Upcoming Medical Conferences in Overland Park

2-Day: Fall Prevention Specialist Certificate Course: Fall-proof Your Patients with Today's Best Practices is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Aug 15 - 16, 2019 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours Credits. Targeted Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Nurse Practitioners • Nurses • Nursing Home Administrators Course 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.  Become a Fall Prevention Specialist 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 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. 

Advanced Perinatal Practice is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Aug 17 - 18, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description: Building on the Webster Technique Certification, this module emphasizes hands-on clinical skills for serving the pregnancy and postpartum populations. This course addresses perinatal chiropractic research, pelvic balancing techniques, outcome based exams, and tools for engaging both birth providers and mothers in your community. Course Goals: Learn how to identify neurological soft signs related to subluxation of particular importance to the perinatal population, and understand how to address the postural, structural, fascial, functional and psychosocial factors unique to pregnancy and the postpartum period. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Focus on Forefoot & Reconstructive Surgery is organized by The Podiatry Institute, Inc and will be held from Sep 13 - 15, 2019 Marriott Kansas City Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 20.0 CME Credits. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Labor and Delivery 2019 is organized by Professional Education Center (PEC) and will be held from Sep 16 - 18, 2019 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 17 hours CE Credits. Who Should Attend? • Labor & Delivery Nurses Recertify; Review for Certification • New Labor & Delivery Nurses Excellent for Orientation • Midwives and Midwifery Students • Legal Nurse Consultants Complexities of L&D Update • LDRP & Mother/Baby Nurses • AP Nurses & Childbirth Educators  Program Objectives: • Review labor physiology, pathophysiology and components of effective labor progress and develop effective patient assessment, care and management techniques that assist birth physiology. • Develop policies/strategies for labor induction and augmentation based on respect for physiology, safety, evidence and NICHD recommendations. • Recognize and respond to abnormal labor patterns including tachysystole and dystocia. • Review pain assessment and management in labor including non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic care techniques. • Identify adverse fetal response to labor, causation, clinical observations, interventions and intrauterine resuscitation. • Review new NICHD definitions, categories, and necessary nursing actions. • Recognize a variety of pathologic and emergent labor situations including: GH, Diabetes, Uterine Rupture, Hemorrhage, DIC, and appropriate management and documentation issues. • Identify normal and abnormal parameters in second stage; explore new research based second stage management. • Describe risk factors for shoulder dystocia noting clinical interventions and techniques to improve outcomes, and decrease liability. • Describe indicators of stage III-IV labor emergency situations. • Develop essential documentation and chart review skills for safer patient care. • Locate and utilize key web resources for L&D skill building to enhance safe maternity and newborn care.  Note: Regular pricing for Early Birds. Add $30 if within 10 days Within 2 days and at the door Registration: Add $50 (Late/at the door registration on ‘Space Available’ basis) 

12th Annual Healthcare Simulation Conference is organized by Johnson County Community College (JCCC) and will be held on Sep 20, 2019 at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. Target audience: • Healthcare Educators, Practitioners and Simulation Staff: • Physicians • Nurses • Respiratory Care • Emergency Medical Services • Allied Health • Psychologists • Behavioral Sciences • Simulation Operations Specialists Accreditation : The University of Kansas Medical Center Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Continuing Education Accreditation (CNE): 7.2 CEUs will be offered for nurses, social workers, registered dietitians and respiratory therapists. Conference Overview:  This one-day conference will focus on building your expertise to provide simulation using best practices to enhance healthcare education and improve patient safety outcomes. Our keynote speakers include Walter Eppich, MD, PhD, and William C. McGaghie, PhD, from Northwestern Simulation and Feinberg Academy of Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. They are leading experts in using simulation-based mastery learning. The mastery learning model has been shown to lower healthcare costs and improve patient care quality. Multiple workshop opportunities will provide the participant with individual focused experiences.  Conference Objectives: • Describe the components of the mastery learning model  • Outline the impact of mastery learning for learners and patients • Discuss the educators’ role in shaping learning conversations in both simulation and workplace settings • Explain how educators can steer the talk of practice through both formal and informal means

