Osteoporosis Foundation of New Mexico (OFNM) 21st Annual Santa Fe Bone Symposium! is organized by Osteoporosis Foundation of New Mexico (OFNM) and will be held from Aug 07 - 08, 2020 at Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.  

Cardiology & Pulmonology for Primary Care is organized by Medical Education Resources (MER) and will be held from Sep 04 - 06, 2020 at La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Target Audience: This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine Accreditation: Physician Accreditation: Medical Education Resources designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  ABIM MOC Recognition: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12 (part II) MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. American Academy of Family Physicians: This Live activity, Cardiology & Pulmonology for Primary Care, with a beginning date of September 4, 2020 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 12 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. American Osteopathic Association: These programs are approved for 12 hours in Category 2-A by the American Osteopathic Association. American College of Emergency Physicians: This program is approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 12 hours of ACEP Category I credit. American Academy of Physician Assistants: Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 12 hours of Category I credit for completing this program. Nursing Accreditation: This CE activity provides 12 contact hours of continuing nursing education. Pharmacy Accreditation: MER designates this continuing education activity for 12 contact hours (1.2 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Topics May Include: Cardiology: • Workup of coronary artery disease (CAD) • Primary and secondary prevention of CAD • Workup of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) • Arrhythmia management • Hypertension • Congestive heart failure Pulmonology: • Asthma • Common respiratory infections • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) • Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism • Sleep apnea • Lung cancer screening and pulmonary nodules Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to: • Describe current diagnostic approaches to hypertension, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, ACS and CAD • Implement treatment strategies reflective of current evidence based medicine for hypertension, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, ACS and CAD • Identify the pathophysiology and diagnostic approach of asthma, COPD and common respiratory infections • Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for asthma, COPD and common respiratory infections • Perform a range of pulmonary diagnostics and be better prepared to handle pulmonary nodules and lung cancer Learning Outcome: To provide updates in primary care medicine to office based providers

24th Annual Update and Review of Internal Medicine Course is organized by The University of New Mexico (UNM) and will be held from Oct 18 - 23, 2020 at La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 50 CME Credits / 50 MOC Points. Description: The major objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive review of the most important advances that have recently been made in internal medicine. Although board review is not the primary purpose of the course, question-based sessions are included and are likely to be useful to candidates taking the Internal Medicine Boards or the Recertification Examination. The course is directed at the level of the internist and family practitioner in practice and will also be useful for residents. The emphasis will be placed on progress that has been made in pathophysiology and clinical management in the most common disorders seen by the internist and family practitioner. Each of the major subspecialties will be covered including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious disease, nephrology, women's health, oncology, pulmonary disease, obesity and nutrition, and rheumatology. Much of the material will be presented in lecture format by the best teachers and clinicians from two major medical centers. In addition, each specialty will have a case-based session using an interactive wireless Audience Response System that will be present on your desk. This system will allow you (anonymously) to test your knowledge in the different areas of medicine. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

