Upcoming Medical Conferences in Anaheim

SOP: Strategies for Optimizing Performance is organized by The Institute of Physical Art, Inc. (IPA) and will be held from Dec 07 - 08, 2019 at California Rehabilitation & Sports Therapy, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 Contact Hours. Audience: PT, PTA, OT, SPT Attendees agree to utilize all skills of evaluation, assessment and treatment learned in this course to the extent allowed under the regulations of their professional practice act. By registering you acknowledge that your attendance does not represent authorization by the IPA, or any of its officers, to utilize any of the material learned which may lie outside of the strict interpretation of your practice act. Course Purpose: The main purpose of this course is to utilize concepts taught in CoreFirst® Strategies and PNF principles taught in several other IPA courses to enhance the stability and therefore the physical performance of our highest functioning patients. Course Description: In this class, the clinician will build on the concepts learned in CoreFirst® Strategies to further enhance their observational and manual facilitation skills to better evaluate and treat higher functioning patient populations.  The trained clinician can develop an eye to observe specific details of movement for quality, timing, sequencing, stability, and control that is often missed in other less clinical and less hands-on approaches.  The goal with all functional training is to maximize efficiency of movements to improve physical performance and to decrease compensations and aberrant movement patterns that can lead to injury. Course Objectives: By the end of the course, the participant will be able to: • Explain how Automatic Core Engagement can be used to assess physical performance capabilities • Discuss the Saliba Postural Classification System (SPCS) and how these variations can impact physical performance.   • Expand on concepts taught in CFS to bring these to more dynamic movements through Dynamic Functional Tests. • Explain how the principles of body mechanics presented in CFS can be applied to various sports specific positions and activities.  • Demonstrate how Functional Tests can be used in multiple positions to highlight the importance of Automatic Core Engagement with higher level dynamic positions. • Assess key developmental positions (supine and prone progressions) including an emphasis on trunk alignment and neuromuscular control in each position. • Utilize PNF in developmental positions to enhance optimum function using principles of positioning, manual contacts, resistance, and irradiation to enhance facilitation for improved stability and physical performance. • Identify key exercises commonly used in the performance and strength environment and discuss common dysfunctions based on the integration of the thoracic and pelvic girdle. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Nursing Mistakes & Negligence Allegations: Even If It’s Not Your Fault...It Will Become Your Problem is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 11, 2019 at DoubleTree Suites By Hilton Hotel Anaheim Resort - Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United states of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours.. Target Audience: • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Clinical Nurse Specialists • Risk Managers • Legal Nurse Consultants • Attorneys • Paralegals Course Description: Imagine that you and your manager/administrator have been served with a lawsuit related to the stay of a patient that you vaguely recall some 2-3 years ago. The failures listed in the complaint are voluminous, cover 3 pages. You are both stone cold petrified. What went wrong? What am I being accused of? Why me? How am I supposed to remember any of this? How can this happen to me, a stellar nurse of 20 years?  This program will address all of this and provide you with all that you need to know to prevent this scenario in the first place!  Healthcare today is rife with litigation against nurses. There is more accountability, reliability, autonomy and liability. The rate of nurses becoming part of lawsuits is steadily on the rise. Join Legal Consultant, Kathleen Martin, RN, MSN, MPA, LNHA, CPHQ, WCC, HACP, for this critical and self-protective look in to a very real nursing mistakes and negligence allegations made. Course Objectives: • Evaluate the latest legal pitfalls in nursing practice. • Demonstrate 3 major areas the plaintiff must prove: existence of duty, breach of duty, and injury. • Apply the standards of care to actual litigation cases. • Analyze documentation samples so that you can avoid litigation and licensure risks. • Determine the actual anatomy of a deposition. • Explain preparation to be most successful in the courtroom, including appearance, demeanor and responses.

