Upcoming Medical Conferences in Seattle

2019 Washington State Society of Anesthesiologists (WSSA) / British Columbia Anesthesiologists Society (BCAS) Joint Meeting is organized by Washington State Society of Anesthesiologists (WSSA) and will be held from Dec 06 - 08, 2019 at W Seattle, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

5th Annual Seattle Spine Trauma Summit is organized by Seattle Science Foundation (SSF) and will be held from Dec 06 - 07, 2019 at Seattle, Washington, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

6th Annual Lead Management Update Symposium is organized by University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) Continuing Medical Education (CME) and will be held on Dec 07, 2019 at UW Medicine at South Lake Union, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: This course is designed for cardiologists, electrophysiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, advanced practice providers (ARNPs and PAs), nurses, cardiovascular technicians and primary care physicians.   Overview: This Symposium is designed to provide the learner with the most up-to-date review of cardiac implantable electronic device lead management. Topics covered include indications for lead extraction, clinical decision making in patients with CIED infections or lead malfunction. An in-depth review of indications for lead extraction will be covered, as well as a description of available tools and technology used for lead extraction. Experts in lead management and extraction will discuss cases which illustrate the educational goals. Didactic sessions will be combined with interactive case presentations. Objectives Upon completion of this activity, physicians and health care givers will: • Manage patients who experience CIED complications, including advisory or recall devices and infection. • Recognize when to refer to a specialist. • Describe updates in published literature, guidelines and consensus documents. • Identify methods to prevent complications from CIEDs, to include reviewing the efficacy of lead extraction and appropriate device implantation. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Implants Fixed & Removable Course is organized by Kois Center, LLC and will be held from Dec 09 - 13, 2019 at Kois Center LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 50 continuing education credit hours. Course Description: This Implants Course will impart confidence in your ability to assess esthetic and functional factors unique to the edentulous and partially edentulous patient, while understanding the risk factors that may affect your treatment outcomes. You will gain the ability to effectively plan and execute comprehensive implant-based restorative treatment. As implants become an increasingly common part of comprehensive patient care, the restorative dentist needs ample knowledge of both fixed and removable implant options. Due to the significant cost of implant based dentistry, patient expectations are high. Dentists must understand the science, engineering and application of implantology to keep pace with this constantly evolving field. During this five-day course, Dr. Kois will guide you through a step-by-step approach to achieve predictable success in restoring the challenging edentulous and partially edentulous patient. Diagnosis and risk assessment, as always, are considered as they relate to patient health, restorative selection and treatment protocols. You will gain a thorough knowledge of case and material selection, site and structure selection, sequencing of cases, impressions, jaw relation records, using attachments, cementation protocols and even evaluating failures. Course Objectives : • Learn to integrate treatment planning parameters such as biomechanical considerations, number of remaining teeth, number and spacing of implants, hard and soft tissue considerations and peri-implant esthetics to create a recipe for success in managing tooth replacement with implants. • Improve referral communication in managing the treatment planning, placement and restoration of implants. • Improve clinical management of fixed implant restorative cases. • Learn to comprehensively evaluate patients, incorporating factors unique to the edentulous and partially edentulous patient. • Learn to evaluate and include treatment options, including implants, which serve to enhance success. • Learn simplified, accurate and logical systems for the predictable fabrication of removable restorations. • Learn to incorporate occlusal concepts and maxillofacial considerations which improve function and esthetics. • Understand how to assess and manage risk based on medical and dental conditions, incorporating factors unique to edentulous and partially edentulous patients to minimize loss of implant integration. • Learn to choose effectively from the array of prosthetic options, sequence treatment, and improve communications with your specialists. • Learn to incorporate occlusal concepts and maxillofacial considerations in implant restorative care. Prerequisites: Required:  • 103 and 153 or 165, 173 Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training is organized by Behavioral Tech (BTECH) and will be held from Dec 09 - 13, 2019 at Silver Cloud Hotel - Seattle Broadway, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.  Accreditation: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors The allotted contact hours for this activity = 33 Mental Health Counselors Behavioral Tech is approved a NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™), ACEP No. 5885. