Upcoming Medical Conferences in Madison

The Essentials of Chiropractic: Adjusting the Infant and Education in the Perinatal Period is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Jun 22 - 23, 2019 at Spring Creek Family Chiropractic, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. This two-part course is presented by co-instructors Dr. Armand Rossi and Dr. Ian Shtulman. Part One: Armand Rossi, DC and Part Two: Ian Shtulman, DC, DACCP Part One: Armand Rossi, DC This introduction to pediatric adjusting provides an overview of the spinal assessment and adjusting techniques for infants and children. Demonstration of various chiropractic exam techniques and their specific, low force application in the infant and child. Course Goal This course will provide you with the introductory techniques to assess and adjust infants and children. Part Two: Ian Shtulman, DC, DACCP This class will introduce innovative and advanced approaches in teaching parents about chiropractic care in the perinatal practice. All too often chiropractors unknowingly step out of their practice parameters in their patient education. Dr. Ian provides an understanding of ethical standards and best practices. Dr. Ian will also discuss the importance of collaboration with numerous health care providers in your community to offer the best possible care for the families in your practice. At a Glance • 16 Modules: 14 seminars and 2 in-office research projects • Open to chiropractors and students: 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher • Attend individual seminars or entire series • CE credit offered for approved states Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) Madison Institute is organized by Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) and will be held during Jul 13 - 19, 2019 at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Perinatal Health: Epigenetics and Parental Nutrition is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Jul 20 - 21, 2019 at Spring Creek Family Chiropractic, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description: Gain an understanding of nutrition and learn how to effectively incorporate this information into your practice. Explore the relationships between epigenetics, nutrition, fertility, and family health. Understand the latest findings in epigenetics and the roles of sugar and pH in health and disease. You'll learn how optimal nutrition can improve fertility, how poor nutrition can weaken fertility and the effects of nutrition during and after pregnancy. Course Goals: In this course, you will gain a vitalistic understanding of nutrition, create a working knowledge of lifestyle-based ways of eating and understand nutrition from an  ecosystematic  level, epigenetic level and how it will affect future generations. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Ambulatory Care Advancement Coaching (ACAC) Workshop is organized by Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin (PSW) and will be held on Jul 26, 2019 at Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. This CE Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 Contact Hours. Target Audience  This continuing pharmacy education activity was planned to meet the needs of pharmacists practicing in ambulatory care. Activity Content: As healthcare moves rapidly towards value and outcome based care, pharmacist practice models are in greater demand than ever before. Limited experience in the field with starting and optimizing pharmacist practice models leads to a need for expedited implementation with coaching and mentorship support to ensure successful, rapid expansion of these models. This Workshop will focus on targeted implementation and advancement of patient care services. Participants will commit to a patient care service implementation or optimization project. Peer to peer diffusion and collaborative sharing will be leveraged. This program bridges the gap between current and desired pharmacy practice.  In this activity, key components of service implementation and practice optimization will be reviewed. Specific areas of focus include environmental analysis, defining pharmacist role, credentialing, privileging, scope of practice, collaborative practice agreements, ensuring competency, outcome measures, billing, practice implementation, overcoming resistance, outcomes analysis, practice refinement, and creation of a business plan for resources. The coaches will also provide personalized mentorship to assist participants in planning their projects. Learning Objectives  After the conclusion of this application-based educational activity, participants should be able to: • Conduct an environmental analysis and create an action plan outlining steps to complete the participant specific practice advancement project • Create a Wisconsin a business plan to provide patient care services • Successfully implement ambulatory care services and measure outcomes to justify sustainability Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

OB 1 - Physiologic & Psychosocial Stresses in Pregnancy is organized by UnityPoint Health - Meriter and will be held on Jul 31, 2019 at Center for Healthcare Education and Simulation, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Course Description: Trauma-informed care & pregnancy stressors, management of hypertensive states, placental problems, multiple gestational pregnancies, obesity in pregnancy & care after bariatric surgery, diabetes, preterm labor, obstetric complications, trauma in pregnancy and Maternal Early Warning Signs (MEWS).  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