Treating Insomnia: Transdiagnostic Clinical Strategies to Optimize Sleep & Improve Outcomes in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Chronic Pain is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 06, 2020 at Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience:  • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Marriage and Family Therapists • Case Managers • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: If you aren’t asking about your clients’ sleep, you’re making mistakes as a clinician. All clinicians should know how to properly assess and treat insomnia – sleep is that important for your clients’ health and quality of life. It’s no secret that insomnia frequently develops as a result of PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a wider variety of other behavioral and medical disorders. Traditional wisdom has been that if you treat the primary disorder, the insomnia will go away. However, the data does not support this traditional wisdom. Although the primary disorder improves somewhat, the insomnia often does not, which can lead to diminished improvements in clinical outcomes regarding the primary disorder, increased dropout rate and higher relapse rates. Despite you doing everything you can to target the primary disorder, your client continues to be tired and struggles more with symptoms of the primary disorder, leaving you frustrated and overwhelmed because you don’t know what to do next. The truth is, when clients have PTSD, anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, their symptoms are made worse --- and treatment more difficult --- when they’re not able to sleep. Therefore, the insomnia must be targeted directly. Improve clinical outcomes in clients by integrating the treatment of insomnia into your practice! Join Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine Donn Posner, Ph.D., and he’ll walk you step-by-step through the treatment of insomnia. You’ll learn how to properly assess and develop a treatment plan for insomnia, as well as how to educate your clients about sleep to make them experts on their own sleep disorders. Discover evidence-based strategies to help your clients sleep longer and more efficiently, as well as enjoy increased energy levels during the day. As a result, your clients’ symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain will decrease in frequency and severity. You’ll walk away from this course with the tools you need to treat insomnia. Better still, you’ll add vital techniques to your clinical tool kit that you didn’t know were missing. Register today to learn how to treat insomnia and revolutionize your treatment outcomes! Objectives: • Summarize the basics of sleep nomenclature including sleep period, phase, continuity, and architecture to inform clinical treatment interventions. • Conduct a clinical assessment to differentiate acute insomnia from insomnia disorder in clients and articulate the importance of treating the chronic form as a specifically targeted co-morbidity. • Explore the empirical evidence for the efficacy of CBT-I for both primary and co-morbid insomnia disorder to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions. • Articulate the basics of sleep regulation and demonstrate how to utilize these concepts in the deployment of CBT-I in clinical practice. • Identify how to obtain useable client sleep diary data and strategies for analyzing the data for use in the treatment of insomnia. • Apply the techniques of stimulus control, sleep restriction, sleep hygiene education and cognitive therapeutic strategies to the clinical treatment of chronic insomnia. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Challenging Geriatric Behaviors is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 11, 2020 at DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Anaheim Resort - Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Speech-Language Pathologists • Social Workers • Home Healthcare Providers • Nursing Home Administrators • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians • Recreation Therapists Course Description: This is the best seminar on challenging geriatric behaviors that you will ever attend - GUARANTEED! Join Steven Atkinson, nationally-known expert, author and speaker on geriatrics, for a high-energy, dynamic seminar filled with interesting case studies, insightful discussions and interactive learning. You will leave this seminar with practical techniques that you can apply the next day! Dealing with cognitively-impaired geriatric patients can be challenging even for the experienced healthcare professional. You will learn strategies to manage behaviors such as: • Dementia • Aggression • Anxiety and depression • Refusal of food and fluids • Inappropriate sexual advances If older adults are routinely under your care, minimize your risk of escalating the problems associated with troublesome, often irrational behavior by attending this program. Gain valuable insights into the causes of challenging geriatric behaviors and learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide. Objectives: • Develop strategies to manage difficult behaviors in seniors who have an altered perception of reality. • Identify the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. • Discuss current research on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, as well as lifestyle factors to slow the disease progression. • Summarize the safety issues associated with geriatric patients who drive and identify individuals who pose a safety threat. • Explain why wandering occurs in individuals with cognitive impairment and develop strategies to minimize or redirect this behavior. • Describe the environmental and behavioral causes of agitation. • Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in individuals with dementia. • Distinguish between normal sleeping patterns and bedtime issues which could lead to increased health problems. • Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder's desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements. • Identify the signs of caregiver stress and develop intervention strategies to prevent burnout.

