Upcoming Medical Conferences in Missouri

Functional Strengthening and Fitness Interventions for Children with Developmental Disabilities is organized by Education Resources, Inc. (ERI) and will be held from Nov 15 - 16, 2019 at Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America. CEU Credits: This course meets the criteria for 14.5 contact hours (1.45 CEUs). Approved sponsor by the State of IL Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy Approved provider by the NY State Board of Physical therapy for 17.4 contact hours Approved provider of continuing by the American Occupational Therapy Association #3043 for 14.5 contact hours (1.45 CEUs) Intermediate level. NBCOT professional development provider-14.5 PDUs. Course Description: Designing effective treatment programs to improve strength, endurance and function in children with disabilities and chronic conditions can be enormously challenging. This course will help clinicians set realistic goals, prioritize treatment and implement successful programs for children with a variety of diagnoses including cerebral palsy, autism developmental coordination disorder, and obesity. An evidence based approach to outcome measures and intervention design will be discussed including frequency, intensity, duration and types of interventions to improve strength and function. Participants will observe and practice some of these measurement and intervention techniques during short demonstration sessions and case studies. Specific intervention activities will be discussed such as strategies to enhance strength, flexibility, endurance and function such as progressive resistive exercises, resistance bands, treadmill training, therapeutic ball exercises, aquatic exercise, structured play and yoga. Evidence on the effectiveness of existing community based programs and resources to improve physical activity, strength and endurance in children will be discussed. Course Objectives: Following completion of this course, participants will be able to: • Incorporate strengthening and endurance training strategies into treatment programs to maximize function in children with and without disabilities. • Integrate evidence from applied clinical and community-based strength and endurance training programs to enhance functional outcomes in children with and without disabilities. • Identify and use systematic and objective measures to document changes in function, strength and endurance at the body structure (impairment), activity (limitation) and participation (dis ability) levels. • Identify clinical and community-based programs that provide evidence to support function, strength and endurance in children with and without disabilities. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Psych Congress Regionals is organized by Healthcare Made Practical (HMP) Communications LLC and will be held on Nov 16, 2019 at Marriott St. Louis West, St louis, Missouri, United States of America. Who Should Attend? • Psychiatrists • Psychologists • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants • Nurses • Primary Care Physicians • Addiction Specialists • Students, Residents, Fellows • Other Mental Health Professionals CME: Physicians NACCME designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Physician Assistants NACCME has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned inaccordance with the AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.5 AAPA Category 1 credit(s). PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. CNE: This continuing nursing education activity awards 6.5 contact hours. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13255 for 6.5 contact hours. Description: The 2019 Psych Congress Regionals program has been transformed with you in mind. With an innovative new format that encourages interaction, along with powerful new sessions, we're enhancing the quality psychopharmacology education that thousands of clinicians like you have come to expect from Psych Congress. Developed by our faculty of world-class clinicians, researchers, and educators, the new programming will strengthen your knowledge and your connections: • Enhance your learning through our new "Turn and Talk" sessions, that encourage you to share your perspective on treatment ideas and best practices with fellow participants. • Glean practical takeaways from real-world case studies led by expert faculty - leave equipped with new ideas and approaches that can be easily implemented when you return to the office. • Expand your treatment toolkit with our Wellness Workshops, offering a range of non-pharmacological methods to complement other approaches.  • Take part in the Psych Congress Suicide Prevention Initiative, presented in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  • Increase your knowledge of evidence-based guidelines and best practices when combatting OUD through our session developed in collaboration with the National Conference on Addiction Disorders (NCAD). This is front-line education - practical and powerful - at a great value and right in your backyard.  Learning Objectives: After completing this activity, participants should be able to: • Use evidence-based approaches for the diagnosis and ongoing assessment of mental illness to optimize patient outcomes • Evaluate current data on traditional and emerging psychopharmacologic approaches to the management of mental illness • Integrate psychopharmacology with psychotherapy to maximize personalized treatment regimens for patients with mental illness Speakers: Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH, Saundra Jain, MA, PsyD, LPC, Vladimir Maletic, MD, MS, Charles L. Raison, MD Time: 7:00 am to 6:00 pm

