Upcoming Medical Conferences in Sacramento

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 20, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

The Aging Brain: Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias: 2-Day Comprehensive Training Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 03 - 04, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours / 1.25 CEUs  / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Nurses • Speech-Language Pathologists • Psychologists • Counselors • Nursing Home Administrators • Assisted Living Facility Administrators • Case Managers • Long Term/Acute Care Professionals • Physical Therapists • Occupational Therapists • Marriage and Family Therapists Course Description: Older adults with dementia and other mental health issues interact with a variety of professionals including nursing staff, psychologists, counselors, social workers, OTs, PTs, SLPs, home health aides, adult day center staff, and first responders. Still, many haven’t had extensive training on the complexities that make working with this population so challenging. Without appropriate training safety risks grow and opportunities to improve care and quality of life are missed. This 2-day comprehensive course is a must-have for anyone working with older adult patients facing Alzheimer’s Disease, other dementias, and mental health issues like anxiety and depression. Over two intensive days you’ll discover how you can assess for and differentiate between different types of dementias, maximize daily functioning, better work with significant mental health issues like anxiety, depression and substance use in older patients, and safely and effectively intervene when difficult behaviors arise. No matter your profession, you can’t afford to miss this chance to get the skills, tactics and knowledge you need to provide the best care possible! Objectives: • Explore brain function in older adults, recognize the impact of dementia on brain structure and function, and determine the difference between “normal forgetfulness” and cognitive impairment. • Diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and distinguish it from other dementias by accurately identifying manifestations of each type and understand how these differences impact diagnosis and prognosis in older adults. • Articulate differences between the Folstein Mini-Mental Status examination, SLUMS, and MOCA as screening measuring tools for cognitive impairment and dementia. • Communicate answers to the most difficult questions family members ask regarding diagnosis and prognosis and confidence and sensitivity. • Detect triggers for delusions, resisting care, and combativeness and learn to defuse problem behaviors with clinical strategies that reduce risks and can be adjusted as the disease progresses. • Adapt clinical interventions used in-session to provide patients with individualized care and promote more effective participation in therapy. • Correlate patients’ strengths and limitations to potential therapeutic approaches when developing treatment plans for older adults with mental health issues or dementia. • Maximize support for your clients with tips and tactics for working in partnership with families to improve care and strengthen the therapeutic alliance. • Investigate the concept of caregiver guilt and its implications for the client, clinicians, and those caring for older adults with dementia. • Analyze appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in relationships impacted by dementia and effectively intervene when ability to consent is impaired. • Explore the ethical issues related to dementia and elucidate how end of life issues and elder abuse inform decisions regarding patient responsibility and documentation. • Effectively employ tools that assess for common mental health conditions found in the geriatric population including alcohol abuse, anxiety, and depression and learn to differentiate dementia from depression despite similar clinical manifestations.

Psychopharmacology for Advanced Practice Clinicians: Proven Strategies for Prescription Success is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 14, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 Contact Hours. Target Audience: • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants • Physicians • Pharmacists • Nurses • Social Workers • Counselors • Therapists • Psychologists • Case Managers Course Description: Psychiatry is one of the most challenging areas of medicine, secondary to the subjective nature of the specialty. As clinicians, we have no objective data to base our course of treatment on. Psychopharmacology and psychotherapy are our best options in terms of treatments and therapy is only successful if the patient is committed to attending every session, completing their homework, and willing to make the necessary life changes to improve their mental health. Medication can be very helpful in terms of alleviating mental health symptoms; however, choosing the right medication and/or combination of meds is crucial to achieving successful outcomes. Secondary to the psychiatry shortage, providers in other specialties find themselves treating mental health patients, which can present additional challenges.  This course will arm attendees with a valuable update on the different classes of psychiatric medications and facilitate a deeper level of understanding in terms of how these medications work on their respective neurotransmitters and how they work in conjunction with one another. It is uncommon for mental health patients to be on only one medication, as a combination of medications is often required to reach the desired level of improvement. After this course, you will be able to identify effective medication regimens for patients based on their psychiatric history and presenting symptoms, ultimately contributing to quality of life improvements in patients with mental health conditions. Course Objectives: • Recognize ways to conceptualize psychiatric symptomatology outside the box. • Evaluate common medical conditions that you may inadvertently diagnose as psychiatric in nature. • Analyze the 4 main neurotransmitters and how their imbalance influences different psychiatric disorders. • Compare efficacy of the newer class of serotonin modulators to the other widely-used antidepressant classes. • Examine frequently asked questions regarding the impact of alcohol and marijuana for patients taking psychotropic medications. • Learn strategic ways to customize treatment plans based on your patient's individual needs.

