Overview

The Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine International Conference (QPEM 2027) aims to provide a high-quality, evidence-based update for healthcare practitioners in multidisciplinary teams caring for ill and injured children.

QPEM 2027 will deliver practical knowledge, strengthen critical thinking, and promote research, quality and patient safety to advance outcomes for children everywhere.

Topics and Sessions

• PEM Core
• Education / Research
• Digital and AI Healthcare (NEW)
• Trauma Track
• Toxicology
• Child Safeguarding
• Nursing
• Patient Safety & Quality

Event Objectives

• Recognize serious illness and injury in children presenting to the ED
• Discuss the best evidence in the management of critically ill neonates and children
• Manage a variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, behavioral, and technology-assisted presentations in children
• Review the best articles in PEM for the last year
• Analyze cases using best evidence to critically plan management
• Evaluate clinical pathways in use in pediatric EDs
• Incorporate quality and patient safety goals into daily practice
• Evaluate academic practice in PEM
• Review the interventions needed for a variety of toxicological ingestions.
• List the red flags and detail a system approach when managing trauma.
• Evaluate the benefits, limitations, ethical considerations and patient-safety implications of artificial intelligence in pediatric emergency medicine.

Target Audience

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Allied Health Professionals
• Pharmacists
• Dentists
• Others (Paramedics, EMTs & Medical Students)

Conference Chairman

• Khalid Al Ansari

Facilitators

• Dr. Syed Haris Huda – Lead Scientist Planning Committee
• Dr. Sohail Ghani
• Dr. Omair Syed
• Dr. Muhammad Islam
• Dr. Nadeem Jillani
• Dr. Khalid Alyafei
• Mr. Frankie Familiarian

Scientific Planning Committee (SPC)

• Khalid Al Ansari, Physician
• Syed Haris Huda, Physician
• Sohail Ghani, Physician
• Omair Syed, Physician
• Muhammad Islam, Physician
• Yazeed Eldos, Physician
• Guillaume H. Alinier, Director of Research
• Nadeem Jilani, Physician
• Maher Salem, Pharmacist
• Ms Beverly Kaye Jo, Nurse
• Mr Frankie Famillaran, Nurse
• Leena Amine, Pharmacist
• Abirami Balasubramaniyan, Allied Health
• Bouthayna Al-Tamimi, Dentist