7:00am – 7:25am – REGISTRATION
7:25am – 7:30am – Welcome/Opening Remarks
– Sule Khawaja, MD, Education Director,
Medical Director, Hospitalists,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
7:30am – 8:00am – Transition of Care: Ensuring Patient
Success After the Hospital
–Julia Primavera, RN, BSN,
Director of Case Management,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
8:00am – 8:45am – Rational Use of Biomarker Tests
– Sule Khawaja, MD, Education Director
Medical Director, Hospitalists,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
8:45am – 9:15am – Emergency General Surgery:
Crisis, Evolution, and the Rise
of Acute Care Surgery
– Daniel Golden, MD
Trauma/Critical Care Surgeon,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center,
Guthrie Medical Group
9:15am – 9:45am – Psychiatry in the Acute Care Setting
– Michael Doyle, MD, Psychiatrist, VPMA,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
9:45am – 10:00am – BREAK
10:00am – 10:45am – Opioid Overdose and Prevention in
Dutchess County
– Kia Newman, MD, Pathologist,
Dutchess County Department of
Health Pathology
10:45am – 11:30am – Alternatives to Pain Management from
Traditional Narcotics
– Andrew Ng, MD
Anesthesiologist, NAPA
11:30am – 12:00pm – Initial Resuscitation of Hemodynamically
Unstable Septic Patient
– Samar Khan, DO, Intensivist,
Health Quest Medical Practice, PC
12:00pm – 1:00pm – LUNCH
1:00pm – 1:45pm – Herbal Medicine: Not as Safe as it sounds
– Afua Forson, MD, Hospitalist,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
1:45pm – 2:30pm – DVT & PE treatments: New Anticoagulants
– Susan Collins, MD, Hospitalist,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
2:30pm – 2:45pm – BREAK
2:45pm – 3:15pm – Dysphagia Screening: What Providers Need
to Know
– Don Barbarino, MS,
Speech Language Pathologist,
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
3:15pm – 4:00pm – Effective Use of Dermatology Consultation in
the Current Hospital Environment
– Vincent P. Beltrani, MD
Dermatologist, CareMount Medical, PC
4:00pm – Closing Remarks
