Dr. O. John Ma currently serves as Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Between 2007-19, he served as Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, where he also held the position of President of the Professional Staff for OHSU Healthcare between 2011-13. Dr. Ma has edited 20 reference textbooks that have been published in over 10 languages, which include Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide and Ma and Mateer’s Emergency Ultrasound. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is the recipient of six Teacher-of-the-Year awards. In 2024, Dr. Ma was presented the Emergency Medicine Gold Medal by the Emergency Physicians Association of Turkey for a Career Achievement Award in Advancing Emergency Medicine.

Prof Fatimah Lateef is the first Emergency Physician-Politician/ Member of Parliament in Singapore. She served as an elected Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2006 till 2020, participating in three General Elections. She is Senior Consultant, Director of Undergraduate Training and Education as well as Director of Clinical Service and Quality at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. She is also Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore and Lee Kong Chian Medical School at NTU. She teaches part-time at the School of Health Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic. Her area of sub-specialisation include Prehospital Care Medicine, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Emergencies. She is passionate about Medical Education, Leadership training, International Humanitarian Medicine and Simulation/ Technology-driven Education. She has worked in various countries including both the UK and USA and served as an International Consultant to MaxHealthcare, India.

Fatimah is the Director of the SingHealth Duke NUS Institute of Medical Simulation, where she is also an active educator and facilitator. With the first three years of formation, she brought the centre through into the global arena with the achievement of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) accreditation. Her strong servant leadership style as well as transformative model for negotiating change and uplifting and enhancing lives, people and organisations, ensures the values she holds close to her heart are executed.

A strong advocate of life long learning and empowerment, she has presented more than 500 abstracts at international conferences and published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is on several editorial board and a reviewer for some 30 peer-reviewed journals She leads various leadership groups, grooming youths and doctors to excel, which is also befitting her role as a core faculty, nurturing residents in Emergency Medicine. Fatimah is an active volunteer in the area of International Humanitarian Medicine and Acute Disaster Response, where she has led teams to countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Myammar, Africa, Indonesia, China for a variety of causes and assistance. For her work in the various fields, she has been conferred awards such as Young Investigator’s Award (1998), Excellent Scientific Publication Award (2001), Best Teacher Award (2002), Laerdal Visiting Lectureship Award (2003), Courage Award (2004), National Healthcare Humanity Award (2005), The Outstanding Young Person of Singapore (2006), Good Mentor Award, Singhealth (2005), The Outstanding Young Person of the World Award (2006), Woman for Peace Award, Sokka Gakkai International, (2007), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, NUS (2008), Singapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for Review with Distinction, (2007-2016), Critical Talent Retention Award, SingHealth and The Academy of Medicine, Gold Reviewer Award( 2011), Excellent Educator Award 2015, National Day Long Service Award, 2017, Academic Medicine Award for her work in global emergency medicine (2019), amongst others. More recently, she has received The Golden Apple Award (2021), Inspiring Mentor Award (2021), The Golden Quill Award (2021), Best Education Research Award (2022) and The Covid 19 National Day Award (2023).

Fatimah continues to work full time, with a fulfilling career in Emergency Medicine, balancing clinical work with research and education, as well as her local and international community responsibilities. For recreation, Fatimah enjoys mountain climbing, cooking, reading and she has completed 15 full marathons.

