Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems, Safety Strategies, and Solutions Summit

February 29, 2012
The Keck Center of the National Academies
Washington, D.C.

The National Academies Transportation Research Boards ANB10(5) EMS Safety Subcommittee is holding its third EMS Safety Summit. This EMS Safety Systems, Strategies and Solutions Summit will be a comprehensive one day interdisciplinary, interactive onsite and broadcast event held in Washington DC at the Keck Center to coincide with the EMS Today Conference and Exposition on February 29th, 2012 – where there shall be a satellite site for the Summit during EMS Today preconvention activities.

AJ Heightman, Editor of JEMS and EMS icon, will be giving the opening address beamed from the satellite site at EMS Today. This one day EMS Safety Systems, Strategies and Solutions Summit will comprehensively cover the spectrum of cutting edge approaches to optimizing the systems safety of EMS and Medical Transport operations.

The Summit will include an interdisciplinary update on EMS and Medical Transport Safety development over the previous 24 months. There will be a focus on new systems safety technology solutions that are now available and also those under development, innovative fleet and vehicle solutions underway and future concepts, and the human factors issues integrating task analysis and vehicle and transportation system design and including culture of safety, change tolerance and generational challenges, hours of service concepts and issues pertaining to the impaired driver, as well as new initiatives in testing and standards.

As with past TRB EMS Summits, participation will be both onsite and via a virtual live Webinar. Preliminary information is also available at http://www.objectivesafety.net/TRBSummit2012.htm

Registration

The registration fee includes the meeting and all associated materials, and all food functions (continental breakfast, lunch, breaks).

Registration Type	Early Bird (Expires January 13)	Advance (Expires February 10)	Onsite (After February 10)
General	$100	$115	$135
Speaker/TRB Sponsor¹	$75	$90	$110
Student²	$75	$90	$110

¹For TRB Sponsors only (including State DOTs). You must be a Sponsor prior to registration. To see if your organization is a TRB Sponsor, you may view a listing of all TRB Sponsors.

² For full-time students only. Valid student ID required onsite.

Refunds will be issued, less a $50 cancellation fee, for all cancellations received in writing by February 10, 2012. No refunds will be issued thereafter.