Multi-professional presidential dual leadership for DIVI23
28.02.2023 12:11
The motto "Strengthening interdisciplinarity - living multiprofessionalism!" of this year's annual congress of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) is directly reflected in a new personnel structure: In addition to congress president Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Brenner (left), director of the clinic for anesthesiology and intensive care medicine at the University Hospital Essen, there will be a co-president for the first time who specifically represents the health professions: Klaus Notz, head of the Academy of Reutlingen District Hospitals. He will bring nursing interests into play even more strongly.
“Nursing has been intensively involved in the DIVI Congress since 2008 and has designed its own program items. Of course, we also draw on this experience and a proven team in the background, including from the Nursing Research Section, when designing the DIVI23 program,” says Notz. Throughout all three days there will be a program specifically for the health professions, which will be designed together with the medical profession.
Intensive care as the supreme discipline
Personally, Klaus Notz would like to work, among other things, to find common solutions to the shortage of skilled workers and the migration of nursing staff to service companies. “I see intensive care as the supreme discipline!” says the co-congress president. “Nowhere is the contribution of specialist nurses to the quality of patient care and treatment safety as great as in an intensive care unit, where they work very closely with doctors and therapists.”
Care interests are represented more strongly, multi-professionalism is practiced
“DIVI has always been an interdisciplinary and multi-professional umbrella organization and this has always been adequately reflected in the conference program. But, and this was important to us, in the organizational structure this interdisciplinarity and multi-professionalism was represented exclusively by the medical congress president,” explains congress president Thorsten Brenner. “That will change with the DIVI23, so that we will do much more justice to reality!”
Congress President Thorsten Brenner will also incorporate his infectious and septic background into the program design, as he is also the spokesman for the Systemic Inflammation and Sepsis section of the DIVI.
A goal for 2023: more than 6,000 participants in Hamburg
Notz and Brenner are very much looking forward to working with the congress team to put together a highly attractive and, as expected, extremely varied program for DIVI23 in the next few weeks in order to be able to build on the great success of DIVI22. In one point they want to achieve even more: “In addition to the usual scientific excellence, we are ambitious and want to break the 6,000 participant mark for the first time in December,” said both congress presidents. Together, this seems to be quite achievable due to the new, even more multi-professional orientation.