Cancer - Prof. Michael Baum
Session A Session B 14:20 Prehospital Intubation Success 14:20 Bioethical Issues Relating to Health-Care Rates among Israel Defense Forces Professionals in Jewish Sources from the Providers: Epidemiological Analysis Pre-Modern area - Dr. Esther-Lee Marcus and Effect on Doctrine – Dr. Udi Katzenell 14:30 The Influence of the Sabbath on Treatment- 14:35 Electronic Health Records and the Seeking Amongst Jewish Parents - Rachel Patient Centered Medical Home Prawer (PCMH): Demonstration of a Population Based Care Model in 14:40 End of Life Dementia Care: Overcoming the Clinical Practice – Dr. Bernd Barriers to the Provision of Comfort and Wollschlaeger Compassion within a Framework of 14:50 Rheumatology and Personalized Palliative Care – Dr. Michael Gordon Medicine – Dr. Jan Toms 14:55 Update on Circumcision – Dr. Willy Lipschutz 15:10 How Cognitive Neuroscience & Industrial Engineering Can Inform 15:05 The Bells of History Resonate Decision Making Using Optimization in Daily Cardiac Service – Dr. Malka Models in Diagnosis, Treatment and Yahalom in the Evaluation of Effectiveness in 15:15 Disclosure of Diagnosis in Jewish Law – Dr. Rehabilitation Environments – Dr. Michael J. Schweitzer Gerry Leisman 15:25 Telemedicine in the Multidisciplinary 15:35 Physician and Social Worker Collaboration Management of Patients with in the Care of Holocaust Survivors – Dr. Advanced Heart Failure – Dr. Barbara Paris Mariavittoria Pitzalis 15:40 Questions & Answers 15:50 Questions & Answers
16:00 to 17:00 Tour of MSR - Israel Center for Medical Simulation
17:00 to 18:00 Return to Tel Aviv
18:00 to 19:00 Dinner
19:00 Depart for Reception Honoring the Israeli Healthcare System
20:00 Welcome Reception
20:30 to 22:00 Cocktail Reception Honoring the Israeli Healthcare System
The Benjamin Duhl Centre for the Performing Arts, Hatikva Neighbourhood
Day 2 - 12/12/12 – Beer Sheva, Soroka Hospital
8:00 Departure
10:00 to 11:00 Tree Planting (JNF) – Doda’im Forest
11:00 Depart for Community Clinic
11:30 to 12:30 Tour of Rahat Clinic
12:30 to 12:45 Medicine among the Bedouin Community of the Negev – Dr. Ali Alhoashle
12:45 to 13:30 Lunch Accompanying guests’ program: University of Ben Gurion medical school exhibition, a weaving factory in Hura, a Bedouin city, and Beit Guvrin Caves on the way back to Tel Aviv
Session IV: Moderated by Dr. Israel Eilig
13:30 to 14:00 Words from Dr. Shlomi Codish,Deputy Director General of Soroka Hospital
14:00 to 15:10 Mini Symposium: Military Medicine – Moderated by Brigadier General Dr. Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General of the IDF
14:00 Introduction - Brigadier General Dr. Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General of the IDF 14:05 EBM in Light of the Medical Challenges in the Field - Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Elon Glassberg 14:20 Map of Military Medical Services in the Israel Defence Forces - Colonel Dr. Erez Barenboim 14:35 “Tzameret” Program and its Impact on Military and Civilian Physicians in the Coming Years - Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Michael Hartel 14:50 Leadership Challenges in the field of Medicine and Conclusion - Brigadier General Dr. Yitshak Kreiss, Surgeon General of the IDF
Session V: Moderated by Dr. Alex Levin
15:10 to 15:30 Film: Community Medicine in the South of Israel – Dr. Yehuda Limony
15:30 to 15:45 Break
15:45 to 16:45 Tour of Soroka Hospital
Session VI: Moderator TBD
16:45 to 18:15 Scientific Presentations: International Speakers
16:45 Tranexamic Acid in the Prehospital Setting: Israel Defense Forces’ Initial Experience - Dr. Amir Abramovich
16:55 Case Based Urological Learning Program – an Educational Innovation – Dr. David A. Goldfarb 17:10 Training Modalities and Self-Confidence Building in Performance of Life-Saving Procedures – Dr. Ilia Sergeev
