Upcoming Medical Conferences in Pasadena

2019 Fall Implant Symposium by Southern California Orofacial Academy (SCOA) is organized by Southern California Orofacial Academy (SCOA) and will be held on Oct 30, 2019 at Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Suicidality and Suicide Loss in Children and Teens: Prevent Suicide and Restore Hope to Kids Grieving After Traumatic Loss is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Nov 22, 2019 at Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Educators • Occupational Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • School Personnel • All helping professionals who work with children Course Description: Suicide shatters worlds. And working with suicide is one of the most nerve-wracking and emotionally draining parts of your job. Whether your client is a suicidal young person, or one who’s grieving in the aftermath of a loved one’s death by suicide, the weight of the situation can leave you feeling uncertain of your next steps and looking for answers … • How do I identify true suicidal intent and/or lethality? • How do I effectively work with kids and adolescents when their developmental levels vary drastically? • How do I restore hope when a loved one’s sudden, and sometimes violent, death has left a child or adolescent in an emotional freefall? This workshop will provide you with answers to your toughest questions and give you the tools you need to assess for suicide risk in kids and adolescents, effectively intervene in suicidal crisis, and help them cope with the feelings that can leave them at risk for suicide. You’ll also learn how to apply play therapy interventions for children and teens whose worlds’ have been shattered following a loved ones’ death by suicide. Along with guidance from our expert instructors, these evidence-based techniques will empower you to work with vulnerable young people experiencing traumatic grief more skillfully than ever before. Course Objectives: • Identify risk factors and warning signs of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents to increase skills in risk assessment of suicidality. • Analyze protective factors that may reduce suicidal behavior in children and teens. • Apply play-based interventions to reduce suicidal thoughts and/or suicidal behaviors in children and teens. • Implement assessment tools that identify children and teens at highest risk for suicidality. • Determine the role of parents and caregivers in suicide risk assessment and prevention situations. • Articulate and apply play-based interventions to address childhood traumatic grief (CTG) for children and teens who are survivors of suicide loss.

High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 04, 2019 at Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 clock hours of continuing education / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit.  Target Audience: • Speech-Language Pathologists • Speech-Language Pathology Assistants • School Administrators • Special Education Teachers • General Education Teachers • School-based Personnel • Social Workers • Counselors • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Behavioral Intervention Specialists • Psychologists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Educational Paraprofessionals • Nurses • Youth Leaders • Probation Officers • Other helping professionals who work with children/adolescents/young adultsCourse  Description: This intensive, full-day seminar provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to help you analyze behaviors and actions, identify consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Walk away with practical intervention techniques for social success, behavior changes and overcoming challenging co-occurring behaviors that deliver success through adulthood. The challenging co-occurring issues to be addressed are: • Social skills • Sensory • Depression • ADHD • Psychotropic medications • Communication • Anxiety/Rigidity • Meltdowns • OCD • Non-compliance Gain valuable insight into common psychotropic medications, including both the helpful effects and potentially problematic side effects, that these individuals are prescribed. We will explore HFA and the new DSM-5® diagnosis of Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder. You will receive the necessary tools to gain effective collaboration between clinicians, educators and parents. Through case studies, video clips and class participation you will leave this seminar with the confidence to identify actions that cause impediments in change, utilize more successful consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents, and young adults with HFA. Don’t just manage these individuals; provide interventions that can lead to successful independence into their adult years! Objectives: • Implement interventions to teach children/adolescents diagnosed with High-Functioning • Autism (HFA) the skills to independently manage their own regulation, anxiety and fears. • Design effective strategies to approach transitions and routine life challenges for children/adolescents diagnosed with HFA. • Utilize specific interventions to improve long-term social-emotional success for children/adolescents diagnosed with HFA. • Suggest specific sensory-based calming techniques to reduce anxiety for children/adolescents diagnosed with HFA. • Recognize the potential side effects of psychotropic medication that can mimic or cause behavioral issues related to HFA. • Design specific behavioral interventions to reduce frequency, intensity and duration of difficult behaviors in children/adolescents with HFA.

100 Brain-Changing Mindfulness Techniques to Integrate Into Your Clinical Practice is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 05, 2019 at Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Occupational Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Psychotherapists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: Enhance your treatment plans for anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, sleep, pain, and stress with brain-changing mindfulness skills tailored to the problems your clients face each day. Attend this workshop and get detailed guidance on the hows, whys, and whens of incorporating core and advanced mindfulness skills into your clinical practice. Build your client education skills and improve therapeutic engagement with clear explanations regarding the neurobiology behind mindfulness. Interactive demonstrations and step-by-step instruction on specific interventions and exercises will give you the tools you need to treat a variety of disorders and populations. And the opportunity to practice under the direction of our instructor will boost your confidence in using your new skills. Better still, you’ll walk away with a four-step process that ties it all together, making what you’ve learned immediately relevant to your own work with clients. Objectives: • Motivate clients to engage in treatment with understandable psychoeducational explanations regarding the research and practices associated with mindfulness. • Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that include mindfulness techniques that can be used to regulate the client’s arousal state. • Integrate mindfulness interventions into therapy that can help depressed clients manage negative thoughts and reduce the risk of relapse. • Articulate how mindfulness training can be used as an adjunctive therapy with evidence-based treatment to enhance attention in clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). • Communicate how mindfulness-based approaches can help clients observe internal reactions and establish how this information can be used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms. • Instruct clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on the utilization of mindfulness skills that can facilitate disengagement from repetitive thoughts.

