NOVEMBER 3, 2023

8th Annual

Advanced Practice Provider Symposium

8th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Symposium - November 3, 2023
REGISTER
DATE & TIME
Friday, November 3, 2023
6:45 AM - 5:00 PM

LOCATION
University of Kansas Medical Center
Hixon Atrium, Wahl East, Lied Auditorium

Campus Map
REGISTRATION FEES
Attendee $75
Student $35
*No cancellation refunds
LEARNING FORMAT
Live, in-person, on November 3

Interested in watching the breakout sessions
you weren't able to attend?

Session videos will be made available
to registrants for viewing, and CE credit,
from December 1 - January 10.

AGENDA 
6:30 AM
Registration Open & Breakfast

6:45 AM
Welcome and Overview

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
It Hurts Right Here?: Contemporary Assessment of Chest Pain
Jean-Alfred Thomas, MD

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Practical Stress Management and Burnout Reduction Strategies
Larry Long, PhD - University of Kansas Medical Center

8:10 AM - 8:50 AM
Breakout Sessions A

Head and Neck Cancers: Types, Causes and Treatments
Denice Penn, NP-BC
Massive Transfusion: It's More than Blood
Marisa Laing, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Acute Care Surgery-Trauma

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Breakout Sessions B
Medication Management Prior to Surgery

Alexandra L. Doyle, SNRA - University of Kansas Medical Center
Transforming Healthcare...One Small Test of Change at a Time
Debbie Schwartzkopf, MSN, RN

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Break


10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
How to Talk to Your Patients About Palliative Care Without Scaring Them to Death
Melody Alexander, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP
Advanced Practice Provider – Nurse Practitioner
Palliative Medicine Division of the Department of Internal Medicine

Carol Mulvenon, APRN, MS, AOCN, ACHPN


11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Lunch, Exhibitors, and Poster Presentations

12:15 PM - 12:55 PM
Breakout Sessions C
Pulmonary Function Testing: Reading Between the Lines

Emily Smiley, APRN
Infant Safe Sleep: What Everyone Should Know
Teresa Kilkenny, APRN, DNP


1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Breakout Sessions D

Sepsis: What's the Latest?
Meg LaFerriere, APRN
Advanced Interventions for Chronic Pain
Jason Orallo, NP


1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Excellence Awards Announcements

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Break

2:20 PM - 3:10 PM
Breakout Sessions E
Nurse Practitioner-Led Lung Cancer Clinic: Outcomes from a QI Project 
Angi Seacat 
Anesthesia Awareness, Lab Values & More
Eric DeGraff

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
Breakout Sessions F

Preparing for the Unexpected
Missy Wilson, PharmD
Christina Crowley, PharmD
Congolese Refugees and Mental Health: Outcomes from a Community Needs Assessment and Implications for Providers
Kristine Trigoso, BSN

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
What We Can Learn from Labradors: 3 Great Tips for De-Escalation
Rebecca Moburg, MSN, NE-BC

4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Final Closing Remarks
Holly O'Brien-Avila, CRNA
REGISTER
CONTINUING EDUCATION ACCREDITATION
Physicians: The University of Kansas Medical Center Office of Continuing Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

  The KU Medical Center Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  APRNs/RNs: The University of Kansas Medical Center Area Health Education Center East is approved as a provider of CNE by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 8 contact hours applicable for APRN and RN relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number: LT0056-0749. Mary Beth Warren, MS, RN, Coordinator.
Nursing attendance requirement:  Continuing education credit will be issued according to documented attendance. Presentations must be attended in their entirety to claim credit.  

Nurse Anesthetists: This program has been prior approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology for 8.50 Class A CE credits; Code Number 1043826; Expiration Date 11/3/2023.

AANA designates this program as meeting the criteria for up to 1.25 CE Credits in pharmacology/therapeutics.

The information listed below must be used when reporting the credits earned for this program in the CE Portal.

Course ID: 1043826

Approved sessions will be listed in symposium syllabus.
PLANNING COMMITTEE AND SPEAKER DISCLOSURE INFORMATION

The following individuals have no financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthare products used by or on patient to disclose: 
Melody Alexander, NP, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, AOCNP, Huma Baig, PA-C, Eric DeGraff, CRNA, Christine DeMasi, NP, Alexandra L. Doyle, SRNA, Angela Interiano, APRN, Jamie Klamm, APRN, Teresa Kilkenny, APRN, DNP, Jim Kovarik, PA-C, Meg LaFerriere, APRN, Marisa Laing, APRN, Jordan Leal, APRN, Larry Long, PhD. Luke Mathes, PA-C, Rebecca Moburg, MSN, NE-BC, Carol Mulvenon, APRN, MS, AOCN, ACHPN, Holly O'Brien-Avila, CRNA, Denice Penn, NP-BC, Liza Rodriguez, APRN, Debbie Schwartzkopf, MSN, MSN, RN, Angi Seacat, MSN, APRN, ACNP-BC, Emily Smiley, APRN, Anne Stanton, MSN, Shannon Stigall, APRN, Jean-Alfred Thomas, MD, Kristine Trigoso, BSN

The following individuals have financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose: 
Zohra Hussaini, APRN: Consulting fee as advisory committee member with Averitas, Vertos. Consulting fee for consulting with Nevro, PainTeq, SPR.