The Resuscitation and Critical interventions Conference (“RACI”). 

Karen M McQuillan RN MS CCRN CNRN
The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland
“Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Study”

Mary Kay Bader RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN
Mission Hospital
Mission Viejo, California
Ischemic Stroke lecture to be announced soon


Mike Kellum MD
Mercy Health System 
Janesville, Wisconsin
“Training the Resuscitation Team”


James J. Menegazzi, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“The teachings of Sus scrofa: What I have learned from 20 years of resuscitation research”


Michael Levy MD, FAEEM, FACP
Anchorage Alaska
“Saving Lives by Working the Street”


Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP 
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada 
“Have we set the bar too high”


William G. Heegaard, MD, MPH
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN
“Minneapolis Bridge Collapse” and “Trauma Airways”


LT Derek Sakris, Assistant Officer-in-Charge, CDC Anchorage Quarantine Station
Dr. Petra Illig LT, USPHS, Quarantine Public Health Officer
Deborah Forcht LT, USPHS, Quarantine Medical Officer
“Communicable Disease Response at US Ports of Entry”


Michael Alexander MD FACS
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Hemorrhagic stroke/coiling topic to be announced


Marshall Tolbert MD FACS
Anchorage, Alaska
Hemorrhagic stroke/coiling topic to be announced


Tom Aufderhide M.D., FACEP, FAHA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
“Optimizing Community Resources to Improve Outcome from Cardiac Arrest”


Barbara Jean Coopes MD
The Children’s Hospital at Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, AK 
“Case Scenarios of a Pediatric Intensivist”


Panel Discussions on “Pre-hospital Cooling” and “Community Strategies to Improve Outcomes of Cardiac Arrest”.