117th Annual IACP Conference and Exposition
Police Physicians Section Meeting
October 23- 25, 2010
Orlando, Florida
AGENDA
Saturday, October 23
9:00 am – 9:55 am
Report on the Creation of a Voluntary Medical Unit
In a State Police Organization: A Pilot Project to
Promote the Health and Safety of State Troopers
Auxiliary Lt. Colonel Bradley Feuer, D.O., J.D., Chief
Surgeon, Florida Highway Patrol; Lt. Colonel Ernesto
Duarte, Deputy Director, Florida Highway Patrol
10:00 am – 11:20 am
Balancing Officer Fatigue and Job Demands: Sleep,
Resiliency and Health Promotion
*Joint session with psychologists
Brian Vila, Ph.D., Professor of Criminal Justice, Simulated
Hazardous Operational Tasks Lab, Sleep & Performance
Research Center, Washington State University - Spokane;
Charles Samuels, M.D., Medical Director, Centre for Sleep
And Human Performance, Calgary, Alberta Associate
Clinical Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of
Medicine; Kerry Kuehl, M.D., Dr.P.H., Associate
Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, Human Performance
Laboratory, Oregon Health & Science University
11:20 am – 11:30 am
Morning Break
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Psychopharmacology & Law Enforcement – An Update
*Joint session with psychologists
Speaker: Fabrice Czarnecki, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Director of
Medical-Legal Research, The Gables Group, Inc.
12:00 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:25 pm
Medical situations that present as psychological
problems
*Joint session with psychologists
Marcia Scott, M.D., Consultant, Boston Police Department,
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
1:25 pm – 1:35 pm
Afternoon Break
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1:35 pm – 2:00 pm
ACOEM Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of
Law Enforcement Officers
Daniel G. Samo, M.D., FACOEM, Medical Director, Health
Promotion & Corporate Services, Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Infectious Diseases and the Law Enforcement Officer
Edward I. Galaid, M.D., MPH, Medical Director, Occupational
Medicine Services, Northeast Georgia Health System
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Business Meeting
Sunday, October 24
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Developing a Wellness Program in Police Departments
Stefanos N. Kales, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, FACOEM, Associate
Professor, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public
Health; Timothy J. Sherblom, Sergeant,
Holden (MA) Police Department; George Sherrill, Chief
of Police, Holden (M.A.) Police Department
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Physical Fitness: Bridging the Gap Between Athletics
And Tactical Performance
Jason D. Barber, Lead Instructor, Warrior Fitness Concepts
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Morning Break
10:45 am – 11:30 pm
Invisible Dangers – Infectious Disease in a
Borderless World
Peter A. Pappas M.D., Trauma Surgeon and Surgical
Critical Care Intensivist, The Trauma Center at Holmes
Regional Medical Center, Melbourne, FL
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Coalition for Tactical Medicine
Karl W. Plitt; Ted Westmoreland, Coalition for Tactical
Medicine
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
VALOR (Violence Against Law Officers Research):
Tactical Medical Training for Law Enforcement
Personnel
Matthew Sztajnkrycer, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director,
Rochester (MN) Police Department, Medical Director,
RPD/OCSO Emergency Response Unite, Associate
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chair, Division of
Emergency Medicine Research Department of Emergency
Medicine, Mayo Clinic
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2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Implementing an Officer Responder Aid Program and
Its Impact on Officer Survivability and Community
Support
John Slish, M.D., Clinical Assistant professor, Department
Of Emergency Medicine, Shands Level One Trauma Center,
NASA Flight Crew Physician Team; Sergeant Dean Stout, EMTP, Training Unit Sergeant/SWAT Team Paramedic, Gainesville
(FL) Police Department
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Afternoon Break
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
The Hospitalized Officer: Protect Your Investment
Sarah Mildred Gamble, D.O., Police Surgeon, Town of
Greenwich (CT) Police Department
4:05 pm – 5:00 pm
Emergency Medical Police Operations, A Gamut of
Services for Public Safety, and Tactical Combat
Care for Officer Safety in High Risk Police Operations
Scott S. Coyne, M.D., Chief Surgeon and Medical Director,
Suffolk County Police Department (NY); Chief Vincent Vespia,
Jr., South Kingstown Police Department (RI)
Monday, October 25
1:30 am – 3 pm
Beat The Odds: Saving Officer Lives With Risk
Management
Captain Massad Ayoob, Grantham (NH) Police Department;
Fabrice Czarnecki, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Director of MedicalLegal Research, The Gables Group, Inc.; Adam Kasanof,
Lieutenant, New York City Police Department (retired); Marcus
J. Young, M.A., National Instructor, FBI CJIS LEOKA Program,
Principal Consultant, Keane Federal Systems
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Save Our Own – A Life Saving Program for Police
Officers
Co-sponsored by SACOP and the IACP Police Physicians
Section
Alexander L. Eastman, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Medical Director,
Tactical Physician, Dallas Police Department; Chief David
Flory, L.P., Chief of Police, Bedford, Texas, Licensed
Paramedic, State of Texas, Program Manager, Texas Statewide
Self-Aid/Buddy-Aid (SABA Program; Chief Yost Zakhary
(moderator), Chief, Public Safety Department, City of Woodway,
TX, IACP 4th Vice President
This activity is currently being reviewed for up to 12.5 prescribed credits by the American Academy of
Family Physicians.
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