2-Day: The Ultimate Guide to Fall Prevention: Fall-proof Your Patients with Today’s Best Practices is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Feb 26 - 27, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 contact hours or 1.25 CEUs Target Audience:  • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Nurse Practitioners • Nurses • Nursing Home Administrators Description: Whether your patients’ goals are to return to work, play with their grandkids, or travel the world, your hard work helps them progress toward their functional goals. But one fall can severely set back progress and turn your patient’s life upside down, resulting in rapidly declining health, extended hospital stays, financial loss, fear, and isolation. Falls can often be predicted and prevented if you know what to look for, but all too often, clinicians are so focused on the injury or disability at hand that fall risks are overlooked – until it’s too late. Attend this intensive training course and learn how to help patients avoid falls while retaining the strength, balance, and mobility it takes to stay functionally independent. Built on today’s best practices, this hands-on program will show you how to better predict and prevent falls with a comprehensive risk assessment that combines the best evaluations currently available. Expand your rehab toolbox for fall prevention and post-fall rehab with interventions you can use immediately. Design robust, innovative plans of care for high risk patients with specific impairments, from diabetes to Parkinson’s. And finally, learn how to develop an effective fall prevention program using tools and strategies that have helped countless patients leave their fear of falling behind. Objectives: • Discuss the latest advances in fall prevention and their implications for rehab. • Demonstrate a comprehensive assessment, identifying and differentiating root causes of fall risk. • Evaluate the most effective interventions available for reducing risk and restoring balance, mobility, and function. • Integrate multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance and gait training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, multitasking interventions, and environmental modification. • Describe the most effective landing strategies to minimize impact. • Develop an effective home exercise program. • Design robust, innovative plans of care for high risk patients with various diagnoses. • Discuss parameters for safely intensifying rehab. • Determine effective strategies for helping noncompliant, difficult, or depressed patients become more engaged in their recovery. • Review coding and billing updates for fall prevention and post-fall rehab. • Outline key components of a successful fall prevention program. • Describe strategies for effectively marketing a fall prevention program.

2-Day: CBT Toolkit for Depressed, Anxious and Suicidal Children and Adolescents is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Mar 16 - 17, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 CE / 12.5 CEH's / 12.5 contact hours or 1.25 CEUs / 12.5 hours. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Addiction Counselors Marriage and Family Therapists • Case Managers • Mental Health Professionals School Guidance Counselors • School Psychologists • Educators, Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants • Speech-Language Pathologists Objectives: • Integrate “First and Second Wave” CBT skills with more recent “Third Wave” (mindfulness) advances with youth. • Formulate strategies to develop a therapeutic alliance that engage children and adolescents in easy, creative and effective therapeutic cognitive behavioral activities. • Practice effective collaboration with youth and parents toward targeted, mutually defined treatment goals. • Apply, practice, and integrate evidence-based CBT techniques to modify and change maladaptive behaviors. • Utilize CBT psychoeducation to elicit “buy in” from most difficult clients. • Analyze, challenge and replace negative self-talk, thoughts, assumptions and core beliefs. • Construct practical skill building worksheets and structured therapeutic activities to clarify and teach complex CBT skills for child and adolescent depression, anxiety and self-harm prevention. • Employ fundamental and advanced evidence-based CBT skills to help your young clients manage depression, anxiety, and self-harm behaviors. • Develop a deep understanding of recent advances in the neuro-science of stress and how to re-train the distressed brain. • Evaluate exposure therapy techniques including imagino and in-vivo exposure to resolve anxiety. • Utilize evidence-based suicide risk assessment, safety planning to prevent suicide and self-harm behavior • Assess effective parental involvement in the treatment process while maintaining client confidentiality to mitigate depression, anxiety and self-harm risk