Mindful Anger: The Art of Transforming a Difficult Emotion into a Powerful Therapeutic Tool is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 12, 2019 at Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Case Managers • Therapists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Course Description: Both of my parents repressed their anger. They were like two simmering volcanoes ready to blow at any moment. They treated each other, and me, with the kind of pervasive abuse that is harder to see than hitting. I too, eventually developed this unhealthy, passive-aggressive way of getting my feelings out. By the time I got married, I was totally cut off from my feelings. I intellectualized my experiences. One day in group therapy, a man made a remark that triggered my repressed anger. I stood up, started screaming, and began swinging my purse around in the air. I had become the erupting volcano. I totally lost control. After this event I felt noticeably lighter, freer. I sensed that there was value for me, and for others, in tapping into anger, getting it moving through us, and then releasing it. I discovered that anger, it turned out, wasn’t a bad thing. Rather, it was the key to emotional freedom! When I first became a therapist, there was very little information about dealing with anger – either the client’s or our own. Then, as strategies did begin to emerge – I found that they didn’t really work. Frustrated and wanting more for my clients, I set out to discover what was missing. I wanted to know what more needed to be done to help people truly heal. After years of trial and error working with thousands of clients, I finally found the answer. I call it Mindful Anger. The proven 5-step program for processing and releasing anger is based on mindfulness and has delivered healing for client after client, with an amazing 80% success rate. I will walk you step by step through the cutting edge strategies and comprehensive transformational process that can bring life-changing wisdom to patients of all types – attachment wounds, abuse and trauma. Find out how to use anger as a key to unlocking your patients’ past and present, moving them to greater self-awareness and emotional release, empowering them to make lasting change. Walk away with simple exercises, assessments and tools that you can use to engage your clients in the mindful anger process. Objectives: • Communicate how the application of mindfulness skills can create treatment breakthroughs for clients with any anger style. • Explore techniques of mindfulness and body awareness that help clients identify and effectively respond to physical, mental, and emotional cues to anger. • Evaluate the secret mechanism within the chain reaction of anger that provides the antidote to impulsivity. • Implement 5 steps to support clients in identifying and processing old traumatic wounds to improve clinical outcomes. • Determine the challenges of passive-aggressive behavior and utilize clinical tools for helping clients to eliminate this unhealthy pattern of coping with anger. • Utilize mindful anger strategies to assist clients in improving self-esteem and developing resilience.

The Doheny-UCLA Retina Symposium: Update for 2020 is organized by Doheny Eye Institute (DEI) and will be held on Jan 25, 2020 at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Description: The Doheny-UCLA Retina Symposium is designed to be a full-day course that brings together world-renowned experts in retina to better define current challenges and initiate the discovery of innovative solutions Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) Course is organized by Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) Education Programs and will be held from Mar 30 - 31, 2020 at Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, United States of America.  This course has been approved for a maximum of 14 contact hours (2 days) or 7 contact hours (1 day). The target audience for this medical event is useful to physical therapists, paramedics, social workers, dietitians, respiratory therapists, speech and occupational therapists, LVNs/LPNs, and others who interact with the hospitalized trauma patient. Course description: Through instruction and advocacy, the mission of TCAR Education Programs is to expand the knowledge base and clinical reasoning skills of nurses who work with injured patients anywhere along the trauma continuum of care, particularly in the post-resuscitation phase. By partnering with trauma centers and trauma systems, TCAR Education Programs provides adult and pediatric inpatient nurses an outstanding learning experience designed to meet educational goals, improve patient outcomes, and fulfill regulatory requirements. Unlike standardized trauma programs targeted at prehospital and emergency care providers, the Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) course was specifically created to meet the learning needs of INPATIENT trauma nurses. This live, 2-day educational offerings give hospital staff members the foundational, evidence-based information and critical thinking skills necessary to meet regulatory requirements and provide excellent care to this challenging patient population. The TCAR course offers emergency, perioperative, critical care, and acute care, and rehabilitation nurses the foundational, evidence-based information and critical thinking skills necessary to address the needs of the hospitalized trauma patient. TCAR covers a wide range of pathophysiologic and nursing concepts and is designed to be a broad, core-level program, rather than an advanced or specialty-specific course. Course Objectives: By the end of the class, participants will be able to: • Describe the trauma continuum of care. • Explain the biomechanics of common injuries. • Anticipate specific wounds and complications based on mechanism of injury information • Discuss the body's multisystem responses to traumatic insults • Incorporate physical assessment, imaging studies, and laboratory data to evaluate the hospitalized trauma patient • Describe appropriate medial, surgical, and nursing interventions for frequently encountered injuries Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

American Osler Society (AOS) Annual Meeting 2020 is organized by American Osler Society (AOS) and will be held from Apr 26 - 29, 2020 at Pasadena, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

16th Annual California Cancer Consortium Conference (CCC) is organized by Meetings Events & Conference Coordinators, (MECC) and will be held from Aug 14 - 16, 2020 at The Langham, Huntington, Pasadena, Pasadena, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

CANP 44th Annual Educational Conference is organized by California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP) and will be held from Mar 18 - 21, 2021 at Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.