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Behavioral Tech, LLC, is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. Behavioral Tech will email you a letter documenting your attendance upon successful completion of the activity. The allocated clock hours for this activity = 33 Nurses  Behavioral Tech is accredited the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Continuing Medical Education is accepted by the ANCC for nursing certification renewal. The maximum AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ designated by Behavioral Tech for this activity = 33 Social Workers- WA  Behavioral Tech will apply the NASW, Washington State Chapter, Provider Number 1975-166, to offer continuing education for Certified Social Workers. Behavioral Tech will email a certificate of attendance upon 100% completion of this activity. The hours of CE allocated for this activity = 33 Training Description: This five-day training is designed specifically for individual therapists or skills trainers who are members of an intensively trained DBT team, but have not completed Intensive training themselves. It is meant to assist teams that have hired new staff or experienced turnover by allowing newer team members to get trained in the standard content of DBT. Lecture, video, role-play and small group exercises will be used to teach DBT theory and strategies in depth. Participants agree to attend the entire five days of training, do their best to learn the material, and participate in a willing, committed manner. The training requires that participants work in an active DBT® program, participate in a consultation team, and will continue learning DBT with a mentor. Only people who have attended the full ten days of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training™ are able to serve as mentors and sponsor team members to a Foundational Training. Training Objectives: • Participate in a DBT Consultation Team. • Demonstrate Consultation Team strategies used in DBT. • List the modes, the functions, and the typical treatment agreements made in DBT. • Implement the structure, goals, and stages of DBT treatment. • Teach the four DBT skills modules (Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance). • Explain the Biosocial Model of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other severe disorders in all required treatment contexts. • Create DBT treatment plans for clients using targeting procedures. • Explain the dialectical nature of DBT. • Demonstrate how dialectics are used in DBT. • Conduct Cue Exposure and Response Prevention. • List the steps in Problem-Solving. • Conduct complete Behavioral Chain Analyses and solution analyses. • Implement the Cognitive-Behavioral strategies in DBT. • Identify the levels of validation and the contexts in which they apply. • Demonstrate the use of validation to balance the change strategies in treatment. • Demonstrate the different communication strategies of DBT. • Implement the DBT case management strategies. • Implement telephone coaching and other generalization strategies of DBT. • Apply suicide crisis protocols of DBT. • Discuss the DBT research for different populations.

2-Day Certificate Workshop Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Transformational Approaches to Treating Complex Trauma is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Dec 09 - 10, 2019 at Embassy Suites by Hilton Seattle Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ / 12.5 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Other Mental Health Professionals • Nurses Course Description: Because trauma lives in the body, traditional talk therapy cannot access the deeply rooted, pervasive wounds that complex trauma leaves behind. Many traumatized clients present with overlapping symptoms including self-hatred, self-alienation, addition, internal conflict, numbing or shame. With these clients, you may constantly feel stuck treating surface-level symptoms or the “crisis of the week.” As a result, you are left overwhelmed and frustrated that you can never get to treating the trauma, despite your best efforts. Go beyond symptom reduction and take your work with traumatized clients to a whole new level by implementing this transformational approach to trauma treatment. Join world-renowned complex trauma and attachment expert Janina Fisher for this certificate workshop. Her cutting-edge approach will shift your clinical perspective so you’ll see your client not as a traumatized whole person, but rather as fragmented pieces that are in need of healing. Over the two days of this course, Janina will teach you to go beyond treating surface-level symptoms and give you the tools you need to look at trauma treatment through a whole new lens. Janina’s innovative approach integrates Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems and Ego State Therapy to get to the root of the problem where trauma can truly be processed. Janina will teach you how to help clients struggling with suicidal and self-destructive impulses, loss of identity, and self-hatred caused by childhood trauma. You’ll walk away with the skills you need to help your fragmented and traumatized clients achieve self-compassion and acceptance of all aspects of self. Through real-life, in-session videos, practical mindfulness exercises, and unique insight from the field of neuroscience, you’ll learn powerful strategies to use in your practice to overcome the devastating impacts of childhood abuse and repair childhood wounds. Register today to earn your certificate and revolutionize the way you treat trauma! Objectives: • Utilize clinical strategies to identify signs and symptoms of fragmentation and internal conflict. • Teach clients to apply non-judgmental language to their trauma-related symptoms and inner experience. • Facilitate increased mindfulness-based dual awareness in clients to decrease client phobias of emotion and inner experience. • Foster the development of mindful observation of fragmented parts of the self in clients. • Utilize somatic interventions for regulating autonomic arousal and affect dysregulation to calm the body as it relates to clinical treatment. • Integrate interpersonal neurobiology and social engagement techniques in session to improve treatment outcomes. • Drive the growth of empathy for wounded child parts of the self to increase self-compassion in clients. • Transform traumatic memory in clients using somatic, visualization, and ego-state techniques. • Utilize clinical strategies to foster ‘earned secure attachment’ in a clinical setting. • Facilitate client use of internal communication to improve treatment outcomes. • Employ the language of parts, mindfulness strategies and unblending techniques to alleviate the symptoms of shame, depression, suicidality or shutdown. • Apply strategies from Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in session to aid in the repair of internal attachment.

