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      Monday, Oct 4, 2010
7:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Registration open until 5:00pm
8:00 am - 11:00 am Basic Life Support Certification / Recertification Workshop
Cheryl Smith.
1:00 pm - 1:55 pm Smoking Cessation: Treatment Strategies for Success
Mary P. Ettari, MPH, PA-C
2:00 pm - 2:55 pm Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Steve Clifton, PA-C
3:00 pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15 pm - 4:10 pm Women's Health and Menopause: Options in the Post-Wemen's Health Initiative Era
Beth Choby, MD
4:15 pm - 5:10 pm Women's Health Update - Recent Guidelines for Cervical Screening
Beth Choby, MD
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
      Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010
6:30 am -   PAC 5K Run/Walk
7:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Exhibit Hall open until 12:30 pm
8:00 am - 8:55 am The Role of Incretin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: New Approaches, Emerging Data
Lawrence Blonde, MD
Supported by Network for Continuing Medical Education
9:00 am - 9:55 am Emerging Treatment Trends in Pediatric Orthopedics
Paul Bradford, PA-C
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break in Exhibit Hall
10:30 am - 11:25 am New Vaccines and Vaccine Controversies
Supported by Outcomes Management Educational Workshops, Inc.
11:30 am - 12:25 pm Acute Bacterial Conjunctivitis - The ABCs (An Update 2010)
Supported by Outcomes Management Educational Workshops, Inc.
12:30 am - 2:00 pm TAPA Awards Presentation Luncheon
2:00 pm - 2:55 pm Documentation: Avoiding Scrutiny
Patrick Cafferty, PA-C
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm Antimicrobial Stewardship
Jay Sizemore, PA-C
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Workshop: Suturing techniques: Practice, practice, practice
Dave Drum, PA-C
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Bethel (College) University PA Alumni Reception
      Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010
7:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Exhibit Hall Open until 12:15 pm
7:30 am - 8:25 am Increasing Utilization Rates in Adults for Recommended Screenings and Immunizations
Leslie Norris, DNP, FNP-C
8:30 am - 9:25 am Not All Depression is a Major Depressive Disorder
Arthur E. Williams, DO
9:30 am - 10:00 am Break in Exhibit Hall
10:00 am - 10:55 am New Technology in Vascular Procedures
Jim Montag, PA-C
11:00 am - 11:55 am Identifying Drug Abuse (You Might Be a Drug Abuser If...)
Stephen Adams, MD
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Exhibit Hall closing
12:15 pm - 12:55 pm Lunch on own
1:00 pm - 1:55 pm Food & Waterborne Diseases
Harry W. Severance, MD
2:00 pm - 2:55 pm Radiology Review: Flirting with Subtleties
R. Kent Hutson, MD
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Ballistics "In & Out"; The Perils, Pitfalls & Pearls of Applying Ballistics to Gunshot Wound Case Management
Harry W. Severance, MD
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm TAPA General Membership Meeting
During the General Membership Meeting, TAPA members will vote upon proposed bylaws amendments that have been approved by the TAPA Board of Directors.
To view these amendments, please click here. Only TAPA members in good standing are eligible to vote on bylaws amendments.
      Thursday, Oct 7, 2010
7:00 am - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:55 am Don't Just Stand There and Look: Expanding Your Dermatology Differential
Douglas DiRuggiero, PA-C
9:00 am - 9:55 am Pediatric Obesity
Kurt Smith, MD
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am - 11:10 am Reimbursement Issues
Trish Marriott
11:15 am - 12:10 pm Evaluation and Treatment of Stroke
Sudave Mendiratta, MD
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Legislative Luncheon
John Williams
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Identifying and Making First Decisions for the Primary Care Patient with HIV: A Step-by-Step Guide through the Initial Clinical Encounter
Mary Elizabeth Springston, M.S.Ed., PA-C
AAPA Chapter Lecture Series supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Inc., and Tibotec Therapeutics
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Basic Pelvic and Soft Tissue Ultrasound
Ben Smith, MD
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: EKG Interpretation
Sudave Mendiratta, MD
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Family Night Event
      Friday, Oct 8, 2010
7:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:55 am Hypertension / Dyslipidemia
Jaan Kelly, PA-C
9:00 am - 9:55 am Orthopaedic Emergencies: What Not to Miss
Alex Jahangir, MD
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am - 11:10 am Sports Medicine: Diagnosis and Management of Common Sports Injuries (Part I)
Andrew Gregory, MD
11:15 am - 12:10 pm Sports Medicine: Diagnosis and Management of Common Sports Injuries (Part II)
Andrew Gregory, MD
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