Dyslexia: Building NEW Neuropathways to Master Visual and Auditory Memory, Visual Perceptual Skills, Visual Motor Skill Development & More! is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 11, 2020 at Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants • Counselors • Social Workers • Speech-Language Pathologists • Teachers • School Psychologists • Other Helping Professionals that Work with Children Course Description: Dyslexia – the invisible disability that impacts 1:5 individuals! It’s not just an issue of trying harder or paying attention. You know the stories you hear from your clients – hours of studying just to forget it all on a test the following day, constant lack of ability to understand what they read, difficulty remembering lists or instructions beyond three, the overwhelming frustration of knowing what they want to say or do, but not being able to express it on paper or get the words out, socially withdrawn in attempt to hide their struggles. In this seminar, you will have the opportunity to practice treatment ideas that will incorporate the use of client-centered everyday routines, games, technology, sensory and hands-on approaches to help your client overcome the challenges of life with dyslexia. Upon completion of this program, you will be able to immediately provide treatment to address your client’s: • Visual perceptual skills • Visual motor integration • Auditory and visual memory • Reading rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension • Phonetic awareness and memory • Spelling and handwriting struggles Objectives: • Analyze the 3 types of dyslexia and their characteristics to establish a treatment plan. • Determine the executive cognitive functions and treatment methodologies that impact processing speed and reading comprehension. • Choose treatment strategies to address visual perceptual, visual motor integration, auditory and visual memory deficits to increase handwriting legibility, reading comprehension, and ability to follow multi-step directions. • Communicate how to integrate electronic and low tech games into treatment activities to increase reading comprehension, ability to follow multi-step directions for increased academic success. • Apply compensatory strategies to each specific type, such as recital, chunking, and mnemonics as they apply to visual and auditory memory. • Establish 3 strategies to improve client’s ability to recall multi-step instructions and letter sequence for spelling.

Primary Care Update: Dermatology, Sports Medicine, and Pharmacology is organized by MCE Conferences and will be held from Feb 15 - 17, 2020 at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Target Audience: All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Dermatology, Sports Medicine and Pharmacology. Accreditation: This live activity is being reviewed and will be acceptable for up to 12 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to the AMA PRA category 1 credit toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Pharmacology Credits: This course is being reviewed for up to 12 CE credits, 4 of which may be applied toward Pharmacology. (Note: please verify this with your Medical Board) Overview: This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Dermatology, Sports Medicine and Pharmacology while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Dermatology, Sports Medicine and Pharmacology with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes. Topics and Objectives: An Algorithmic Approach to the Patient with a Rash  Objectives: 1) Discuss how to approach a patient with a rash 2) Review morphologic terminology 3) Understand how to use morphology to build a differential diagnosis and workup for a rash Benign and Malignant Skin Lesions: Practical tips for Primary Care  Objectives: 1) Review clinical presentations of common benign and malignant skin lesions 2) Discuss risk factors for skin cancer and when to refer patients to dermatology for skin checks 3) Understand basic medical and surgical techniques for diagnosis and treatment Eczema and Psoriasis  Objectives: 1) Recognize classic eczema and psoriasis morphology as well as more unusual presentations 2) Differentiate atopic dermatitis from other eczema subtypes 3) Review basic management for flares and maintenance, and the therapeutic ladder for difficult cases 4) Understand risk of co-morbidities and when to refer to dermatology Skin infections  Objectives: 1) Review morphology and diagnosis of common viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic skin infections 2) Discuss management strategies for common infections (tinea, herpes, staph and others) Concussion Update  Objectives: 1) Recall the etiology, pathophysiology, and signs and symptoms of concussion 2) Utilize concussion assessment tools to assess and manage concussion 3) Determine medical clearance and return to learn and play recommendations 4) Consider when and how to interpret neuropsychological testing 5) Define T-second impact syndrome and its complications/significance Exercise Rx, What and For Whom?  