Upcoming Medical Conferences in Buffalo

2-Day Introduction Mini Implant Course is organized by Shatkin F.I.R.S.T., LLC and will be held from Jan 10 - 11, 2020 at Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 AGD Credits.  Description: Join Todd Shatkin, DDS, alongside other Shatkin F.I.R.S.T. lecturers, for a two-day event featuring hands-on training and live surgery. This course will cover mini dental implant treatment planning, case selection, and placement procedure as well as marketing mini implants for your practice. Experience hands-on training placing implants utilizing prefabricated surgical stents. Watch at least two live surgeries as Dr. Shatkin demonstrates the F.I.R.S.T. technique. Learn from guest lecturers as they share their experiences with mini dental implants. Features: • Receive 18 AGD Credits • Mini Dental Implant Treatment Planning • 2-3 LIVE Surgeries (Denture Stabilization and or Single or Multiple Tooth Replacement) • Guest Lecturers who share their experiences with Mini Dental Implants • Lab Fabricated Finished Single & Multiple Tooth Replacements Accomplished in Less than an Hour • Hands on Training Placing Implants in sawbone utilizing prefabricated Surgical Stents • Case Selection and Placement Procedure • How to find potential implants cases in your community Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 15, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ / 7.5 contact hours. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Addiction Counselors • Marriage and Family Therapists • Therapists • Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields Course Description: After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This effective model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles to heal the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.  The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.  The transformative IFS approach embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with compassion and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to heal the wounded and burdened parts of their internal systems, resulting in:  • a way to enter clients’ inner ecology without the overemphasis on containment and stabilization • symptom reduction and improved functioning for clients • deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients IFS is a powerful treatment modality. Once you experience it, you will want to incorporate it into your practice.  Through instruction, video demonstration, and experiential exercises, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., Certified IFS therapist and college of Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing. Objectives: • Present the origins and development of the Internal Family Systems Model, including empirical support for the model and the current status of research using IFS to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. • Provide an in-depth overview of IFS theory, basic principles, assumptions of the model and its treatment implications. • Describe the three major components of the psyche as outlined by IFS (parts, burdens, and the Self) including the characteristics of and assumptions regarding each component as they relate to clinical practice. • Discuss the goals of IFS therapy and case conceptualization through an IFS lens. • Provide a grounding in IFS procedures and techniques that can be implemented immediately in clinical and personal work, including the steps for facilitating the development of Self-Part relationships. • Summarize the steps of healing and unburdening wounded parts of the system in session.

Outbursts, Oppositional Defiance and Frustration in the Classroom: Self-Regulation Techniques to Reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of Problematic Behavior is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 21, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours or .6 CEUs / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Therapists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • Teachers • School Guidance Counselors • Case Managers • Nurses • School Administrators • Educational Para Professionals • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children Course Description: This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging student – the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. This child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their challenging behavior is overwhelming, confusing and frustrating. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home. Join Anissa N. Moore, M.ED, BCBA, and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities and sensory processing disorders. Through hands-on activities, exercises and techniques, you will learn classroom interventions to: • Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them • Improve problem-solving skills and self-regulation skills • Increase their self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion • Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making • Reduce the frequency and duration of their tantrums and emotional outbursts Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success! Objectives: • Communicate how sensory, language, and executive skills impairments create fight/flight/freeze and defensive responses that lead to children’s dysregulation and related behavioral issues in the classroom. • Select the appropriate intervention strategies to improve student skills including self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion. • Employ behavior modification techniques and problem-solving strategies to diffuse student’s escalated and oppositional behavior. • Implement environmental strategies to accommodate children’s processing deficits and emotional regulation needs. • Utilize problem-solving strategies to develop appropriate behavioral expectations and coping mechanisms for improved self-regulation skills in students. • Apply cognitive restructuring strategies to reduce frequency, severity and duration of children’s behavioral and emotional outbursts.

2-Day Advanced Mini Implant Course is organized by Shatkin F.I.R.S.T., LLC and will be held from Mar 12 - 13, 2020 at Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 AGD Credits. Description: Join Todd Shatkin, DDS, alongside other Shatkin F.I.R.S.T. lecturers, for a two-day event featuring hands-on training and live surgery. This course will cover mini dental implant treatment planning, case selection, and placement procedure as well as marketing mini implants for your practice. Experience hands-on training placing implants utilizing prefabricated surgical stents. Watch at least two live surgeries as Dr. Shatkin demonstrates the F.I.R.S.T. technique. Learn from guest lecturers as they share their experiences with mini dental implants. Features: • Receive 18 AGD Credits • Advanced Mini Dental Implant Treatment Planning • 2-3 LIVE Surgeries (Denture Stabilization and or Single or Multiple Tooth Replacement) • Guest Lecturers who share their experiences with Mini Dental Implants • Lab Fabricated Finished Single & Multiple Tooth Replacements Accomplished in Less than an Hour • Hands on Training Placing Implants in sawbone utilizing prefabricated Surgical Stents • Advanced Case Selection and Placement Procedure • 3D Cone Beam and precise surgical stent alignment Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Overcoming the Challenges of Mini Dental Implant Placement is organized by Shatkin F.I.R.S.T., LLC and will be held on Mar 14, 2020 at Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8 CE Credits. Learn More About: • Benefits of Intra-Lock implants & Ossean Surface • Essentials for New Patient Consults • Medically Compromised Patients • Bisphosphonates • Documentation to Avoid Litigation • Bruxers • Managing Difficult Situations • Problem Solving, Tips & Tricks • Anything Else We Can Fit in • And Earn 8 CE Credits Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Art Therapy-Based Toolbox: Creative Techniques for Children and Adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Anxiety and Mood Disorders is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 18, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 01, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • Teachers • School Administrators • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Nurses • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children. Course Description: Many persons diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD. Looking at ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider reasons for the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way the brain works in ADHD, you will be able to better identify a variety of strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your clients. Not only will you walk away with information about some of the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation and neurofeedback, you will also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at low cost. They will navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD. Objectives: • Articulate the relationship between the frontal lobe of the brain and ADHD symptomology for the purpose of client psychoeducation. • Determine the impact of movement and exercise on the reduction of ADHD symptoms as it relates to assessment and treatment planning. • Implement treatment interventions for improving impulse control and working memory in clients. • Analyze the influence of diet and nutrition on ADHD symptoms in relation to assessment and treatment planning. • Develop clinical strategies to calm the nervous system of clients diagnosed with ADHD. • Consider the clinical implications of environmental influences on ADHD symptoms in clients.

