Agenda

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1:00-3:00 PM EST | 20:00-22:00 PM Israel Time

Israel Medical Association - CME Credits
The Israel Medical Association’s Scientific Council approved the Virtual conference on prolonged underground captivity - health implications and treatment on May 19th, 2024 as CME (Continuing Medical Education).Participants can be credited 3 points for participate in the conference.
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Please note that Israel Medical Association credit points may not be valid in your country.
Participants from foreign countries will be able to receive a participation certificate for attending the conference and submit it for CME credit points in your country.

20:00 - 20:30

Plenum

Introduction: The October 7 attack - What happens to people held hostages in tunnels? 
Dr. Amir Blumenfeld, Former Chief of Trauma and Combat Medicine Branch at the IDF Medical Corps

Hostages Health: An overview 
Prof. Hagai Levine, Head of Health team at the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians.

Treating fellow hostages in Hamas tunnels 
 Nili Margalit, Released Hostage, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva

20:30 - 22:00

Internal Medicine

Session Chairs:
Prof. Avishay Elis, Head of Internal Medicine Department, Rabin Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine.
Prof. Mark Zeidel, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Speakers:
Prolonged underground confinement; challenges to the older hostage
Prof. A. Mark Clarfield, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics and Head of the Centre for Global Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Adult Medicine Post-Captivity: Insights and Experience from Sheba Medical Center
Dr. Noya Shilo, Senior physician, Medicine E and Returning Hostages Clinic, Sheba Medical Center.

Hospital management of repatriated civilian hostages: the experience of Wolfson Medical Center
Dr. Amir Nutman, Deputy Director, E. Wolfson Medical Center, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University.

Foreign returned hostages' special challenges
Dr. Ronit Zaidenstein, Head of Department of Internal Medicine A, Shamir Asaf Harofeh Medical Center.

Returnees Ward- Insights and preparations
Dr. Noa Eliakim-Raz, Director of Internal Medicine E department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson.

Case presentation “the consequences of discontinuation of medication in captivity”
Dr. Ohad Gabay, Senior physician, Intensive care unit, Soroka medical center  
20:30 - 22:00

Trauma

Session Chairs:
Dr. Yoram Klein, Director of Trauma and Urgent Unit at Sheba Medical Center

Dr. Cary C. Schwartzbach, Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, INOVA Fairfax Medical Campus (IFMC), Former Director, Orthopaedic Trauma Service IFMC.

Speakers:
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center experience
Dr. Eyal Hashavia, Director, Trauma Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel.

Neglected upper extremity injury of a  hostage:Treatment and possible outcomes
Dr. Ido Tilbor‎‏, Department of Hand Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

Case presentation - Treatment of an abductee's GSW inflected neglected open fracture
Dr. Asaf Acker, Head of the Orthopedic Trauma Unit in the Orthopedics Department, Soroka Medical Center, Israel.

The risk for infectious complications in  hostages: what to expect?
Dr. Khetam Hussein, Deputy Director, The Galilee Medical Center, Israel.

20:30 - 22:00

Pediatrics

Session Chair:
Shadows of children - the unexpected and unknown way to treat children who return from captivity
Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, CEO, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel.

Speakers:
Runion with the returning children
Danny Lotan, Clinical Psychologist, Director of Psychological services, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel.

Homecoming of Captive Children - Needs and Reality
Dr. Ayelet Rimon, Director; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital.

A Novel Protocol for The Acute Care of Hostages Across the Age Range: The Safra Children’s Hospital Experience
Dr. Naama de la Fontaine, Head of Trauma and Anxiety Clinic in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Cent.

Uncharted Reality: Medical Perspectives on Children's Return from Captivity
Dr. Havazelet Yarden-Bilavski, Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

20:30 - 22:00

Mental Health

Session Chairs:
Prof. Gil Zalsman, Chair of Psychiatry Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Director of Geha Mental Health Center and adjacent Scientist, Columbia University NY, USA
Steven Marans, Ph.D., MSW, Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis, Professor of Psychiatry, Co-Director, Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery, Yale Child Study Center.

Speakers:
COMING BACK PROJECT What we Learned from Children Released from Captivity
Dr. Silvana Fennig, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Chair Psychiatry Department, Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel, Director Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Long-term Psychoanalytic Trauma-Informed treatment of Family-Members of the Hostages and Released Hostages - Initial Insights
Prof. Ofrit Shapira Berman, Psychoanalyst, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Hostages and Missing - Families Forum, Resilience team.

Mental health Aspects in the first days back from Captivity- The Hospital as aTemporary Transfer zone
Dr. Naama Levin-Dagan, Social worker, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov
Sivan Hever, Head of Department of Social Work Services, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov

How to Regain Trust in Humanity When Faced with Challenging Experiences: Lessons Learned Working with Survivors of Torture
Dr. Asher Aladjem, Chief Psychiatrist and Co-Founder of the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Populations Health at NYU School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Psychosocial Services at Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Trauma focus CBT for PTSD after Captivity
Dr.Nitsa Nacasch Axelrod, Dror CBT clinic , The Psychiatric Division, Returning Hostages clinic, Sheba Medical Center, Israel