Topics in Family Medicine and Mass Casualty Disaster Management

Gidon Almogy, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, Department of Surgery B
Hadassah University Hospital
Jerusalem, Israel

Dr Gidon Almogy is the Director of the Department of Surgery B, and senior surgeon of Department of General Surgery of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He did his Residency in General Surgery in Hadassah Medical Center, and a Fellowship in Foregut Surgery in Los Angeles, CA (USC). He is an Active member of Israeli Surgical Society.

Dr. Almogy's clinical and research experience in trauma care started in 2001 while he was a second year surgical resident at the Hadassah Medical Center and was first exposed to trauma surgery. Since then trauma surgery has become a major topic of his investigations and one of his chief subspecialties.

Based on the unfortunate Israeli experiences, he was involved in the first introduction of the civilian protocol for the management of mass casualty incidents (MCI's) and showed a high success rate in saving life by fully utilizing the limited resources available in civilian hospitals. The importance of these studies has been demonstrated in real life. He was invited as an expert speaker and guest lecturer to a number of teaching courses and conferences around the world.
Other topics of special interest:

• Foregut surgery
• Education in surgery and trauma

Sandra L. Argenio, MD
Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Emeritus Staff Member
Faculty Physician and Consultant, Institute for Healthcare Excellence, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Continuous Professional Development/ CME Committee
Past President of the FAFP

Dr. Sandra Argenio served as a Consultant in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Mayo Medical School. She joined Mayo Clinic in 1992 and continues as an Emeritus member of the Family Medicine Department.

Dr. Argenio was instrumental in the development of the Family Medicine Residency at Mayo Clinic Florida and served as the program's first residency director. She has trained and mentored over 150 family medicine residents.

Dr. Argenio served as the President of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians in 2005 and has been active on many committees of the FAFP and the American Academy of Family Physicians. She has been very active in CME program planning at Mayo Clinic and the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Argenio has conducted maintenance of Certification Workshop sessions on multiple topics for over 1100 participants at FAFP meetings.
She has served on the Florida Governor's Physician Workforce Advisory Board.

Dr. Argenio has been involved with Communication Training since 2005. She chaired the Mayo Florida Communication Faculty. In her present position on the faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Excellence, she has designed curricula and delivered programs at over 35 institutions, including multiple hospitals and pediatric hospitals, hospice organizations, and military healthcare organizations including Walter Reed, Fort Belvoir and Camp Pendleton.

Communication training activities have included train-the trainer sessions, teamwork training and coaching.

Dr. Argenio is a graduate of Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Hahnemann Medical University in Philadelphia, Pa. She completed her Family Medicine Residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania in 1982. She resides in Holly Hill, Florida with her husband and daughter.

*Tentative course schedule, actual class times may differ.