It is our great pleasure to bring the Aviation Health conference back as an in person conference. This year the conference is taking place at the Mercure Philharmonie La Villette in Paris, France on the 20th and 21st September. This year the conference is taking place just before the 1st ICAM congress which is taking place on the 22-24th September 2022. For further information on ICAM please follow this link here ICAM 2022
We have secured a rooming block with the hotel, available on a first-come, first-served basis and you can book your hotel room directly using this link here Hotel Room Booking Link Please note that this booking link is valid for bookings from the 19th – 22nd September. If you wish to book a longer period then please use the Accor website which can be found here https://all.accor.com
The room rate on our rooming block is 165 Euros each night for bed and breakfast.
Sponsorship
We have a range of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities available. To find out more about these options please contact us now: lorna@quaynote.ca
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Attendees from previous year’s include senior representatives from:
COVID RESTRICTIONS
We are ensuring that all our events comply with best practice and will be following all the latest covid guidance for our events.
For information about travel requirements to France you can find all the latest information here Travel Information to France
Air Greenland * AME – University Hospital Sharjah * AME Marlborough * American Airlines * Austrian AME * AZUL Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras * BALPA * Belgian Civil Aviation Authority * Biocair * BlueDot * British Airways * Callington * Cardio Secur * Cathay Pacific Airways * CDC * Consultant Psychiatrist London * Delta * Directorate General of Civil Aviation-Kuwait * ECDC * Emirates * Finnair * Flightcare Global * Global Aviation Data * Global Excel * Gulf Air * Harvard University * Healix * Icelandair * IFALPA * Intertox * KLM * Korean Air * Landseed Hospital * LSHTM * Lufthansa * Malaysia Airlines * Matsuda Eye Clinic * Mayo Clinic * MedAire * MedMark * Midwest Medical * MIME Technologies * Moorfields Eye Hospital UAE * Oxygen To Go * Pall Aerospace * Previa Arlanda * PSA *
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08.00
Registration and Welcome Coffee
Session One: Pandemic Learnings
08.50
WELCOME
Dr David Powell, Medical Advisor IATA
Dr Elizabeth Wilkinson, President IAMA
09.00
Keynote: Pandemics - what's next
Dr Isaac Bogoch, University of Toronto
09.40
SARS-CoV-2 and surface survival
Speaker: TBC
10.00
The Evolving Challenges of Aviation Disinfection
Dr Paul Wynn-Hatton, Callington
10.20
Questions and Discussion
10.30
Refreshment Break and Exhibition
11.00
The Determination of Breath Biomarkers for Disease and Health Identifiers to Create a Non-Invasive Rapid Screen using Portable Mass Spectrometry
Dr. Guido Verbeck, University of North Texas; John Redmond, CEO, InspectIR
11.20
Managing the mental health of airline employees during the pandemic
Dr Jim Chung, Air Canada;
Neil King, Lifeworks
11.40
TOPIC TBC
Speaker TBC
12.00
Q&A Discussant
12.15
Lunch and Exhibition
Session Two: Pandemic Resilience
13.45
PANEL: Resilience and Preparation for Future Outbreaks
Chair: James Wiltshire, IATA
13.45
Public Health Scene Setter
14.00
Airline Scene Setter -
Tobias Dingwerth, Lufthansa Group
14.15
Moderated Discussion
WHO, OECD, LSHTM/Winton/Pasteur
15.20
Refreshment Break
15.50
What role does the aviation industry play in driving innovation towards combating emerging infectious diseases and future pandemics?
Dr Sanjay Pooran, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
16.10
Monkeypox
Speaker TBC
16.30
Acute Hepatitis
Speaker TBC
16.50
Q&A Discussant
17.00
Networking Drinks & Reception
DAY TWO - Wednesday 21st September
Session Three: Passenger Medical Issues
09.00
Keynote: Developments in Neuroscience of Importance to Aviation
09.40
Passengers with disabilities and service animals
Speaker TBC
10.00
ECG’s In Flight – Do they save lives?
Dr Paulo Alves, MedAire
10.20
Q&A
10.30
Refreshment Break & Exhibition
11.00
Nanoparticles – What are they and should we be concerned?
