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Events • 05-21-2013 - 05-24-2013

Hopitalar 2013

HOSPITALAR 2013 - 20th International Fair of Products, Equipment, Services and Technology for Hospitals, Laboratories, Pharmacies, Health Clinics and Medical Offices will take place in São Paulo - Brazil - from May 21 to 24.

The fair displays from the most sophisticated state-of-the-art medical technology up to more practical equipment, using local and less advanced solutions, all of these in a wide variety of alternatives in quality and prices. HOSPITALAR is a multi-sector trade fair, featuring 1,250 Brazilian and international exhibitors, launching products or services and meeting potential and already existing clients.

Events • 05-21-2013 - 05-23-2013

2013 USPHS Scientific & Training Symposium

The theme for the 2013 Symposium is “Public Health Prevention and Care: Bridging the Gaps.” The focus of the Symposium is on the use of the National Prevention Strategy to work with communities and stakeholders at the local, state, Tribal, national and international level to address health disparities among border, cross cultural and at-risk populations.


Highlights will include:

A celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. C. Everett Koop including a panel discussion featuring former US Surgeons General

Category Day: Featuring a full-day of professions specific training and education for dentists, dietitians, engineers, environmental health officers, health service officers, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, scientists, therapists and veternarians.

Four plenaries including talks by the Deputy Surgeon General and Dr. Richard Carmona.

More than 45 track sessions covering a range of topics.

Exhibit Hall featuring more than 50 vendors demonstrating the latest products and services in the field of public health.

Four free pre-conference training sessions

Anchor and Caduceus Dinner (priced separately).

Surgeon General's 5K Run/Walk.

PHS Ensemble Concert

Events • 05-22-2013 - 05-24-2013

AfterShock: Post Traumatic Cultures since the last Great War

This cross-disciplinary conference focuses on genres of post-traumatic stress as identified and studied in military and civilian psychology, social and cultural history, and film studies as well as literary and art criticism. Body, mind and emotion inflected by time and locality should be explored together with the interconnected histories of individual (combat) and collective (civilian) aftershock.

Are you missing an important event or want to contribute? Please contact Andrea Pfeiffer (andrea.pfeiffer@mci-forum.com).

Events • 05-28-2013 - 05-31-2013

18th World Congress on Disaster & Emergency Medicine

This dynamic Congress will be convened from 28-31 May 2013 in Manchester, United Kingdom. The focus will be on standards, practice and assessment in International Development, Disaster Response, and Humanitarian Assistance. There will be keynote addresses by leading global authorities, panels exploring the issues and, extensive discussion in both a cosmopolitan and historical city environment.

For more information, please visit the 18th WCDEM website - http://wcdem2013.org/registration.html.

Barely perceptible breathing resistance New particle filtering half mask series Dräger X - plore 1700+

Lübeck - The Dräger X -plore 1700+ series provides effective protection against fine dusts with reduced breathing resistance and high comfort level. The series models are available in all three protection classes: FFP1, FFP2 and FFP3.

Dräger Evita V300: intensive care ventilator with customized fit

Lübeck – A new intensive care ventilator for adults, children and premature babies with sophisticated ventilation possibilities and many other options: with the Evita V300, physicians can select the functions required for their therapy from almost all of the Dräger ventilation modes and applications. The ventilator can be integratedinto a supply unit or can be transported with the intensive care patient.

Marshall Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2013 in Innovation Category

Innovative deployable CT Scanner and DNA laboratory receives joint commendation in innovation category

Siemens showcases a comprehensive imaging portfolio for radiotherapy

ESTRO Forum 2013, April 19–23 in Geneva

• Somatom Definition AS Open computed
tomography system with new RT Pro edition
• Superior image quality even in the case of
metal implants or tumor motion
• New interfaces that connect Siemens’ Linacs
to Varian’s ARIA oncology information system

At the Second Forum of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Siemens Healthcare will debut the new RT Pro edition of the Somatom Definition AS Open 20/64 large bore computed tomography system.