Upcoming Medical Conferences in Spokane

Principle-Based Comprehensive Dentistry Restored Esthetically is organzied by Ultradent Products, Inc. and will be held on Dec 06, 2019 at Spokane, Washington, 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 6 CE Credits. Overview: Join us and see how you can grow the fun in your practice and enjoy your days at “work” incorporating principles for success and systems that provide practice growth. Dr. Miyasaki has practiced for over thirty years and hopes to go another thirty because every day he enjoys what he does, and he does it all: preventative care, restorative, esthetics, endodontics, tooth movement, implants, dentures, and occlusion. Hear a veteran practitioner who practices what he preaches. This presentation will be good for the entire team, so it is recommended to bring everyone along (success takes a team). Objectives: • The principles of treating the patient right and being remarkable • How to implement case planning and patient education so patients value what you do • Why every patient should hear about whitening • The techniques you need to know about successful bonding - it's the small stuff that counts • A system for doing predictable direct multi-surface composite restorations • Techniques that make retaking impressions a thing of the past • How to make a mouthful of temporaries in minutes • Minimally-invasive esthetic techniques that may be the best you can offer your patients • How to do simple endodontic procedures your patients will appreciate • How soft tissue diode lasers can be incorporated into almost everything you do everyday • What to do and what to avoid when it comes to occlusion • How to grow your practice whether your practice is big or small Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Esthetic Restorations and Principle-based Comprehensive Dentistry is organized by Ultradent Products, Inc. and will be held on Dec 06, 2019 at The Centennial Hotel Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Dentists. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6 CE Credits. Overview: Join us and see how you can grow the fun in your practice and enjoy your days at “work” incorporating principles for success and systems that provide practice growth. Dr. Miyasaki has practiced for over thirty years and hopes to go another thirty because every day he enjoys what he does, and he does it all: preventative care, restorative, esthetics, endodontics, tooth movement, implants, dentures, and occlusion. Hear a veteran practitioner who practices what he preaches. This presentation will be good for the entire team, so it is recommended to bring everyone along (success takes a team). You Will Learn: • The principles of treating the patient right and being remarkable • How to implement case planning and patient education so patients value what you do • Why every patient should hear about whitening • The techniques you need to know about successful bonding - it's the small stuff that counts • A system for doing predictable direct multi-surface composite restorations • Techniques that make retaking impressions a thing of the past • How to make a mouthful of temporaries in minutes • Minimally-invasive esthetic techniques that may be the best you can offer your patients • How to do simple endodontic procedures your patients will appreciate • How soft tissue diode lasers can be incorporated into almost everything you do everyday • What to do and what to avoid when it comes to occlusion • How to grow your practice whether your practice is big or small Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

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 09, 2019 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, 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.

Autism: De-Escalate Meltdowns and Diffuse Explosive Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 22, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): A Revolutionary & Transformative Treatment for Healing PTSD, Anxiety, Depression and More is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 29, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Therapists Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields Course Description: We all know what it is to feel conflicting emotions, “a part of me wants to … and a part of me does not”. For our clients, this kind of inner emotional conflict can become intense, even debilitating. Why, they wonder, are their relationships unstable? Why are they sometimes enraged and other times too passive? Why do symptoms persist? Can they ever really ‘get over’ traumatic childhood experiences? They may notice a part of them wants to deal with it and another part is hopeless. Internal Family Systems offers unique, clarifying, and empowering methods for addressing these common clinical concerns. Some models of psychotherapy regard having multiple internal “parts” as pathological. NOT in IFS. IFS views the multiplicity of the mind as normal. Every part has a positive intention and every part has value. All clients can heal. IFS aligns the therapist with the innate wisdom of the client. IFS cultivates compassion. IFS is a powerful treatment modality. Once you experience it you will want to incorporate it into your practice. In developing IFS 30 years ago, creator Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., realized that clients were describing experiences with various conflicting roles and extreme behaviors within themselves. He noticed that when parts felt heard and safe and had their concerns addressed, clients became calm and less reactive. They could begin to make different and better decisions. IFS therapy helps clients to find safe ways to connect to early childhood emotions, to transform negative beliefs, to feel grounded in their true self, and to achieve lasting change in their lives. IFS has established a legacy of effectiveness in successfully treating many mental health issues and is being heralded as the treatment that all clinicians should know in order to treat clients more effectively (van der Kolk 2015). Join Jory Agate, LMHC, MDiv, MA, Certified IFS Therapist, for this transformational training day. Learn all that IFS therapy can do for you and your clients. Objectives: • Investigate Internal Family Systems (IFS) concepts, steps and techniques to broaden treatment intervention options. • Appraise how IFS brings a non-pathological perspective of mental health disorders by translating common comorbidities into parts language. • Analyze the IFS view that client's symptoms and psychopathology are attempts to solve an emotional problem. • Inspect a clinical session to deepen one’s understanding of IFS treatment strategies. • Practice clinical interventions to enhance effectiveness in sessions. • Appraise the benefits of applying IFS to one’s current clinical practice.  

