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"Avoiding the Blank Stare": Challenges in Communic... Htlaeh Ycaretil is health literacy written backwar... Claudette Dalton
"Do one, Teach One"…Simultaneously?: Bedside Ment... Most medical decision making is done from informat... Diane Birnbaumer
"Little people…Big Worries" Children in the ED: Ri... AAPA08-8216 Joan Shook
"You Can Take It with You": Portable, Accessible, ... A major initiative is underway to connect healthca... Jeffrey Odell
A Comparison of Traditional Latino and Western Med... Latinos constitute the largest minority population... Charles Taylor, Eliseo Torres
A Measurable Difference: Clinical Decision Support... Clinical Decision Support Systems or (Decision Sup... Ross Koppel
A Stroll Down Supplement Alley: A Knowledge Suppl... Supplement demographics in the United States revea... Ellen Mandel
Abnormal Liver Tests: What Should I Do Now? A systematic approach to the evaluation of liver t... JoAnn Deasy
Achieving New Heights in Prosthetics: The Bionic P... This session will provide an overview of prostheti... Christopher German
Acid/Base Disturbances and Blood Gases The interpretation of acid/base disorders frequent... Paul Szczybor
ADHD - What is Attention Hyperactivity Disorder: D... Ironically, clinicians are spending more and more ... David Crumpacker
Adrenal Diseases: They’re Rare but Be Aware Although diseases and disorders of the adrenal gla... B. Urquhart
After Walter Reed: Improvement in Veterans’ Health... Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address d... John Padgett
Allergic, Non-Allergic, and Mixed Rhinitis in Prim... Rhinitis and rhino-sinusitis are commonly encounte... Harold Hedges
American Apartheid: Medicine, Race and the Culture... This presentation will trace the history and analy... Harriet Washington
American Headache Society’s BRAINSTORM The American Headache Society presents Brainstorm—... Scott Litin, Noah Rosen
Anemia - Where did all the Blood Go? Anemia is a common finding in primary care setting... Allan Platt
Antibiotic Resistance: Top 10 Studies of 2007-200... Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem tha... JoAnn Deasy
Anxiety and Co-morbid Depression: The Challenge of... Anxiety disorders and depressive disorders are the... Oliver Oyama
Aortic Disasters Aortic disease is occurring with greater frequency... Jonathan Hill
Application of Genetics to Primary Care Before applying genetics to patient care physician... Scott Martin
ARV Updates AAPA08-8150 Ann Khalsa
Assessing Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Ado... The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the... Ian Janssen
Atypical Pediatric Fever Stories Periodic fever and other periodic syndromes were f... Alexander Lawton
Autism A to Z This session will discuss screening and diagnosis ... Chris Johnson
Back Pain: How to Make the Right Choice with Your ... Back pain is a common reason for a visit to the pr... Andrew McDavid
Being a Successful Mentor PAs serve in many roles. One role is as a mentor.... J. Blessing
Beyond Medical Knowledge: Moving Your Practice fro... As an experienced clinician, have you wondered how... Patricia Guerra, Michel Statler
Booby Traps of Electrocardiography and the Missed ... This presentation will begin with a brief discussi... Vernon Stanley
Borderline Personality Disorder in the Primary Car... People with personality disorders are often high u... Oliver Oyama
BPH: It's a Growing Problem BPH is a disease state that will impact 75% of all... Wanda Hancock
Breast Cancer Prevention Breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring ... Kelly Hunt
Calling the Shots: Immunization Advocacy in the Fa... There currently is a strong grassroots anti-vaccin... Litjen Tan
Cancer Survivors: What Every PA Should Know The topic of this first joint symposium of the Ame... Craig Earle, Maura Polansky, Katrina Pos...
