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Advanced Emergency Medicine

  

March 19-22, 2012

Evans Hall - Room 327 A&B West Wing
4170 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

John W. Becher, D.O., FACOEP, Program Chairman

Schedule

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OBJECTIVE
Upon completion of this program, participants will acquire an updated understanding of current diagnosis,
intervention and treatment of medical circumstances arising from pediatric and infectious disease patient
presentations to the emergency department. Additionally evaluation of nontraumatic paralysis, management
of DVT, accountability of expert witnesses, direction of pre-hospital cases to tertiary care centers, physician
payment and healthcare reform and emergency department documentation pearls will be presented and discussed. Additional presentations will include Osteopathic Continuous Certification, changing times for medical practice, and challenging cases from current emergency medicine practice.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
Physicians: “The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has requested that the AOA Council on Continuing Medical Education approve this program for twenty-eight hours of AOA Category 1-A CME credits. Approval is currently pending.” Program approved by the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. Sign-in and full day attendance of program required for credit. All faculty participating in continuing medical education programs sponsored by PCOM are expected to disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

PARKING
On-campus parking is available in our garage; please enter on Stout Road. All-day parking is $5.00.
PLEASE NOTE: the automated gate takes quarters or one, five, ten, and twenty dollar bills. 
The garage is now equipped to receive credit card payments (Visa, Master Card and Discover)
at the two exit gates.
Additionally, receipts are now available for those paying by cash or credit card.
Enter Evans Hall through the front entrance across from the parking garage.

FEE POLICIES
Tuition Fee of $740.00 for Physicians. Individual days from Mon-Thurs. are $185.00 (7 credits per day). Physician Assistants and EMS would be $400.00. Individual days from Mon-Thurs. are $100.00. These fees include continental breakfast, lunch and syllabus. Registration is limited on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be confirmed without tuition fee. Refunds for extended programs - 90% of the fee will be refunded if written cancellation is post-marked at least ten days before the program date.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS
If you need to make a reservation, contact the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue (located next door to PCOM) at(800) 445-8667 for the PCOM (Client ID # 2681401) perferred room rate of $135.00 + tax, which includes a buffet breakfast.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES
Call CME office at (215) 871-6348.

SCHEDULE 

Monday, March 19, 2012
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases
Bohdan Minczak, M.D., MS, Ph.D., FAAEM, FACEP,
Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; EMS Division Director, Director of EMS Fellowship, Drexel University College of Medicine
9:30 a.m. Pediatric Cardiac Diseases 
Hank Souto, D.O., FACOEP,
Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Shore
Memorial Hospital and AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
10:30 a.m.

Pediatric Abdominal Emergencies
Johnny S. Gomes D.O., FACEP, FAAEM,
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Grace Hospital, Morgantown, NC

11:30 a.m. Pediatric GU Emergencies
Stewart O. Sanford, M.D.,
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Early Goal Directed Sepsis Care
Leonard Ulan, D.O.,
Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Bryn Mawr Hospital
2:30 p.m. Emerging Infectious Diseases
Johnny S. Gomes, D.O., FACEP, FAAEM
3:30 p.m. High Risk Infections
Michael Goodyear, D.O., FACEP,
Director of Emergency Department, Riddle Memorial Hospital
Tuesday, March 20,2012
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Pediatric Mental Health
Stephen A. Pulley, D.O., FACOEP, CS,
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montgomery Hospital and Medical Center; Clinical Faculty, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
9:30 a.m. Pediatric Fractures
Deborah Pierce, D.O, FACOEP,
Assistant Director, Emergency Department, Elkins Park Hospital   
10:30 a.m. Child Abuse and Neglect
Brian Acunto, D.O.,
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Services, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
11:30 a.m. Common Pediatric Ingestions
Kathryn Kopec, D.O.,
Toxicology Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Challenging Cases
Gary Penner, M.D., FACEP,
Clinical Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Abington Health-Lansdale Hospital
2:30 p.m. Current Management of DVT
H. Edward Seibert, M.D., FACEP,
Attending Physician, Emergency Department,
Abington Memorial Hospital
3:30 p.m. Nontraumatic Paralysis
Stephen A. Pulley, D.O., FACOEP, CS
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Accountability of Expert Witnesses      
Gerald O’Malley, D.O., FACOEP,
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Toxicology, Director of Clinical Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
9:30 a.m. Emergency Department Documentation Pearls and Update
Daria M. Starosta, D.O.,
Chairman, Emergency Medicine, Warren Hospital; North Division Director of Practice Improvement, EmCare
10:30 a.m. Neurological Infections in Children
Ross Feld, D.O.,
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Services, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
11:30 a.m. Direction of Pre-hospital Cases to Tertiary Care Centers
Thomas Brabson, D.O., MBA, FACOEP, FACEP,
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Vice-Chair Emergency Services, Director of Emergency Center Mainland Campus and MICU Medical Director, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ 
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Changing Times for Medical Practice: What Really Lies Ahead?
John W. Becher, D.O., FACOEP,
Dist, Chairman and Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Chairman, Department of Emergency Services, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ; Adjunct Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
2:30 p.m. Washington Healthcare Update: Where Do We Go From Here? 
Joseph J. Kuchinski, D.O., FACOEP,
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Trinitas Hospital, Elizabeth, NJ
3:30 p.m. Procedural Safety in the ED
John J. Kelly, D.O., FACEP,
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Associate Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
Thursday, March 22, 2012
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Rheumatic Fever and Stevens Johnson Disease
Steven J. Parrillo, D.O., FACOEP, FACEP,
Medical Director, Einstein Elkins Park Hospital and Roxborough Memorial Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Director, Disaster Medicine and Management Masters Program, Philadelphia University; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
9:30 a.m. Tick-Borne Diseases
Theodore A. Spevack, D.O., FACOEP-D, FACEP,
Dist, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY; Attending Emergency Physician, Tobey Hospital, Wareham, MA
10:30 a.m. Kawasaki Disease
Steven J. Parrillo, D.O., FACOEP, FACEP
11:30 a.m. OCC, What Do I have to DO?
Mark Stone, D.O., FACOEP,
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Attending Physician, Emergency Department, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Pediatric Atypical Cases
Jordan A. Spector, M.D., MS, Assistant Residency Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center 
2:30 p.m. Infectious Disease Case Studies
Todd Luyber, D.O., FACEP
, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Services, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
3:30 p.m. Challenging Cases from Current Emergency Medicine Practice
Daniel Merz, D.O.,
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Services, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