Ellen Weber, MD, spoke at the British Museum at a symposium in London on Crowding and Quality of Care AND chatted with Princess Anne. The two-day symposium, co-hosted by the UK College of Emer-gency Medicine and the International Federation of Emergency Medicine was entitled "Defining Quality in Emergency Care." The Princess Royal, a patron of the College, gave a keynote address, then listened from the front row to lectures by Ellen Weber (US), Suzanne Mason (UK), and MIchael Schull (Canada) all of whom for the first (and only time) in their lives, began their talks with "Your royal highness....." During the coffee break that followed, Princess Anne shook hands and chatted with each of the three presenters.

Robert Rodriguez, MD, gave Grand Rounds at Highland last month.  

Greg Hendey, MD, presented two lectures at the UCSF Topics in EM course in SF in November and gave four lectures at ACEP in SF in October.

Danielle Campagne, MD, presented a non moderated poster at ACEP last month in the teaching fellowship section.

Kenny Banh, MD, presented four lectures at UCSF, Natividad Medical Center, ACEP, and CSU Fresno.  

The Muhimbili Emergency Department made a strong showing at the Emergency Medicine in the Developing World conference in Capetown, South Africa, November 15-17. There were 800 conference attendees overall and six presentations from the Muhimbili ED. Teri Reynolds, MD, and Natalia Lobue, our Director of Clinical Operations, presented on the development of emergency medicine in Tanzania; Marwa Obogo presented on the emergency nurse training program; our chief residents Juma Mfinanga and Hendry Sawe (pictured) presented on our trauma database and ultrasound programs, respectively; among our registrars, Sherrin Kassmali presented on our mass casualty response to the Gongo la Mboto munitions explosions and Mohammedsuhel Chagani presented on the formation of the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (see group photo of EMAT doctors and nurses).

Also at the meeting, Chief Resident Hendry Sawe and Residency Program Director Teri Reynolds were elected to the executive committee of the African Federation of Emergency Medicine. Reynolds served as co-chair of the AFEM international consensus conference on Defining the Role of Emergency Medicine in Africa, with over 100 participants. We held our first in-person meeting of the project leads for the Muhimbili ED Academic Consortium (pictured here with our Head of Department, Prof. Victor Mwafongo; not pictured is Mike Runyon, the lead from Carolinas Medical Center).  

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