Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar
The Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar is designed to meet the continuing education needs of emergency services clinicians in Western Maryland and the surrounding area. The large diversity of workshops offered at this year’s seminar include EMS, Nursing, Fire, and Dispatch. A strong inter-working relationship among public safety and health care clinicians is the key to the successful outcome of any incident.
The Miltenberger Emergency Service Seminar will have a positive impact on the delivery of patient care in both pre-hospital and hospital settings, as well as on patient outcomes.
Target Audience
Nurse
Learning Objectives
1. New techniques to improve survival chances for cardiac arrest patients, focusing on updates to AHA and MIEMSS protocols.
2. How to recognize differential diagnoses that may be attributed to stroke, as well as atypical stroke presentations.
3. EMS & nursing clinicians noting early recognition and management of the unstable “crashing” child.
4. Resuscitation & reshaping trauma care in the pre-hospital and trauma center environment
5. The Science Behind the Protocols update annually from MIEMSS
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The Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar is designed to meet the continuing education needs of emergency services clinicians in Western Maryland and the surrounding area. The large diversity of workshops offered at this year’s seminar include EMS, Nursing, Fire, and Dispatch. A strong inter-working relationship among public safety and health care clinicians is the key to the successful outcome of any incident.
The Miltenberger Emergency Service Seminar will have a positive impact on the delivery of patient care in both pre-hospital and hospital settings, as well as on patient outcomes.
Laura Selway, MSN, Johns Hopkins Hospital EMS for Children (MIEMSS) Faculty, Pediatric EMS Champions
Hani Alkhatib, MD, Interventional Cardiology, Medical Director, Structural Heart Program, UPMC Western Maryland
Mustafa Sidik, MS, NRP, MIEMSS
Timothy Chizmar, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, State EMS Medical Director, MIEMSS
Brian Martineau, MD, Emergency Physician – US Acute Care Solutions, UPMC Western Maryland
Rayan El Sibai, MD, Emergency Physician – US Acute Care Solutions, UPMC Western Maryland
Rameen Shafiei, DO FACEP, Director Emergency Medicine UPMCWM, Medical Director Allegany and Garrett County EMS Systems
Jeffrey Hobbs, BSN, RN, TCRN, PHRN, and Elizabeth Wooster, RN, PhD, MIEMSS Office of Care Integration
Joshua Brown, MD, MSc, Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Ted Delbridge, MD, MPH, MIEMSS Executive Director
Jeff Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
Jennifer Anders, MD, FAAP, FAEMS, MIEMSS Associate EMS Medical Director for Pediatrics
Catherine Kirbos, MD, West Virginia University Medical Center, Medical Director, Mineral County EMS
Mary Alice VanHoy, MSN
Derek Crippen, Captain, Washington County Division of Emergency Services, Captain (Ret.), Prince George’s
Emily Werthman, PhD, BA, RN, CBRN, Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Tom Bender, LCSW, LCSW-C
Rishi Kundi, MD, Associate Professor Surgery, University of Maryland, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Abby Butler, MSN, RNC-OB, Office of Care Integration, MIEMSS
Janet Bahouth, DSc., Impact Research, Senior Research Scientist, Crash Center for Research and Education, Director
Dan Pritchett and Angie Krupa, Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 16.0 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 16.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 16.00 Attendance
Any questions regarding registration, please contact Elisa Opel at [email protected]

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