Upcoming Medical Conferences in Raleigh

North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) Winter Conference is organized by North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) and will be held from Feb 23 - 26, 2019 at Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 30 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Therapeutic Strategies for Degenerative Joint Disease: Overcoming Pain and Improving Function is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 27, 2019 at Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.30 contact hours. Target Audience : •  Physical Therapists •  Occupational Therapists •  Nurses •  Nurse Practitioners •  Clinical Nurse Specialists •  Orthopedic Nurses •  Physician Assistants •  Occupational Therapy Assistants •  Physical Therapist Assistants •  Athletic Trainers •  Exercise Physiologists •  Personal Trainers Course Description : What is the one thing you hear from every client whose life you touch? The desire to remain independent and enjoy a quality life with family and friends. We see our clients working longer, with industry seeking our assistance to manage an aging workforce. We see children experiencing sports related arthritic changes in their teen years, based on MRI results. Our lifestyles have changed – with more convenience foods, a lack of exercise and sedentary work environments. The result is earlier degenerative joint changes, disability, and pain. However, evidence shows no predictive factors based on diagnostic test results to distinguish the severity of degenerative joint conditions as they link to quality of life or function.  Grant me your time and learn the keys to effectively managing these clients through targeted exercise intervention, weight management, and aerobic capacity. Important information will be highlighted through case studies, demonstrations, mock patient presentations, and analysis of the latest coming from research studies that should guide your treatment decision. I will take you through the assessment process, detailing the key steps of the pathological changes, and evaluation techniques and concepts, specifically including skills to evaluate and treat the degenerative joint. We will delve into both non-operative and surgical interventions currently used to treat DJD patients, as well as the latest rehabilitation protocols so that you can return your own clients to active once again!  Objectives: •  Summarize the commonly-experienced condition of the degenerative joint disease. •  Explain focused history taking techniques and examination methods to create diagnostic skills for evaluation of upper and lower extremity degenerative joints. •  Analyze the decision-making processes regarding conservative and surgical treatment options for patients with degenerative joints. •  Evaluate the methods most effective to educate patients regarding the arthritic process, treatment options, recovery steps, and long-term expectations. •  Compare the recovery and rehabilitation stages to best counsel patients. •  Design a treatment program for acute as well as outpatient clients. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Orofacial Myology: From Basics to Habituation is organized by International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) and will be held from Mar 28 - 31, 2019 at Four Points by Sheraton Raleigh Durham Airport, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

The SOFFI Method SM: Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants Session 2 is organized by Education Resources, Inc. (ERI) and will be held from Apr 26 - 27, 2019 at WakeMed Raleigh Campus, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Target Audience: This workshop is designed for individuals with several\ years experience working with family and staff to support oral feeding for infants in, or just discharged from the intensive care nursery, including speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and early interventionists. Level of instruction: Intermediate to Advanced. Credits: • Approved provider by the NY State Board of PT for 17.4 contact hours. • Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association #3043, for 14.5 contact hours (1.45 CEUs) • NBCOT professional development provider-14.5 PDUs • This program has been submitted for approval for 14.5 clock hours of continuing education credit by the TX Speech Language Hearing Association (TSHA). • This course is offered for up to 1.45 ASHA CEUs Course Description: This course provides immediately applicable practical information to help clinicians better identify and treat the factors that impact successful oral feeding of preterm and ill term infants. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach both in the NICU and after discharge to early intervention through the first six months the course emphasizes strategies to facilitate infant abilities and develop caregiver feeding skills. Breastfeeding is emphasized as the best feeding method for infants, with some strategies to support breastfeeding. However, most of the feeding strategies are for bottle feedings, since more infant feeding problems occur with bottle feedings. The objective is to identify feeding readiness and provide intervention strategies from a framework of normal development. A holistic approach integrating the medical fragility of these infants is emphasized, using the BROSS approach and the SOFFI (SM) Method. Course Objectives: Participants will be able to apply course learning immediately to: • Identify necessary components of infant development that indicate a readiness to begin and sustain oral feeding, including physiologic, motor and state organization. • Discuss the development of oral-motor skills in preterm infants.  • Describe the interaction between medical and developmental levels as they relate to feeding readiness and the progression • Identify infants who are not following a normal progression. • Use the BROSS approach to identify the development of oral feeding skills and use the SOFFI Method to guide feeding decisions and intervention strategies. • Use principles of normal development and developmental supportive care to facilitate feeding progression, to include contributions of both the family and the professional team. • Identify the impact of various medical conditions on oral feeding success. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Cardiac and Respiratory Complexities: Quickly Differentiate to Take Rapid Action is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 26, 2019 at Hampton Inn & Suites Raleigh/Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Clinical Nurse Specialists Course Description: You are assessing the patient who just returned from endoscopy following a foreign body removal. The patient is complaining of his throat itching. On assessment, his vital signs are normal, but he appears anxious. Is this normal following the procedure? Do you put him on a cardiac monitor? Should you call a rapid response?  We have all been faced with the clinical dilemma when our patient has rapidly progressing dyspnea, tachypnea, fever, cough, and chest pain. What is happening? Distinguishing between heart failure, pneumonia, and ARDS can be difficult. Did you know that COPD could mask a pulmonary embolism? When your patient is wheezing, do you make the assumption it is asthma? Or could the presentation be caused by heart failure or an allergic reaction?  Attending this conference will provide you with the confidence to recognize early and identify appropriate interventions to prevent further deterioration. We will discuss when non-invasive ventilation devices should - and should not - be used. If you are still struggling with blood gases, don't let blood gases intimidate you! Learn quick and easy ways to interpret ABG results. You will learn from actual patient stories to illustrate the complexities and co-morbidities of cardiac and respiratory diagnoses Objectives: • Review the nursing assessment for patients with airway or ventilatory problems. • Describe the pathophysiologic changes that occur causing the signs and symptoms associated with airway or ventilatory problems. • Select appropriate interventions for airway or ventilatory problems. • Differentiate between ventilator modes and the use of NPPV. • Evaluate appropriate treatment strategies for high-risk ECG findings. • Plan for emerging treatments in heart failure. • Analyze management options for acute coronary syndromes. • Describe the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of inflammatory cardiac disease.

