In October 2020, ACP was pleased to deliver our first fully online and interactive paramedic conference. The conference attracted over 1100 attendees, 60 speakers and 36 sessions.

Panel Members:

Dr. Luca Ragazzoni, Scientific Coordinator of CRIMEDIM – Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale (Novara, Italy)

Tony Hucker, Director, Clinical Quality & Patient Safety, Office of the Medical Director, Queensland Ambulance Service

Darren Sandbeck, Senior Provincial Director & Chief Paramedic, AHS Emergency Medical Services, Alberta, Canada

Nicola Cavanagh MSc (Critical Care),  Senior Project Manager, EMS Office of Respectful Workplace, Alberta Health Services, Emergency Medical Services, Canada

Craig Wylie, Clinical Research Coordinator, Division: Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiteit Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Asanka Migelheva, Consultant Emergency physician, Teaching Hospital Karapitiya Sri Lanka

Dr. Mathew Ma, Professor of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University; Vice Superintendent, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yunlin Branch, Yunlin; Chair, Asian Association for Emergency Medical Services (AAEMS)

Jo Mildenhall,Paramedic Team Leader, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, UK

COVID19 has been a huge part of our lives personally and professionally in 2020. The pandemic has seen many changes in our workload, our approach to infection control and PPE, communications centre and hospital systems and our capacity to undertake our usual health and wellbeing activities.

This panel discussion explores some of the positive changes and professional growth for paramedics and paramedicine as a profession, as well as some of the lessons learnt from front line responders from around the globe.

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