Cardiac Imaging: Basic Cardiac Angiogram/Basic Car... This session will cover the basics of reading the ... Phillip Houck
Cardiovascular Disease in Women: What Are the Impo... Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is th... Catherine McNeal
Case Studies from the Anticoagulation Clinic Cases will be presented. Each case brings up mana... Scott Litin
Case Studies: Cognitive and Psychiatric Disorders ... This session is designed to provide attendees with... Kathy Kemle, Marguerite Poreda
Chest X-ray Interpretation for the Outpatient, Hos... AAPA08-8105 Gary Shayne
Choosing the Right Medication Assistance Program(s... As medication costs continue to rise, many patient... Tom Lynch
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in 2008 AAPA08-8255 Swaminathan Padmanabhan
Chronic Pain in Primary Care This talk focuses on differing presentation betwee... Julie Gronek
Clearing Your Cardiac and Pulmonary Patients for S... Anesthesia carries its own inherrent risks. In the... David Andres
Club Drugs and Strawberry Quick: Methamphetamine a... The use of club drugs and methamphetamine has swep... Erin Denton
Cognitive and Psychiatric Disorders in Older Adult... This session is designed to provide attendees with... Marguerite Poreda, Kathy Kemle
Colorectal Cancer Screening Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancer... Scott Moon
Common Eye Problems Any healthcare provider in a primary care office, ... Gregory Pinto
Common Hand and Wrist Injuries: Evaluation and Tre... Physician Assistants practice in many milieus that... Radford Hayden
Common Patient Presentations with Unusual Diagnose... The TV show "House" has brought to the attention o... James Van
Complications of Body Art Body art is becoming increasingly common in our so... Stephen Playe
Congenital Heart Disease: Recognition and Treatmen... Structural heart disease represents one of the mos... Louis Bezold
Contraceptive Challenges Through the use of case studies, challenging contr... Barbara Clark
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intimate Partner Vi... This clinically focused talk reviews this urgently... Trisha HarrisOdimgbe
Crossing the Cultural Divide: New Immigrant Health... The art of asking questions is a delicate balance.... Judith Sloan
CSAC Top 10 Stories for 2007-2008 This presentation will provide a brief overview of... Lawrence Herman
CT Angiograms in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: W... This lecture will focus on the recent developments... David Dowe
Daily Dose of DNA: Race, Genetics, and Health Car... A large volume of new genetic data has permitted a... Lynn Jorde
Daily Dose of DNA: Ethical Challenges of Individua... We are about to enter a time in which individuals ... Laurence McCullough
Daily Dose of DNA: Genetics and Major Psychiatric ... This presentation will increase understanding of t... Holly Peay
Daily Dose of DNA: Genetics of Common Disease Whole genome association studies are showing great... Howard Levy
Deafness 101: Skills for Healthcare Providers Attendance at this session should help ensure ever... Doug Dittfurth
Death by MRI: Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) ... In 2000, Dr Shawn Cowpers of Yale University repor... Adam Pearlman
Diabetes: Choosing Medications That Ensure Better ... Are you lost in the morass of diabetes drugs? Do ... Miriam Michael
Diagnosis and Treatment of Scaphoid Fractures Fractures of the scaphoid bone are difficult to d... Radford Hayden
Don't Let Your Patients "De-FEET" You: An Introduc... The presentation will provide a brief review of th... Janelle DeGrote
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis AAPA08-8077 Richard Winn
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding Dysfunctional uterine bleeding is abnormal uterine... Linda Burdette
Environmental Health Risks in Children As each day seems to bring news of a new environme... Lynnette Mazur
Environmental Toxicants and Human Reproduction During the past two decades various scientific and... Elwyn Grimes
Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction plagues 20-30 million America... Mary Mathe
Essentials in 12-Lead ECG Diagnosis Participants will be given the absolute essential ... Darwin Brown
Evaluating Dyspnea and/or Hemoptysis AAPA08-8071 Richard Winn
Evaluation and Treatment of Pressure Ulceration This is a review of the current state of the art i... Wayne Stuart
Evaluation of the Limping Child: Key Diagnoses in ... The successful evaluation and treatment of a limpi... Paul Bradford
Facial Anesthesia AAPA08-8033 Robert Zarranz
Facial Nerve Paralysis Facial nerve paralysis is a common and often benig... Paul Gidley
Facial Rejuvenation: Selecting the Optimal Procedu... Creating a healthy, radiant, and natural looking r... Holly Barbour
