Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Conference

Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Conference  “Taking Your Practice from Good to Great”

Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Conference: Taking Your Practice from Good to Great

Nov. 6, 2024
7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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University of Maryland, Baltimore
Southern Management Corporation Campus Center
621 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

Overview:

The University of Maryland Medical Center is proud to host in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Nursing the 17th Annual NP and PA Clinical Conference. This one-day conference will be a professional development and networking opportunity for advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and students. Highlights of the conference will include morning and afternoon keynote speakers, breakout sessions for Pediatric, Critical Care, and Acute Adult Care settings, and an opportunity to network with industry vendors

Objectives:

  • Deliver an intensive educational opportunity to promote APP professional development
  • Promote a networking opportunity for attendees
  • Provide clinical evidence based updates on medical management for appropriate disease foci.

Agenda

Time Presentation

7:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:50 a.m.

Welcome
Carmel McComiskey, DNP, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN
Associate Chief Clinical Officer
Director, Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants
University of Maryland Medical Center Downtown & Midtown Campuses

8 a.m.
1.0 CE

Morning Keynote Speaker
Integrative Palliative Care: Whole Person Care for People with Serious Illness using all the Tools that Work
Delia Chiaramonte, MD
Adjunct assistant professor, University of Maryland school of Medicine

9 a.m.
1.0 CE

Medical Management of Obesity
Marjorie Pennant, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

10:00 a.m.

Break with Exhibitors

10:30 a.m.
1.0 CE

Pediatric Care

Adult and Critical Care/Trauma

Adult General Session

Hypophosphatasia: How it Stays Hidden and How to Catch the Culprit
Jacqueline Kernaghan, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA
Associate Director of the Osteoporosis Center of Delaware County in Southesast Pennsylvania

Intro to Ultrasound and Image Interpretation
Shannon Gaasch, MSN, CRNP
Senior Nurse Practitioner II

Atrial Fibrillation Update
Richard Amara, MD
Assistant Professor
EP Fellowship Associate
Program Director

11:30 a.m.
1.0 CE

Pediatric Acute Abdomen
Helena Crowley MD, PhD
Pediatric Surgery at University of Maryland Children’s Hospital

ECMO Indication and Management Patient on ECMO

Brooke Andersen, DNP, CRNP
Clinical Program Manager

Anna Matta, MSN, CRNP
Senior Nurse Practitioner II

Approach to an Abnormal CBC
Kathryn A.F. Kline, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

12:30-1:15 p.m.

Lunch with Exhibitors

1:15 p.m.
1.0 CE

Afternoon Keynote Speaker
Maryland Healthcare is Different and Evolving
David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP
Chief Clinical Officer/Senior Vice President 
University of Maryland Medical Center
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for UMMC Clinical Affairs 
University of Maryland School of Medicine

2:15 p.m.
.75 CE

Consideration for Managing Mental Health and Substance Use
Melissa Glee, CRNP-PMH
Senior Program Director for Psychiatric-Mental Health NP
Gloria Olivares, CRNP    
Senior Nurse Practitioner I

3 p.m. 
1.0 CE

Antibiotic Avengers: How Advanced Practice Providers Help Antibiotic Stewardship   
Emily Heil, PharmD, MD, BCIDP,AAHIVP
Professor-Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy 
Megan E. Dunning MD  
Associate Director of the UMMC Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases
4 p.m. Closing Remarks 
Carmel McComiskey, DNP, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN
Associate Chief Clinical Officer 
Director, Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants
University of Maryland Medical Center Downtown & Midtown Campuses


Nursing Continuing Professional Development

Accredited Provider with Distinction from the American Nurses Credentialing CenterNurses may receive 6.75 contact hours upon successful completion of this educational activity and payment of fee. Successful completion is demonstrated by attending the entire conference and submitting completed program evaluation. Partial credit is not provided. Participants will be able to print Continuing Education Certificate after completing the evaluation.

The University of Maryland School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

PA AAPA Category 1 CMEAmerican Academy of Physician Associates: Physician Assistant may receive 6.75 AAPA Category 1 CME Credits.