Upcoming Medical Conferences in Santa Fe

Diabetes: Glucose Control and Beyond (J5) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 27 - 31, 2020 at Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description Modern technology has created a favorable climate for the “perfect metabolic storm”. Triggered by lifestyle habits that promote overnutrition and inactivity, Westernized societies are experiencing epidemic rates of obesity and its attendant co-morbidities. Foremost among these is type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is projected to reach a global prevalence of 10% by the year 2045. This grim epidemiological forecast has inspired intense efforts to unravel the molecular mechanisms that link positive energy balance to glucose intolerance and metabolic decline. This Diabetes meeting will assemble international leaders and rising stars in diverse biomedical disciplines with common interests in understanding and combatting cardiometabolic diseases. The program showcases new insights into the molecular underpinnings of obesity-induced dysfunction of the major peripheral organs that coordinate energy flux and glucose control: skeletal and cardiac muscles, the pancreas, adipose tissue, the liver and gut. Thematic emphasis will center on nutrient sensing and signaling, inter-organ crosstalk, mechanisms of insulin resistance, mitochondrial bioenergetics, islet biology and genetics of diabetes. A major goal of the meeting is to provide a forum that encourages interactions between basic and translational scientists at all career levels to critically evaluate recent advances and current controversies. Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be further enhanced by the concurrent meeting on Islet Biology: From Gene to Cell to Micro-Organ. This meeting will consider metabolism in relation to islet function, in addition to studies of islet cell plasticity and differentiation.  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 29, 2020 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 0.6 CEUs. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • Teachers • School Guidance Counselors • Case Managers • Nurses • School Administrators • Educational Paraprofessionals • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children Course Description: Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Attend this seminar and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your client’s most challenging behaviors including: • Tantrums • Running out/away • Noncompliance • Nagging • Refusing to work/help • Yelling/screaming • Bullying • Panic/anxiety reactions • Lack of follow through • Not following directions You will walk away with immediate strategies for out-of-control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Dr. Margery J. Shupe is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action-oriented handouts, you will leave this seminar with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around. Objectives: • Utilize clinical strategies to reduce the frequency, duration and severity of behavioral episodes that challenge therapists, educators, professionals and parents. • Implement both proactive and reactive strategies for oppositional, defiant and disruptive behavior in children and youth. • Discriminate between the clinical presentation of behavioral episodes and psychiatric symptoms to inform treatment. • Communicate how a skilled observation of behavior informs your treatment approach. • Develop clinical skills for establishing a therapeutic rapport to overcome treatment resistance in children and adolescents. • Effectively develop a behavior intervention plan and safety plan across all settings including home and school.

Antibodies as Drugs: From B Cell Biology to New Treatments (B1) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 02 - 06, 2020 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description Since the mid-1990s, antibodies have grown steadily into a clinically important pharmaceutical class with over 70 antibody-based drugs approved, predominantly in oncology, autoimmunity and inflammation. As the antibody drug field has expanded and matured in recent years, the field has moved from empirical strategies to deep knowledge-based, designer approaches for which understanding of mechanisms of action is critical; there has also been a trend toward increasingly specialized meetings with a narrow focus such as cancer immunotherapy, bispecifics or B cell biology.  In contrast, we are proposing a scientifically diverse program that spans a broad range of different and cutting-edge topics relevant to antibody drug development, including antibodies for infectious disease and antibody pharmacology, topics which are often under-represented at major antibody conferences. Additionally, we have chosen a diverse collection of speakers from junior investigators to seasoned researchers from a wide range of institutions in at least eight different countries. We hope and expect that this approach will stimulate ‘cross-pollination’ between disciplines that span the gamut from basic to translational to clinical sciences with the common theme of antibody drugs for the benefit of patients  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