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): Preventio... FASD is the leading known cause of mental retardat... Kathleen Mitchell
Fibromyalgia Revisited: Real or Imagined Fibromyalgia is 'real'. Central sensitization, an ... Atul Deodhar
Fine Tuning Your Neurologic Exam For practicing PAs, the neurologic exam can feel t... Michel Statler
Fluid Resuscitation and Management AAPA08-8158 David Andres
Gambling with Atypical Anti-psychotics: When to Ho... Over 90% of all antipsychotic prescriptions in the... Tom Lynch
GI Bleed: Not Everything That Bleeds is Red Gastrointestinal bleeding results in more than 300... David Carpenter
Glaucoma Glaucoma is an extremely common cause of vision lo... Gregory Pinto
Got Clot? State of the Art Diagnosis and Managemen... In this session the speaker will look at new strat... Stephen Leffler
Gynecologic Emergencies – A Potpourri Gynecologic emergencies range from the relatively ... Diane Birnbaumer
Health Care on the Move The busy PA needs patient information whenever and... Chad Roberts
Heart Failure: How Can We Improve Patient Outcomes Heart failure is the leading cause of hospital adm... John Erwin
Heart Hardware: Interactive Case Studies Involving... Acute care medical providers frequently encounter ... George Higgins
Hemodynamic Case Presentations This session will review multiple cases of patient... Phillip Houck
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers: What the Pr... Only within the last two years do we have the wide... Lawrence Herman
His Brain, Her Brain - The Impact upon Patient and... In a world where men and women are constantly told... Walter Larimore
HIV 101 for the Primary Care Provider The revised estimates provided by the WHO in 2007 ... Erich Grant
HIV for the Women's Health Provider AAPA08-8129 Ann Khalsa
Home Based Care and House Calls: Practice and Reim... As the American population ages, demand for care i... Kathy Kemle
Hospitalist PAs: Opportunity Calls AAPA08-8292 Mitchell Wilson
How to Kill a Patient without Really Trying This case-based presentation takes you through the... James Taft
How Well Do Our Cultures Fit? USA PAs in the Scot... A presentation will give findings of a 2 year eval... Jane Farmer
Identifying Different Types of Depression and Why ... Depression is an emotional state common to all hum... Don John
Imagined Ugliness: Body Dysmorphic Disorder Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a devastating ps... Don John
Immunization Update Immunization recommendations change frequently. Th... William Atkinson
Infant Nutrition – Where Do We Stand? Do you see infants in your practice? Would you li... Christopher Barry
Inflammatory Breast Cancer - What You Don't Know M... AAPA08-8174 Massimo Cristofanilli
In-flight Medical Emergencies The call bell rings and the annoucement, "Is there... Jeff Hinshaw
Innovations in Current Combat Casualty Care: What ... This session will provide an introduction and over... John McManus
Interactive Case Studies in Post-Acute Myocardial ... Acute care medical providers become comfortable ma... George Higgins
Introduction to PubMed This presentation on PubMed will include an overvi... Karen Vargas
Just Another Drunk? Alcohol Emergencies and Their... Alcohol withdrawal can occur in anyone who chronic... Diane Birnbaumer
Kidney Failure Caused by Therapeutic Agents This session will discuss common kidney injuries c... Keith Bellovich
Laryngeal Reflux and Laryngeal Cancer: Is There a ... According to population-based surveys, GERD (gastr... Debra Munsell
Late Life-Depression: Diagnostic Considerations an... Depression is the most common psychiatric illness ... Jonathan Stewart
Liver Failure and the Liver Transplant Process AAPA08-8036 Randall Zuckerman
Management of Life-threatening Electrolyte and Met... AAPA08-8007 Alejandro Arroliga
Management of the Spinal Cord Injury Patient for t... Spinal cord disease, traumatic and non-traumatic, ... Alan Abrams
Managing Exposures to Indoor Asthma Triggers and E... During this session, the speakers will discuss way... Leyla McCurdy, Lois RN,, James Roberts
Managing HPV: A New Era in Patient Care Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sex... Barbara Clark
Medicare and Private Payer Reimbursement Update Reimbursement rules and regulations are constantly... Michael Powe
Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment Anticholinergic medications are known to impair co... Todd Semla
Melanoma: Detection, Diagnosis, Dilemmas, and Deci... Still on the increase, still without a cure, cutan... Craig Lippitt
Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: State of the Art This session will discuss how the PA in the primar... Randall Zuckerman
