Upcoming Medical Conferences in Marina Del Rey

A Systematic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms 2019 is organized by Mayo Clinic and will be held from Aug 22 - 24, 2019 at The Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. Intended Audience: This course is intended for internists, subspecialists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others who practice in or have a special interest in treating medically complex patients. Credit: AMA PRA Category 1™: 18.0 ABIM MOC: 18.0 AAFP Prescribed: 18.0 Overview: This course will provide a diagnostic framework/template for chronic medically unexplained conditions with shared etiologies and presentations. Subsequently, more specific management strategies for each condition will be provided, along with various clinical pearls. The program will cover various conditions seen throughout the scope of internal medicine, selecting from a variety of pertinent general and subspecialty-derived conditions. Expert faculty will present evidence and case-based clinical approaches. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: • Summarize a general framework/construct regarding the approach to chronic functionally-based symptoms. • Integrate a cost-effective and efficient diagnostic methodology in the care of chronic functionally-based symptoms. • Describe updates in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. • Describe therapeutic options for chronic subjective dizziness. Time: 6:30 am to 1:00 pm

2019 Parkinsons Disease and Beyond: An Update in Movement Disorders is organized by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and will be held on Oct 26, 2019 at Marina del Rey Marriott, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: Family / General Medicine, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Course Description: Movement Disorders are a complex and multifaceted group of illnesses affecting the nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include involuntary movements, muscle rigidity, slowness, changes in speech and gait. Most commonly encountered in the clinical setting is Parkinson's disease (PD). According to the Parkinson?s Foundation, nearly one million people in the US will be living with PD by 2020 and approximately 60,000 Americans will be diagnosed every year. Given that each PD patient is unique, clinicians may not know about all treatment options or know which treatment is best suited for each patient. To help address this need, expert faculty will discuss the challenges and opportunities for clinicians and healthcare professionals managing patients with PD and other movement disorders, including current and emerging medical and surgical advances that can be used to slow disease progression and improve patient quality of life. Objectives: • Summarize the criteria for identifying patients with Parkinson’s disease and apply strategies to detect early symptoms • Define surgical approaches for Parkinson’s disease (PD), essential tremor (ET) and dystonia patients • Recognize the various forms of dystonia, including DYT1, generalized dystonia and focal dystonia, and the options for treatment • Identify the different types of tremor, their diagnostic value and treatment options • Discuss available deep brain stimulation options for patients with movement disorders

How Nurses Can Heal America With Medicare For All is organized by National Nurses United (NNU) and will be held on Nov 05, 2019 at Marina del Rey Marriott, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 3 CEH. Description: American health care is in crisis, and nurses are on the frontlines. Skyrocketing costs are causing nurses’ patients to get sicker as they delay or forgo necessary care. RNs witness growing frustration and despair in their communities as medical debt undermines economic security and hospital closures exacerbate public health disparities. And on top of it all, nurses are forced to deal with constant health and safety risks and increasingly stressful workplaces as they struggle to provide the highest quality care for their patients and advocate for their communities.  Nurses know that at the root of this crisis is a health care system that puts profits over people. But why does America have the system it has, when virtually every other wealthy nation manages to guarantee health care as a right - and at a fraction of the cost? Why do industry leaders and politicians continue to engage in endless policy debates when a majority of the public already agrees that Medicare for All is the obvious solution to our healthcare crisis? How can nurses help achieve Medicare for All so that America can join the rest of the industrialized world in guaranteeing health care as a right for all people? What else will RNs have to do, beyond winning Medicare for All, in order to bring about real health justice in the United States? This class will provide answers to these questions and will equip nurses with the basic tools they need to put this knowledge into action for the good of their patients, their profession, and their communities. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this class, participants will be able to: • Draw on a wide range of up-to-date research and international comparisons to accurately diagnose the underlying causes of the current health care crisis. • Describe how a Medicare for All (single-payer) system works, and explain how it will lower health care costs, improve patient outcomes and public health, and safeguard the nursing profession. • Assess how Medicare for All compares to other health care reform proposals on ethical, clinical, professional, and socioeconomic grounds. • Articulate which problems Medicare for All will solve and what challenges will remain under a single-payer system. • Explain how nurses can work with patients, other clinicians and caregivers, and their communities to achieve health justice through Medicare for All and more

