2026 WakeMed Trauma Conference: When Time Matters Most

Course Description

The WakeMed Trauma Conference offers a variety of information for both new & experienced Trauma Care Providers. Dynamic speakers will present current recommendations for Trauma Patient Care from Pre-hospital Treatment to Rehabilitation.

Target Audience

This conference is designed for nurses, pre-hospital providers, advanced practice providers, and rehab specialists (OT/PT/SLT). Focus is for staff of emergency departments, intensive care areas, operating & recovery rooms, medical-surgical units, rehabilitation or other settings where trauma patients are treated.

Conference Topics: Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation; Geriatric Trauma; Trauma in the OR; Brain Injury Support; Trauma Informed Care; Panel discussion of trauma care from pre-hospital to rehab; Trauma survivor story and more...

Thursday, September 10, 2026

0730-0800-- Registration

0800-0815-- Welcome

0815-0915-- Circulation-First Resuscitation: How Prehospital Transfusion is Transforming Trauma Care

Mark Piehl, MD, MPH

WakeMed Pediatric Intensivist & The Founder/CMO of 410 Medical

0915- 0925 --Break

0930- 1030-- Moving Beyond "Mechanical": Thinking Critically About Falls

Eric LeFebvre, MD, FACEP

Wake Emergency Physicians, PA

1030-1130-- Trauma in the OR

Amirreza Motameni, MD

WakeMed General Surgery & Trauma

1135- 1225-- Lunch

1230-1330-- Beyond the Obvious: Recognizing Unique Causes and Presentations of Brain Injury

Rebecca Timblin, BS

Brain Injury Association of North Carolina

1330- 1430-- TBD

Brandon Schoonover, MMSc, PA-C

WakeMed General Surgery & Trauma

1430- 1445--Break

1450-1550-- From the Call to Discharge- Trauma Care Panel

Captain Donnie Taylor, Paramedic

Johnston County EMS

Rachel Himes, RN; Raleigh Emergency Department

Morgan Corriher, BSN, RN, CCRN; Surgical Trauma ICU

Brenda Sohacki, BSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC; 6C Surgery & Trauma

Kimberly Page, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC; 3C Rehab

WakeMed Health & Hospitals

1550- 1620-- “My Story”

Jennifer Snyder, MSN, RN, HACP

WakeMed Health & Hospitals

1620-1630 --Evaluation/Wrap-Up

**Topics, Speakers & Hours of Continuing Education Subject to Change**

6.5 Hours of Nursing Continuing Professional Development will be provided upon completion of the following

Disclosures:

In order to receive credit, the participant must:

1. Attend the entire conference
2. Verification of attendance will be noted by the participant’s initial/signature on the roster at the beginning of the session.
3. Participants must submit a course evaluation and attestation by September 17, 2026.

• No one with the ability to control content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company except for Mark Piehl, MD, MPH who is the Co-Founder and CMO for 410 Medical.

• Nursing Education Department at WakeMed is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NO refunds will be provided to those that cancel their registration after August 20, 2026. Refund requests prior to August 20th will be honored minus the ticket processing fees.

Please contact the course sponsor, the Nursing Education Department at 919-350-8024 or email Taylor Midgette at [email protected].

Recommended Hotel Accommodations

4100 Main at North Hills Street · Raleigh, North Carolina 27609 USA

919-571-8773

4500 Marriott Drive · Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 USA

919-781-7000