Military Medicine Did It First This presentation will focus on advances in medici... Dale Smith
MRSA The term "MRSA" strikes fear into the hearts of ma... Stephen Playe
Multiple Myeloma: Past, Present, and Future This will be a discussion of multiple myeloma for ... J. Mahany
Multiple Sclerosis: An Update of a Curious Disease An in-depth multiple sclerosis program that explor... Terry Clark
My Back Hurt - Now My Leg Hurts! Guidance for the ... The treatment of low back pain and related disorde... Joseph Ruane
My Worst Headache: Chronic Daily Headache Migraine patients with near daily headache may be ... Eric Schuman
Name That Lesion Accurately describing lesion morphology, distribut... P. Jones
Neurochemical Basis and Pharmacological Interventi... Physician assistants can serve a vital role in the... James Stoehr
Neurogenic Voiding Dysfunction-Don't be Afraid Most providers want to run the other direction whe... Todd Doran
New Drugs and Devices That Might Just Change Your ... Each year the FDA approves dozens of new medicatio... Joseph Lex
Nutrition in the ICU and Chronically Ill Patient This lecture will help you understand the importan... Charles Foulks
Occupational Lung Disease/Pulmonary Function Tests AAPA08-8028 Patrick Hartley
Orthopedic Zebras? Ten Orthopedic Injuries You Don... The following injuries will be discussed in case-b... Donald Coerver
OTC Substance Abuse and the Adolescent Brain The misuse and abuse of legally available products... Brian Fingerson
Overview of Sleep Disorders: Sleep-Wake Cycle Dist... There are 84 different sleep disorders. Sleep dis... Phillip Becker
Pancreatitis: All You Need to Know! AAPA08-8022 Randall Zuckerman
Pandemic Influenza Update for Physician Assistants... Preparing for the introduction of a novel strain o... Michael Milner
PAs with Substance Abuse Problems - You? Not Me! Physician assistants can serve a vital role in the... James Stoehr
Pathogenesis of Metabolic Syndrome and How Does Ra... The metabolic syndrome has five components. We wil... Andrey Manov
Pediatric Asthma: When to Make the Diagnosis Asthma remains a significant cause of hospitalizat... Brian Wingrove
Pediatric Fever: When to Work-Up, When to Worry Fever is one of the most common and most confusing... Alyson Smith
Pediatric Respiratory Infections Many childhood illnesses are primarily of viral et... Brian Wingrove
Pediatric Surgical Emergencies Pediatric patients present unique clinical challen... Paul Danielson
Physician Assistant-owned Practice: Pearls and Pit... This session will allow the participant to have a ... Ron Nelson
Post-Deployment Health Re-assessment Program - Scr... A variety of issues are experienced by service mem... Jeffrey Cothran, Gerald Fushianes
Post-mastectomy Surgical Options The post-mastectomy patients has many options to c... Eric Mooney
Post-operative Acute Renal Failure and Other Acute... Post-operatively your patient may end up with acut... Luis Concepcion
Post-operative Care in the SICU During this lecture we will discuss the mot common... David Ciceri
Premenstrual and Perimenopausal Mood Disorders This presentation provides an overview of premenst... Geetha Shivakumar
Prevention of Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Recent studies are reporting an increasing number ... Roberto Trevino
Proteinuria: An Early Warning Sign This session will discuss the pathophysiology of t... Keith Bellovich
Public Reporting of Medical Statistics and Outcome... Since New York State pioneered public reporting fo... Zoltan Turi
Pulmonary Malignancy AAPA08-8023 Esther Fields
Pump up the Patient with Personal Health Records (... Personal Health Records (PHRs) are an increasingly... David Kaelber
Radiation Safety in the Era of Helical CT: America... The explosive rise in the number of CT scans, perf... Steven Birnbaum
Rapid Fatal Infections During this lecture we will review the most common... David Ciceri
Rethinking Hypertension Hypertension has long been known among health prof... Rodney Richie
Rheumatology 101: Rheumatology for Dummies Within the last few years, the understanding of rh... Benjamin Smith
School Shootings: Multiple Victim Homicide in the... AAPA08-8242 Heidi Vermette
Screening Strategies for Human Papilloma Virus (HP... This session will provide new information regardin... Margaret Felice
Seeing the Light, Laser Applications in Dermatolog... This session is targeted to those PAs interested i... MarLee Balka-Vause
Self-Care Strategies for PMS and Menopause Women experience approximately 450 menses in their... Laura Hansen
Sepsis and Its Management: The Modern Paradigm of ... The incidence of sepsis in the United States is gr... Paul Szczybor
