Oberndorf Lecture
Terry Poulton
Professor of eLearning
St George's University of London
Professor Poulton is an Associate Dean for e-Learning and Head of the e-Learning Unit (eLU) at St George's, University of London (SGUL), which was established in 2006 to deliver a high quality e-Learning experience to medical and healthcare students and create first class research and development groups, focused chiefly on innovation and international collaboration in the field of ‘Virtual Patients’ (VPs).
The Unit has obtained 19 national and international grants totaling approximately £4,000,000 in that time. This included leadership of the very successful European Commission-funded program eViP which, researched the feasibility of, and then developed, a bank of VPs for European-wide use. His research has focused on the development of VPs for different learning styles and opportunities, enhancement of VPs through, gaming and virtual worlds, the development of global healthcare standards for VPs, and research into the use of VPs when embedded in medical and healthcare curricula.
Walter Eppich
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine and Medical Education
Walter Eppich practices pediatric emergency medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He also serves as Director of Faculty Development at the Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Education in Medicine. His teaching passion and academic focus is faculty development and healthcare debriefing. Dr. Eppich has been a co-investigator on simulation-related research grants dealing with curriculum development in pediatric emergency medicine, risk-informed in situ simulations and the effect of scripted debriefing on learning outcomes. Nationally and internationally, he has taught extensively on basic and advanced simulation educator courses and has been an invited speaker on topics related to simulation and debriefing around the world.
Roger Kneebone
Professor of Surgical Education
Imperial College London
Professor Kneebone leads an unorthodox and creative research group, bringing together clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts. Current themes include Hybrid Simulation and Distributed Simulation. Roger has recently been exploring how simulation can be used to recreate tacit and embodied surgical practices from the recent past.
Roger Kneebone has a wide range of professional interests and is especially interested in collaborative research at the intersections between traditional disciplinary boundaries. Current work is exploring synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance.
Roger serves on the Editorial Board of Simulation in Healthcare. In July 2011 he received a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Award and in 2012 was awarded a two year Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship. He leads the UK’s only Masters in Education in Surgical Education.
Registration; Accommodation
REGISTRATION FEES
Access to all Congress activities is subject to registration.
Participants are encouraged to register in advance and as early as possible in order to benefit from lower registration fees, wider optional sessions’ choice .
| Early registration until April 21st, 2014 | Late registration from 21st April, 2014 to June 2nd, 2014 | After June 2nd and on-site registration |
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| SESAM MEMBER | 370 € | 440 € | 550 € |
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| NON MEMBER | 520 € | 600 € | 700 € |
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Optional pre-conferences courses programs are available and have to be purchased separately through here.
SESAM member fees: only SESAM members who have paid their membership dues are eligible for member rates for 2014 congress if they register to the congress before May 31st. If you need to renew you membership prior to registering, you may do so by logging intowww.sesam-web.org
Non-Members fees: Please follow the steps, and keep in mind that after the registration process for the conference, you will also receive a one year SESAM's membership!
Registration includes:
• Admission to all Plenary Sessions, Parallel Sessions, Satellite Symposia, Poster Sessions and Exhibition Area
• One copy of the program
• Lunches on June 12 and 14 and coffee breaks.
• A certificate of attendance
• Opening Reception on June 12, 2014, details see here
• Conference bag/conference materials
• ID badge
Registration cancellation policy and terms of payment
All cancellations must be notified in writing (by mail or email) to the Congress Office according to the following conditions and reimbursement will be processed AFTER the Congress:
• Up to May 14th, 2014: 70 Euros will be withheld for administrative fee
• After May 14th, 2014: no refund
Requests for refunds received by the Congress Office after May 15th, 2014 will not be considered.
Other activities cancellation policy and terms of payment (registration excluded)
Payments may be made either:
• by credit card (Visa / Master Card / Eurocard)
• by bank transfer details see here
• All cancellations must be notified in writing (by mail or email) to the Congress Office according to the following conditions and reimbursement will be processed AFTER the Congress:
• Up to April 15th, 2014: 50% of the other activities fees will be refunded
• After April 15th, 2014: no refund
Requests for refunds received by the Congress Office after April 21st, 2014 will not be considered.
Accommodation
Below you can find the list of official congress hotels with basic information about each.
The list of recommended accommodations. Please use the conference name SESAM2014 to make booking. Reservations are made directly and individually by participants.
Please do not wait with booking your hotel and payment for it. June is a high season in Poznań!!
* The rate is in PLN (1 Euro is approx. 4 PLN, 1 USD is approx. 3 PLN, rates vary daily)
Other suggestions of budget accommodation in Poznan:
Pomorski Hotel - http://www.hotel-pomorski.dmf.pl/
Melody Hostel - http://www.melodyhostel.com/
Retro Hostel - http://www.retrohostel.pl/en
Fusion Hostel - http://fusionhostel.com/