Ethics with Minors for Washington Mental Health Professionals: How to Navigate the Most Challenging Issues is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 19, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 hours of continuing education credit / 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Psychotherapists • Addiction Counselors • School Counselors • School Social Workers • School Psychologists • Other Mental Health Professionals who work with minors. Course Description: Those of us who treat minors and their families experience a flood of emotions. There is confusion over changing ethical codes and laws, fear that the actions that we take will lead to long-term developmental damage, and anxiety that at any moment we might unintentionally cross a line that could jeopardize our professional license and put us in legal peril. In this environment, we can find ourselves impaired in our ability to function as professionals and help out clients. Combining a step-by-step guide to an effective decision-making model, the most updated ethical codes and legal statutes, and lessons from 30 years as a clinician and ethics professor, Terry Casey, PhD, HSP will give you a solid foundation for evaluating the ethical options when working with minors and their families. You will have much more confidence about the course of action you take involving mandatory reporting, access to minors’ records, parental rights, boundary issues, touch, and others. Objectives: • Identify the five primary perspectives of the Multiple Perspective Model of ethical decision-making when working with minors. • Summarize the difference between consent and assent and how they apply to working with minors. • Apply ethics code and statutory requirements related to confidentiality standards to situations regarding minor clients. • Evaluate the potential ethical courses of action to take in situations involving minor clients, using the Multiple Perspectives Model. • Explain the state laws that govern mandatory reporting and how these impact ethical decision making in clinical practice. • Evaluate current clinical practice policies to ensure adequate protection involving issues of boundaries and physical touch.

Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias Certification Training is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 18, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, 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: • Social Workers • Counselors • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Case Managers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Nursing Home Administrator • Speech-Language Pathologists • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Licensed Practical Nurses • Certified Nurses Assistants • Homecare Workers • Other Rehab, Medical and Mental Health Professionals Course Description: This one-day program is vital for anyone who works with dementia and needs skills and proven strategies to provide optimal care! Join Dr. Sherrie All as she provides you with the assessment tools and critical interventions you need to identify and differentiate between dementias, prevent and reduce difficult behaviors, and improve your ability to communicate with cognitively impaired patients! More than just an overview of dementia and Alzheimer’s, this program will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face and bring you up to speed on the latest medications, preventative treatments, and advances in early detection that could impact your work. Better still you’ll build essential skills, better understand the complexities of the disease, and discover how you can employ safe and effective best practices to provide quality care in just one day. Objectives: • Communicate how the manifestations of each type of dementia impacts identification and prognosis. • Provide a synopsis of 2 assessment tools that can be employed to screen for possible cognitive difficulty. • Specify how non-verbal communication skills can help professionals identify meanings behind gestures when working with patients who have dementia. • Characterize how patient safety can be enhanced with strategies to redirect wandering and manage paranoia. • Establish how the latest medications, preventative treatments, and advances in early detection could impact care of people with dementia. • Explore end of life issues and elder abuse and correlate how the ethics of dying impact the clinician, client, and their family.

