Upcoming Medical Conferences in Norfolk

2-Day: Trauma Treatment Certification Course: Comprehensive Strategies and Customizable Interventions for Enhanced Recovery is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Aug 21 - 22, 2019 at Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 CE credits. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Psychotherapists • Addiction Counselors • Marriage and Family Therapists • Educators • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Course Description: Like you, I’ve dealt with some major obstacles to providing effective trauma treatment during my career. How do I make the best use of the growing body of neuroscience research? How can I cut through the clutter of all the possible factors contributing to the trauma and get a clear picture of the issues to address in therapy? How can I tailor my approach to meet the unique needs of each survivor? I looked for a solution, and discovered it in an integration of neuroscience, physiology, the three stages of trauma recovery, smaller ingredients taken from larger evidence-based models, and customizable treatment strategies that addressed unique needs of trauma survivors and their families.  This 2-day certificate course presents this integrated and customizable approach to trauma treatment in a manner that is easy to follow and readily adaptable to a variety of settings. You will discover how to use this integrated model as a foundation upon which you can then tailor and apply treatment approaches with which you are already familiar but until now seemed rigid and inflexible. You will be able to move beyond the standard script often given for when and how to apply various strategies, allowing you to focus much more intently on where the trouble spots are in each survivor’s life and what actions to take to resolve them. You will get a road map that will help you to guide each survivor through all the stages in the trauma recovery process.  Join me for this exciting, innovative, and evidence-informed training. Leave invigorated, with a new plan of action for how to use standard models and strategies in new ways to facilitate meaningful and lasting trauma recovery.  Objectives: • Identify the strategies to avoid common pitfalls clinicians may encounter when formulating a trauma diagnosis. • Explain the impact of trauma on the brain and behavior for the purpose of client psychoeducation. • Analyze how to resolve the disconnect that sometimes exists between evidence-based treatments and the real lives of survivors. • Determine the process for applying psychological first aid to ensure safety for clients who have experienced trauma. • Apply a flexible conceptual framework to trauma treatment that is sensitive to clients’ needs across several critical domains. • Utilize strategies to assist caregivers of young trauma clients with issues of emotional control, attunement, and discipline. • Implement a variety of treatment exercises and grounding techniques to help clients develop emotional regulation skills. • Integrate cognitive behavioral strategies to transition problematic thoughts of clients into more adaptive, helpful thinking patterns. • Evaluate the effectiveness of various trauma treatment strategies used through the three stages of trauma recovery. • Incorporate play-based and verbal techniques to assist clients in developing their trauma narrative. • Choose appropriate strategies to help clients prepare for future safety issues and trauma triggers. • Create a treatment plan for building resiliency in clients to facilitate posttraumatic growth and meaningful recovery.

Cardiovascular CT Imaging: Intensive Level II Training Course and Introduction to 3D Vascular Angiography & Stress Perfusion CT is organized by Cardiovascular Associates, Ltd. (CVAL) and will be held from Sep 16 - 20, 2019 at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. Target Audience: • Cardiovascular Disease Specialists • Radiologists • Fellows-in-training • Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeons Accreditation Statement: Eastern Virginia Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 58.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Conference Description : Multiple approaches to evaluation of cardiovascular CT studies exist with varying accuracy depending on the type of workstation, type of scanner, referral population, patient selection, and training mentor preferences. Few courses offer an algorithmic, comprehensive approach to interpretation and offer coronary cath/ IVUS, echo, and MRI correlations or review extracardiac thoracic interpretation or the application of CTA to peripheral angiography. Cardiovascular Associates and Bayview Physicians Group have joined together to design a comprehensive course to provide a unified educational program based on the standards co-developed by the ACC and SCCT. Conference Objectives are : • Operate a 3-dimensional workstation to extract pertinent information from a thoracic volume of interest (VOI), then analyze and interpret the cardiovascular findings systematically, using the VRT-MIP-MPR method, to construct a complete and accurate Cardiovascular CT Report. • Judge the quality of Cardiovascular CT studies and its relationship to cardiac CT technical factors including the advantages and disadvantages of various types of cardiovascular CT scanners: 32 slices, 64 slices, 256 slices, dual source CT, and PET-CT hybrid imaging. • Formulate an acquisition protocol for CT contrast administration, recognizing the kinetics of triphasic injection and caveats in special patient populations such as those with valvular disease, a history of adverse reactions to contrast media, intra-cardiac shunts, and high BMI. • Cite CT radiation dose reduction strategies, radiation risk measures, and published radiation dose values in comparison to other cardiac modalities, and manipulate CT scan collimation, temporal resolution, and the three fields-of-view for cardiac patients to minimize risks to the patient. • Characterize plaque density and vulnerability for individual lesions, difference between abnormal findings and image artifact, and caveats of stenosis estimation including the effect of window and level view settings. • Evaluate regional contractility, calculated estimation of ejection fraction, myocardial resting perfusion, native and mechanical valves, and pericardial disease. • Evaluate typical and complex tertiary referral studies including acute aortic syndromes, pulmonary embolism, simple congenital heart disease, post-aortic surgery studies, pre and post electrophysiologic intervention, and cardiac masses, etc. (see table of typical and tertiary cases presented). • Interpret extracardiac thoracic structures such as pleural effusions, lung nodules, lymphadenopathy, infiltrates and cite the Fleischner Society guidelines for Management of Small Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Scans. • Construct an appropriate workflow and staff training program, utilizing the patient SPARR (Selection, Preparation, Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Reporting) system including the appropriate integration into clinical care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

