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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Registration
Thursday, January 8, 2009
6:30 am - 5:30 pm
Registration
7:00 - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
7:30 - 8:30 am
Meningitis and Encephalitis: Evidence-based Practice in 2009
George L. Higgins, III, MD, FACEP - Associate Vice President & Medical Director for Performance Improvement, Professor in Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont
8:30 - 9:30 am
“Can’t Miss” Pediatric Orthopedic Injuries & Disease …and their contemporary treatment
Paul Bradford, MEd, MMS, PA-C - Division of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Coordinator of VEPTR Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
9:30 - 11:30 am
WORKSHOP A: Changing Your World: Perfecting the Springboard Story to Inspire and Motivate. An Effective Tool to Implement Change at Your Institution
George L. Higgins, III, MD, FACEP
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Is There Life After the Menopause
Paul Manganiello, MD – Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Options for the PA in Disaster Response & Humanitarian Relief Efforts: Can you do that?
Ann Davis – Director of State Government, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Alexandria, VA
6:30
pm
Annual PAAV Business Meeting Dinner
(PAAV Members only)
Friday, January 9, 2009
6:30 am - 6:00 pm
Registration
7:00 - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
7:30 am – 8:30 am
A Stroll Down Supplement Alley: A PA Knowledge Supplement
Ellen Mandel, DMH, PA-C, RD, CDE - Associate Professor,
School of
Health and Medical Sciences, Seton Hall University, South Orange,
NJ
8:30 - 9:30 am
Image is Everything? What's New in Medical Imaging Modalities and How to Choose Intelligently
Stephen M. Leffler, MD - Associate Professor of Surgery & Emergency Medicine, Fletcher Allen Healthcare, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
WORKSHOP B: Ultrasound in Your Hands: Echo and Vascular Access Applications
Barbara A. Piccirillo, MSRPA-C – Clinical Coordinator, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology/New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY
Frank Acevedo, MS, RPA-C - Assistant Professor/Academic Coordinator, New York Institute of Technology, PA Studies, New York, NY
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
WORKSHOP C: Cases in Malpractice Prevention: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Roy M. Cary, PA-C, MEd - Senior Partner, Cary and Associates, a Medical-Legal Consulting Company; Neurosurgery, Western Regional Brain/Spine Center, Las Vegas, NV
James Cary, PA-C, MHA - Urological Surgery, Panama City Urological Center; Senior Partner, Cary and Associates; Former PA in Emergency Medicine & US Air Force Medical Service; Former Medical Legal Consultant Florida Department of Health Legal Division
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Like Your Livelihood Depends Upon It. Oh Wait, It Does! Reimbursement for PA Services in 2009. Are you Doing it Right?
Michael L. Powe – Vice President, Health Systems and Reimbursement Policy, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Alexandria VA
5:30 - 6:30 pm
A Ploy Named Sue: Medical Malpractice and Risk Management for the Physician Assistant
Monty Cary, PA-C & James Cary, PA-C
Saturday, January 10, 2009
6:30 am - 5:30 pm
Registration
7:00 - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
7:30 – 8:30 am
Make No Bones About It: Are you treating your patient with the best mechanism of action for their current state of bone health?
Richard S. Pope, PA-C – Senior Physician Assistant, Arthritis Center of Connecticut, Waterbury Hospital, Quinnipiac University PA Program, Waterbury, CT
8:30 – 9:30 am
Acute Allergic Reactions: From the Common to the Catastrophic
Robert Dachs, MD, FAAFP - Assistant Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, NY; Clinical Assistant Professor, Ellis Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
10:00 – 11:00 am
When "You're In" Trouble: Kidney Stone and UTI Update 2009
Robert Dachs, MD, FAAFP
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
WORKSHOP D: Stickin’ it to the Man: Therapeutic Joint Injections
Richard S. Pope, PA-C, MPAS – Assistant Professor Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT; Senior Physician Assistant, Arthritis Center of Connecticut, Waterbury, CT
Mike Rudzinski, PA-C, RPh - Adjunct Faculty, D’Youville College PA Program, Buffalo, NY; Senior PA in outpatient Orthopedics & Chronic Pain, Buffalo VA Medical Center, Buffalo, NY
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
WORKSHOP E: ER Procedures in the Office
Amy Keim, PA-C - Physician Assistant Administrative Director, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates
James Marinucci - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Acute Wound Care Coordinator, Trauma Instructor, George Washington University, Washington, DC
3:00 – 4:00 pm
The Spectrum of Autistic Disorders: What’s it really all about?
James J. Hudziak, MD - Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Medicine; Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Director, Behavioral Genetics, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT; Endowed Chair on Genetics of Childhood Behaviour Problems, Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Adjunct Prof. Psychiatry, Dartmouth School of Medicine, Hanover, NH
4:00 – 5:00 pm
The Inaugural Address: Gunshot Wounds in Four Assassinated Presidents
Joseph Rohan Lex, Jr., MD, FAAEM - Assistant Professor, Temple University Hospital Temple University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Kid Bits: Best of the Recent Acute Care Literature in Pediatrics
George L. Higgins, III, MD, FACEP
Robert Dachs, MD, FAAFP
Sunday, January 11, 2009
6:30 am - 1:00 pm
Registration
7:00 - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am
Transfusion Medicine 2009: From the Basics to the Essentials. What does the science tell us?
George L. Higgins, III, MD, FACEP
9:30 - 10:30 am
Avoiding Pitfalls in Using the Newer Lab Tests: BNP, D-Dimer, CRP,& Cardiac Biomarkers
Joseph Rohan Lex, Jr., MD, FAAEM
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
But Does it Really Make the Patient Better? The End of Surrogate Endpoints and the Impact on the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Andrew T. Torkelson, MD – Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Rational use of Laboratory Studies in Evaluation of Abdominal Pain
Joseph Rohan Lex, Jr., MD, FAAEM
1:00 pm
Conference adjourns
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