OB Emergencies is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 23, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Target Audience: • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Clinical Nurse Specialists • Nurse Midwives • Certified Childbirth Educators Course Description: Jamie Otremba will delve into the most common obstetrical emergencies presenting in today's patients. She will provide you with a comprehensive look at the critical interventions for: • Trauma in Pregnancy • Severe Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy • Managing Amniotic Fluid Embolism • The Latest Recommendations for Post-Partum Hemorrhage • Urgent vs. Emergent Newborn Conditions • Interventions to Manage Violent Situations in the OB Setting Jamie's extensive experiences in high risk obstetrics have provided her with keen insight into these often challenging and frightening situations. She is eager to share with you many of the effective interventions that she has acquired throughout her career. Through enlightening case studies, persuasive evidence-based research and an engaging presentation style, she will teach you the current trends and treatments you need to know to manage the next OB emergency. Attend this seminar to learn new strategies and techniques that can immediately impact the maternal and fetal outcomes of your patients! Objectives: • Identify three clinical manifestations of amniotic fluid embolism. • Describe the most common causes of obstetric trauma. • Discuss management options for post-partum hemorrhage. • Explain why a d-dimer is no longer recommended as part of the evaluation for pulmonary embolism in pregnancy. • Analyze why neurological outcomes with amniotic fluid embolism are so poor and the rapid interventions that could make a difference. • Compare the various treatment options for the obstetrical patient with severe hypertension.

Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Mar 23, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Conference Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 clock hours of instruction / 6.0 contact hours / 0.6 CEUs. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists/ PTAs • Occupational Therapists/OTAs • Athletic Trainers • Massage Therapists • Personal Trainers Course Description: Become a Certified Myofascial Cupping Practitioner in this hands-on course powered by RockTape, and boost your credentials as you learn everything you need to know to offer cupping services the next day. Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification teaches the fundamentals of modern cupping techniques through a full day of interactive labs. Learn how to combine cupping and functional movement to produce the kinds of active treatment strategies that are revolutionizing rehab. Discover effective cupping treatments you can use for pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. Objectives: • Review the principles of myofascial cupping and supporting evidence. • Describe the physiological and neurological effects of cupping. • Demonstrate how to apply cupping for best results. • Compare and contrast common cupping techniques and review indications/contraindications for each. • Demonstrate how cupping techniques can be combined with corrective exercise to improve pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. • Develop cupping applications based on your assessment/treatment approach and the individual needs of your patient. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

The Ultimate Guide to Treating Dizziness, Vertigo, and Vestibular Disorders: End Years of Dizziness and Vertigo in as Little as One Session is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Apr 22, 2020 at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane, Washington, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours or .6 CEUs / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Audiologists • Athletic Trainers • Therapy Directors • Physician Assistants • Nurse Practitioners • Nurses Course Description: Whether you want to treat the root cause of dizziness faster, enhance your clinic’s services for vestibular patients, or add personal value within a large organization, this program will get you where you want to go. Created by one of the most trusted names in vestibular rehabilitation, The Ultimate Guide to Treating Dizziness, Vertigo, and Vestibular Disorders will teach you today’s top strategies for efficiently evaluating and resolving many common diagnoses. And the results are incredible. Clinicians have seen countless patients – from sedentary retirees to high-level athletes – rediscover the joys of dizziness-free living using the interventions you’ll learn in this program. Join Dr. Jamie Miner as she shares a proven framework for rehabilitation that combines today’s best practices with over 25 years of experience helping patients overcome vestibular disorders in hospitals, rehab centers, home health settings, SNFs, and outpatient facilities.. If’ you’re chasing symptoms without getting to the “why” of your patient’s impairment, you’re losing time, money and referrals. This course is your path to delivering results for your patients. Objectives: • Discuss the latest advances in vestibular rehabilitation and their implications for rehab. • Demonstrate a comprehensive assessment, identifying and differentiating root causes of dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders. • Integrate the most effective interventions available for reducing dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders. • Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, targeted exercises and more. • Design effective, innovative plans of care for a wide range of diagnoses. • Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.