Upcoming Medical Conferences in Clearwater Beach

Functional Occlusion - From TMJ to Smile Design is organized by The Dawson Academy and will be held from Oct 10 - 11, 2019 at Clearwater Beach Marriott Suites on Sand Key, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is General Dentists, Specialists, Lab Technicians. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16 CE Credits. Course Description: This dental seminar is the recommended first step in our dental seminars continuing education. As the foundational seminar in the “Concept of Complete Dentistry® Series,” you will learn the timeless message that good, esthetic and complete dentistry must begin with a thorough understanding of dental occlusion and the functions of the masticatory system. Discover the cornerstone of The Dawson Academy philosophy, a comprehensive understanding of how the TM joint, muscles, proprioceptive input, lower anterior teeth, upper anterior teeth, lower posterior teeth and upper posterior teeth are designed to function in harmony with one another. Course Objectives: • A scientifically based, practical approach to occlusal management in everyday practice. • The 10 factors critical to a stable occlusion and how applying them results in long-term success of your general and cosmetic cases. • How to identify, prior to treatment, which patients pose a risk of future instability. • An examination process that gets the esthetically driven patient to care about the functional implications critical to long-term success. • How to know precisely where teeth need to go for veneers, crowns, and implant supported restorations. • When it is safe to open vertical and when not to do so. • Why porcelain chips and breaks and how to eliminate breakage from your practice. • Step by step processes utilizing checklists for functional-esthetic analysis and treatment planning. • How to efficiently take the necessary diagnostic records for comprehensive diagnosis and treatment planning. • A thorough examination process and how to implement it in your practice. • How understanding occlusion saves you time, increases profitability and reduces stress. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Life Care Planning Practice is organized by Seak, Inc. and will be held from Feb 06 - 07, 2020 at Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Continuing Education Information: SEAK, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. SEAK, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Product Description: Life care planning is a highly lucrative endeavor which can supplement or replace your clinical income.Life care planning can be performed by physicians, nurses, psychologists and other healthcare professionals. More and more, however, life care planning is being performed by physicians who are often preferred by attorneys. Serving as a physician life care planner typically consists of assisting plaintiff or defense lawyers by documenting the needs of an injured person and opining on the costs required to meet these needs over the course of the injured litigant’s lifetime Learning Objectives: • Explain the methodology to employ and develop an accurate, defensible life care plan • Describe how to assemble and review the medical and other records you will need to review • List best practices for conducting the life care plan interview and examination • Determine the functional ability and impairments of the injured person • Determine future medical needs of the injured person • Describe best practices for assessing and researching the cost of the examinee’s needs • Draft a powerful, persuasive, and defensible life care plan • Defend your life care plan at deposition and trial • Avoid common pitfalls • Describe numerous techniques to market your life care planning practice to attorneys and others • Acquire the skills to start serving as a physician life care planner 

How to be an Effective Medical Expert Witness is organized by SEAK, Inc. and will be held from Feb 08 - 09, 2020 at Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Continuing Education Information: SEAK, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. SEAK, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learning Objectives:  At the conclusion of this workshop, physicians should be able to:  • Discuss the strategies and goals of opposing counsel at deposition and during cross-examination  • Describe how to properly prepare for deposition and trial • Discuss strategies that can be followed when giving an expert deposition and when testifying at trial  • Explain techniques for excelling at videotaped depositions • Explain opposing counsel’s deposition and cross examination tactics and how to defeat each tactic  • Describe techniques physicians can use when testifying at deposition and trial • Discuss methods for responding to trick and difficult questions at deposition and trial  • List teaching methods that can be used to improve the persuasiveness of your expert testimony  • List techniques for developing powerful, memorable language and analogies  • Describe how to best insulate yourself from attacks by opposing counsel  • Discuss techniques to make a positive impression on the jury  • Avoid common pitfalls • Describe numerous techniques to market your life care planning practice to attorneys and others • Acquire the skills to start serving as a physician life care planner 

How to Start, Build and Run a Successful Consulting Practice is organized by SEAK, Inc. and will be held from Feb 08 - 09, 2020 at Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Continuing Education Information: SEAK, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. SEAK, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. At The Conclusion of This Two Day Seminar Physicians Should Be Able To: • Identify a lucrative niche to offer consulting services in  • Develop an action plan for landing their first few clients  • Use techniques to build a superior consulting brand  • Discuss methods to make sure you are fully and fairly compensated for your expertise  • List methods for exceeding client expectations and excelling at consulting  • Identify and capitalize on emerging consulting opportunities  • Negotiate a premium consulting fee  • Identify the challenges and opportunities unique to physician consultants  • Explain the common ethical issues that physician consultants face  Learning Objectives: • Explain the methodology to employ and develop an accurate, defensible life care plan • Describe how to assemble and review the medical and other records you will need to review • List best practices for conducting the life care plan interview and examination • Determine the functional ability and impairments of the injured person • Determine future medical needs of the injured person • Describe best practices for assessing and researching the cost of the examinee’s needs • Draft a powerful, persuasive, and defensible life care plan • Defend your life care plan at deposition and trial • Avoid common pitfalls • Describe numerous techniques to market your life care planning practice to attorneys and others • Acquire the skills to start serving as a physician life care planner