How Nurses Can Heal America With Medicare For All is organized by National Nurses United (NNU) and will be held on Nov 05, 2019 at Marina del Rey Marriott, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 3 CEH. Description: American health care is in crisis, and nurses are on the frontlines. Skyrocketing costs are causing nurses’ patients to get sicker as they delay or forgo necessary care. RNs witness growing frustration and despair in their communities as medical debt undermines economic security and hospital closures exacerbate public health disparities. And on top of it all, nurses are forced to deal with constant health and safety risks and increasingly stressful workplaces as they struggle to provide the highest quality care for their patients and advocate for their communities.  Nurses know that at the root of this crisis is a health care system that puts profits over people. But why does America have the system it has, when virtually every other wealthy nation manages to guarantee health care as a right - and at a fraction of the cost? Why do industry leaders and politicians continue to engage in endless policy debates when a majority of the public already agrees that Medicare for All is the obvious solution to our healthcare crisis? How can nurses help achieve Medicare for All so that America can join the rest of the industrialized world in guaranteeing health care as a right for all people? What else will RNs have to do, beyond winning Medicare for All, in order to bring about real health justice in the United States? This class will provide answers to these questions and will equip nurses with the basic tools they need to put this knowledge into action for the good of their patients, their profession, and their communities. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this class, participants will be able to: • Draw on a wide range of up-to-date research and international comparisons to accurately diagnose the underlying causes of the current health care crisis. • Describe how a Medicare for All (single-payer) system works, and explain how it will lower health care costs, improve patient outcomes and public health, and safeguard the nursing profession. • Assess how Medicare for All compares to other health care reform proposals on ethical, clinical, professional, and socioeconomic grounds. • Articulate which problems Medicare for All will solve and what challenges will remain under a single-payer system. • Explain how nurses can work with patients, other clinicians and caregivers, and their communities to achieve health justice through Medicare for All and more

Fighting Back Against Diseases of Devastation is organized by National Nurses United (NNU) and will be held on Dec 13, 2019 at Marina del Rey Marriott, Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6 CEH. Description: What are diseases of devastation? How did the current opioid epidemic begin and why has it grown so aggressively? What role do pharmaceutical companies and market-based medicine play in the proliferation of opioid prescriptions?  Of concern to registered nurses is that drug overdose is now the leading cause of injury and death in the United States - claiming 350,000 lives over the past two decades, with 47,000 deaths in 2017 alone. Twenty seven states have sued the pharmaceutical companies behind the opioid explosion. Yet, people who are in dire need of healthcare and treatment are targeted and penalized for opioid use. As opioids claim lives from nearly every gender, race, ethnicity, and community in the United States, disparate treatment and police responses to the epidemic expose deep-seated race-based fault lines in the U.S. health care and criminal justice systems. Opioid use disorder should be treated as a public health issue. By comparing the opioid crisis with similar diseases of devastation, nurses will analyze the opioid epidemic as a symptom of the outsized influence of Big Pharma in our broken, for-profit health care system. The class will conclude with discussion of systemic interventions nurses can take to heal diseases of devastation and protect nurses’ professional judgment. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this class, participants will be able to:  • Describe diseases of devastation, specifically the opioid epidemic. • Discuss the role of rising drug prices, “me too” drugs, and race in opioid treatment policy. • Compare and contrast registered nurses’ role in advocating for robust public health measures with the pharmaceutical industry’s exploitation of public health. • Explain how nurses’ advocacy for systemic public health interventions - like Medicare for All and others - can counter Big Pharma’s hold on our health care system. Note: All class times 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, additional hour available.

Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) 2020 is organized by Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) and will be held from May 04 - 07, 2020 at Marina Del Rey, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.