Sidra Medicine Announces the 10th Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine International Conference (QPEM 2026)

Highlighting Key Advancements in Pediatric Emergency Care

Doha, Qatar – 14 December 2025 — Sidra Medicine is pleased to announce the 10th edition of the Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine International Conference (QPEM 2026), taking place virtually from 16–18 January 2026. The milestone edition reflects Sidra Medicine’s continued commitment to advancing high-quality, safe, and patient-centred emergency care for children across Qatar and the region.

Over three days, QPEM 2026 will bring together experts and frontline clinicians to discuss the latest developments shaping pediatric emergency medicine. The program will explore practical updates in resuscitation, trauma, toxicology, emergency diagnostics, complex care, digital safety, and patient protection. Sessions will shed light on current challenges faced in emergency departments — from managing high-risk presentations and improving response times, to using emerging tools such as cognitive aids, simulation, and artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making.

Prof. Khalid Al Ansari, Chair of QPEM 2026 and Division Chief of Emergency Medicine at Sidra Medicine, said: “Marking the 10th edition of QPEM is an important moment for our community of pediatric emergency professionals. Every year, we focus on bringing forward relevant, practical, and evidence-based insights that can directly support clinicians in providing timely and effective care. QPEM 2026 continues this mission, offering a platform to exchange experience, strengthen skills, and reflect on the advancements shaping pediatric emergency medicine today.”

QPEM 2026 will also discuss key areas such as child abuse pathways, pain management, neonatal red flags, shock management, medication safety, and the evolving contributions of pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, child life specialists, and interpreters as part of integrated emergency teams. Together, these topics reflect a shared effort to promote safer systems, stronger collaboration, and the best possible outcomes for children in urgent and emergency settings.”

Dr. Syed Huda, lead of the Scientific Planning Committee for QPEM 2026 said: “QPEM 2026 is built around subjects that genuinely matter at the sharp end of pediatric emergency care. The program focuses on real-world resuscitation challenges, decision-making under pressure and the way systems behave when things are busy, unpredictable, and emotionally charged. We’re highlighting high-risk presentations that stretch even experienced clinicians’ complex pediatric airways, trauma in rapidly expanding health systems, sepsis in overcrowded departments, and sudden cardiac or metabolic collapse. There’s also a strong thread around team leadership, cognitive load and how clinicians maintain clarity when the department is full and time is working against them.

What sets QPEM apart is the calibre and diversity of the faculty. The speakers come from high-volume pediatric emergency departments and established simulation programs across North America, the UK, and Canada, supported by respected regional emergency medicine leaders and senior clinical nurse educators. These are clinicians who have built pathways, trained teams and led resuscitations that shaped their institutions. They speak from lived experience rather than theory and that gives the sessions a very different credibility.

The target audience includes pediatric emergency physicians, Adult emergency physicians, pediatricians with acute care roles, fellows, residents, advanced practitioners, and nurses who want to sharpen their resuscitation, leadership and systems-based practice. For them, QPEM offers practical, grounded insight from people who have worked through the same pressures delivering teaching that feels real, relevant, and immediately useful on the floor”.

For the full program and registration, please visit: https://www.sidra.org/events/qpem-2026/