Three Pensacola hospitals and the District 1 EMS Council have teamed up to sponsor the 17th Annual Surviving Trauma Conference, on Nov. 16-17 at the Hilton Garden Inn on Pensacola Beach.

The conference is designed to provide up-to-date information for practicing surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, and family practitioners, as well as other healthcare professionals who provide care to trauma victims.

Program director is Dr. Karanbir S. Gill, medical director of Trauma Services at Sacred Heart Hospital. Conference faculty include Dr. Gill as well as several other local physicians: Dr. Indermeet Bhullar, trauma surgeon, Sacred Heart Hospital; Dr. James R. Andrews, orthopedic surgeon, Andrews Institute; and Dr. Cyril Sebastian, neurosurgeon, Sacred Heart Hospital and West Florida Hospital.

Faculty members also include several physicians and healthcare professionals from major medical centers around the country, including:

• Dr. Christopher B. Hughes, assistant professor of surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
• Dr. Lawrence Lottenberg, director of trauma services, Division of Trauma, Burns and Emergency Surgery, University of Florida
• Dr. Rick Miller, clinical assistant professor of Emergency and Pediatric Medicine, University of Illinois, Peoria
• Dr. Robert F. Mullins, medical director, Joseph M. Still Burn Center, Doctor’s Hospital, Augusta, Ga.
• Dr. Paul E. Pepe, professor of surgery, medicine, public health, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
• Tracy East-Porter, executive director/founder of Mothers Against Brain Injury, Fruit Cove, Fla.
• Michael J. Hewitt, director, Respiratory Care & Pulmonary Diagnostic Services, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Registration is limited to the first 350 participants. Deadline to register is Nov. 1, 2007. Room reservations for this conference are being taken at 1-866-916-2999. Callers should indicate that they are participating in this conference. For more information, please visit www.districtoneems.com; call Lee Smith, (850) 434-4663; or email Smith at lee.smith@bhcpns.org.

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