Innovations in the Treatment of Hip & Knee Disorders~ 2019 is organized by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and will be held on Nov 16, 2019 at Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC), St Louis, Missouri, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Treating Balance and Preventing Falls in Neuro, Vestibular, Geriatric and Medically Complex Clients is organized by Education Resources, Inc. (ERI) and will be held from Nov 16 - 17, 2019 at TMC Lakewood, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America. Target Audience: This course is relevant for Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants and any provider assessing and/or treating balance impairment or patients with fall risks in all practice settings. Accreditation: This course meets the criteria for 14 contact hours (1.4 CEUs). The MO Board of PT recognizes other Board's approvals. The KS Board of PT recognizes other Board's approvals. Application has been made to the Kansas Occupational Therapy Association. Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy #3043, for 14 contact hours - Intermediate Level Occupational therapy Course Description: Engaging, hands-on labs will teach participants screening tools, balance/ocularmotor testing, vestibular screening, progressive balance exercises and safe falling techniques to minimize the risk of injury. Home modifications, specific setting variations to techniques and cheap treatment equipment will be discussed. This course is highly informative and will get you thinking about balance in a whole new light to make balance training effective and fun for you and your patients! You will learn how to isolate balance deficits in processing and motor output, screen for basic vestibular involvement, including BPPV, objectively identify fall risk, implement modifications to reduce fall risk, discover your creative side to developing effective treatment strategies, tailor exercises to meet the needs of your patients physical abilities in any setting and understand how to teach safe falling techniques, to name a few. You will also learn about frequently missed components to a successful treatment program. Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:  • Discuss balance processing and strategies of recovery. • Analyze new treatment techniques and how to create new exercises to isolate and challenge all sensory systems, all 4 balance reactions as well as reaction time. • Identify and reduce fall risk. • Design safe falling techniques to minimize the risk of an injury.

Trauma Basic Principles is organized by AO North America and will be held from Nov 21 - 24, 2019 at The Westin Kansas City At Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 31.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Course Summary: This Basic Course is designed to provide the participant with a fundamental knowledge of operative treatment of fractures according to the AO principles. The four guiding AO principles of fracture fixation are: • Anatomic reduction of the fracture fragments, particularly in joint fractures • Stable fixation to ensure proper healing of the fracture allowing surrounding tissue to move and strengthen • Atraumatic surgical technique to preserve the blood supply to the bone fragments and soft tissue • Early, pain-free mobilization returning the patient to function as soon as possible. The course will cover the concepts of absolute and relative stability, as applied in context, of the soft tissue injury for each limb segment’s major fracture types. This course is the foundation for the AONA curriculum, which teaches the surgeon how to manage trauma and trauma reconstruction. The goal of this course is not to advocate the treatment of all fractures by surgical fixation, but rather to help ensure that when surgery is carried out, that it is done properly based upon principles, appropriate preoperative planning, and decision making. Learning Objectives: Upon completion, participants should be able to: • Discuss the concepts of stability, their influence on bone healing, and how to apply implants to achieve appropriate stability • Plan a treatment based on assessment, imaging, classification, and decision making • Apply reduction techniques in fracture management with attention to the importance of the soft-tissue • Apply related psychomotor skills to the practical application of orthopedic implants to fractured bones • Plan the initial treatment of the polytraumatized patient Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Pharmacology of Infectious Diseases & Immunizations for Advanced Practice Clinicians is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Nov 22, 2019 at Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel, St louis, Missouri, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Target Audience: • Nurses • Advanced Practice Nurses • Clinical Nurse Specialists • Pharmacists • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants Course Description: Attend this seminar and learn proper prescribing, patient education and monitoring procedures for a variety of drug regimens used to treat common acute and chronic infectious diseases. Choosing an antibacterial agent can be challenging, given the plethora of drugs available on the market and the emerging trend in bacterial resistance. You will learn the pharmacology of different classes of antimicrobials used to treat infectious disease states encountered in clinical practice. Discover the spectrums of activity, pharmacokinetic characteristics and parameters for monitoring therapeutic outcomes. Emphasis is placed on the new antimicrobials and advances in evidence-based treatment guidelines. You will leave this seminar better prepared to design appropriate and cost-effective drug regimens for improved therapeutic outcomes. Course Objectives: • Analyze the major classes of antibiotics and their pharmacokinetic characteristics. • Apply current evidenced-based approaches to select appropriate treatment regimens for common infections encountered in clinical practice. • Prescribe antimicrobials based on empiric dosing recommendations. • Plan goals of therapy and parameters for monitoring therapeutic response to antimicrobials. • Recommend specific antimicrobial therapeutic drug monitoring to maximize efficacy and minimize toxicities (e.g., vancomycin and aminoglycosides). • Develop preventative strategies to limit antimicrobial resistance. • Design patient and caregiver education on the proper use of antimicrobials.

Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making in Behavioral Health: How to Practice in a Safe and Ethical Way is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Nov 22, 2019 at Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel St. Louis, St louis, Missouri, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Target Audience: • Counselors • Psychologists • Case Managers • Psychotherapists • Social Workers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Conference Description: As a mental health professional, you are confronted on a regular basis with the challenges of complex ethical and legal issues. Knowing and applying an ethical decision making framework will provide you with tools to: • manage ethical issues in a systematic way • separate facts from assumptions and biases • track the potential harms of each course of action • formulate an ethical rationale for selecting the least harmful option • decide on the most appropriate way to implement your choice • assess what went wrong, or could go wrong, so you can prevent it from happening Attend this seminar and learn a unique decision making model that does not tell you which ethical principle is most important (as do some other models), but provides you with options and raises critical questions to help you decide which principal trumps others. Learning this model will also help you to formulate reasons for choosing how to intervene with other professionals or clients in an ethical and safe way. This reflective model will enable you to be the proactive practitioner you want to be! Through case examples, you will be able to apply the skills right away! Case examples will focus on the issues of confidentiality, informed consent, boundaries and dual relationships and self-determination. Conference Objectives are: • Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve and/or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas in your clinical practice. • Communicate how an understanding of common boundary and dual relationship issues/dilemmas can help you maintain appropriate relationships with your clients. • Determine conditions and limits of self-determination in order to avoid negatively impacting the therapeutic alliance. • Identify ethical issues concerning confidentiality and informed consent, recognize their limits and employ safeguards in your clinical practice. • Analyze the limits of confidentiality as it relates to duty to warn law in clinical practice. • Recognize ethical challenges you should consider when responding to subpoenas that request disclosure of client records. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Big Cedar 2019 primary Care Update is organized by A.T. Still University (ATSU) and will be held from Dec 05 - 07, 2019 at Big Cedar Lodge, Ridgedale, Missouri, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event includes primary care physicians, family practice physicians, internal medicine, and other healthcare learners who treat patients within the primary care setting. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16 of AOA Category 1-A credits. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Congestive Heart Failure~2019 is organized by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and will be held on Dec 07, 2019 at Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC), St Louis, Missouri, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Muscle Energy and Soft Tissue Techniques for the Upper Quadrant is organized by Therapy Network Seminars (TNS) and will be held from Dec 07 - 08, 2019 at Lees Summit Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America. Target Audience: Level of Instruction: Intermediate This course is intended for PTs, PTAs, OTs, OTAs and ATs Educational Credit: A certificate of attendance for 15 Contact Hours will be awarded to each participant. All Therapy Network Seminars are pre‐approved for CEUs in the state where the course is conducted when required for PT, OT, ATs & Assistants. BOC Board of Certification, Inc. Approved Provider  Course Description: This lab intensive course presents both Soft Tissue Mobilization (STM) and Muscle Energy Techniques (MET) for the cervical and upper thoracic spines, upper ribs and shoulder regions. The participants will be instructed in the science and principles of these techniques along with an overview of the anatomy and biomechanics of the regions. The laboratory sessions will include demonstration followed by opportunity to practice these hands-on evaluation and treatment techniques under the supervision of your instructor. This course will provide the participant with the understanding and necessary skills to apply these techniques in the clinic environment. Objectives: • Identify the principles of STM & MET. • Demonstrate select STM techniques for the shoulder, cervical-thoracic spine and chest regions. • Demonstrate select MET to address joint dysfunctions at the upper thoracic spine, the first rib, the lower and upper cervical spine and the shoulder complex.. • Demonstrate select MET to address muscular imbalances at the neck and shoulder complexes. • Demonstrate select exercises for the regions.