2019 Comprehensive Review of Pain Management is organized by Intermountain Healthcare Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) and will be held from Aug 05 - 09, 2019 at The Fluno Center For Executive Education, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Target Audience: This activity has been planned by and for an interprofessional audience of clinicians, including pain medicine, addiction medicine, and primary care physicians; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists interested in obtaining an overview of pain management. Accreditation: 37.50 AAFP Credits 37.50 ACPE Contact Hours 37.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ 37.50 ANCC Contact Hours 0.00 ANCC Pharmacotherapy Contact Hours 37.50 Iowa Board of Nursing Contact Hours 37.50 University of Wisconsin - Madison Continuing Education Hours Highlights: • Review of best clinical practices in pain management by expert multidisciplinary faculty • Education on judicious and balanced opioid use, risk assessment, mitigation, monitoring, strategies for opioid taper, and opioid-sparing treatment approaches • Overview of current evidence on applications of cannabinoids to pain care • Education about issues overlapping pain and opioid use disorders (OUDs), the diagnosis and treatment of OUD, and pain management approaches in individuals with OUD • Up-to-date, intensive review of Pain Medicine and related disorders for board certification/recertification Objectives: At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants will be able to: • Review neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of pain pathways. • Describe pathophysiology of acute and chronic pain. • Learn to communicate with patients effectively • Describe comorbid psychiatric conditions, discuss psychological evaluation and summarize evidence for common behavioral treatments such as mindfulness meditation, cognitive • behavioral therapy, relaxation, biofeedback, hypnosis.  • Describe pain management approaches in children, elderly, pregnant and lactating women, and those with cancer. • Describe the assessment and management of headache, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), neuropathic pain, myofascial pain, fibromyalgia, and pelvic pain. • Recognize, interpret and clinically correlate radiological abnormalities in common musculoskeletal pain disorders of the spine and peripheral joints.  • Outline a multimodal treatment plan for common pain conditions incorporating pharmacological, rehabilitation, behavioral/psychological, complementary and alternative medicine, interventional, and surgical treatments. • Describe analgesic pharmacology and clinical applications of opioid and non-opioid analgesics and other pharmacotherapies for acute and chronic pain. • Review the anatomy, indications, and contraindications for regional anesthetic blocks, different types of peripheral and spinal nerve blocks, and other advanced pain treatments for headache and facial pain, spinal pain, CRPS, osteoarthritic musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain conditions. • Describe role of spinal cord stimulators and pumps in pain management. • Summarize the evidence for regenerative medicine treatments for musculoskeletal pain conditions. • Discuss integrative medicine approaches to treating pain.

Understanding HPV And Oral Cancer is organized by Intermountain Healthcare Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) and will be held on Aug 16, 2019 at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Target Audience: This educational activity is designed to meet the needs of primary care physicians, medical otolaryngologists, oncologists, and other allied health personnel who treat and evaluate patients with head and neck cancers. Accreditation: 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ 5.50 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours Course Description: Understanding HPV and Oral Cancer is a daylong course dedicated to new research and advances in head and neck cancers caused by the human papillomavirus. In recent years, head and neck cancer patients have changed dramatically. Join us to discuss the latest in research and treatment on this emerging epidemic. Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to: • Provide primary care providers, dentists, otolaryngologists and oncologists with an update on the HPV induced oral cancer epidemic • Identify demographics, risk factors, imaging hallmarks, and treatment options for HPV induced oral cancer. • Show the impact of treatment on quality of life and efforts to de-escalate therapy to reduce toxicities. • Explain the importance of vaccination in the prevention of HPV related malignancy in Wisconsin and beyond. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Clinical Certainty Through Functional Assessment is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Aug 17 - 18, 2019 at Spring Creek Family Chiropractic, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is chiropractors and students: 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description:  This course will incorporate hands-on and practical experience necessary to perform a thorough exam for an infant. We will cover the first encounter with the infant and parent(s), examination procedures and communication of the findings. We will discuss the importance of the primitive reflexes that are present initially from birth to one year, how they correlate to milestones, nervous system and brain development. Then, we will look at the examination for an older child with a neurodevelopmental delay. For the older child, we will look at what results when the primitive reflexes are retained, the necessity of chiropractic care to assist with their inhibition and how correcting subluxations helps to restore brain balance. Course Goal: You will master how to perform a thorough examination and you will know how to communicate the results in a way that is meaningful to the parents. Certainty comes from having the technical skills first and then the ability to be able to communicate findings so that the parents engage their child in care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available. 

ISCT North America 2019 Regional Meeting is organized by International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) and will be held from Sep 13 - 15, 2019 at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Description Theme: "Engineering the Future of Cell and Gene Therapies The “impossible things” being achieved with MSCs, CAR-T Cells, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine will be highlighted in plenaries, complemented by workshops, technical tracks and morning sessions where all the ISCT family members from technologists to industrialists will find enrichment. In recognition of foreseeable needs in cell and gene therapies, as well as a reflection of ISCT’s origin as ISHAGE, an engineering theme will be injected throughout the meeting and a foray into veterinary cell therapy explored. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Advanced Spinal Assessment for the Infant and Child is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Sep 21 - 22, 2019 at Spring Creek Family Chiropractic, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. Description: This course teaches spinal analysis and full spine adjusting for the newborn, infant and toddler populations including visual analysis and case history techniques. Spinal analysis procedures including muscle and motion palpation as well as adjusting techniques adapted from the Gonstead, Diversified and Logan Basic models will be presented. Techniques using the child drop headpiece are included. Expect extensive hands-on application. Course Goal: Participants gain the skills necessary to locate and analyze vertebral subluxation and have confidence in their ability to make gentle, specific adjustments in the newborn, infant and toddler. At a Glance: • 16 Modules: 14 seminars and 2 in-office research projects • Open to chiropractors and students: 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher • Attend individual seminars or entire series • CE credit offered for approved states Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.