Harvard Heat Emergencies Prevention, Diagnosis and Management 2025

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The Heat Emergencies: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management Course is a virtual, lecture-based 4 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

Explain the epidemiology of heat related illness and associated disease processes.

Recognize the thermal physiology underlying clinical presentations of heat related illness.

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.

Describe groups at increased risk for heat related illness and develop anticipatory guidance and prevention plans.

Discuss the pharmacological interactions with heat-related illness and develop plans for protecting patients.

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.

Explain the impacts of heat across organ systems, including impacts on mental health and behavioral health and kidney disease.

Apply preventive solutions for heat related illness including from a community based, public health, and health systems approach.

Participant Types

General Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists, Primary Care Physicians, and Others

• Topics:

All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

Theme: Welcome, Overview, and Importance of Heat Clinical Education

Speakers: Tess Wiskel, Caleb Dresser

Time

Session Title

Speaker(s)

Defining Heat

Caleb Dresser

Heat Physiology

Robert Meade

Epidemiological Impacts of Heat

Antonella Zanobetti

Case Studies of Heat-Related Illness

Gayle Kouklis, Mary Meyer, Tara Benesch

Closing Remarks and Q&A

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Theme: Clinical Management of Heat-Related Illness

Speakers: Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Time

Session Title

Speaker(s)

Welcome and Recap

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Event Medicine and Heat-Related Illness

John Jardine, MD

Current Evidence on Heat-Related Illness

Kurt Eifling

Diagnosis of Heat-Related Illness

Tess Wiskel

Management of Heat-Related Illness

Caleb Dresser

Closing Remarks and Q&A

Tess Wiskel, Caleb Dresser

Theme: Heat Impacts on Special Populations

Speakers: Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Time

Session Title

Speaker(s)

Welcome and Recap

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Heat, Kidney Disease, and Outdoor Work

Nathan Raines

Pharmaceutical Considerations in Hot Weather

Hayley Blackburn

Small Group Discussions: What Special Populations Are You Worried About in Your Practice, and What Can Be Done?

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Heat-Related Illness in Special Populations

Bruce Bekkar, Marissa Hauptman, Manijeh Berenji, Nisha Shah

Heat and Behavioral Health

Elizabeth Pinsky

Closing Remarks and Q&A

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Theme: Prevention, Systems, and Policy Solutions

Speakers: Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Time

Session Title

Speaker(s)

Welcome and Recap

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Prevention and Management in Low-Resource Settings

Satchit Balsari

Practical Resources for the Busy Clinician

Geoffrey Comp, Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel

Health System Impacts & Preparedness for Extreme Heat

Jeremy Hess

Preventive Solutions Through Public Health and Policy

Jane Gilbert

Closing Remarks and Q&A

Caleb Dresser, Tess Wiskel