Objectives: 1) Distinguish health benefits that can be attained from regular physical activity 2) Prepare effective exercise prescriptions using the FITT-PRO 3) Address barriers to implementation that may exist for some patients Tendonitis: The Challenges and Controversies  Objectives: 1) Define and differentiate types of tendonopathy 2) Select evidence-based treatments for tendonopathy 3) Determine indications, benefits, and harms from injections for tendonopathy Sports Medicine Exam Tips and Tricks  Objectives: 1) Determine when urgent referral is needed for a hand injury based on the history and physical exam 2) Select the most appropriate examination for certain musculoskeletal complaints 3) Perform appropriate testing to evaluate foot and ankle injuries that may require further testing or referral Managing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Emergencies  Objectives: 1) Assess patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis using biomarkers 2) Evaluate patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis using clinical signs and symptoms 3) Describe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of diabetic ketoacidosis 4) Evaluate patients for appropriateness of initial insulin bolus use and sodium bicarbonate administration 5) Evaluate patients for resolution of diabetic ketoacidosis Management of Toxicologic Emergencies  Objectives: 1) Describe basic clinical pharmacokinetic principles including absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion 2) Recognize toxidromes of commonly seen pharmacologic overdoses 3) Interview patients who present with potential or actual overdoses to procure important medical information 4) Apply knowledge of toxic presentations and reversal agents to manage acute overdoses 5) Manage toxic presentations in the setting of substances of abuse 6) Utilize appropriate resources to manage toxicological emergencies Keeping Up with the Kinetics: A Review of Clinical Pharmacokinetics  Objectives: 1) Discuss basic clinical pharmacokinetics concepts of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion 2) List the variables used in calculating creatinine clearance 3) Describe potential pitfalls in calculating creatinine clearance 4) Evaluate patients for dose adjustment needs in the setting of renal failure 5) Describe basic one‐compartment and multi‐compartmental concepts in clinical pharmacokinetics 6) Describe basic linear and non‐linear concepts in clinical pharmacokinetic 7) Evaluate patients for drug toxicities Fake It Til You Make It: How the Placebo Effect Impacts Clinical Practice  Objectives: 1) Compare and contrast the placebo and nocebo effects 2) Discuss explanatory mechanisms for the placebo and nocebo effects 3) Discuss pitfalls in clinical trial design that may increase placebo response rates 4) Describe the pharmacist’s role in managing patient expectations and mitigating placebo and nocebo effects Note: Content is subject to change without notice. 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2020 American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Annual Scientific Meeting is organized by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). The session will be held from Feb 17 - 22, 2020 at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Learning Objectives: • Acknowledge the ideology and roles of forensic science disciplines • Evaluate current concepts and practices • Discuss forensic science issues associated with science, evidence and the law • Discover strategies for researching descriptive studies, technology and methods, diagnostics, interpretation, and testimony • Evaluate administrative functions performed by forensic scientists Additional Details will be posted as soon as information is available.

American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO) Annual Meeting is organized by American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO) and will be held from Feb 17 - 22, 2020 at Anaheim, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

12th Annual Gastroenterology & Hepatology Symposium is organized by University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine and will be held from Feb 28 - 29, 2020 at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Description: A hands-on workshop and multidisciplinary case discussions focused on new approaches in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases. The symposium's course curriculum covers the latest management options and endoscopic and surgical treatments in the following areas: • Bariatrics • Biliary • Colon and rectal • Hepatology • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) • Pancreas • Upper GI tract Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Updates in Family Medicine 2020 is organized by Mayo Clinic and will be held from Mar 11 - 14, 2020 at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Target Audience: This course is designed for family physicians, general internists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses in primary care and family medicine. Course Description: This Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente collaboration offers a comprehensive family medicine update course designed for practicing primary care and family physicians. This course highlights the latest recommendations involving medical specialties important to the primary care setting that can be applied immediately into practice while using lectures, panel and roundtable discussions to provide opportunities to interact with faculty. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.