2025 ATLS Global Symposium High Level Schedule

Thursday, March 13, 2025

8:30-10:30 am

Resident Paper Competition (Pt 1)

3:00-6:00 pm

Resident Paper Competition (Pt 2)

6:00-7:00 pm

Networking Reception

Friday, March 14, 2025

7:00-8:45 am

Region Breakfasts

9:00-10:00 am

COT Education Pillar Session

10:15 am-12:30 pm

Special Session - A Bias for Action: Preparing the US Health Care System for Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO).

The next battlegrounds for the US are likely to involve conflicts versus a peer or near peer adversary. The United States military is preparing for the potential of large scale combat operations (LSCO) which would generate large numbers of casualties during the initial phase, with projections estimating 2,000-3,000 casualties repatriating to the US per day for the first 100 days of war. Casualties of this magnitude will require engagement of all civilian trauma centers along with a high level of coordination of patient movement and distribution. This panel will discuss the expected wounding patterns and types of injuries that will require care, the National Disaster Medical System pilot currently underway to model combat casualty movement back to the US, and lessons learned from a trauma center in the Ukraine, along with the urgency in development of the COT National Trauma and Emergency Preparedness System plan using Regional Medical Operations Coordinating Centers as its unit of action. There will be ample time at the end of the presentations for audience participation in a Q&A session.

10:30 am-12:30 am

SEAB Program (Educator Track)

10:30 am-12:30 pm

What is new with ATLS 11? (Coordinator Track)

12:30-2:00 pm

Taste of Chicago Networking Lunch

2:00-4:30 pm

Panel Session: Improving Trauma Systems During Challenging Times

Building high-functioning trauma systems is a universal challenge, compounded by modern complexities such as global pandemics, protracted conflicts, and constrained healthcare funding. These obstacles underscore, rather than diminish, the critical need for robust trauma systems. In this session, we will explore how adversity can be transformed into opportunity, leveraging challenges to innovate and elevate the delivery of trauma care worldwide.

Presenters and Topics:

1. Peter Fischer, MD, FACS: Success in adapting EMS systems—excellence regardless of geography, country, or conflict
2. Joseph Sakran, MD, FACS: Show me the money—a “how to” on advocacy for funding trauma systems
3. Jay O. Yelon, DO, FACS: Conflict and trauma systems—the intersection of improving care for those injured in conflict and to develop trauma systems for civilians

2:00-3:30 pm

International Coordinators (Coordinator Track)

2:00-3:30 pm

U.S. Coordinators (Coordinator Track)

2:00-5:00 pm

SEAB Program (Educator Track)

3:30-5:00 pm

International and U.S. Coordinators together (Coordinator Track)

6:30 pm-10:30 pm

COT Reception and Banquet (ticket required)

Saturday, March 15, 2025

7:00-8:30 am

Networking Breakfast

8:00-10:00 am

SEAB Program (Educator Track)

8:30-10:15 am

Region Chief Panel & US/Global Partnership Promulgations

10:15-11:15 am

ATLS 11 Launch

11:30 am-12:30 pm

*Peer Reviewed Presentations

12:30-2:00 pm

Networking Lunch

1:00 pm-2:30 pm

SEAB Lunch (By Invitation Only)

2:00-6:00 pm

Coordinator Learning Lab (Coordinator Track)

2:00-3:00 pm

*Peer Reviewed Presentations

3:30-5:00 pm

ATLS 11 Update (Provider Specific)

5:30-6:30 pm

Networking Reception

Sunday, March 16, 2025

7:00-8:30 am

Networking Breakfast

8:30-11:00 am

Instructor Learning Lab

8:30-11:00 am

ATLS 11th Edition Roll Out Review (Coordinator Track)

11:00-11:30 am

Coffee Break

11:30 am-12:30 pm

Panel - All Things Trauma Ed