Speaker Spotlight: Heather Davis
Heather Davis, EdD, NREMT-P, holds a Doctorate in Education from the University of Southern California. She is the paramedic program director at UCLA Center for Prehospital Care. She is a published author, national speaker and National Registry Board Member.
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On Thursday, October 6, 10:45 a.m.–12 p.m., she will present Teaching Pharmacology in the educator track.
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Why is your lecture topic important to you?
The quality of instruction of pharmacology is important because medication issues are a leading cause of hospital admissions in relation to overdoses, under doses, medication interactions, etc. This means
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that medication issues are a high volume of our prehospital patient contacts. We can tell so much about the patient’s history, both past medical and of their current emergency, when we know the medications they are taking. Yet many instructors do know how to approach this topic in a way that makes it manageable for the students.
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What is the No. 1 thing you’d like attendees to get out of your lecture?
I want instructors to have the strategy for presenting this information to their classes in a way that promotes interest and intellectual curiosity instead of fear.
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Heather will also present Breathe Easier Knowing Respiratory Pharmacology (Wednesday, October 5, 8–9 a.m.) in the BLS track; Evidence-Based EMS Education Is Not an Oxymoron (Wednesday, October 5, 2–3:15 p.m.) in the educator track; Applying the Science of Learning to EMS Classrooms (Wednesday, October 5, 3:30–4:45 p.m.) in the educator track; and How Lack of Sleep Is Making Us Slow, Stupid and Dangerous (Thursday, October 6, 1 p.m.) in the Safety Officer program.
