HCRI Deputy Director, Professor Tony Redmond attended the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM) in June 2011. The Congress hosted more than 1,600 participants from 57 countries and was held in conjunction with the 14th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Emergency Medicine.

In keeping with tradition, the Closing Ceremony featured a “passing of the flag” from the current WCDEM site to the upcoming one. Prof. Anthony Redmond, Dr. Judith Fisher, and Prof. Li Chengshung (pictured to the right) posed for a photo marking the transfer of the WCDEM from Beijing to Manchester in 2013. Details about the 18th WCDEM in manchester will be released in 2012. http://www.wadem.org/

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