28th Annual Santa Fe Symposia is organized by Boston University School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Nursing Education (BUSM CME/CNE) and will be held from Oct 23 - 25, 2020 at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Target Audience: For Mental Health Professionals Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Therapies is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 14 - 18, 2021 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Course Description: Heart failure (HF) is a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality. As life expectancy increases, individuals are experiencing the compounded effects of accumulated disease, genetic propensity, environmental stress, and behavior. The underpinnings of HF are multifactorial, providing a broad array of relevant biochemical therapeutic targets that could impact clinical symptoms and outcomes. Aging, the obesity epidemic and associated disorders, such as diabetes, have a major impact on heart failure pathophysiology. The roles of altered metabolism, mitochondrial dysfunction, protein quality control, inflammation, and fibrosis as well as the latest methods for single-cell analysis of subpopulations studies on epigenetic control of disease and heart development/regeneration will be featured. The dawn of a new age in manipulation of heart contractions is upon us and this conference will enable discussion of recent advances in HF treatment, including clinical testing. Many of the speakers will be leaders in highly relevant fields that are not often among those featured at a typical HF conference. One of the goals is to encourage dialog and foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in fields that all have have relevance to a failing heart. Lastly, this conference is being paired with another Keystone Symposia conference on Mitochondria, Metabolism and Heart, which will also have a cardiac emphasis. There will be two joint sessions that will focus on mitochondrial function and metabolism, respectively.  Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Mitochondria, Metabolism and Heart is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 14 - 18, 2021 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Course Description: Mitochondria are the established powerhouses of the cell, responsible for generating ATP via oxidative metabolism and electron transport. This conference will focus in on the role of mitochondria in heart health and metabolism. Mitochondrial transporters regulate mitochondrial calcium levels which in turn are important in regulating cell metabolism and death. Alterations in mitochondrial function and metabolism have been identified as important regulators of cardiovascular diseases like heart failure. Despite the importance of mitochondria in health and disease, the identity of many ion transporters is not yet known. In particular, the identity of the mitochondrial permeability pore that regulates cell death is still debated. In addition, the link from mitochondrial dynamics and metabolism to cell death is poorly understood. The conference program will emphasize experts using novel approaches such as high-resolution imaging techniques, metabolomics, proteomics and systems biology to elucidate mechanisms by which mitochondrial transporters and mitochondrial dynamics regulate metabolism, death and disease. Finally, this conference is paired with the Keystone Symposium on Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Therapies. This pairing will include two joint sessions will focus on mitochondrial function and metabolism, respectively.  Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Neuronal Cell Biology: A Biology of Extremes is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 23 - 26, 2021 at Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico. United States of America. Course Description: Neurons are a perfect example of the biology of extremes. Most neurons in the brain must live without dividing for 7-9 decades of life. Individual cells cover spatial expanses that are truly enormous compared to the molecular scale. Although cell somas of neurons are comparable in size to many other types of cells in the body, neurons are polarized cells and the output compartment, the axon, of an individual cell in the brain can extend up to 40 cm in a rodent and probably much further in a human, i.e. 20,000 times more than typical cells. The molecular basis of how neurons are built and sustained at these “extremes” is a central problem in neuronal biology. The tools needed to understand basic questions like protein and lipid synthesis and turnover in neurons as well the metabolic basis of synaptic performance are just beginning to emerge. These properties are all thought to be particularly impactful in diseases associated with aging, such as most neurodegenerative diseases. As these rapid and major ongoing advances in neuronal cell biology continue, they have allowed for a mechanistic understanding and therapeutic intervention in many neurologic diseases. This conference will convene leaders in the field, together with trainees and emerging investigators, to address cutting-edge advances in this rapidly evolving field.  Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Biomolecular Condensates: Phase-Separated Organizers of Cellular Biochemistry is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Jan 24 - 27, 2021 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Description: Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has recently emerged as a pervasive and fundamental strategy for organizing cellular contents and regulating biological processes. Indeed, LLPS has been revealed to regulate a staggering and rapidly expanding array of cellular activities, including aspects of DNA replication, transcription, DNA repair, RNA metabolism, receptor signaling, synapse formation, and more. In cells, LLPS leads to the assembly of biomolecular condensates that span a vast range of sizes and complexities, from nanometer-scale structures composed of a few peptide chains, such as the nucleosome core, to micron-scale structures composed of thousands of biomolecules, such as the pre- and post-synaptic compartments of neurons. In addition, it is increasingly appreciated that disturbance of biological phase transitions is a primary driver of disease, most notably in neurodegeneration and cancer. While our understanding of the molecular basis for biological phase transitions and how this phenomenon regulates cell biology and disease has deepened, fundamental questions remain regarding the nature and function of these condensates. This meeting will bring together leading scientists from diverse areas impacted by phase separation to clarify the current state of knowledge in this exciting new field, covering topics including (1) How are the molecular identities of distinct condensates established and maintained? (2) How are their material properties controlled? (3) How does assembly and disassembly of these structures influence emergent biological functions? (4) How do disturbances in their biophysical properties contribute to disease such as neurodegeneration and cancer? This field is moving very, very rapidly and this meeting will disseminate a plethora of new scientific insights, conceptual advances, and technological breakthroughs to the community. Attendees will be introduced to technological innovations, including novel imaging approaches, biophysical approaches, and optogenetic approaches, to studying biomolecular condensates, as well as discoveries that are regularly generating paradigmatic shifts in how we think cells work, how certain diseases arise, and how one might intervene in these diseases. Understanding this complex field requires input from an unusually broad set of disciplines, including theorists in polymer chemistry, biophysicists, structural biologists, molecular and cell biologists, and disease pathologists. Therefore, a major goal of this meeting is to convene this broad expertise in one place to discuss the common problem and address the knowledge gaps together. This biannual meeting is the single most important meeting on this topic in the United States, and will draw thought-leaders from around the world, while also providing an entry point and overview for investigators new to this field, to illuminate this new paradigm in cellular organization, function and disease.

Next Generation HIV Vaccines and Therapies is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Feb 21 - 25, 2021 at Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Course Description: To date there is no HIV-1 vaccine or cure. The object of this meeting is to bring together scientists working on these two problems, to review recent results in these areas of research. The meeting will seek to foster collaborations that will build upon the new results to help accelerate progress. On the vaccine side of the meeting the focus will be on novel approaches to vaccine development including vaccine immunology, passive therapies, and genetic vaccination. The results of ongoing human vaccine clinical trials will be discussed. The sessions on cure will address the problem of viral latency and how it is controlled and will emphasize cure related human clinical trials. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

The 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology (ASRI) is organized by American Society for Reproductive Immunology (ASRI) and will be held from May 16 - 20, 2021 at La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. Target Audience: Basic, translational, clinical scientists and scientists-in-training studying reproductive biology, immunology, infectious diseases, development, and related subjects. Clinicians, clinician-scientists, fellows, residents and epidemiologists who work in obstetrics & gynecology, infectious disease, neonatology, pediatrics, neuroscience, immune-related diseases and related fields. Accreditation: Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 27.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Description: Our meeting brings together basic scientists, clinician-scientists and healthcare providers who work together to translate scientific discoveries into improved patient care. The Scientific Program committee has put together an exciting schedule of events, including plenary and break-out sessions led by leading national and international experts in the fields of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Immunology, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, and Developmental Biology. New for this meeting is a one-day workshop for young and young-at-heart investigators interested in learning about the latest cutting edge technologies. Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits will be available. ASRI 2020 promises to provide multiple opportunities for learning, exchanging ideas and discovering up-and-coming technologies at a stunning venue. It is unique because it combines clinical medicine and reproductive immunology to create a synergistic scientific environment that brings together scientists, and clinicians worldwide. Our overall goal is to have scientists and physicians share their latest research and clinical findings. This meeting also looks to the future. Our Society is rich with the next generation of future scientists and clinicians (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents) who will have a format to present their findings and to interact with leaders in the field of reproductive immunology.  Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the meeting, all participants should be able to: • Become familiar with cutting edge research advances and technologies pertinent to clinical aspects of Reproductive Immunology  • Learn of recent advances in our understanding of potential interventions for sexually transmitted infections that compromise reproductive potential and fetal survival  • Understand novel technologies in the field of reproductive immunology and evaluate pros and cons of immune-based therapies