Dr Richard Pleus, Founder and CEO, Intertox
11.20
Prophylaxis against malaria for crews: North African experience
Dr Jebbad Samir, Royal Air Morocco
11.40
Fear of Flying
Fanny Levy MD, President & Co-Founder MyReVe
12.00
Passengers Medical Fitness for Zero G Flights and Suborbital flights
Professor Henri Marotte
12.20
Q&A Discussant
12.30
Lunch & Exhibition
DAY TWO- AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
Session Four: Aviation Medical Cases
13.45
13.45
Case 1
14.00
Case 2
14.15
Discussion by Aviation Medicine Regulators
14.30
Case 3
14.45
Case 4
15.00
Discussion by Aviation Medicine Regulators
15.15
Closing Remarks
Dr David Powell, Medical Advisor IATA,
Dr Liz Wilkinson, President IAMA
Refreshment Break and Exhibition
15.30
Refreshements, Exhibition and End of Conference
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Dr Elizabeth Wilkinson
President, IAMA
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Dr Elizabeth Wilkinson
President, IAMA
Elizabeth (Liz) Wilkinson is an accredited Specialist in Occupational Medicine and General Practice in the UK and has been involved in Aviation Medicine for almost 25 years.
She enjoyed the world of full-time aviation medicine with British Airways for 22 years, becoming Head of Health Services in 2010. She made the difficult decision to retire from her role there as Chief Medical Officer in 2019.
She is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, former member of IATA MAG, and immediate past-Chair of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee.
Liz is now co-Editor of Ernsting’s Textbook of Aviation and Space Medicine, President of The Association of Aviation Medical Examiners (UK), and President of the International Airline Medical Association (IAMA, formerly AMDA).
Dr. Guido Verbeck
University of North Texas
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Dr. Guido Verbeck
University of North Texas
Dr. Guido F. Verbeck, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is an expert is mass spectrometry, specifically instrument design and development. Dr. Verbeck received his PhD as a Proctor & Gamble fellow in chemistry at Texas A&M University. Dr. Verbeck has developed mass spectrometers over the past 20 years, and has been a member of the analytical community for 25 years. His appointment is at the University of North Texas where he continues to design novel ion optical devices for miniaturization, preparative, and analytical mass spectrometry, and is the Director for the Laboratory of Imaging Mass Spectrometry. In this appointment Dr. Verbeck has received $5M in external funding, 85 peer reviewed publications, 10 awarded patents and 8 applications, and graduated 20 graduate students in instrument development. Guido Verbeck was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the University of North Texas Early Career Award for Research Creativity. Dr. Guido Verbeck continues to develop new mass spectrometers specifically for single-cell analysis for cancer biomarkers, nanoparticle development for pharmaceutical and toxicological biochemical effects, and determining the biological mechanisms for biomolecular condensates.
Dr Jim Chung
Air Canada
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Dr Jim Chung
Air Canada
Dr. Jim Chung has been Air Canada’s Chief Medical Officer since 2016. In this role, he has oversight for
both employee and passenger medical regulatory issues including first aid training, onboard medical
procedures and pilot medical certification.
Dr. Chung is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical Program and undergraduate studies at
McMaster University.
Following completion of his residency in Family Medicine, he served in the Canadian Forces in various
roles while stationed at CFB Petawawa. Dr. Chung also deployed to Bosnia on Canada’s NATO SFOR
mission and to Turkey with Canada’s DART team in response to a major earthquake in 1999.
Dr. Chung attained his flight surgeon training through the Canadian Forces and also received his Master
in Aviation Medicine and Post graduate diploma in Occupational Medicine through Otago University.
Dr. Chung also completed his emergency medicine training and certification at the University of Toronto
following his retirement from the Canadian Forces, practicing as an emergency medicine physician in
Toronto prior to joining Air Canada in 2009.