Making the Connection: A Modern Approach to the Treatment of Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes is organized by Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) and will be held on May 11, 2019 at Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Target Audience: This course is designed for diabetes healthcare providers including endocrinologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, certified diabetes educators, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers wanting to expand their knowledge of diabetes management. Accreditation This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Uni­versity of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Taking Control of Your Diabetes. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.   AMA: The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   Nurses: For the purposes of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Cate­gory 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of re-licensure, the Califor­nia Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ (report up to 5.75 hours of credit and list “CME Category 1” as the provider number).   Physician Assistants:  The AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Phy­sician assistants may receive a maximum of 5.75 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.   Credit Designation Global Education Group designates this continuing education activity for 5.75 contact hour(s) (0.65 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. (Universal Activity Number - 0530-999-18-422-L01-P).   Course Description This activity for clinicians will focus on four distinct areas of diabetes management and will integrate case presentations into the lectures in order to facilitate more active audience participation. The four areas are: • Patient-provider relationships with a focus on communication methods to improve adherence and persistence • Oral agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and their effect on cardiovascular health • Injectable therapies, including insulin, for use in patients with type 2 diabetes • New and emerging strategies for patients with type 1 diabetes.   In addition, this course is held in tandem with a separate, large-scale patient-focused conference. This will give providers the opportunity to observe and interact with people who have had diabetes and are engaged in their own intensive educational environment. By making that connection with patients, providers will acquire new skills and insight into what empowers patients with diabetes to develop healthy self-management of their condition.    The ultimate goal of this CME conference is to educate caregivers and clinicians about the most effective cutting-edge strategies to help patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes reach their treatment goals and avoid the associated acute and chronic complications. FAR FROM BORING, these aren’t your typical CME lectures. We promise to infuse a little HUMOR, some good eats and interesting interaction along the way.   Learning Objectives At course completion, participants should be able to:   • Identify the different pathophysiologic defects associated with type 2 diabetes and how all the pharmacologic agents (oral and injectable) address these specific abnormalities. • Review the recently published cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTs) on oral and injectable type 2 medications. • Discuss the implications of recently published cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTS) on oral and injectable type 2 medications. • Discuss approaches to combination therapy with the currently available oral agents, as well as physician and patient-directed insulin titration strategies and the basal-bolus approach. • Outline the most up-to-date clinical information on GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors. • Design a treatment plan for multiple daily injection regimens and insulin pump therapy. • Interpret continuous glucose monitoring data. • Select effective therapeutic adjustments based on trending or rate of change arrows, time in range, and standard deviation. • Evaluate the physical and emotional barriers that prevent patients with diabetes from being persistent and adherent to their therapeutic regimen(s). • Employ innovative and dynamic strategies for communication with patients to strengthen provider-patient relations and improve patient outcomes.

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 May 15, 2019 at Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education. 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. Course 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.

Psychopharmacology in Plain English: Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jun 07, 2019 at Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Streamlining Your Root Canal Treatments is organized by Ultradent Products, Inc. and will be held on Sep 20, 2019 at Embassy Suites by Hilton Raleigh Durham Airport Brier Creek, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Dentist and Team Members. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7 CE Credits. Overview: Proper cleaning and shaping of the canal space is a prerequisite for achieving clinical success in endodontics. Studies have shown that the best movement to be applied in endodontic instruments is Roane’s Balanced Force technique. The engine-driven Balanced Force, or asymmetric reciprocating motion, has recently been applied to specifically designed nickel-titanium instruments, reducing the risk of fracture due to the accumulation of metal fatigue, which is the leading limitation of rotary nickel-titanium instruments. Though three times safer than the rotary movement, reciprocation alone has a downside of debris accumulation inside the canal. Objectives: • The benefits and limitations of reciprocation and rotation • The importance of file design and how this aspect can improve the instrumentation results • How to determine the working length electronically • An intuitive 2-file instrumentation technique, taking advantage of the two different kinematics • How to perform a superior cleaning using ultrasonification • The application of MTA repair cement • How to accomplish an effective single-cone obturation technique Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.