The Heat Emergencies Clinical Education CME Course is a virtual, lecture-based four half-day course to educate clinicians about how to diagnose, treat, and prevent heat-related illness. The course will describe the current evidence around all heat-related emergencies, including heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and heat syncope. The course will provide a background on the changing epidemiology of heat-related illness, varying definitions of heat, basics of thermal physiology, and individual and population based approaches to prevention of heat-related illness.
Learning Objectives
- Â Explain the epidemiology of heat related illness and associated disease processes.
- Â Recognize the thermal physiology underlying clinical presentations of heat related illness.
- Â Create a differential diagnosis and develop comprehensive, evidence-based management plans for all forms of heat related illness, including heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat stroke.
- Â Describe groups at increased risk for heat related illness and develop anticipatory guidance and prevention plans.
- Â Discuss the pharmacological interactions with heat-related illness and develop plans for protecting patients.
- Â Identify the resources needed and best steps to take for preparedness, diagnosis and treatment of heat related illness during event medicine and in low-resources settings.
- Â Explain the impacts of heat across organ systems, including impacts on mental health and behavioral health and kidney disease.
- Â Apply preventive solutions for heat related illness including from a community based, public health, and health systems approach.
Day 1 – Monday, June 15, 2026
| Time |
Session |
Faculty |
| 1:00–1:30 PM |
Welcome, Overview, and Importance of Heat Clinical Education |
Tess Wiskel; Caleb Dresser |
| 1:30–2:15 PM |
Defining Heat |
Caleb Dresser |
| 2:15–3:00 PM |
Heat Physiology |
Robert Meade |
| 3:00–4:00 PM |
Epidemiological Impacts of Heat |
Barrak Alahmad |
| 4:00–4:45 PM |
Fluids, Electrolytes and Perspiration |
Samuel Cheuvront |
| 4:45–5:00 PM |
Closing Remarks and Q&A |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
Day 2 – Wednesday, June 17, 2026
| Time |
Session |
Faculty |
| 1:00–1:15 PM |
Welcome and Recap |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
| 1:15–2:00 PM |
Event Medicine and Heat-Related Illness |
John Jardine, MD |
| 2:00–3:00 PM |
Current Evidence on Heat-Related Illness |
Kurt Eifling |
| 3:00–3:45 PM |
Diagnosis of Heat-Related Illness |
Tess Wiskel |
| 3:45–4:45 PM |
Management of Heat-Related Illness |
Caleb Dresser |
| 4:45–5:00 PM |
Closing Remarks and Q&A |
Tess Wiskel; Caleb Dresser |
Day 3 – Monday, June 22, 2026
| Time |
Session |
Faculty |
| 1:00–1:15 PM |
Welcome and Recap |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
| 1:15–2:00 PM |
Heat, Kidney Disease, and Outdoor Work |
Nathan Raines |
| 2:00–2:45 PM |
Pharmaceutical Considerations in Hot Weather |
Hayley Blackburn |
| 2:45–3:15 PM |
Small Group Discussions: What Special Populations Are You Worried About in Your Practice, and What Can Be Done to Meet Their Needs? |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
| 3:15–4:00 PM |
Heat-Related Illness in Special Populations |
Bruce Bekkar; Marissa Hauptman; Manijeh Berenji |
| 4:00–4:45 PM |
Heat and Behavioral Health |
Elizabeth Pinsky |
| 4:45–5:00 PM |
Closing Remarks and Q&A |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
Day 4 – Wednesday, June 24, 2026
| Time |
Session |
Faculty |
| 1:00–1:05 PM |
Welcome and Recap |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
| 1:05–2:00 PM |
Prevention and Management of Heat-Related Illness in Low-Resource Settings |
Satchit Balsari |
| 2:00–2:45 PM |
Practical Resources for the Busy Clinician |
Geoffrey Comp; Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
| 2:45–3:45 PM |
Health System Impacts and Preparedness for Extreme Heat |
Jeremy Hess |
| 3:45–4:30 PM |
Preventive Solutions Through Public Health and Public Policy |
Jane Gilbert |
| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Closing Remarks and Q&A |
Caleb Dresser; Tess Wiskel |
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