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2012 Conference Presentations

Edward Oldfield, MD:
High Risk in Resident's Health: UTI and C. DIfficile Infection

Aubrey Knight, MD:
Transitions of Care Through  Active Discharge Planning

Daniel Swagerty, MD, CMD:
Long Term Care: Past, Present, and Future

Pat Bach, PsyD, RN & Daniel Bluestein, MD, MS, CMD:
Invisible No More: LGBT Elders In LTC

Daniel Swagerty, MD, CMD:
Effective LTC Medical Direction: Challenges and Opportunities

William Hovland, MD, CMD;  Marc Nevin, MD, CMD & Angel Rivera:
Effective Use of NPPs in Long Term Care
Marc Nevin, MD, CMD


2011 Conference Presentations

Len Gelman, MD, CMD:
Data Sanity in Quality Improvement

Paul R. Katz, MD, CMD:
AMDA National Update (LTC - The Big Picture)

James A. Avery, MD, CMD:
Taking the Pain Out of Pain Management

Jeffrey Nichols, MD:
Effective Discharge Planning

Peter Betz, MD, CMD:
Anti-Psychotic Drugs – When to use them, when to avoid them

Mark Coggins, Pharm.D., CGP:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improve Psychotropic Medication Reductions


2010 Conference Presentations

Tom Lynch, Pharm.D., BCPS:
Recognizing and Preventing Drug interactions in LTC

Paul Drinka, MD, CMD, AGSF
Infectious Disease in LTC

Douglas Walters, RN & Vickie Armstrong, GNP
MDS3

Chris Patterson, MD, CMD
Re-kindling the Provider-Patient Relationship

Dan Haimowitz, MD, CMD
LTC Practice in Assisted Living

Jonathan Evans, MD, CMD & Mary Evans, MD, CMD
Managing Difficult behavior in LTC

The Challenges of Treating Depression in Older Adults

AMDA Update


2009 Conference Presentations

David Tucker, LNHA:
The Importance of the Medical Director and Center Communication

George Taler, MD, CMD:
The Cutting Edge in Wound Care

Jonathan Evans, MD, CMD:
Geriatric Literature Update 2009

Kerry Cranmer, MD, CMD:
Barriers to Good Death in a Nursing Home

Randy Dale, BS, Pharm.D., CGP:
DEA Regulations as They Pertain to the LTC Practice of Medicine

Tom Lynch, Pharm.D., BCPS:
Safely Reducing Your Patient's Medication Load