Assessing and Reducing Risk in the Chiropractic Family Practice is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Sep 28 - 29, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is open to chiropractors and students: 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of CE. Course Description: This course was previously titled "Bridging the Gap Between Crisis Care and Optimal Function".  Today’s family chiropractor is exposed to a unique set of risks in the day-to-day operations of the business of chiropractic healthcare and within the clinical setting of patient evaluation and care. In this class, we will explore the risk associated with current trends in chiropractic education, scope of practice, standard of care, documentation, patient communication and third party pay systems. Expect to delve into critical thinking relative to differential diagnosis and patient safety. Course Goal: This course will provide attendees with an overview of the aggravating and mitigating factors inherent in all aspects of chiropractic practice. A thorough discussion of the therapeutic care model and the associated stages will take place along with the analysis and management of vertebral subluxation within a salutogenic model of healthcare. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

97th Annual Fall Clinical Conference is organized by Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society (KCSWCS) and will be held from Oct 10 - 12, 2019 at Overland Park Convention Center, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America.  Topics: • Endocrinology • Cardiology • Hematology/Oncology • Gastroenterology • Orthopedics • Mental Health • Substance Abuse • Infectious Diseases • State of the Art Lectures Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Developmental Neurobiology Course is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Oct 12 - 13, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description: From infancy throughout childhood, understanding and evaluating the pediatric nervous system is both challenging and rewarding. This module will focus on the important physiological intersections that impact spinal health, quality of life, and the attainment of milestones. Attendees will be exposed to current and contemporary neurological principles addressing the sensory, motor and cognitive systems as well as tone of the autonomic nervous system. Techniques of examination and assessment will be demonstrated throughout the module. Course Goals: This course will provide attendees with a functional and working understanding of the developing nervous system in order to better apply, interpret and organize their clinical procedures and applications to the patients seen in daily practice. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Advanced Principles of EFM Course is organized by Professional Education Center (PEC) and will be held from Oct 24 - 26, 2019 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 15 Hours of CE Credits. Program Objectives: • Practice application of NICHD defi nitions through self-assessment • Identify key concepts in EFM research and result interpretation • Critique examples of peer reviewed EFM research • Review fetal-uteroplacental physiology and the impact on fetal oxygenation • Recognize complex factors infl uencing the oxygenation pathway in EFM • Apply a standardized, consensus-based approach to EFM management • Describe frequent errors related to EFM interpretation and management • Explain physiologic rationale and research for corrective measures used in Cat II/III tracings • Discuss complex case studies including IUGR, signal ambiguity, and non-OB surgery • Report key fi ndings of the ARRIVE trial/related studies • Analyze 2nd stage research and impact on maternal-fetal well-being • Restate four elements of an EFM liability claim • Examine pitfalls of selected EFM malpractice allegations • Summarize important elements of intrapartum EFM documentation Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Clinical Certainty Through Functional Assessment is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Nov 23 - 24, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Description:  This course will incorporate hands on and practical experience necessary to perform a thorough exam for an infant. We will cover the first encounter with the infant and parent(s), examination procedures and communication of the findings. We will discuss the importance of the primitive reflexes that are present initially from birth to one year, how they correlate to milestones, nervous system and brain development. Then, we will look at the examination for an older child with a neurodevelopmental delay. For the older child, we will look at what results when the primitive reflexes are retained, the necessity of chiropractic care to assist with their inhibition and how correcting subluxations helps to restore brain balance. Course Goal: You will master how to perform a thorough examination and you will know how to communicate the results in a way that is meaningful to the parents. Certainty comes from having the technical skills first and then the ability to be able to communicate findings so that the parents engage their child in care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.