Upcoming Medical Conferences in Memphis

Clinical Site Coordinator / Manager and GCP Workshop is organized by Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA), Inc. and will be held from Jan 23 - 24, 2020 at Courtyard by Marriott Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Continuing Education Credit Hours: SOCRA designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14 Continuing Education Credits for SOCRA CE and Nurse CNE. SOCRA designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Goal: The Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) recognizes the continuing need for education for Clinical Research Professionals responsible for the activities at the research site or institution. The purpose of this program is to assist Site Coordinators, Research Associates, and Study Nurses in improving their skills and their understanding of the responsibilities of the Clinical Research Site. This program is designed to address all of the functions of the research site related to the Good Clinical Practices as delineated by the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations and the guidelines supported by the International Council on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH Guidelines). Objective: The goal will be accomplished through lecture and practical application facilitated by clinical research professionals with a combined industry experience of more than 20 years. Information will be presented and discussed regarding administration of clinical trials according to FDA Regulations and International Council on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines as well as practical procedures and site / sponsor / CRO relationships. Learning Objectives:  Upon completion of this course the attendee should be able to: • Discuss aspects of clinical trials that are governed by regulations and guidelines. • Discuss the basic philosophy and guiding principles of clinical research GCP. • Discuss the elements of the Informed Consent Form, the ethical principles originating in the Declaration of Helsinki, the various aspects of the informed consent process, and those special considerations that may impact the process. • Describe the various aspects of human research protections including the ICH definitions of AEs (adverse events) and SAEs (serious adverse events) and describe the reporting requirements common to all sponsors and IRBs/IECs. • Discuss the role of the Study Coordinator including: Submitting a protocol to the IRB; Setting up local procedures; Source documentation management and control; and Working relations with Sponsors. • Discuss the rationale and issues surrounding the monitoring visit and the audit process from a site, a sponsor, and a regulatory perspective. • Discuss the parameters, goals, and outcomes of audits and inspections. • Discuss the philosophy and rationale for the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 13, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychotherapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Nurses • Addiction Counselors • Occupational Therapists • Case Managers • Other Mental Health Professionals. Course Description: The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions. EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group. (Energypsych.org) EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box. Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed. This seminar focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including: • Phobias • Generalized Anxiety • Social Anxiety Disorder • Panic • OCD • Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes. Objectives: • Explain the origin and efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) including peer reviewed, published research. • Implement self-applied, light touch or tapping on acupoints to calm and rebalance the body system while thinking about disturbing upsets to create a desensitized state as measured by continuous dropping of the SUDS level. • Distinguish that EFT is a mind-body treatment that desensitizes unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical discomfort. • List exploratory questions to elicit the first or worst defining event and how to treat in all manifestation in the past, present and future. • Demonstrate EFT techniques for stress, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder and panic and traumatic events. • Describe how EFT can greatly diminish OCD-frustrating compulsions and unwanted habits. • Acquire a two-prong approach to treating social anxiety: EFT and social skill building. • Describe why EFT works in conjunction with and beyond talk therapy and how it often cuts quickly through resistant problems. • Explore working with pain reduction using acupoints and psychological constructs of metaphors and emotions. • State the ethical concerns of not working outside the knowledge base and obtaining ongoing “permission” to use these methods.

4th Annual MultiSpecialty Conference for the Primary Care Physician is organized by Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and will be held on Feb 29, 2020 at FedEx Institute of Technology, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Target Audience: This conference is intended to enhance knowledge and improve competency for family practice, internal medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care professionals who are involved in diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases in the general patient population. Course Description: The Multi-Specialty Conference for the Primary Care Physician is designed as an update and review in a variety of specialty areas that you may encounter with patients in a primary care setting. Evidence-based lectures will be delivered by academically and clinically oriented faculty and will provide valuable information and insight into situations that are commonly presented to the primary care physician. EducationalObjectives: Upon completion of this conference attendees should be able to: • Define, diagnose and manage Intersitital Lung Disease and Sarcoidosis • Identify common rashes • Identify current treatment options for diabetes • Understand use of CBD in patient population • Identify treatments and indications for referral for potential stroke patients • Understand proper blood pressure measurement techniques and medication usage in management of hypertension • Use antihypertensive agents in those with indications and manage those with resistant hypertension • Identfiy patients to screen for Osteoporosis and treatment options • Understand current trends in cardiology • Review medcial managment treatment options for obesity Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