Neil King
Lifeworks
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Neil King
Lifeworks
Neil King is President, Integrated Health Solutions and Executive Vice President. His portfolio includes the overall management of the LifeWorks EFAP and wellbeing businesses globally. Mr. King joined the Company in 2009 and was previously U.S. Chief Commercial Officer. While working in the Employee Support Solutions business, Mr. King helped lead the Company to become one of the largest employee and family assistance program providers in the world and to significantly increase customer satisfaction. Prior to joining LifeWorks, Mr. King held senior international sales leadership roles at Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. King holds an Honours degree in Business from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is active in the community and within LifeWorks where, for the last 10 years, he has been a key contributor to the Company’s Kakuma initiative to build a technology centre and high school for girls in a refugee camp in northern Kenya.
James Wiltshire
Assistant Director, External Affairs, IATA
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James Wiltshire
Assistant Director, External Affairs, IATA
Dr Sanjay Pooran
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
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Dr Sanjay Pooran
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
I am specialist public health and infectious disease physician. I am a fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy as well as public governor for University College London Hospital (UCLH/NHS).I have spent my career as a public heath physician focusing on infectious diseases and health system strengthening working in Latin America ,The Caribbean, Hong Kong and the UK
My approach to global public health focuses on a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach towards effective health security provisions and sustainability. Most recently served as public health lead for Athena medical centre for Ukraine following the Russian invasion as well as serving the Latin American region.
Dr Paulo Alves
MedAire
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Dr Paulo Alves
MedAire
Paulo M. Alves, MD, MSc, provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service, as well as is a member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board.
Dr. Alves is also MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations on all matters interesting airline medicine.
A cardiologist and aerospace medicine specialist, Dr. Alves previously was the General Medical Manager for Varig Brazilian Airlines, where he worked for 23 years, 10 of which in that capacity. He was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.
Dr. Alves is a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association
Dr. Alves is a past-Chair of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee.
He is a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee.
Dr. Alves is currently the president of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a past president for the International Airline Medical Association (IAMA) and past-president of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
Dr Richard Pleus
Founder, CEO, Chief Toxicologist, Intertox
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Dr Richard Pleus
Founder, CEO, Chief Toxicologist, Intertox
Founder, CEO, Chief Toxicologist
RICHARD C. PLEUS, Ph.D., heads Intertox Inc., the scientific research and consulting company he founded in 1995. Within Intertox, he brings deep knowledge of toxicology to assist in protecting public health. To date, he has performed more than 600 toxicological assessments and has analyzed the impact of hundreds of chemicals on human health for aviation and space travel, medicine, medical products, consumer products, air, soil, water, food and waste.
Dr Samir Jebbad
Royal Air Maroc
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Dr Samir Jebbad
Royal Air Maroc
Dr. Samir Jebbad
Moroccan
Born in Casablanca, 42 years old
Certificate and graduation :
- medical degree from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 2005
- University Certificate of Occupational Health and Prevention of Occupational Hazards from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 2009
- Qualification as a specialist doctor in Occupational Medicine in 2012
- University diploma in diabetology from Paris 13 University in 2012
- Aerospace medicine capacity from Paris Descartes University in 2017
- Inter-University Diploma in Travel Medicine – Passenger Health at Paris VII University Denis Diderot in 2019
Professional path :
- From 2006 until 2015: occupational health physician in the mining and chemical industries (phosphate industry)
- Since 2015: Occupational Medicine Manager at Royal Air Maroc
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Hôtel Mercure Paris 19 Philharmonie La Villette
216 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019
The Mercure Philharmonie La Villette Paris hotel is opposite the largest urban cultural center in Europe, with direct access from the private car park. The hotel has 182 spacious rooms.
Conference delegate? You'll love the location close to unmissable attractions such as the Grande Halle de la Villette, the Cité des Sciences and the Event Center. Seasoned music lovers and fans of jazz, classical or urban music will enjoy the Parc de la Villette has many faces: visit the Conservatoire, Zénith, Philharmonie de Paris, or Cité de la Musique. Sport fans will love the running routes along the Canal de la Villette or the Buttes Chaumont.
You can see the full details of the hotel here
We have secured a rooming block with the hotel, available on a first-come, first-served basis and you can book your hotel room directly using this link here Hotel Room Booking Link Please note that this booking link is valid for bookings from the 19th - 22nd September. If you wish to book a longer period then please use the Accor website which can be found here https://all.accor.com
The room rate on our rooming block is 165 Euros each night for bed and breakfast.
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