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children and Adolescents Succeed is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 11, 2019 at Red Lion Hotel Seattle Airport Sea-Tac, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 hours of continuing education credits.  Target Audience: • Speech-Language Pathologists • Speech-Language Pathology Assistants • Teachers & Paraprofessionals • School Counselors • School Psychologists • School Administrators • School Social Workers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Nurses • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Addiction Professionals • Probation Officers • All professionals working in child care settings, therapy settings, treatment programs, hospitals, juvenile justice facilities, foster care, and more Course Description: Join child/adolescent behavioral expert, Dr. Margery J. Shupe, LPCC-S, and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety and depression. You will walk away with concrete, yet practical, strategies to successfully intervene with their serious behavioral issues, such as: • Anger and outbursts • Cutting and self-injury • Defiance • Impulsivity • Sensory issues • Meltdowns and tantrums • Obsessive compulsive • Truancy • Rigidity • Electronic addiction Through case studies, video clips and dynamic class discussion you will learn: • 30 second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors • New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements • How to engage students in class, increase productivity and reduce truancy • Behavioral assessments and strategies for the IEP team • Side-effects of common psychotropic medications • How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties • Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems • Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians • Leave the day with the “magic dust” you have been looking for to expedite rapid and effective changes in these children and adolescents! Objectives: • Articulate how behavioral-driven choices differ from mental health-driven behaviors and • characterize how these differences inform your choice of intervention. • Communicate the effective uses of medications and potential side effects that can appear as misbehaviors. • Implement various school-based strategies, used in collaboration with community clinicians, to intervene when behavioral issues arise from mental health conditions. • Determine effective positive behavior support strategies to successfully discipline the special needs child. • Discriminate how IDEA relates to mental health issues and discipline. • Apply communication techniques that create a climate for success inside and outside the classroom.

Functional Occlusion - Science Driven Management is organized by Kois Center, LLC and will be held from Jan 09 - 11, 2020 at Kois Center LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 22.5 Credits. Course Overview : Occlusion Explained: Understanding and managing functional occlusion is essential to the long-term stability of restorative dentistry. Successful occlusal management must incorporate a range of important considerations, from force management to laboratory and articulator management, to patient psychology, neurology, and pharmacology. With the myriad of opinions and approaches that exist within the dental profession, managing occlusion can be a daunting responsibility. Functional Occlusion will provide you with a practical understanding of the masticatory system and teach you to utilize your laboratory technicians, office team, innovative technology and the dental articulator to predictably manage occlusion. You will be introduced to access methods which are scientifically researched, evidence-based and clinically proven. Course Objectives : • Gain a clear understanding of Maximum Intercuspal Position, Centric Relation and Centric Occlusion. • Learn to ask key questions related to Occlusion in the Dental History form and how to interpret the answers. • Learn a classification and risk assessment system of normal and abnormal attrition of teeth, including Acceptable Function, Frictional Chewing Pattern, Constricted Chewing Pattern, Occlusal Dysfunction, Parafunction, and Neurological Disorder. • Learn how and when to use the Kois Deprogrammer and other-centric relation recording devices. You will work with your fellow participants to fabricate, deliver and experience your own Kois Deprogrammer. • Learn how to mount models on the Panadent articulator using the Kois Dento-Facial Analyzer and to incorporate improved refinements on traditional methods. • Understand a new, simplified terminology for occlusal management. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Treatment Planning & Functional Occlusion is organized by Kois Center, LLC and will be held from Jan 13 - 17, 2020 at Kois Center LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 46.5 Credits™. Course Description : Treatment Planning is a unique program designed to empower and enlighten every participant and inspire confidence in diagnosis and treatment planning with predictable outcomes. Starting with “why,” Dr. Kois builds a philosophy and systems that incorporate what you may already know, then develops, through research, evidence, and proven clinical techniques, the Diagnostically Driven Treatment Planning concept. Be prepared to confidently implement the skills and concepts for predictable management of patients immediately following the course. Understanding and managing functional occlusion is essential to the long-term stability of restorative dentistry. Successful occlusal management must incorporate a range of important considerations, from force management to laboratory and articulator management, to patient psychology, neurology and pharmacology. With the myriad of opinions and approaches that exist within the dental profession, managing occlusion can be a daunting responsibility. Functional Occlusion will provide you with a practical understanding of the masticatory system and teach you to utilize your laboratory technicians, office team, innovative technology and the dental articulator to predictably manage occlusion. You will be introduced to accessible methods which are scientifically researched, evidence-based and clinically proven. Course Objectives : • Learn how to incorporate a comprehensive examination and systematic treatment planning into your patient care. • Learn why Dr. Kois’ treatment planning system and simplified diagnostic opinion can build your knowledge base dramatically and increase confidence in your ability. • Learn how to recognize, assess and account for risk using a protocol that evaluates periodontal, biomechanical, functional and dentofacial issues. Learn how to transfer the four diagnostic parameters into treatment plans and sequences that will minimize risk and maximize long-term success. • Learn how to engage the patient in understanding their condition so they may participate more fully in their own care. • Gain a clear understanding of Maximum Intercuspal Position, Centric Relation and Centric Occlusion. • Learn to ask key questions related to Occlusion in the Dental History form and how to interpret the answers. • Learn a classification and risk assessment system of normal and abnormal attrition of teeth, including: Acceptable Function, Frictional Chewing Pattern, Constricted Chewing Pattern, Occlusal Dysfunction, Parafunction, and Neurological Disorder. • Learn how and when to use the Kois Deprogrammer and other centric relation recording devices. You will work with your fellow participants to fabricate, deliver and experience your own Kois Deprogrammer. • Learn how to mount models on the Panadent articulator using the Kois Dento-Facial Analyzer and to incorporate improved refinements on traditional methods. • Understand a new, simplified terminology for occlusal management: The “Three P’s”- Position, Place and Pathway. • Understand that, as a result of insight into the way humans chew, the concept of Anterior Guidance is no longer valid. • Be prepared to confidently implement the skills and concepts for predictable management of patients immediately following the course. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief is organized PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 15, 2020 at Embassy Suites by Hilton Seattle Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours/ 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ / 6.0 continuing education hours. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Nurses • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Thanatologists • Chaplains/Clergy Hospitals • Palliative Care Professionals • Hospice Professionals • Funeral Directors • Other Mental Health and Bereavement Professionals Course Description: Even as a grief expert, David was unprepared for the sudden death of his son, who died at age 21. People asked him, “What’s it like for the grief expert to lose his son?” He would answer, “The grief expert did not lose his son, the father did.” Everything he knew about grief turned out to be true. David had to go through the five stages of grief but found himself wanting more from the experience – he wanted to find meaning in his life after such a terrible loss. He learned that broken heart syndrome is real and he realized he would either die of it or live with it, and that healing occurs not when grief gets smaller, but when life gets bigger. This led to the discovery of the 6th stage of grief – finding meaning. Based on David Kessler’s new book, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, this seminar is designed to help professionals guide people through life’s worst moments to find meaning after loss. All types of loss will be covered, including betrayal, loss of a parent or family member, and loss due to addiction, mental illness and suicide. After attending this seminar, you will be able to enhance your work with those who have dealt with any kind of loss. It will fill you with new insight, tools, strategies, and inspiring information, leaving you looking forward to the next day … so you can immediately begin to use all you have learned! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the world’s leading grief experts – sign up today! Objectives: • Implement meaning-making principles to help cope with all types of loss. • Identify ways to use meaning to help remember loved ones with more love than pain. • Use concepts of meaning making to resolve the internal struggle of “why did this happen?” and “why did this happen to me?” • Recognize why children are often the forgotten grievers and how to help them through their grief. • Identify ways to incorporate meaning to help cope with complicated grief. • Utilize non-directive ways to address guilt, shame and stigma associated with grief.