25th Year of the William F. Slagle Dental Meeting 2020 is organized by The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Dentistry and will be held from Mar 06 - 08, 2020 at The Guest House at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Credits: A total of 18 credit hours may be earned by attending the maximum number of courses (15 hours), mini-sessions (2 hours), and breakfast with faculty (1 hour). Description: Over the weekend, the entire dental team – dentists, hygienists, and assistants – will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on courses designed to enhance their role at the dental office! In addition, we will have courses geared toward creating leaders in your practice, seeking work-life balance, restorative dentistry, dental implants, lasers in dentistry, medical emergencies, pharmacology, cannabis and the opportunity to re-certify in all the required annual and bi-annual courses needed for licensure. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Challenging Geriatric Behaviors is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 11, 2020 at Crowne Plaza Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 Contact Hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Speech-Language Pathologists • Social Workers • Home Healthcare Providers • Nursing Home Administrators • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians • Recreation Therapists Course Description: This is the best seminar on challenging geriatric behaviors that you will ever attend - GUARANTEED Join Steven Atkinson, nationally-known expert, author and speaker on geriatrics, for a high-energy, dynamic seminar filled with interesting case studies, insightful discussions and interactive learning. You will leave this seminar with practical techniques that you can apply the next day Dealing with cognitively-impaired geriatric patients can be challenging even for the experienced healthcare professional. You will learn strategies to manage behaviors such as: • Dementia • Aggression • Anxiety and depression • Refusal of food and fluids • Inappropriate sexual advances If older adults are routinely under your care, minimize your risk of escalating the problems associated with troublesome, often irrational behavior by attending this program. Gain valuable insights into the causes of challenging geriatric behaviors and learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide. Course Objectives: • Develop strategies to manage difficult behaviors in seniors who have an altered perception of reality. • Identify the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. • Discuss current research on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, as well as lifestyle factors to slow the disease progression. • Summarize the safety issues associated with geriatric patients who drive and identify individuals who pose a safety threat. • Explain why wandering occurs in individuals with cognitive impairment and develop strategies to minimize or redirect this behavior. • Describe the environmental and behavioral causes of agitation. • Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in individuals with dementia. • Distinguish between normal sleeping patterns and bedtime issues which could lead to increased health problems. • Analyze the physical and psychological changes that affect an elder's desire and ability to eat including the changes in nutritional requirements. • Identify the signs of caregiver stress and develop intervention strategies to prevent burnout.

2020 St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference is organized by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS). The symposium is held from Mar 13 - 14, 2020 at The Westin Memphis Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. The session is divided into four main sections, Care of immunocompromised host Infectious diseases research Career development  Global health ​ Targeted Audience Medical students, Residents, Fellows and members with interests in Pediatric infectious disease, Global health and Transplant medicine. Conference Objectives Render the updates on recent diagnosis and management of complex infections in immunocompromised patients Recognize advanced developments in host-pathogen interaction focusing on bacterial, viral and fungal infections Identify the challenges and opportunities during the shift from residency to fellowship and to the faculty Bestow the updates on global-health related opportunities for trainees and share strategies to perform clinical research in limited settings Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Practice Based Pediatrics is organized by MethodistMD and will be held from Mar 26 - 27, 2020 at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.  

Pediatric Onco-Critical Care Symposium (POCCS 2020) is organized by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and will be held from Apr 02 - 03, 2020 at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Target Audience: Anesthesiology, Bone Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapy, Critical Care Medicine, Global Pediatric Medicine, Hematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neuro-Oncology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Palliative Care, Pediatrics, Surgery Overview: Outcomes for critically ill hematology/oncology and hematopoietic cell transplant patients, while improved over the last 2 decades, remain unacceptably poor compared with other populations we care for in our ICUs. The goal of this symposium is to bring together experts in the field and those working to become the experts of the future to stimulate discussion and grow new ideas for improving the care of this vulnerable population. Featured Topics: Featured topics in 2020 include:  • Immunophenotypes of Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome • Extracorporeal Therapy and ECMO (plenary and panel discussion) • Anesthesia Considerations in Pediatric Oncology • Surgical Onco-Critical Care • Pediatric Onco-Critical Care Nursing track  Breakout topics include:  • HCT/ICU Collaboration • Difficult Cases in Pediatric Onco-Critical Care • Collaborative Research Networks in Pediatric Onco-Critical Care • Complications of HCT Related to Endothelial Cell Dysfunction Objectives: • After attending this symposium, participants should be able to:  • Determine which latest developments in POCC are applicable to their practice • Plan ways to implement those developments and strategies

Pediatric Neurology Symposium is organized by MethodistMD and will be held from Apr 17 - 18, 2020 at The Westin Memphis Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Southern College of Optometry (SCO) Spring CE Course 2020 is organized by Southern College of Optometry (SCO) and will be held on Apr 17 - 19, 2020 at Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.