OVERVIEW

OptumHealth Education's 26th Annual National Conference is organized by OptumHealth Education and would be held during Oct 02 - 04, 2017 at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event for Nurses/Oncology Nurses/Transplant Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians, Transplant Coordinators, Hematopoietic Transplant Coordinators, Medical Management Staff, Reinsurance Managers, Utilization Review Staff. This cme conference has been approved with a maximum of 13.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Topics :
• Oncology
• Health Equity
• Solid Organ Transplantation
• Blood/Marrow Transplantation
• Personal Transplant Experiences
• Diabetes, Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Telemedicine
• Opioid Abuse

Conference Objectives :
• Compare health inequities in specific population groups and identify ways to provide culturally competent care to address health disparities.
• Define Pareto optimality and efficiency and its role in transplantation.
• Recognize the role of gene therapy in the treatment of hereditary diseases, explore advances in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy for the treatment of leukemia, and identify the latest treatment and research for the management of colon cancer.
• Discuss the latest guidelines and best-practice standards for preventing and treating comorbid conditions associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.
• Describe the experience of organ and blood/marrow transplantation from transplant recipients’ perspectives.
• Explore the impact of telemedicine on health care.
• State the role of metabolic surgery for medical weight loss approaches pretransplant.
• Identify treatment options, including medical management and transplant, outcomes, and social and economic challenges in the management of sickle cell disease.
• List the steps being taken in the fight against the prescription opioid abuse epidemic, including strategies to reduce prescription opioid overdose risk, and address how organ donations have increased in the wake of the opioid epidemic.
• Summarize the pathophysiology of frailty and its role in transplant outcomes.
• Analyze the relationship between obesity, diabetes, kidney disease and transplant.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

KEY DATES

Event Start Date
02 Oct, 2017
Event Start Date
Event End Date
04 Oct, 2017
Event End Date

SPECIALITIES

CardiologyHealthcare Technology

SUGGESTED HOTELS

CONFERENCE VENUE

LocationChicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 Michigan Ave

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