Upcoming Medical Conferences in San Diego

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) 30th Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium is organized by American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) and will be held from Dec 05 - 08, 2019 at Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

3rd Annual National Hospitalist Conference is organized by Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) and will be held from Dec 06 - 08, 2019 at The Westin San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America. Target Audience: This conference is designed for a target audience of internal medicine and family medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other related healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of hospitalized patients. Accreditation:  Physicians: AAFP: This live activity, 3rd Annual National Hospitalist Conference, with a beginning date of December 6, 2019 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 15.00 Prescribed credit(s) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™: Continuing Education Company designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 15 Medical Knowledge MOC points AOA: CME activities approved for AAFP credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit. CFPC: Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive 15 MAINPRO-M1 credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Special Offer! Earn a total of 30 credits with our Special CME Offer! Attend the 3rd Annual National Hospitalist Conference (15 CME Credits) and you will receive a FREE online 15 credit CME course from CME365 Conference Description: This Conference is designed to provide attendees with the information and skills to improve the care of hospitalized patients.  The conference's focus is on the practical management of problems commonly encountered in hospital medicine. An emphasis will be placed on recent advances, up-to-date practices, and guidelines for inpatient care. At the completion of this activity, participants should be better prepared to: • Provide an accurate diagnostic assessment for a broad range of disorders commonly seen in the inpatient setting. • Utilize current guidelines in the management of commonly encountered therapeutic issues presented by the hospitalized patient. • Formulate comprehensive evidence-based interventions and treatment strategies that will lead to the reduction of modifiable risk factors and improved outcomes.

Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Medicine for Primary Care is organized by Medical Education Resources (MER) and will be held from Dec 06 - 08, 2019 at Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Target Audience This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine Learning Objectives Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to: • Differentiate between inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint pain and the differential diagnosis of each category • Describe the technique of joint aspiration, joint injection, and synovial fluid analysis • Perform a musculoskeletal examination • Evaluate and treat osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, spinal pain, regional pain syndromes,osteoporosis, and gout • Utilize current evidence to design treatment strategies for rheumatoid arthritis Learning Outcome To provide updates in primary care medicine to office based providers Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics is organized by KNect365 Life Sciences and will be held from Dec 09 - 13, 2019 at Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

2-Day: Medical Screening and Differential Diagnosis Intensive Training Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Dec 09 - 10, 2019 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Diego - Hotel Circle, San Diego, California, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Athletic Trainers • Strength and Conditioning Specialists • Exercise Physiologists • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners Course Description: Your caseload is rapidly expanding as more patients skip the physician and go to the direct access route. But so is your liability, and the risk for your patients – unless you’re up to speed on medical screening and differential diagnosis. From meningitis to cardiovascular disease, many medical pathologies mimic musculoskeletal conditions, and in a busy clinical setting they’re easy to miss without consistent, accurate screening and sound clinical reasoning. Join your fellow clinicians at this upcoming seminar, and learn a step-by-step medical screening model that helps you protect your patients and your practice. Upgrade your diagnostic accuracy and clinical reasoning skills as you review a series of interactive case studies, paying special attention to past medical history, risk factor assessment, clinical presentation, and associated signs and symptoms. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to easily identify the signs of sinister medical pathologies and confidently determine when to refer patients for medical care. Objectives: • Identify critical anatomy as it relates to pathology. • Review best practices for medical screening. • Discuss interview questions every clinician should ask. • Recognize and synthesize symptoms that are concerning for medical pathology. • Become familiar with various symptom clusters that could warrant referral. • Utilize medical screening and differential diagnosis to guide a review of systems for your patients. • Identify sinister medical pathology that oftentimes mimic neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. • Identify hidden yellow flags to screen for depression. • Develop and demonstrate clinical-decision making skills to guide hands-on assessment and intervention. • Understand the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning while incorporating a bottom-up or top-down approach to patient care. • Discuss strategies to assimilate information contained within clinical practice guidelines (CPG’s) and clinical prediction rules (CPR’s) and incorporate into your clinical decision-making and problem-solving. • Apply the medical screening model discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.

