Upcoming Medical Conferences in Albuquerque

Endovascular Advances: A Hands-On Preceptorship Program is organized by Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (ACHL) and will be held from Nov 14 - 15, 2019 at New Mexico Heart Institute at Lovelace Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional radiologists looking to expand their hands-on experience in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Description: This CME activity is designed to provide physicians with hands-on training in all aspects of managing complex lower extremity disease, including: SFA interventions, chronic limb ischemia, and chronic total occlusions. Approved attendees will be trained for a two-day program under the direct supervision of the program faculty at the program site. Objectives: • Analyze risk assessment and diagnostic methods in PAD • Explore alternative access options and techniques (i.e. pedal access, popliteal access) • Discuss treatment algorithms and best practices  • Formulate strategies for complication management  • Evaluate various SFA and CTO tools and treatment strategies, including vessel preparation with atherectomy and new technologies in the era of drug elution.

Mindfulness Certificate Course: 2-Day Intensive Training is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Dec 02 - 03, 2019 at Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Occupational Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Case Managers • Therapists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Course Description: Attend this in-depth Mindfulness Certificate Course to develop a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to help your clients incorporate mindfulness practices into their daily routine and help you provide greater healing for your clients who suffer from: • Trauma • Anxiety disorders • Depression • Relationship challenges • Toxic habits or beliefs This course will provide you with detailed, hands-on instruction on incorporating mindfulness into your treatment plans for the specific mental health disorders you see in your office each day. Full of structured and experiential exercises, interactive discussions, and case studies, you will take away practical strategies and reproducible handouts that are instantly usable upon your return to the office. From intervening in the downward spiral of depression and anxiety to cultivating safety and groundedness in traumatized clients, you’ll learn the art of applying mindfulness insights, skills and techniques to a variety of clinical populations. Objectives: • Describe how clear psychoeducational descriptions of the relationship between mindfulness, neurobiology, and common disorders can be used to motivate clients to engage in treatment. • Communicate how a case conceptualization that draws upon neuropsychological principles can help clinicians establish realistic expectations and goals with clients. • Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that incorporate mindfulness strategies clients can use in and out of session to help alleviate symptoms. • Dissect the neurobiological underpinnings of how emotions are created, and communicate why this is important to the therapeutic process. • Employ mindfulness training and diaphragmatic breathing techniques that clients can use to help them manage unhealthy anger responses. • Construct treatment plans for depression that incorporate mindfulness interventions that can be used to interrupt rumination and automatic negative thoughts. • Characterize how mindfulness based stress reduction techniques can be used with clients to address prolonged periods of stress that can impact mental and physical health • Consider the clinical impact of research regarding the effects of mindfulness based practices on the neuropsychological aspects of trauma. • Explore the clinical implications of research regarding the association between mindfulness and relationship satisfaction and outcomes. • Establish how barriers to implementing mindfulness can be overcome using informal techniques clients can incorporate into their daily lives. • Characterize how clinical tools that increase self-awareness can be used in therapy to help clients better manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors. • Articulate the importance of the connection between therapist and client in contributing to positive clinical outcomes, and delineate how mindfulness may enhance the therapeutic relationship.

Trauma Informed Compassionate Classrooms: Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behavior, Improve Learning Outcomes and Increase Student Engagement is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 10, 2019 at Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 clock hours of continuing education. Target Audience: • General Educators • Special Educators • School Administrators • School Psychologists • Social Workers • Guidance Counselors • School Nurses • Directors of Special Education • Speech-Language Pathologists • Occupational Therapists • Paraprofessionals Course Description: As an educator, you are faced with the challenge of meeting the social and emotional needs of all your students. This can be challenging enough with typical learners but it is even more difficult with those who have experienced trauma or have mental health challenges. Students who have experienced trauma often present as difficult to engage and display problematic behavior such as a low frustration tolerance, angry outbursts or difficult social relationships. These behaviors all get in the way of teaching and learning. When a student has experienced trauma, he/she often spends much of the day in fight/flight/freeze mode which limits their capacity to learn. Their outwardly aggressive and irritable behaviors also disrupt the flow in the classroom, requiring your time and attention. Despite the amount of time you invest in behavior charts or incentives for good behavior, traditional behavioral approaches to classroom management and a punitive approach to discipline simply are not effective. Join Dr. Reese and learn how a trauma-informed approach will greatly reduce challenging behavior, improve student engagement and increase learning outcomes. Leave this seminar with new strategies, tools and resources to reduce students’ impulsiveness, aggressive behaviors and inattention and increase their focus, attention and compassion. While this positive approach is absolutely essential for students with trauma, it will also greatly benefit each and every student in your classroom. Return to your school with: • Research-based practices to establish a trauma-informed classroom • A plan to develop positive relationships and build trust with your hard-to-reach students • Prove techniques for communicating more effectively and collaboratively with challenging students • Cognitive skill-building strategies which incorporate the science of neuroplasticity and the strengths-based perspective of neurodiversity Objectives: • Analyze the ways in which poverty and mental health contribute to trauma responses thus informing your approach to working with all students. • Determine how trauma impacts a child’s development and develop strategies for meeting his or her needs. • Explore how exposure to adverse childhood experiences determines the likelihood of developmental trauma and its impact on level of functioning across the lifespan. • Establish a collaborative approach to discipline and demonstrate how this fosters intrinsic motivation for behavior change in the child. • Practice techniques to establish positive relationships and build trust with hard-to-reach students thus increasing their social and academic success. • Explore mindfulness activities that foster student self-awareness, self-regulation and the ability to focus as it relates to impulsive behavior and attention.