How to Start, Build and Run a Successful Disability and File Review Practice is organized by SEAK, Inc. and will be held from Feb 08 - 09, 2020 at Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Continuing Education Information: SEAK, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. SEAK, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Learning Objectives: At the completion of this two-day interactive workshop you will be able to: • Determine the specific Supplemental Income opportunities available to you in Disability and File Review Consulting • Understand what a high quality file review consists of  • Learn the key medical-legal disability issues • Understand the differing disability standards and contractual terms • Efficiently write concise file reviews with supportable opinions • Understand how to deal with issues such as:  ○ Functional ability  ○ Diagnostic tests  ○ Impacts of medications on ability to work  • Market yourself directly and confidently to disability insurers and others looking for file reviews • Understand the effects of inactivity • Appreciate the pros and cons of developing an independent consulting practice • Explain the methodology to employ and develop an accurate, defensible life care plan • Describe how to assemble and review the medical and other records you will need to review • List best practices for conducting the life care plan interview and examination • Determine the functional ability and impairments of the injured person • Determine future medical needs of the injured person • Describe best practices for assessing and researching the cost of the examinee’s needs • Draft a powerful, persuasive, and defensible life care plan • Defend your life care plan at deposition and trial • Avoid common pitfalls • Describe numerous techniques to market your life care planning practice to attorneys and others • Acquire the skills to start serving as a physician life care planner

Advanced Problem Solving is organized by The Dawson Academy and will be held from Mar 26 - 28, 2020 at Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 20 CE credits. Target Audience: General Dentists, Specialists, Lab Technicians Course Description: This dental course will provide the participant with the necessary information to solve complex dental problems. A programmed approach to treatment planning will be presented so that each student will learn how to solve the 4 functional and 12 esthetic goals when given any set of circumstances. Extreme occlusal wear, anterior open bites, deep overbites, extreme overjet and Class III malocclusions will be discussed. Neutral zone and vertical dimension will be covered in detail as it pertains to the treatment of the above problems. Special emphasis will be placed on best restorative options, and when orthodontic/orthognathic alternatives should be considered. Each participant will learn how and when to open the vertical dimension of occlusion and when it should not be opened. A programmed approach to full mouth reconstruction, whether it is teeth, dental implants, precision attachment partials or a combination, will be a cornerstone of this program. Objectives: • Recognize how the 16 functional and esthetic criteria for success can apply to even the most difficult treatment plan. • Plan what additional records may be required for the treatment planning of various complex esthetic and functional problems. • Evaluate how to recognize the patient who will be best served with a full mouth reconstruction. • Solve complex functional and esthetic problems such as extreme wear, with optimum restorative dentistry. • Judge how to establish a relationship with the Orthodontist, Periodontist and Orthognathic surgeon to solve even the most complex dental and skeletal problems. • Verify the process of taking centric jaw relation records to cross mount the die models with the provisional models and why this is one of the most critical aspects of full mouth dentistry for incredibly predictable results. • Appraise individual articulation systems to do full mouth rehabilitation dentistry. • Explore when it is safe to open the vertical dimension and when it is not! • Plan how to sequence full mouth reconstructions so that you will know in advance the number of appointments that will be required, and precisely what to do at each visit. • Identify how to phase complex treatment plans, so if need be a full mouth reconstruction can be done over a period of years rather than weeks.

Suncoast Seminar Sponsored by Pinellas Optometric Association (POA) is organized by Florida Optometric Association (FOA) and will be held from Apr 25 - 26, 2020 at Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

ABQAURP's 43rd Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference is organized by American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) and will be held from Apr 30 - May 01, 2020 at Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

International Scientific, Medical & Family Conference 2020 is organized by Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF) and will be held from Jul 20 - 26, 2020 at Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. The Barth Syndrome Foundation's (BSF) biennial conferences bring affected families, research scientists, and clinicians together in one place at one time for a dual track meeting. BSF and our affiliates in Canada, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom firmly believe that while each of these groups can make some progress in their individual efforts, together, we are so much more powerful. Doctors who might care for a single patient will have the opportunity to see well over 50 at once, gaining a greater understanding of the breadth of the disorder. Additionally, they will be able to compare notes with other physicians and also to hear from scientific experts about the latest discoveries that shed light on the scientific underpinnings of the disorder. Scientists will hear presentations on colleagues' recent work, as well as learn from and have a chance to collaborate with experts in other fields. Furthermore, they will gain insight into the clinical aspects of the disorder and witness the medical ramifications of what they discover in the laboratory. Families have a unique opportunity to be seen by the world´s greatest experts in Barth syndrome, contributing directly to the search for a cure by providing their information, their health history and even their own tissue as well as to learn from experts and from each other so that they can better advocate for their child(ren). Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Florida Optometric Association (FOA) Suncoast Seminar is organized by Florida Optometric Association (FOA) and will be held from Apr 24 - 25, 2021 at Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa, Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.