This full day CME/CE conference will take place in person, face-to-face, and virtual online live meeting for those not able to travel. We will have expert faculty speakers that discuss the importance of teamwork and communication throughout the continuum of care. Each team member that interacts with a stroke patient will have the opportunity to hear and discuss new innovations in helping stroke patients get back to good quality of life in less time Breakfast and lunch will be provided along with...

The PIONEER, Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation: Opportunities in Nutrition, Emerging Clinical Evidence, and Experimental Research, Symposium is a premier conference dedicated to advancing the care of pediatric patients with intestinal failure. This multidisciplinary forum will spotlight the latest breakthroughs in bench, translational, and clinical research, offering a comprehensive view of the evolving landscape in intestinal rehabilitation.Bringing together leading experts from pediatric gas...

Few interventions are shown to effectively help stimulate memory, cognition, and mood in older adults with mild to moderate dementia. Originally developed from the UK, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is an evidence based approach to stimulate memory of participants in an interactive psychosocial group setting. This training, given by expert facilitators in CST, will provide the background of CST, the techniques of the group, and areas to consider when implementing this in one's practice. Thi...

This course is designed to provide the basic medical, legal, and investigative knowledge and skills necessary to perform complete, independent, scientific death investigations. It will teach participants to take a closer look at the scene, at the evidence, and at the decedent to better prepare complete and thorough documentation of medicolegal death investigations and will provide insight to the Coroner and Medical Examiner as they determine cause and manner of death. Conference Location:Saint L...

The speciality of hip preservation surgery has rapidly evolved over the past decade. This has been due to an improved understanding of structural hip disease and the development of new surgical techniques.  New diagnostic strategies for diagnosing pre-arthritic hip disease have also been developed. Surgical techniques including periacetabular osteotomy, surgical dislocation hip, hip arthroscopy, and combination of the above procedures have been introduced over the past 10 years and have bec...

This program will consist of 4 speakers discussing recent updates on asthma, COPD, and endobronchial valves. It is open to all physicians and healthcare providers in any subspecialty including family medicine, internal medicine, allergy and immunology, pulmonary medicine, and thoracic surgery.