2026 LB TraumaCon Schedule

(please note, schedule is subject to change)

DAY 1—Thursday, December 3, 2025

07:00 Registration, Breakfast, Visit with our sponsors

07:30 Welcome - Bryan Love, MD, FACS - Trauma Medical Director

07:35 Color Guard - Long Beach Police Color Guard

07:40 Blessing - Reverend Stanley Kim

07:45 Opening Remarks - Carolyn Caldwell, St. Mary Medical Center CEO

SESSION 1: THE FRONTLINES: PRE-HOSPITAL RESCUE OPERATIONS

Moderator: Kathy Dollarhide, RN

08:00 Beyond the Walls: Deploying the Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT)

Damon Clark, MD

08:30 Beneath the Surface: The Physiology and Reality of Water Rescue

Matt Wojcik, MS

09:00 Tape Review & Discussion

SESSION 2: STROKE AND TRAUMA

Moderator: tbd

09:15 The Perfect Storm: Navigating Concurrent Stroke and Traumatic Injury

Lisa Johnson, MSN, NP-C

09:30‍ ‍Inside the Brain: Neuro Interventional Radiology’s Frontier in Trauma

Elie Dancour, MD

09:45 Tape Review & Discussion

SESSION 3: THE GOLDEN HOUR: EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DYNAMICS

Moderator: Sherry Haghighat, MD

10:15 Urban Menace: The E-Bike Trauma Epidemic

Danny Fernandez

10:10am - Discussion

10:25am - Break

SESSION 3: DISASTER PREPARATION

Moderator: Bryan Love, MD

10:45am - Preparing for a MCI: Looking Towards the LA Olympics

Kathy Dollarhide, RN, BSN, CEN, CEM & Matthew Wojcik

11:45am - Discussion

11:55am Lunch

SESSION 4: SPECIAL TOPIC - COMPLEX PELVIC TRAUMA

Moderator: Hector Ludi, MD

12:30pm - Trauma

Bryan Love, MD, FACS

12:50pm - Orthopedics

Christopher Hoshino, MD

01:10pm - Interventional Radiology

Su-Yu Li, MD

01:30pm - Discussion

SESSION 5: KEYNOTE

01:40pm - International Trauma

Hector Ludi, MD

02:30pm - Break

SESSION 6: ICU

Moderator: Guarav Garg, MD

02:45pm - Emergency Airway Management

Justin Kirzner, MD

03:00pm - Ventilator: Beginner to Advanced Techniques

Karim Tadlaoui, MD

03:15pm - Burn Management Principles

Blair Smart, MD

03:30pm - Wounds Care

Carlos Guzman, MD

03:45pm - ICP Monitoring

Mian Mohsin Shah, MD

04:00pm - One Legacy

Speaker

04:30pm - Discussion

Closing Remarks

16:45 - Adjourn

COCKTAIL HOUR

05:00pm

DAY 2—Friday, December 4, 2025

07:00AM

Registration and Breakfast

SESSION 7: ANTICOAGULATION AND COAGULOPATHY IN TRAUMA

Moderator: Bryan Love, MD

07:30am - TEG

Farabi Hussain, MD

07:45am - Emergency Hemostatics in Trauma

Adam Golden, MD

08:00am - MTP

Jennie Kim, MD

08:15 am -Discussion

SESSION 8: REHABILITATION AND OUTREACH

Moderator: Arlene Vernon, MD

08:30am - Geriatric Trauma

Andrew Fragen, MD

08:45am - Case Management: Patient Placement

Nina Boies, Interim Director of Care Coordination

09:00am - Rehabilitation in Trauma

Amirpasha Ehsan, MD

09:20am - Long Beach Trauma Recovery Center

Speaker

09:40am - Community Outreach

Damon Clark, MD, FACS

10:00am - Discussion

10:15am - Break

SESSION 9: HOT TOPICS IN TRAUMA

Moderator: Joe Sirody, MD

10:35am - AI in Medicine

Jeff Cripe, ProCode

10:55am - Rib Plating

Guarav Garg, MD

11:15am - Direct Peritoneal Resuscitation (DPR)

Kyrillos Awad, DO

11:35am - TEAMING & Psychological Safety

Dr. Keany

11:55am - Discussion

Closing Remarks

12:05pm

Bryan Love, MD, FACS