2019 Back to the Future: Moving Beyond Opioids for Chronic Pain is organized by VCU Health and will be held from Sep 21 - 22, 2019 at Hilton Norfolk The Main, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. Target Audience: Family Practice, General Practice, Neurology, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Orthopedic Surgery, Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Psychiatry  Accreditation: VCU Health Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Nursing:  10.75 Contact Hours. VCU Health is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Conference Overview: Join us at our new location in Norfolk for this exciting educational symposium to learn the latest in treating chronic pain. Along with our robust plenary sessions, we will have small breakout sessions to delve more fully into current topics. Join our evening networking session for more one on one time with the faculty and your colleagues. Conference Objectives: • Design a rational opioid weaning and compliance program. • Demonstrate knowledge of adjunctive medications, physical and psychological pain treatments and develop goals with their patients for implementation. • Learn how to have difficult conversations with patients regarding the use of opioids as part of a treatment program for their pain. • Demonstrate accurate pain assessment using an opioid weaning and compliance program • As a part of the healthcare team, demonstrate an understanding of adjunctive medications, physical and psychological pain treatments and help develop appropriate goals with patients for implementation • Reflect upon effective difficult conversations to have with patients regarding the use of opioids as part of a treatment program for their pain. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Cardiovascular CT Imaging: Intensive Level II Training Course and Introduction to 3D Vascular Angiography & Stress Perfusion CT is organized by Cardiovascular Associates, Ltd. (CVAL) and will be held from Oct 14 - 18, 2019 at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Cardiovascular Disease Specialists, Radiologists, Fellows-in-training and Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeons. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 58.75 CME hours. Conference Description : Multiple approaches to evaluation of cardiovascular CT studies exist with varying accuracy depending on the type of workstation, type of scanner, referral population, patient selection, and training mentor preferences. Few courses offer an algorithmic, comprehensive approach to interpretation and offer coronary cath/ IVUS, echo, and MRI correlations or review extracardiac thoracic interpretation or the application of CTA to peripheral angiography. Cardiovascular Associates and Bayview Physicians Group have joined together to design a comprehensive course to provide a unified educational program based on the standards co-developed by the ACC and SCCT. Conference Objectives are : • Operate a 3-dimensional workstation to extract pertinent information from a thoracic volume of interest (VOI), then analyze and interpret the cardiovascular findings systematically, using the VRT-MIP-MPR method, to construct a complete and accurate Cardiovascular CT Report. • Judge the quality of Cardiovascular CT studies and its relationship to cardiac CT technical factors including the advantages and disadvantages of various types of cardiovascular CT scanners: 32 slices, 64 slices, 256 slices, dual source CT, and PET-CT hybrid imaging. • Formulate an acquisition protocol for CT contrast administration, recognizing the kinetics of triphasic injection and caveats in special patient populations such as those with valvular disease, a history of adverse reactions to contrast media, intra-cardiac shunts, and high BMI. • Cite CT radiation dose reduction strategies, radiation risk measures, and published radiation dose values in comparison to other cardiac modalities, and manipulate CT scan collimation, temporal resolution, and the three fields-of-view for cardiac patients to minimize risks to the patient. • Characterize plaque density and vulnerability for individual lesions, difference between abnormal findings and image artifact, and caveats of stenosis estimation including the effect of window and level view settings. • Evaluate regional contractility, calculated estimation of ejection fraction, myocardial resting perfusion, native and mechanical valves, and pericardial disease. • Evaluate typical and complex tertiary referral studies including acute aortic syndromes, pulmonary embolism, simple congenital heart disease, post-aortic surgery studies, pre and post electrophysiologic intervention, and cardiac masses, etc. (see table of typical and tertiary cases presented). • Interpret extracardiac thoracic structures such as pleural effusions, lung nodules, lymphadenopathy, infiltrates and cite the Fleischner Society guidelines for Management of Small Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Scans. • Construct an appropriate workflow and staff training program, utilizing the patient SPARR (Selection, Preparation, Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Reporting) system including the appropriate integration into clinical care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