Treating Insomnia: Transdiagnostic Clinical Strategies to Optimize Sleep & Improve Outcomes in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Chronic Pain is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 15, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Downtown, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. Target Audience:  • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Therapists • Addiction Counselors • Marriage and Family Therapists • Case Managers • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: If you aren’t asking about your clients’ sleep, you’re making mistakes as a clinician. All clinicians should know how to properly assess and treat insomnia – sleep is that important for your clients’ health and quality of life. It’s no secret that insomnia frequently develops as a result of PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a wider variety of other behavioral and medical disorders. Traditional wisdom has been that if you treat the primary disorder, the insomnia will go away. However, the data does not support this traditional wisdom. Although the primary disorder improves somewhat, the insomnia often does not, which can lead to diminished improvements in clinical outcomes regarding the primary disorder, increased dropout rate and higher relapse rates. Despite you doing everything you can to target the primary disorder, your client continues to be tired and struggles more with symptoms of the primary disorder, leaving you frustrated and overwhelmed because you don’t know what to do next. The truth is, when clients have PTSD, anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, their symptoms are made worse --- and treatment more difficult --- when they’re not able to sleep. Therefore, the insomnia must be targeted directly. Improve clinical outcomes in clients by integrating the treatment of insomnia into your practice! Join Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine Donn Posner, Ph.D., and he’ll walk you step-by-step through the treatment of insomnia. You’ll learn how to properly assess and develop a treatment plan for insomnia, as well as how to educate your clients about sleep to make them experts on their own sleep disorders. Discover evidence-based strategies to help your clients sleep longer and more efficiently, as well as enjoy increased energy levels during the day. As a result, your clients’ symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain will decrease in frequency and severity. You’ll walk away from this course with the tools you need to treat insomnia. Better still, you’ll add vital techniques to your clinical tool kit that you didn’t know were missing. Register today to learn how to treat insomnia and revolutionize your treatment outcomes! Objectives: • Summarize the basics of sleep nomenclature including sleep period, phase, continuity, and architecture to inform clinical treatment interventions. • Conduct a clinical assessment to differentiate acute insomnia from insomnia disorder in clients and articulate the importance of treating the chronic form as a specifically targeted co-morbidity. • Explore the empirical evidence for the efficacy of CBT-I for both primary and co-morbid insomnia disorder to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions. • Articulate the basics of sleep regulation and demonstrate how to utilize these concepts in the deployment of CBT-I in clinical practice. • Identify how to obtain useable client sleep diary data and strategies for analyzing the data for use in the treatment of insomnia. • Apply the techniques of stimulus control, sleep restriction, sleep hygiene education and cognitive therapeutic strategies to the clinical treatment of chronic insomnia.

2-Day Intro Mini Implant Course is organized by Shatkin F.I.R.S.T., LLC and will be held from Apr 17 - 18, 2020 at Buffalo, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 AGD Credits. Description: Join Todd Shatkin, DDS, alongside other Shatkin F.I.R.S.T. lecturers, for a two-day event featuring hands-on training and live surgery. This course will cover mini dental implant treatment planning, case selection, and placement procedure as well as marketing mini implants for your practice. Experience hands-on training placing implants utilizing prefabricated surgical stents. Watch at least two live surgeries as Dr. Shatkin demonstrates the F.I.R.S.T. technique. Learn from guest lecturers as they share their experiences with mini dental implants. Course Features: • Receive 18 AGD Credits • Mini Dental Implant Treatment Planning • 2-3 LIVE Surgeries (Denture Stabilization and or Single or Multiple Tooth Replacement) • Guest Lecturers who share their experiences with Mini Dental Implants • Lab Fabricated Finished Single & Multiple Tooth Replacements Accomplished in Less than an Hour • Hands on Training Placing Implants in sawbone utilizing prefabricated Surgical Stents • Case Selection and Placement Procedure • How to find potential implants cases in your community Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Solve Challenging Dementia Behaviors: Support Family Connections and Losses as Root Causes is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on May 13, 2020 at Millennium Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.