Sexuality Education: Core Competencies for Clinici... Clinicians are historically uncomfortable discussi... Jason Schneider
Sickle Cell Disease Update Sickle Cell disease is one of the most common gene... Allan Platt
Sleep Disorders A must attend lecture on sleep disorders for all m... Carl Boethel
Speak Up! Hearing Loss in Adults Physician assistants should recognize that forms o... Elizabeth Eldakar
Speaking Like A Pro Part of the joy, and the responsibility, of being ... Stephen Playe
Stop it Right There: Get Teens to Quit Smoking Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable ... Alexander Prokhorov
Subacute and Long Term Management of Burns The initial treatment of the burned patient is usu... Eric Mooney
The Atopic Child Atopic disorders are the most common disorders in ... Gabriel Ortiz
The Cardio-Renal Syndrome: The Deadly Combination ... Patients with chronic kidney disease are at substa... Alan Kliger
The CBC: What Is to be Seen The complete blood cell count (CBC) is one of the ... JoAnn Deasy
The Challenge of Managing Drug-Drug Interactions i... Our population continues to age. Clinicians who t... David Crumpacker
The Challenges of Occupational Back Pain Back pain is one of the most common reasons that p... Gina Glass
The COURAGE to Fight Coronary Artery Disease: How ... Coronary arterial disease is the leading cause of ... John Erwin
The Diverse Roles for PAs Today This presentation is facilitated by a practicing P... Ed Lopez
The Epley Maneuver: Treatment for Benign Position ... There are few things in medicine that can actually... Shawn McGlew
The Eye and Systemic Disease The eyes are, arguably the window to the soul. The... Gregory Pinto
The Hygiene Hypothesis Over the last 50 years, the prevalence of all alle... Mike Calvin
The Latest on NCCPA and PA Certification Join NCCPA to learn about our latest efforts to ke... Randy Danielsen
The New Agents for Osteoporosis…Making the Right D... With the aging population older Americans will nee... Richard Pope
The Pediatric Physical Exam: What You Forgot You K... This brief discussion will provide pediatric exam ... Don Solimini
The Science of Persuasion: How the Pharmaceutical ... The techniques of persuasion (marketing) employed ... Tom Lynch
The Secret History of the War on Cancer The war on cancer set out to find, treat, and cure... Devra Davis
The Two-Minute Safety Drill The Two Minute Drill on Patient Safety will take p... James Taft
Thyroid Disease: A Case Study Presentation Thyroid disease is frequently encountered in the c... Dwight Deter, Christopher Sadler
TIAs: Myths and Controversies As there seems to be no standard approach to the d... James Taft
TNFs and More in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): What D... This session will provide a broad overview of how ... Catherine Harmon
Too Much Skin: Post-bariatric Surgical Options As bariatric surgery becomes more mainstream, the ... Eric Mooney
Travel Medicine...A Topic as Large as the Globe AAPA08-8238 Alan Howell
Trouble Shooting the Post-open Heart Patient Patients returning from open heart surgery require... Jonathan Hill
Understanding and Managing Psychiatric Disorders U... This session is designed as a psychiatric primer f... Marguerite Poreda
Understanding Diuretic Usage: It is More Complicat... There is a lot more to diuretic usage than prescri... Luis Concepcion
Understanding Reimbursement from a Clinician's Per... This session will allow the participant to have a ... Ron Nelson
Unequal Treatment of Lesbian and Gay Patients: The... With a historical look at the roots of unequal car... Diane Bruessow
Update on Bioterrorism: We Are Still Not Safe Over the years since 9/11/01 and 10/14/01 we have ... Richard Vause
Updates in Chest Trauma The Emergency Bedside Ultrasound (EMBU) is rapidly... Joseph Lex
Urinary Incontinence This session will discuss how the PA in the primar... Jonathan Jay
What is New in the 2007 Unstable Angina/ST Elevati... AAPA08-8269 Timothy Mixon
What's Wrong with the FDA and What's Needed to Fix... The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has faced n... Susan Wood
Wheezing and Stridors in Adults AAPA08-8215 Carl Boethel
When Your Patient Is a Googler: Health Websites Yo... Participants will receive an overview of the conte... Karen Vargas
Why Check the Creatinine: The Elevated Creatinine ... Why is checking the serum creatinine so important?... Charles Foulks
Why Does My Shoulder Hurt? Shoulder pain is a very common complaint in both t... Richard Schultz
Why Our Patients Won't Do What We Tell Them to Do ... A cognitive-behavioral approach to the problem of ... Monica Basco
Writing for Publication: What Are the Secrets to ... New data and communication technologies have made ... Richard Dehn

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