Mindfulness for the Clinical Research Professional is organized by Barnett International and will be held from Dec 10 - 11, 2019 at Kimpton Solamar Hotel, San Diego, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours (1.5 CEUs) of continuing education. Who Should Attend: • Leaders and Managers from Sites, Sponsors and CROs • Project Management Professionals Course Description: Simply put, mindfulness is paying attention in the moment to thoughts and actions. Mindfulness increases productivity, enhances leadership effectiveness and supports happiness. It also helps leaders to meet adaptive challenges resulting from constant change. This highly interactive course teaches clinical research professionals how to employ mindfulness in their day-to-day work, how to make the connection between mindfulness and emotional intelligence, and tips on reducing stress and improving performance for themselves and their teams in high stress clinical research environments. Learning Objectives: • Describe mindfulness and emotional intelligence and explain their applicability to the clinical research professional • Explain how the practice of mindfulness contributes to increased productivity, enhanced creativity, and compassionate leadership • Describe the benefits of mindfulness in clinical research situations • Identify five tips and techniques to integrate mindfulness practice into daily life Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Nursing Mistakes & Negligence Allegations: Even If It’s Not Your Fault...It Will Become Your Problem is organized PESI HealthCare and will be held Dec 10, 2019 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Diego - Hotel Circle, San Diego, 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.

Sensor R&D For HealthCare Applications: commercializing the Latest Advances in Next - Generation BioSensors is organized by Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) and will be held from Dec 11 - 12, 2019 at Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa, San Diego, California, United States of America. Description: Exponential increases in demand for the next generation of clinical diagnostic, monitoring and measuring sensors for applications in implantable and wearable devices have created new commercial market opportunities with extensive growth potential. Low-cost materials and advances in nano and microfabrication techniques within the manufacturing process have led to significant increases in the commercialization of biological sensors for healthcare applications. This conference track will examine the latest advancements in research, engineering, and commercialization and will provide attendees with the state-of-the-art next-generation biosensors for healthcare. Conference Topics: • Bioelectronics • DNA Chips, Nucleic Acid Sensors, and Aptasensors • Enzyme-Based Biosensors • Immunosensors • Lab-on-a-Chip • Microfluidics • Nano-Enabled Sensors • Portable Assays & Sample Prep • Diagnostics • Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) • Natural & Synthetic Receptors • Drug Delivery Systems • Organism- and Whole Cell-Based Biosensors • Patient Monitoring • Proteomics, Single-Cell Analysis, and Cancer-Cell Detection • Implantable Sensors • Scalable Sensor Manufacturing and Microfabrication • Regulatory Issues • Vivometrics • Market Analysis and Forecasting • R&D Tools • Wireless Sensor Networks. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

In Vitro Diagnostic Devices: Study Design, Conduct, Regulatory Requirements and Submissions for Approval is organized by Barnett International and will be held from Dec 12 - 13, 2019 at Kimpton Solamar Hotel, San Diego, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 hours (1.5 CEUs) of continuing education. Who Should Attend • New Project Managers • Project Managers with little or no device development or clinical trial experience • New Clinical, Regulatory, and Department Staff who will design clinical trial programs for medical devices • Project Team Leaders with limited direct clinical trial experience who will be managing device development programs and supervising project managers • Medical Directors involved in the development and conduct of device research • Medical Writers involved in device trials • Clinical Research Associates working with organizations that sponsor device research • Regulatory Affairs Professionals involved in research with IVDs • Research professionals involved in submitting material for IRB review • IRB members and support staff involved in review of device research Course Description  This course reviews the different regulatory pathways for medical devices, including the determination of significant and non-significant risks and how it affects submissions and the review process. A specific focus on in vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs) will be taken as participants learn how the determination is made for the exemption of requirements of the Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) regulations. Study design conduct and Quality Control (QC) requirements for IVDs and laboratory-developed tests will be discussed. Learning Objectives • Discuss the FDA's role in device development • Explain the logistics of the device development process • Understand regulatory pathways for devices, specifically in vitro diagnostic tests • Review the "pre-submission" process for IVDs • Identify scientific and practical issues associated with the planning of a clinical research study for medical devices • Explain the post approval responsibilities of sponsors and device reporting requirements Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) Annual Meeting is organized by National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) and will be held from Jan 09 - 11, 2020 at Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.