TAPA FallFest 2009 OCTOBER 5 - 9, 2009 Continuing Medical Education Conference Focusing on Primary Care Medicine Presented by the Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants at the Mills Auditorium at Gatlinburg Convention Center Gatlinburg, Tennessee

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Tentative Schedule of Events


Sunday, October 4

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration Open

Monday, October 5

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
7:40 a.m. - 7:50 a.m. Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance
7:50 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. Hyperlipidemia
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. "Reel" Psychiatric Diagnoses, Part 1 & Part 2
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Prescribing Practices: Preventing Red Flags
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Conference Luncheon & Awards Presentation
1:20 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Geriatrics "D" List
2:20 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Acute Coronary Syndrome
3:30 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Metabolic Syndrome
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. TAPA General Membership Meeting
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. President's Reception in Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, October 6

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
7:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. Managing Allergic Rhinitis: Controlling Symptoms and Improving Quality of Life
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Diabetes Mellitus: New Advances in Optimal Control
10:30 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (SGO GynecoLogic Cancer Collaborative)
11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. Life in the ER: Case Studies
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch, AAPA CPTS,
  An Advance in Multimodal Analgesic Therapy1
1:30 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. A Case-Based Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes in HIV/AIDS
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Optional Workshop #1:
   Screening Tools & Referral Training (START)
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Optional Workshop #2:
   Careers for PA Students

Wednesday, October 7

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. New Vaccines and Vaccination Controversies
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Gouty Arthritis
10:30 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure:
   ACC/AHA Guidelines
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Closes,
   Silent Auction Ends,
   Prize Drawings (with snacks)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch
  Understanding the Impact of Gender
     on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression2

1:00 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Celiac Disease: Not Just A Pain in the Gut
2:00 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. Screening and Treating Patients with Sleep/Wake
   Disorders (AAPA CLS)
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Many Faces of Atopic Dermatitis
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. TAPA Family Night at the Lily Barn,
   Townsend, TN

Thursday, October 8

6:00 a.m. - 6:30 a.m. First Annual 5K Run/Walk Check-In (Download Race Form here )
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. Advanced Prostate Cancer: Understanding
   Therapy Options (AAPA CLS)
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. The Febrile Child
10:15 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Strategies for TB Elimination: What Health Care Providers
   Need to Know
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Disaster Preparedness
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Legislative Luncheon
1:50 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Orthopedics Review: Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Maladies
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Optional Workshop #3:
   Intra Uterine Presentation
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Optional Workshop #4:
  Shoulder, Hip and Knee Evaluations and Injections

Friday, October 9

7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Buffet Breakfast Honoring Military Service
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. Blood Dyscrasias
9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. It's Not the Thyroid, it's the Food: Endocrine Abnormalities
   in Obese Children
10:15 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Reintegrating America's Returning Warriors to the Workplace
11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Optimal Strategies in Radiology
         

1This is a non-accredited educational presentation sponsored by PriCara®, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Nanssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

2This is a non-accredited educational presentation sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and is intended for healthcare professionals treating patients 18 years of age and older

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