New Mexico Mental Health & The Law - 2020 is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 06, 2020 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ / 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.  Target Audience: • Psychologists • Social Workers • Marriage and Family Therapists • Counselors • Risk Managers • Addiction Professionals • Case Managers • Nurses Course Description: As a mental health professional, you not only deal with critical clinical matters with your clients – you must also stay up-to-date on seemingly ever-changing laws and procedures. Keeping up-to-date is essential in order to protect your clients and yourself. At this comprehensive one-day seminar you will gain an understanding of confidentiality, risk management, recent legislation and trends in mental health law in New Mexico, guardianship, commitment, practical legal options-and more, that will help you stay on top of issues that arise in everyday clinical situations. Objectives: • Summarize the legal considerations when opening and maintaining a mental health practice. • Explain the potential role of mental health professionals in legal proceedings related to client care. • Identify client confidentiality issues and when clinicians are obligated to disclose protected health information. • Navigate the legal and ethical issues related to security and privacy in a clinical setting. • Determine how to legally and ethically handle situations relating to child abuse and elder abuse. • Explain the legal and ethical issues that arise when using distance therapy in a clinical setting. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Disruptive Technologies and Opportunities for Brain Therapeutics (Q3) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 16 - 19, 2020 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description CNS disorders represent a major unmet medical need with associated societal burden that is unsustainable due to changing demographics (e.g., aging population). Recognizing this issue, major investments in basic and translational research have been made by government and non-profit institutions world-wide. On the other hand, pharmaceutical companies and equity investors continue to view brain therapeutics as a relatively risky area of investment. This symposium aims to highlight breakthrough technologies and approaches to de-risk CNS-targeted therapies. More importantly, with the proposed agenda and speakers we aim to show that integration of cross-disciplinary knowledge and approaches has the potential to overcome the contemporary challenges of CNS drug development. A unique aspect of this symposium is to bring in scientists from a range of disciplines, who rarely participate in the same meetings, in order to create an environment that can lead to disruptive innovation. Proposed speakers will provide both general overview as well as in-depth technical presentations to engage the participants in topics ranging from disease biology-informed target selection to novel medicinal chemistry approaches, biomarkers, and clinical trial designs. Advances in technologies such as genomics, imaging and brain delivery will be highlighted throughout. In addition, the speakers proposed represent public and private sectors, young and established scientists and world-wide geography. This meeting aspires to create an interdisciplinary environment that could also spawn new collaborations that would outlast the meeting duration to address the unmet medical need of CNS disorders. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Cerebral Fluid Flow and Function: Lymphatics, Glymphatics and the Choroid Plexus (Q4) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 16 - 19, 2020 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has long been a "missing link" in our understanding of brain form, function, and disease. However, recent work has begun to illuminate how the CSF regulates the brain in ways that extend far beyond its passive historical roles and provides unique opportunities for studying, diagnosing, and potentially treating brain disorders. This Keystone conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of new and established scientists to capture this newfound excitement about the CSF. By exchanging discoveries - about its sources (choroid plexus), routes (glymphatics), drainage (lymphatics), and clinical utilities - and by fostering new ideas, collaborations, and training opportunities, this conference aims to coalesce an international community that can propel the CSF field forward. (Optional/TBD: This meeting is being held jointly with the "medicinal chemistry to cross the blood-brain barrier/BBB" meeting to stimulate thinking about CSF-based medicinal therapies, given the advantages of CSF over blood in being "behind" the BBB and in equilibrating with the interstitial fluid surrounding brain cells.) Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Self-Regulation in Children: Keeping the Body, Mind and Emotions on Task in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Disorders is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 19, 2020 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 CCUs / 6.0 contact hours or .6 CEUs / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Educators • Speech-Language Pathologists • Counselors • Psychologists • Social Workers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants. Description: Children with Sensory Processing Disorders, ADHD or autism have much in common. They are challenged with physical problems that affect their ability to focus and can also cause them to be emotionally reactive. Children who have trouble self-regulating throughout the day are missing out on typical childhood experiences in school, on the playground and with their families. They have difficulty making and keeping friends. This workshop looks at the underlying factors of poor self-regulation and how they affect the child. The course emphasizes practical interventions! You will walk away with effective strategies for creating simple but effective programs in clinical, school and home settings: • Sensory therapy techniques • Simple self-management and video modeling programs • Sensory lifestyle programs • First-person stories • Energy regulation techniques • Communication methods • Transition strategies • Behavioral strategies Clinical programs such as Interactive Metronome® (IM), brushing, sensory diets, and MeMoves™ will be discussed, as will timely topics such as medication vs. non-medication for ADHD and new insights from research into biomedical aspects of autism. You will receive written handouts and a list of resources. Objectives: • Differentiate between symptoms of sensory modulation disorder, ADHD and autism to determine appropriate self-regulation interventions. • Modify clinical treatments for Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) to be utilized in school or home settings. • Design a sensory lifestyle program using readily-found items to improve self-regulation skills in your young clients. • Incorporate elements of first-person stories and transitional activities into your SPD intervention plan. • Recommend cognitive strategies to address symptoms of ADHD, including hyperactivity and impulsivity. • Implement role plays and video modeling interventions to target appropriate self-management skills.

2020 Society of Psychologists in Management (SPIM) Conference and Institutes is organized by Society of Psychologists in Management (SPIM) and will be held from Feb 27 - Mar 01, 2020 at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

A Gut-Systemic Perspective for Metabolic Disease (C3) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Mar 22 - 26, 2020 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description Changes of the microbiome and nutrient sensing within the gut alter whole-body glucose and energy homeostasis. The underlying mechanism and the therapeutic potential of such metabolic regulation in diabetes, obesity, and related disorders remain largely unexplored. In this 4-day Symposium, we aim to progressively highlight a spectrum of basic and translational investigations and discoveries that first focus on microbial-host interaction and nutrient sensing mechanisms. We next zoom-in on the interaction between the gut microbiome and nutrient sensing pathways as well as how these pathways could be targeted by small molecules and/or immunological responses within the gut to impact systemic organs and whole-body metabolic homeostasis. In summary, we anticipate this meeting will foster interactions between the basic, transitional, clinical and pharmaceutical researchers and advance collaborative work aimed at realizing the therapeutic potential of targeting the gut microbiota-nutrient sensing axis for the treatment of metabolic disorders. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

2020 Caring for the Human Spirit Conference is organized by HealthCare Chaplaincy Network™ (HCCN) and will be held from Apr 20 - 22, 2020 at Hilton Santa Fe Buffalo Thunder, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is researchers, chaplains, nurses, social workers, physicians, patient experience officers, and others to apply and present on best practices, latest research, or other topics to a diverse audience of healthcare professionals. Proposals focused on spiritual interventions for promoting resilience and combating burnout will be especially welcome. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.