1-Day Beginners Mini Implant Course is organized by Shatkin F.I.R.S.T., LLC and will be held on Mar 21, 2020 at Sacramento, California, United States of America.   Description: One Day Beginners Mini Dental Implant Course - Dr. Andrea Smith is the Vice President of the International Academy of Mini Dental Implants and a lecturer with Shatkin F.I.R.S.T. Dr. Smith will be teaching the benefits of implementing Mini Dental Implants into your dental practice. Upon completion of this program the dentists should feel comfortable placing mini dental implants for denture stabilization, replace missing teeth and fixed full mouth restorations. Features: • 1/2 Day Lecture • 1/2 Day Didactic Training • LIVE Surgeries • Case Planning • Hands on Training • Problem Solving Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Renal Replacement Therapies in Critical Care is organized by UC Davis Health and will be held from Mar 23 - 24, 2020 at UC Davis Health, Center for Health and Technology, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Accreditation: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 7.0 contact hours. Course description: This 8-hour course covers the various renal replacement therapies, such as Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) & Slow extended dialysis (SLED). Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.  

Central California Psychiatric Society (CCPS) 2020 Annual Meeting is organized by Central California Psychiatric Society (CCPS) and will be held from Mar 27 - 29, 2020 at Embassy Suites by Hilton Sacramento Riverfront Promenade, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Esthetic Dentistry, Redefining the Cliché is organized by Ultradent Products Inc and will be held on Mar 27, 2020 at Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, Sacramento, California, United States of America. Accreditation: 7 CE Credits Description: Patient driven, elective, full-smile makeovers no longer define esthetic dentistry. The evolution of contemporary practice has led to a much more thoughtful and patient centered approach to restoration. Tooth preservation, minimal invasiveness, biology, and function are the goals of modern practice where optimal esthetics occurs as a value-added by-product. Attendees will learn strategies for optimal adhesion to a variety of substrates including enamel, dentin, and a variety of restorative materials. The direct restorative component of the course will expand on composite layering techniques for developing three dimensionally shaded restorations. They will also learn critical aspects of delivery from full proof matrix strategies for optimal contour and contact formation to best strategies for finishing and polishing. In the indirect restorative component of the course, participants will be exposed to the latest in modern ceramics and will learn the where, why, and how of deployment. Objectives: • Adhesive review • Contemporary direct and indirect restorations • Modern approach to post and core • Disease and substrate driven treatment decisions • Critical materials, techniques, technologies and adjunctive armamentarium Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

High Risk Obstetrics: Current Trends, Treatments & Issues is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 22, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 6.0 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Clinical Nurse Specialists • Nurse Practitioners • Nurse Midwives • Certified Childbirth Educators/Doulas Course Description: Jamie Otremba will delve into the most common obstetrical emergencies presenting in today's obstetrical patients. She will provide you with a comprehensive look at pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELLP, the pitfalls of diagnosing and treating preterm labor, shoulder dystocia, abruption, previa, postpartum hemorrhage, placenta accreta, amniotic fluid embolism, venous thromboembolism, VBACs, and inductions. Jamie's extensive experiences in high risk obstetrics have provided her with keen insight into these often challenging and frightening situations. She is eager to share with you many of the effective interventions that she has acquired throughout her career! Through enlightening case studies, persuasive evidence-based research, and an engaging presentation style, she will teach you the current trends, treatments and issues in high risk obstetrics. Attend this seminar to learn new strategies and techniques that can immediately impact the maternal and fetal outcomes of your obstetrical patients! Objectives: • Evaluate the two-phase process that results in pre-eclampsia. • Compare the pharmacologic management options for preterm labor. • Determine the two most important factors in assessing risk in elective induction. • Explain the most effective way to change medical staff practices related to high risk elective inductions. • Interpret the possible causes of a post-partum hemorrhage and appropriate management for each. • Discuss strategies for collaborative care with the ICU and Emergency Department. • Explain why a d-dimer is no longer recommended as part of the evaluation for pulmonary embolism in pregnancy. • Utilize the latest ACOG recommendations for preventing blood loss during the delivery with an accreta. • Compare the varying degrees of abnormal placental implantation and how management might differ for each. • Analyze why neurological outcomes with amniotic fluid embolism are so poor and the rapid interventions that could make a difference.