Contemporary Issues in Healthcare

June 24 & June 25, 2019
Subject to Change

Wendy A. Arnold, MD    An Integrative Approach to Pain	Terrance Lee Baker, MD, MS, FAAEP Medical Malpractice Expert Witness – Starting a Forensic Expert Witness Practice Clinical and Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians
Arthur Lee Berman, DO, FAAIM  The Burning Questions About GERD and Extraesophageal Reflux	Martin J. Carey, MD The Emergency Medicine to In-Patient Handoff: How Can We Do It Better?
Arthur Cooper, MD, MS, FACS, FAADM Applied Medical Ethics II: What Takes Place During an Ethics Consultation?  Terror Medicine I: Physical Injuries – Mechanisms and Responses	Christi Cooper-Lehki, DO    Physician Suicide
Heidi P. Cordi, MD, FACEP, FAADM    Contemporary Issues in Emergency Preparedness	Jack V. Greiner, DO, PhD, FAASS    Contemporary Impact and Treatment of Dry Eye Syndromes
Douglas Marciniak, DO, FAAIM    Interpretation of Elevated Serum Troponin Levels in Differing Clinical Situations Update on Management of Blood Cholesterol – Review of 2018 Guidelines	Elizabeth Maxwell-Schmidt, MD, FAAEP, FACEP    A Hospital System-Wide Approach to Reduce Opioid Over Prescribing
Leslie Mukau, MD, FAAEP, FACEP    Getting Down to the Heart of the Matter with Code Talkers: Cutting Edge Management of Cardiac Arrest Beyond ACLS	Frank Hall Reynolds, II, MD Understanding Skin Cancer
Patricia Ann Stewart, DO, FAAIM    Sham Peer Review	Joseph D. Toscano, MD    Treating Common Acute Infections in the Era of Antibiotic Stewardship
Marlene R. Wolf, MD    Physician Well-Being – Preventing Burnout

Emergency Medicine Track

Muhammad A. Ahmed, MD, FAAEP    Recent Articles That Could Change the Way You Practice Emergency Medicine	Lingappa S. Amernath, MD, FAAEP    Recent Advances in International Emergency Medicine
Rashid Ayyub, MD, FACS, FAA    Timely Use of Citizen CPR and AED to Improve Mortality from Outpatient Cardiac Arrest	Alex John Beuning, MD    Update on the Use of Blood Products in Trauma Resuscitation
Jack B. Davidoff, MD    Reflections on 30 Years in Emergency Medicine	Ashraf A. Gerges, MD    Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain in ER Setting
Hilary McClafferty, MD    Physician Well-Being in the 21st Century: Are You on Track?	David R. Meece, MD, FAAEP    The Crashing Patient, RUSH Exam and Other Tools to Guide Resuscitation
Leslie Mukau, MD, FAAEP, FACEP    Taming the Ketamine Tiger: The Evolution of Sub-Dissociative Low Dose Ketamine (SDK) as a Safe Opioid Alternative or Supplement for Treatment of Acute Pain in the Emergency Department	Norman C. Petty, MD    Mental Health in the Emergency Department
John B. Waits, MD    Obstetrical Emergencies for the Non-Obstetrician

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