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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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2025 ATLS Global Symposium High-Level Schedule

2025 ATLS Global Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

8:30-10:30 am

Resident and Fellow Paper Competition (Pt 1)

3:30-6:00 pm

Resident and Fellow Paper Competition (Pt 2)

6:00-7:00 pm

Networking Reception

Friday, March 14, 2025

7:00-8:15 am

COT Regions 9-17 Committee Breakfast Meetings

8:30-9:45 am

COT Education Pillar Session

10:15 am-12:30 pm

Special Session - A Bias for Action: Preparing the US Health Care System for Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO)

The next battlegrounds for the US are likely to involve conflicts versus a peer or near peer adversary. The United States military is preparing for the potential of LSCO, which would generate large numbers of casualties during the initial phase, with projections estimating 2,000-3,000 casualties repatriating to the US per day for the first 100 days of war. Casualties of this magnitude will require engagement of all civilian trauma centers along with a high level of coordination of patient movement and distribution. This panel will discuss the expected wounding patterns and types of injuries that will require care, the National Disaster Medical System pilot currently underway to model combat casualty movement back to the US, and lessons learned from a trauma center in the Ukraine, along with the urgency in development of the COT National Trauma and Emergency Preparedness System plan using Regional Medical Operations Coordinating Centers as its unit of action. There will be ample time at the end of the presentations for audience participation in a Q&A session.

10:30 am-12:30 pm

SEAB Presents; The ATLS 11 Instructor Course (Educator Track)

10:30 am-12:30 pm

What a Coordinator Needs to Know About the 11th Edition (Coordinator Track)

12:30-2:00 pm

Taste of Chicago Networking Lunch

2:00-4:30 pm

Panel Session: Improving Trauma Systems During Challenging Times

Building high-functioning trauma systems is a universal challenge, compounded by modern complexities such as global pandemics, protracted conflicts, and constrained healthcare funding. These obstacles underscore, rather than diminish, the critical need for robust trauma systems. In this session, we will explore how adversity can be transformed into opportunity, leveraging challenges to innovate and elevate the delivery of trauma care worldwide.

Moderators and Topics:

  1. Peter Fischer, MD, FACS: Success in adapting EMS systems—excellence regardless of geography, country, or conflict
  2. Joseph Sakran, MD, FACS: Show me the money—a “how to” on advocacy for funding trauma systems
  3. Jay O. Yelon, DO, FACS: Conflict and trauma systems—the intersection of improving care for those injured in conflict and to develop trauma systems for civilians

2:00-3:30 pm

Meet with your ACS Customer Service Team: International Coordinators (Coordinator Track)

2:00-3:30 pm

Meet with Your ACS Customer Service Team: U.S. and Canada Coordinators (Coordinator Track)

2:00-5:00 pm

SEAB Presents; The ATLS 11 Instructor Course (Educator Track)

3:30-5:00 pm

Meet, Greet and Network with your International and U.S./Canada Coordinator Partners (Coordinator Track)

6:30pm - 7:00pm

COT Member Reception (Ticketed Event)

7:00pm - 8:30pm

COT Member Banquet (Ticketed Event)

8:30pm - 9:30pm

COT Member Dessert Reception (Ticketed Event)

Saturday, March 15, 2025

7:00-8:30 am

Networking Breakfast

8:00-10:00 am

SEAB Presents: The ATLS 11 Instructor Course (Educator Track)

8:30-10:15 am

Fostering Successful Global ATLS Programs

10:15-11:15 am

ATLS 11: What to Expect

11:30 am-12:30 pm

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Innovative Education

  • Virtual ATLS Teaching - The Online Refresher Course presented by Lara Zibners MD, MMEd, MBA; Guy Slater MD, FACS; Agnieszka Gizzi
  • Can Audit Cycles Improve the ATLS Teaching Process  presented by Hakim Elkholy MD, FACS

Moderated by John Sutyak MD EdD FACS

Using Trauma Education to Enhance Patient Care Outcomes

  • A Standardized Assurance of Safety to Decrease Perceived Life Threat in Victims of Trauma presented by Mary (Libby) Schroeder MD, Sehr Khan MD
  • Mock with a Doc: Creating Multidisciplinary Trauma Simulations for Trauma Education presented by Cindy Joseph BSN, RN, CFRN, CPEN
  • Visual Adjunct for Teaching the Primary Survey presented by Catherine Entriken, MD

Moderated by Scott D'Amours, MD, FACS

12:30-2:00 pm

ATLS and Country Anniversary Awards Lunch

1:00 pm-2:30 pm

SEAB Lunch (By Invitation Only)

2:00-6:00 pm

ATLS 11 Skill Station Learning Lab for Coordinators (Coordinator Track)

2:00-3:00 pm

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Flexing Trauma Education

  • Enhancing Trauma Education in Resource-Limited Settings through AI-Based Virtual Patients in Adaptive Learning Environments presented by Allan Peetz MD; Kevin Sexton MD
  • Reimagining Stop the Bleed for Low-Resource Settings presented by Samy Bendjemil MD, MPH

Moderated by Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS

Using Education to Create Community

  • Trauma Training as Health Diplomacy - The Palestinian & Israeli Example presented by Adam Goldstein MD; Tamer Jreis MD
  • Educational Program for Cooperative Civil-Military Training of First Response Professionals presented by Juan Pablo Fernandez MD; Maria Soledad Ferrante MD, FACS; Ruben Daniel Algieri MD; Carolina Cristina Brofman MD, FACS

Moderated by Warren Dorlac, MD, FACS

3:30-5:00 pm

ATLS 11 Compendium of Changes

5:30-6:30 pm

Networking Reception

Sunday, March 16, 2025

7:00-8:30 am

Networking Breakfast

8:30-11:00 am

ATLS 11 Skills Station Learning Lab for Faculty and Educators

8:30-11:00 am

 ALTS 11th Coordinator Q&A

11:00-11:30 am

Coffee Break

11:30 am-12:30 pm

Plenary Session: All Things Trauma Ed

The schedule is subject to change. All times listed in Central Standard Time.

*Peer Reviewed Session Themes

  • Using Trauma Education to Enhance Patient Care Outcomes
  • Flexing Trauma Ed
  • Using Education to Create Community
  • Innovative Education