Endovascular Advances: A Hands-On Preceptorship Program is organized by Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (ACHL) and will be held from Dec 12 - 13, 2019 at New Mexico Heart Institute at Lovelace Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional radiologists looking to expand their hands-on experience in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Description: This CME activity is designed to provide physicians with hands-on training in all aspects of managing complex lower extremity disease, including: SFA interventions, chronic limb ischemia, and chronic total occlusions. Approved attendees will be trained for a two-day program under the direct supervision of the program faculty at the program site. Objectives: • Analyze risk assessment and diagnostic methods in PAD • Explore alternative access options and techniques (i.e. pedal access, popliteal access) • Discuss treatment algorithms and best practices  • Formulate strategies for complication management  • Evaluate various SFA and CTO tools and treatment strategies, including vessel preparation with atherectomy and new technologies in the era of drug elution.

Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site: Clinical Tools & Strategies Specific to Patient Deficits is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 13, 2019 at Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours.  Target Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Speech-Language Pathologists • Certified Brain Injury Specialists • Recreational Therapists Course Description: Neuroanatomy is admittedly complex and overwhelming. Clinicians working in rehabilitation are faced with growing caseloads, diminished resources/reimbursement, and increasingly medically complex patients with the expectation of improving outcomes and reducing length of stay. Honing knowledge of clinically-relevant neuroanatomy and neuropathology can predict dysfunction and intuitively create a scaffold for assessment and treatment even before meeting the patient. Predetermining potential deficits leads to a more tightly defined diagnostic battery and expedites treatment formulation. By deducing the patient’s experience, the clinician can also prepare for behavioral barriers to engagement and understand the healing process with greater compassion.  In this one-day seminar, participants will learn intermediate level neurophysiology as it relates to cognitive-linguistic skills and behavioral control, as well as explore mindfulness techniques for stress reduction. The overlying foci of the course are to arm treating professionals with an improved clinical eye, predicting dysfunction, and expedite the pathway to treatment. Course content will also include patient-focused educational materials for stroke and traumatic brain injury ready to utilize by treating practitioners. Objectives: • Categorize the anatomy and function of lobes of the brain as they apply to behavioral control. • Characterize the neurophysiology of memory and effect of fear/anger upon new learning and memory. • Analyze the effect of traumatic and non-traumatic injuries upon cognitive centers. • Connect neurotransmitters with the communication system within the brain. • Evaluate the optic system and lesion locations that affect engagement and accuracy in therapy. • Recommend simple neuroanatomy-based techniques to rapidly de-escalate stress for patients and caretakers. • Assess neuro-behavioral barriers that impact new learning.

Comprehensive Treatment of the Knee is organized by Great Lakes Seminars (GLS) and will be held from Jan 11 - 12, 2020 at Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. Accreditation: This course has been submitted for 16 continuing education hours. Approval amounts may vary per state. Certificates of attendance with the number of course hours will be given to each participant at the completion of the course. Course Description: This class will show you an entirely different way to treat the knee. It focuses on a manual therapy approach to treatment of knee dysfunction, including joint mobilizations, meniscal mobilizations and myofascial / soft tissue releases. Multiple taping techniques are shown for dysfunctions at the patella and the tibio-femoral joints. You will also learn how dysfunctions above and below the knee can cause symptoms at the knee joint itself. It gives a clinician tools to treat knee pain in ways they have never seen before. As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours, is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician hands-on skills they use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting. Course Objectives: At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to: • Correctly state 4 key anatomical structures and their application to joint mechanics, movement and dysfunction. • State the 7 key treatment principles for joint mobilizations and 4 treatment principles for taping and orthotic therapy. • Independently discuss 4 treatment concepts for myofascial release of the knee complex. • State the key treatment concepts for strengthening and balance re-education as outlined in the course manual • Demonstrate each of the myofascial release techniques, joint mobilizations, taping and orthotic therapy techniques and each of the strengthening and balance re-education exercises as shown in the course manual with proficiency and skill. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council (NMNPC) 2020 Spring Conference is organized by New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council (NMNPC) and will be held from Apr 23 - 25, 2020 at  Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

