MEDIA ADVISORY

June 3, 2010

“Challenges in Critical Care” annual conference celebrates its 25th year

(LONDON, Ontario) – London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) Critical Care Trauma Centre presents its 25th annual “Challenges in Critical Care” conference. The purpose of the conference is to provide current and practical information to clinicians throughout the region. Media are invited to attend the conference.

Date:	June 4, 2010
Time:	0750 – 1600 hrs
Location:	Lamplighter Inn 591 Wellington Rd. South

This milestone year’s agenda features many exciting ‘snippets’, topics and speakers, among them:

• 0800 – 0845: The emergence of Influenza A. What did we learn from the recent pandemic? – Dr. Robert Lannigan, LHSC
  
• 1130 – 1145: Snippet – Nutrition “STAT!” - Mary Donelley-Vanderloo, Registered Dietitian, LHSC
  
• 1445 – 1545: “I Choose the Red Shoes” A keynote speech about resiliency by humorist and local motivational speaker Susan Minns who describes herself as an attitude expert after having dealt with MS, cancer and other calamities but kept on finding the positive and often funny side to it all.
  

For more information contact:

After-hours assistance:
Call LHSC Switchboard at 519-685-8500 and ask to page the communications consultant on-call.