2011 Annual Convention and Scientific Sessions
October 12-16, 2011
J.W. Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa,
Lectures are grouped according the the day on which they are scheduled. Click on links below to access available presentations. Not all lectures have been made available online.
WEDNESDAY
Humayun J. Chaudhry, DO, MS, FACOI
Maintenance of Licensure
Summary
Gary L. Slick, DO, MACOI
Understanding the Osteopathic Continuous Certificiation Process
Jill M. Young, CPC, CEDC, CIMC
Coding and Reimbursement Information Every Physician Should Know
PODCAST
THURSDAY
Shawn Martin
I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'm Sorry
Mitchell D. Forman, DO, FACOI
Predictive Parameters of Professionalism: How to Identify and Remove the Bad Apples
Lee Peter Bee, DO
Health Information Technology: Apps for Today's Medicine
List of Apps and Websites
Robert G. Good, DO, FACOI
The Phoenix Physician
George Bray, MD
Obesity: From There to Here
John E. Paes, DO, FACOI
The Skinny on Obesity Endocrinopathies
Jeffrey S. Freeman, DO, FACOI
Issues Regarding the Metabolic Syndrome Assessing the Components and CVD Risk
Craig W. Spellman, DO, PhD, FACOI
What is the Role of Genetics in Obesity
Thomas F. Morley, DO, FACOI
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
Amita Vasoya, DO, FACOI
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Noisy Killer
Bryan L. Martin, DO
Obesity and Asthma
Christopher R. Brackney, DO
Caring for the Morbidly Obese in the ICU
George G. Sokos, DO
Pulmonary Hypertension/RV Failure Management in the ICU
Dominic F. Glorioso, DO, FACOI
Evidence-Based Palliative Care in the ICU
FRIDAY
Gerald W. Blackburn, DO, FACOI
AIDS/HIV Update
Aaron C. Jessop, MD
Hybrid/Imaging with PET/CT and SPECT/CT: Improving Therapeutic Decisions
Scott A. Wolf, DO, MPH, FACP; Mark M. Fulco, MPA
Moving from Volume to Value: A Blueprint for Physician Success in the New Reality of Health Reform
Mia A. Taomina, DO
Has Obesity Gone Viral?
Michael D. Kimzey, DO, FACOI
Infectious Complications of Obesity
Gary L. Cornette, DO, FACOI
NAFLD/NASH/Cirrhosis: The Epidemic of Obesity
Charlene A. LePane, DO
The Profound Impact of Obesity: A Gastroenterologist's Perspective
Winston Gerig, MD
Bariatric Surgery for Internists
Summary: Bariatric Surgery for Internists
Robert J. Chilton, DO, FACOI
The Diabetes Spectrum: Pre-Diabetes and New Targets
Frederick A.Schaller, DO, FACOI
Atrial Fibrillation The High Risk Obese Patient
Andrea Sciberras, DO
End Stage DHF: Is There a Role for Palliative Measures?
Contemporary Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Table (Appendix)
Janice A. Knebl, DO, MBA, FACOI, FACP
Geriatric Atrial Fibrillation Cases
Gerald W. Blackburn, DO, FACOI
Tests I Wish I Never Ordered
John E. Prior, DO, FACOI
Test I Wish Was Never Ordered: Renal Artery Study
SATURDAY
Gary L. Cornette, DO, FACOI
Barrett's Esophagus: A Ten-Year Community Hospital Experience
Barrett's References
Marianne M. Holler, DO, FACOI
Over-Fed and Undernourished: Obesity in the New Millenium
Timothy W. McNichol, JD
Washington Update
Sai-Ching Jim Yeung, MD, PhD
The Impact of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Cancer
Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, FACOI
Oncologist/Palliative Care Relationship
Robert W. Jackson, DO, FACOI
Autoimmune Disease in Association with Obesity
Lary Ciesmier, DO, FAAAAI, FACOI
Food Allergy Update: Is There a Relation to Obesity?
Karen A. Griffin, MD
Updates in Hypertension Management and Target Organ Damage
John E. Prior, DO, FACOI
Obesity and Renal Disease
Samuel K. Snyder, DO, FACOI
Obesity Related Kidney Diseases
Kathleen Drinan, DO, FACC, FACOI
Women and Hypertension
SUNDAY
U. Inge Ferguson, DO, FACOI
Obesity Wrap-Up
Michael B. Clearfield, DO, FACOI; U. Inge Ferguson, DO, FACOI
Conference Summary or Another Inconvenient Truth
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