Strengthening Medical Resilience: Bridging Healthcare Preparedness and Cross-Border Disaster Emergency Response
This forum will focus on strengthening medical resilience by bridging healthcare preparedness and cross-border disaster emergency response. The agenda moves from national strategies and extreme-environment preparedness to cross-border collaboration, MEDEVAC case studies, applied disaster medicine, and closing reflections.
Opening remarks, 14:00-14:20:
- Dr. Chung-Liang Shih, Minister of Health and Welfare, Taiwan
- Robert Mardini, Directorate General of HUG, Switzerland
Session I: Visions of Resilience – National Strategies & Extreme Environments
- 14:20-15:00: Building a Resilient Healthcare System: Taiwan’s Strategic Roadmap and Lessons Learned, moderated by Dr. Filippo Boroli, Department of Acute Medicine, HUG, Switzerland, with speaker Ray-Jade Chen, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
- 15:00-15:40: Resilience and Disaster Management in Extreme Natural Environments, moderated by Dr. Yueh-Ping Liu, Director-General of MoHW, Taiwan, with speaker Lionel Dumont, Department of Acute Medicine, HUG, Switzerland
Coffee break: 15:40-16:00.
Session II: Resilience in Action – Cross-Border Collaboration & MEDEVAC Case Studies
- 16:00-16:40: From Valais to Switzerland to Europe: The MEDEVAC after the Crans-Montana Incident from a national point of view, moderated by Dr. Yueh-Ping Liu, Director-General of MoHW, Taiwan, with speaker Severin Gerfin, KATAMED National Disaster Medicine Network, Switzerland
- 16:40-17:20: Border Collaboration to Field Practice: Applying Taiwan-Japan DMAT Joint Exercises and the HUG Model, moderated by Dr. Avinash Koka, Department of Acute Medicine, HUG, Switzerland, with speaker Chi-Feng Hsu, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan
Q&A and closing:
- 17:20-17:40: Q&A with moderators and speakers
- 17:40-18:00: Closing remarks with a HUG representative, Dr. Yueh-Ping Liu, and Dr. Olivier Hagon