17:25 Harvard Medical School Portugal Program in Translational Research and Information – Striving for Excellence in Medical Education – Dr. Sofia Ribeiro
17:35 Novel Education for Military Medics - Maj. Shachaf Aviram 17:45 Medical Conditions in Adolescents – From Epidemiological Trends to a Nationwide Health Project for Disease Risk Reduction – Dr. Yoram Chaiter
18:00 Why is it Important for the Medical Community to Promote Open Access? – Dr. Sofia Ribeiro
18:05 Questions & Answers
18:30 Return to Tel Aviv
Free evening
Day 3 - 13/12/2012 Jerusalem and Yad Vashem
07:45 Depart for Jerusalem
09:30 to 11:15 Tour of Yad Vashem
11:15 to 11:30 Break
Session VII: Moderated by Prof. Shmuel Reis
11:30 to 13:15 Mini Symposium: Medicine and the Holocaust
11:30 Doctors Fleeing Hitler: the Fate of the Refugee Physician 1. Introduction and Overview: Prof. William Seidelman 2. Practicing Humanity: Four Medical Practitioners and their Holocaust Legacy – Prof. Kenneth Collins 3. Refugee Psychiatrists in Palestine: Prof. Nadav Davidovich and Dr. Rakefet Zalashik
12:10 The Role Played by Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) Medical Doctors in Europe Before and After the Second World War to Save Jewish Population in Distress - Katy Hazan and Emmanuel Darmon
12:25 OSE – A Childcare Association that Saved 3000 Children in France during the Shoah Period; Role of Medical Doctors - Katy Hazan and Emmanuel Darmon
12:40 Holocaust in Contemporary Bioethics: Role in Education of Health Care Professionals – Dr. William S. Silvers
12:55 Questions & Answers
13:15 to 13:45 Candle Lighting Ceremony and Laying of a Wreath
13:45 to 14:45 Lunch
14:45 Depart for Mishkenot Sha'ananim (New Yishuv)
Session VIII: Moderated by Dr. Zeev Feldman
15:15 to 15:35 Undergraduate Medical Education – Prof. Rivka Carmi
15:35 to 15:55 Post - Graduate Medical Education – Prof. Shai Ashkenazi
15:55 to 16:15 Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education: The Role of a National Medical Association – Dr. René Salzberg
16:15 to 16:30 Break
Session IX: Moderated by Dr. Leonid Eidelman
16:30 to 17:30 Forum on the Politics of Medicine – a talk with Members of Knesset Dr. Rachel Adatto – Kadima Prof. Arieh Eldad – Otzma Leyisrael Dr. Afou Agbaria – Hadash Isaac Herzog, Adv. – Israel Labor Party Orly Levi-Abekasi – Yisrael Beitenu Meir Cohen – candidate in Yesh Atid (currently the mayor of Dimona)
17:30 to 18:00 100 Years of Medical Ethics – Prof Avinoam Reches
Session X: Moderated by Dr. Yoram Klein
18:00 to 19:00 Mini-Symposium: Trauma Medicine
18:00 Hemorrhage Control in Trauma Patients – an Update - Dr. Michael Stein 18:15 The Evolution of Trauma Care in the Past Two Decades - Dr. Hany Bahauth
18:30 Reduced In-Patient Mortality in Trauma Victims in Israel in the Past Decade - Ms. Maya Simantov 18:45 Questions & Answers
19:00 Dinner: Montefiori Restaurant
20:00 Depart for the Western Wall
21:30 Return to Tel Aviv
Day 4 - 14/12/12 North of Israel, Haemek Hospital
7:45 Depart to the North of Israel
9:30 to 10:00 Welcome Reception at the Jordan River Village
10:00 to 11:00 Tour the Jordan River Village with Chaim Topol
11:00 to 11:30 Depart for Haemek Hospital
Session XI: Moderated by Dr. Nimrod Rahamimov
11:30 to 11:50 Words from Dr. Orna Blondheim, Director of Haemek Hospital
11:50 to 12:20 General & Jewish Medical Ethics – Development & Challenges - Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg
Session XII: Moderator TBD
12:20 to 13:00 Scientific Presentations: International Speakers
12:20 Preliminary Evaluation of Blood Glucose Levels as an Adjunct for Pre-hospital Triage – Dr. Elon Glassberg 12:35 Minimally Invasive Foot Surgery – As a Preventive Strategy in the Diabetic Foot – Dr. Israel Goldstein 12:50 Questions & Answers
13:00 Closing Ceremony Depart for Tel Aviv