 Innovative Stroke and Neurological Rehab Treatment Approaches is organized by Motivations Inc. and will be held on May 02, 2020 at Lovelace UNM Rehabilitation Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. Target Audience: Physical and Occupational Therapists and Assistants  CEU Credits: This is an 8-hour lecture/discussion course equivalent to 0.8 CEUs. Course Summary: This course will focus on providing therapists with various treatment ideas to improve function for patients with CVA, TBI, and other neurological deficits. The latest research and evidence will be highlighted emphasizing the importance of neuroplasticity and motor learning, including the specifics of how to integrate the research into the realities of practice. The presentation includes the use of updated digital video to practice movement analysis and demonstrate the impact of different interventions. Using attendees’ case examples, common impairments causing functional limitations will be identified and various treatment options will be discussed considering the level of the patient and clinic setting. In addition, options for improving the function of patients with Pusher Syndrome will be reviewed. Upon completion of this course, therapists will have learned an evidence-based approach for choosing treatment strategies while improving their clinical reasoning skills working with this patient population.  Objectives: • Explain at least 2 theories of neuroplasticity using the latest research HIGH LEVEL • Indicate at least 3 differences between normal and compensatory treatments in a patient with a neurological deficit • Explain the role of impairments, functional limitations, and participation restrictions in treating the neurological patient • Develop at least 3 appropriate treatment techniques to improve functional tasks for the neurological patient in supine, sitting, and/or standing HIGH LEVEL • Identify at least 2 common causes of shoulder pain in the client with a neurological deficit • Identify at least 2 treatment techniques to facilitate shoulder function in the client with a neurological deficit • Compare and contrast 3 common gait deviations resulting from lower extremity tonicity and appropriate treatments for each.  • Identify at least 2 common problems with patients with pusher syndrome and how to best adjust the environment for treatment.

9th Annual Conference of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI 2020) and the 15th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Radiographers is organized by UNM School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development (CME/CPD) and will be held from May 14 - 16, 2020 at Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.  Description: The meeting will be on the use of imaging in the Investigation of Traumatic Injuries and Forensic Anthropology. Besides these topics, submissions from all fields of forensic imaging are welcome, including case reports. In addition to the scientific program, there will also be social and entertainment programs to introduce you to our Southwestern lifestyle. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available

Mobilization of the Cervical and Thoracic Spine and Ribs is organized by Great Lakes Seminars (GLS) and will be held from Nov 07 - 08, 2020 at Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.  Accreditation: This course has been submitted for 16 continuing education hours. Approval amounts may vary per state. Certificates of attendance with the number of course hours will be given to each participant at the completion of the course. Course Description: ​This class focuses on taking an area of the body – the neck, upper back and ribs - and simplifying it so that the therapist feels comfortable treating it. Treatment approaches include Muscle Energy Technique (MET) and direct articulations to the thoracic spine and ribs. The class is evidence based and every technique is repeated multiple times throughout the class so each participant has the chance to learn them well. When you leave this class you will walk away with a comprehensive and strong foundation for treatment of the neck, upper back and ribs. As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours, is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician hands-on skills they use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting.  Course Objectives: At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to: • Correctly describe the normal and abnormal biomechanics of the vertebrae in the Upper Cervical spine (OA, AA), Lower ervical Spine (C2-7), Thoracic spine (T1-I2) and ribs. • Confidently describe 5 specific spinal and rib anatomical structures. • Correctly describe the neurophysiological mechanism behind muscle energy technique (MET) • Correctly and confidently identify 3 key components necessary to administer proper MET. • Correctly and confidently administer 5 cervical spine METs, 5 thoracic spine METs, 4 thoracic spine mobilizations (Grade II-IV), 3 thoracic spine manipulations (Grade V), 1 Cervical Thoracic distraction mobilization/manipulation, 3 Rib METs, and 2 Rib mobilization/manipulations. • Through the discussion of relevant evidence based research, support the use of METs/Mobilization/Manipulations to the Cervical and Thoracic spine and Ribs for specific diagnoses. • Through the use of 3 varying case studies, correctly demonstrate a systematic approach for the treatment progression through the cervical and thoracic spine and rib complex. • Properly locate the correct bony landmarks (I.e. Thoracic and Cervical Transverse Process, Rib angle). • Demonstrate the appropriate force direction for 5 specific MET/Mobilization/Manipulations. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.