Speaker: Professor Phillip Phan, Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor, Professor of Medicine (courtesy), Johns Hopkins University and Medicine, USA

An enduring challenge in global health is the building of national response capacity in low and medium income countries (LMIC). External aid programs have seldom produced sustained change. Nowhere is this problem more evident than in paediatric critical care. In Ecuador, long distances between comprehensive healthcare facilities often mean that patients arrive in severely degenerated states. Evidence suggest that front line providers skilled at stabilizing patients for transport can significantly improve outcomes. This talk will describe a partnership in the design, resourcing, and deployment of an economically sustainable localized training program for first responders to critically ill children in Ecuador. The talk will report outcomes and discuss the appropriate roles for external stakeholders interested in similar types of efforts.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.