Carlos A. García Rosas

He was born and raised in the city of Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico. where he
completed his studies up to high school and later emigrated to the City of Puebla
and then to Mexico City where he completed his studies of:
• Medical Surgeon from the Autonomous University of Puebla
• Later he completed the Specialty in Emergency Medicine, as a member of the
1st Generation. Within the Medical Services of the Department of the D.F.
(Today the Secretary of Health of Mexico City)
• He was accepted to do a Fellowship in Trauma & Critical Care, Subspecialty
in the United States of North America at the Washington Hospital Center,
Washington D.C.
Within his Work Experience
He has been an Assigned Physician in the Emergency Services at the Mexican
Social Security Institute, since March 1989 and in the Medical Services of the
Department of the Federal District, today the Secretary of Health of Mexico
City. He served as Deputy Medical Director at the Maternal and Child Hospital
of Cuajimalpa SMDDF,
He was Head of Service and Professor of the Specialty in Emergency Medicine
at the Mexican Social Security Institute. In the private sector he worked in
several Hospitals in Mexico City. He was the First Medical Director of the
“Ameri-Med Ambulatory Care & Hospitals” Project in Puerto Vallarta, and he
was the one who brought the original project to Mexico.
Among his Academic Activities
He has written and published multiple research papers on Emergency
Medicine in National and Foreign Journals, among which the following stand
out:
The Teaching of Emergency Medicine in the Pan-American Journal of Trauma
He developed and published a “New Method to review patients in the
emergency room called “Pneumonic Name Mmexico Evaluation”, published
in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
He is a reviewer of several chapters of the book “Study Guide of Emergency Medicine”
Fifth International Edition in English, 2000, Author, Judith Tintinaly MD
Author and editor
1.- Basic Resuscitation Care Manual to save lives 1989 first edition and
1995 second edition, Spanish language.
2.- Emergency Medicine in Mexico and the World, 2008
3.- Manual in Emergency Medicine,
First edition, 2017, ISBN 978-607-9756-50-5
Prologue: Judith Tintinalli
4.- The Tragic Ten in Emergencies + Covid-19
First edition, September 2023.
ISBN 978-607-97565-1-2
Copyright Carlos Aurelio Garcia Rosas
Prologue: Herman Delooz, 1st President Eusem.
5.- History of Pandemics and their impact until Covid-19
First edition, 2025.
ISBN in process
Copyright. Carlos Aurelio Garcia Rosas
He is the Creator and Director of the “Emergency Course Mexico” (1997
present) which has been taught in different parts of the country and abroad. It
consists of 20 curricular hours with topics related to Cardiovascular
Emergencies and Trauma.
He has taught Basic and Advanced Cardio Cerebro Pulmonary Resuscitation
courses for Doctors, Nurses, Emergency Medical Technicians and the General
Public, in Public and Private Schools of the Country since 1986 - to date. He
was the one who brought the first CPR course by the American Heart
Association in 1989.
He was also the one who taught for the first time together with fellow
physicians in Mexico within the Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine the
ACLS and ATLS courses.
He has given various conferences on Emergency Medicine and Trauma in
Mexico, and in more than 35 countries.
He has organized medical conferences, courses, national, international and
world congresses, diplomas, as head of the organizations he founded:
In addition to having participated as Speaker, Track Chair, Moderator, of the
Mediterranean Congress, in the United States of America, Europe, and various
parts of the world such as: Canada, United States, Costa Rica, Colombia,
Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru, Spain, France, Italy,
Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Athens, Greek Islands, Crete, Kos, Portugal,
Turkey, Croatia, Glasgow, Berlin, among others.
He has also participated in the development of the “Mexican Official Standards”
on “Prehospital Medical Care”, “Emergency Services Equipment”, “Emergency
Medical Care”, “Emergency Education”, “Preparation of the Clinical Record,
in Emergency Notes, etc.
Among the achievements in Mexican Medicine are:
Having been the Founding President of:
1.- Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine (SMME)
2.- Mexican Board on Emergency Medicine (CMMU)
3.- Mexican Committee for Heart Care and Trauma
4.- Mexican Academy of Emergency Medicine
5.- World Organization of Emergency Medicine
In addition:
Having shared the “World Level Forums” with doctors that he only knew about
from their published books and articles, and with whom he finally ended up
being friends and colleagues such as; Dr. Judith Tintinalli, Dr. Peter Rosen, Dr.
Howard Champion, Dr. Herman DeLooz, Dr. Juliusz Jakubazco, Dr. Dominique
Pateron. Dr. Joshep Lex Jr. Dr. Tony Martin, Dr. Roberta Petrino, Dr. Mario
Golocovsky. Dr. George Podgorny, Dr. Basar Cander Etc.
Who were the Founders of Emergency Medicine in the United States, Europe,
Belgium, Poland, France, Ireland, Turkey, among many others.
What he is most proud of is having raised the name of Mexico and his
hometown Apizaco and that the World knows

Program

Friday — April 11, 2025

Saturday — April 12, 2025

Session 1 : EDUCATION / SIMULATION 8:00 am – 9:10 am

Session 2 : TACTICAL AND COMBAT EMERGENCIES MILITARY SESSION 9:25 am – 11:15 am

Session 3 : TRAUMA 11:30 am – 1:05 pm

Session 4 : PEDIATRICS 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session 4 : INFECTION AND SEPSIS PROBLEMS 3:40 pm – 5:10 pm

Session 5 : TOXICOLOGY 5:20 pm – 7:10 pm