Heart of Battle: Sentara Shock Symposium 2019 is organized by Sentara Healthcare and will be held on Oct 19, 2019 at Hilton Norfolk The Main, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. Who Should Attend:  This course is intended for cardiologists, surgeons, internists, family practitioners, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, EMTs, paramedics, allied health professionals, and students. Accreditation: Credit Designation Sentara Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Virginia Board of Medicine Physicians may claim up to 6.50 in Type 1 or Type 2 CME on the Virginia Board of Medicine Continued Competency and Assessment Form required for the renewal of an active medical license. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Topics: Recognizing Cardiogenic Shock Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Cardiovascular CT Imaging: Intensive Level II Training Course and Introduction to 3D Vascular Angiography & Stress Perfusion CT is organized by Cardiovascular Associates, Ltd. (CVAL) and will be held from Nov 11 - 15, 2019 at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Cardiovascular Disease Specialists, Radiologists, Fellows-in-training and Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeons. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 58.75 CME hours. Conference Description : Multiple approaches to evaluation of cardiovascular CT studies exist with varying accuracy depending on the type of workstation, type of scanner, referral population, patient selection, and training mentor preferences. Few courses offer an algorithmic, comprehensive approach to interpretation and offer coronary cath/ IVUS, echo, and MRI correlations or review extracardiac thoracic interpretation or the application of CTA to peripheral angiography. Cardiovascular Associates and Bayview Physicians Group have joined together to design a comprehensive course to provide a unified educational program based on the standards co-developed by the ACC and SCCT. Conference Objectives are : • Operate a 3-dimensional workstation to extract pertinent information from a thoracic volume of interest (VOI), then analyze and interpret the cardiovascular findings systematically, using the VRT-MIP-MPR method, to construct a complete and accurate Cardiovascular CT Report. • Judge the quality of Cardiovascular CT studies and its relationship to cardiac CT technical factors including the advantages and disadvantages of various types of cardiovascular CT scanners: 32 slices, 64 slices, 256 slices, dual source CT, and PET-CT hybrid imaging. • Formulate an acquisition protocol for CT contrast administration, recognizing the kinetics of triphasic injection and caveats in special patient populations such as those with valvular disease, a history of adverse reactions to contrast media, intra-cardiac shunts, and high BMI. • Cite CT radiation dose reduction strategies, radiation risk measures, and published radiation dose values in comparison to other cardiac modalities, and manipulate CT scan collimation, temporal resolution, and the three fields-of-view for cardiac patients to minimize risks to the patient. • Characterize plaque density and vulnerability for individual lesions, difference between abnormal findings and image artifact, and caveats of stenosis estimation including the effect of window and level view settings. • Evaluate regional contractility, calculated estimation of ejection fraction, myocardial resting perfusion, native and mechanical valves, and pericardial disease. • Evaluate typical and complex tertiary referral studies including acute aortic syndromes, pulmonary embolism, simple congenital heart disease, post-aortic surgery studies, pre and post electrophysiologic intervention, and cardiac masses, etc. (see table of typical and tertiary cases presented). • Interpret extracardiac thoracic structures such as pleural effusions, lung nodules, lymphadenopathy, infiltrates and cite the Fleischner Society guidelines for Management of Small Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Scans. • Construct an appropriate workflow and staff training program, utilizing the patient SPARR (Selection, Preparation, Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Reporting) system including the appropriate integration into clinical care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

Virginia Optometric Association (VOA) Annual Conference is organized by Virginia Optometric Association (VOA) and would be held during May 14 - 17, 2020 at Hilton Norfolk The Main, Norfolk, Virginia, United States Of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Virginia Dental Association (VDA) Annual Meeting 2020 is organized by Virginia Dental Association (VDA) and will be held from Sep 23 - 26, 2020 at Hilton Norfolk The Main, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.