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3rd Annual Hospital Medicine Conference

This program is designed to provide physicians, nursing professionals and allied health professionals with state-of-the-science information about Acute Care Medicine.

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3rd Annual Hospital Medicine Conference
Friday, April 24, 2015 7:00AM-4:00PM
The Grandview, 176 Rinaldi Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Program Schedule
This is a working agenda, it may change drastically between now and April 24.

7:00am – 7:30am –         REGISTRATION

7:30am – 8:00am –         Update on ICD-10 & Sepsis
                                            – Dawn Louey, RN-BC, MS & Paula Zwillinger, RN
                                            – Denise Phelps, RN, MS

8:00am – 8:45am –         Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
                                            – Fran Brooks, MD

8:45am – 9:30am –         Pneumonia Updates
                                            – Brenda Ayers, MD

9:30am – 10:15am –       When and How to Use Non-Invasive Mechanical
                                              Ventilation: Key Principles

                                            – Francis Castiller, MD

10:15am – 10:30am –     BREAK

10:30am – 11:15am –     Hypertensive Emergencies
                                             – Corey Leibell, FNP

11:15am – 12:00pm –     New Drugs
                                             – Kofi Adjei, PharmD

12:00pm – 1:00pm –       LUNCH

1:00pm – 1:45pm –         Introduction to Neurointerventional Surgery
                                             – Alison Nohara, MD

1:45pm – 2:00pm –         BREAK 

2:00pm – 3:00pm –         EKG Review, Part 1
                                             – Anne Lucas, DNP

3:00pm – 4:00pm –         EKG Review Case Studies, Part 2             
                                            – Simon Gorwara, MD

VBMC Nurses must also submit RTA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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