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Fall 2008 Agenda

September 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2008
Total Hours requested: 16 hours Category 1 Clinical CME

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WEDNESDAY, September 17, 2008
6:30 p.m. Board of Directors Meeting
THURSDAY, September 18, 2008 (5 hours)
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
7:50 – 8:00 a.m. Opening/Welcome Remarks:
Louise Papka, MPAS, PA-C East River SDAPA CME Chair
 
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. “Alzheimer’s Disease: 2008 Early Recognition and Treatment to Attenuate Disease Progression”, Susan Scanland, MS, APRN, BC-GNP, GeriScan Geriatric Consulting, Clarks Summit, PA.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. “The Updated South Dakota Physician Assistant Practices Act and Administrative Rules: What are the consequences for your clinical practice?”
Margaret Hansen, PA-C, MPAS, Executive Director, Board of Medical & Osteopathic Examiners SD, Sioux Falls, SD.
 
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break in Exhibit Area & Student Research Posters on Display  
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. “Recertification Pearls, Student/Mentor Panel”
Nancy Trimble, MPAS, PA-C, USD PA Program, Vermillion, SD.
 
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch.  AAPA Chapter Product Theater.  “Diabetes” pending  
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. SDAPA Business Meeting
Greetings from the President and President Elect
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. “Recertification Pearls, Student/Mentor Panel”. 
Nancy Trimble, MPAS, PA-C, USD PA Program, Vermillion, SD.
 
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Break in Exhibit area & Student Research Posters on Display  
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. “Breast Surgery and Breast Reconstruction”
L. Patrick Miller, MD, Plastic Surgery Associates, Sioux Falls, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
4:00 – 4:05 p.m. Closing Comments  
FRIDAY, September 19, 2008 (Total: 7 hours)
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. “Coronary Artery Disease 2008: Can We Identify and Treat the Risk Factors Earlier and More Aggressively?” 
Scott Urquhart, PA-C.  President American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants (ASEPA), Adjunct Clinical Professor, James Madison University PA Program, Clinical Instructor, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences PA Program.  Spotsylvania, VA.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. “Physical Rehab Medicine: Antispasticity Therapies including Botox”
Judith Pederson, MD, Sioux Falls, SD.
 
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. “Hormonal Contraceptive Choices – the Provider-Patient Decision Pathways”,
Louise Papka, PA-C, MPAS, DFAAPA; Academic Coordinator/Assistant Professor USD School of Health Sciences Physician Assistant Program. Member of ARHP (Association of Reproductive Health Professionals) and former member of the ASCCP (American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology). Vermillion, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Break in Exhibit area & Student Research Posters on Display
11:30 – 12:30 p.m “Hypertension 2008: Can we decrease target organ damage?”
Randy Orsborn, MPAS, PA-C, CLS. Knox Cardiology Associates, Grady Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, Mt. Vernon, OH.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. SDAPA Committee Meetings
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. “Spinal Stenosis: What is it?”
Walter O. Carlson, MD, Orthopedic Institute, Sioux Falls, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Break in Exhibit area & Student Research Posters on Display
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. “Chest Injuries”
Peter Andreone, MD, FACS, Cardiovascular Surgery, North Central Heart, Sioux Falls, SD
Presentation Handout in PDF format
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. “Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation”
Riyad Mohama, MD, FACC, Cardiology/Electrophysiology, North Central Heart, Sioux Falls, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
5:30 – 5:35 p.m. Closing Comments  
SATURDAY, September 20, 2008 (4 hours)
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. “What I Learned Working as a PA in the NHS” Marilyn Harms, PA-C, MPAS, Sioux Falls, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. “Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis 2008: Options for Therapeutic Intervention” Steve Nunn, PA-C,  Sottopelle, Scottsdale, AZ.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. “The Perfect Contraceptive Method? - Management of Breakthrough Bleeding” Louise Papka, PA-C, MPAS, DFAAPA; Academic Coordinator/Assistant Professor USD School of Health Sciences Physician Assistant Program. Member of ARHP (Association of Reproductive Health Professionals) and former member of the ASCCP (American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology).  Vermillion, SD.
Presentation Handout in PDF format
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. “A Physiatrist’s Approach to Low Back Pain”, Kwang U.K. Chang, MD, Orthopedic Institute, Sioux Falls, SD. Curriculum Vitae (PDF Format)
Presentation Handout in PDF format
12:30 p.m. Drawings, Final Comments, Adjourn
Student Presentations
  “Exploring the efficacy of dopamine antagonists versus altered auditory feedback devices for the management of persistent developmental stuttering”
Nathan J. Benn, PA-SIII
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“FEVER!”
Anthony Burbach, PA-SIII
School of Health Sciences, University of South Dakota,
Physician Assistant Studies Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“The Effectiveness of Metoclopramide Versus Fenugreek in Breastmilk Production”
Amy Fluit, PA-SIII
University of South Dakota School of Health Sciences,
Physician Assistant Studies Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“Insomnia: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Insomnia”
Kee Her, PA-SIII
Physician Assistant Studies Program, Sanford School of Health Sciences,
University of South Dakota
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“Quality of Life in 80 year old patients following cardiac procedures”
Lyndsey Ochsner PA-SIII
USD Physician Assistant Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“Migraine Headaches and Chronic Daily Headaches”
Danette Ronnfeldt, PA-SIII
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“Duloxetine Effectiveness in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder”
Thanh Tran PA-SIII
University of South Dakota, Physician Assistant Studies Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“The efficacy of NSAIDs in acute muscle injury”
Molly Wagoner, PA-SIII
University of South Dakota, Physician Assistant Studies Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format
“The Role of Anti-IgE therapy in the treatment of food allergy”
Joni A. Wipf, PA-S III
University of South Dakota, Physician Assistant Studies Program
Presentation Handout in PDF format

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