High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii 2015

High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.

The objectives of this conference are to improve competence and performance in diagnosis, application of current treatment recommendations, and patient counseling for:

• Advanced airway management, palliative care, wounds and burns, neck and chest trauma, sepsis, strokes, TIA's and intracranial bleeding;
• Patients with ocular, cardiac, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, toxicologic, and behavioral emergencies;
• Pediatric sedation, infections, and trauma;
• Procedural competence in ultrasound and airway management.
  

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 25.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

• The General Session offers 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.
• Ultrasound Guided Ortho Procedures workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Airway optional workshops (3) offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM each.
• Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks optional workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.
• Ultrasound Guided Volume

Assessment optional workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Family Physicians: This Live activity, High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii, with a beginning date of 02/11/2015, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 25.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts Category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, andAMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for the PRA for organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pain Management and End-of-Life Care: Approved credits include up to 16.00 from the General Session and up to 6.00 from the Optional Workshops toward meeting the requirement under California Assembly Bill 487, Pain Management and End-of-Life Care.

Emergency Physicians: Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 25.00 hour(s) of ACEP Category I credit.

Trauma: Approved credits include up to 18.00 from the General Session and up to 6.00 from the Optional Workshops toward satisfying the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma requirement for trauma related continuing medical education.

ABEM Self-Assessment Credit Includes up to 6 self-assessment credits - 2 from each Optional Workshop.

(Beginning 1/1/2012, American Board of Emergency Medicine diplomates are required to earn and report an average of 25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TMper year, 8 of which are self-assessment.)

Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Director of Outcomes and Innovations
Office of Continuing Medical Education

COURSE FACULTY
(All Faculty are from UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital unless otherwise noted.)

Ann Arens, MD
Medical Toxicology Fellow
Clinical Instructor
University of California - San Francisco
Veteran's Affairs Hospital

Diane M. Birnbaumer, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Harbor-University of California,
Los Angeles Emergency Medicine,
Los Angeles, CA

David Duong, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Gregory Hendey, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Chief of Emergency Medicine, UCSF Fresno

Eric Issacs, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Sean Kivlehan, MD
Chief Resident
Department of Emergency Medicine

Judith Klein, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth Kwan, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Brian Lin, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Kaiser Hospital,
San Francisco, CA

Jeanne Noble, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Guy Shochat, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Eric Silman, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Stuart Swadron, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Nathaniel Teismann, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Scott Weingart, MD, FCCM
Chief, Emergency Critical Care
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY

Michael E. Wyssession, PhD
Associate Professor of Geophysics
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Loren G. Yamamoto, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP, FACEP
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Chief of Staff, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children
Honolulu, HI

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Michael Wysession
is an award winning researcher and educator in geophysics who has lectured for the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, and NASA, and has recorded a lecture series with the Teaching Company called How the Earth Works. He is chair of the National Science Foundation sponsored Earth Science Literacy Initiative which is responsible for revising the science curriculum for U.S. primary education.

Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort
Please contact the Waikiki Beach Marriott Room Reservations at (808) 921-5444 and reference the ‘UCSF’ group name for February 2015.  Hotel room availability and room category rates are subject to hotel availability.

Other hotels less than two blocks from the conference:
Park Shore Waikiki Hotel - 2586 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - 2570 Kalakaua Avenue Honolulu, HI 96815
Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach Hotel - 175 Paoakalani Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 96815
Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel - 2500 Kuhio Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815

** Disney’s Aulani - Reservations
Please note Disney’s Aulani will honor the conference rate however it is 1-1.5 hours away from the Waikiki Beach Marriott and transportation to the course could post a problem. If you already reserved a sleeping room at Disney’s Aulani, you will need to contact the hotel if you wish to cancel or change your reservation due to the relocation of the conference from the JW Marriott Ihilani to the Waikiki Beach Marriott.

To make, change, or modify a hotel reservation, call Disney’s group reservations office at (407) 939-4686.
Hours of operation are: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 am-6:00 pm; Sat.-Sun. 8:30 am-5:00 pm (EST).

**JW Marriott Ihilani - Reservations
If you already reserved a sleeping room at the JW Marriott Ihilani Ko Olina Resort & Spa - Marriott will be able to transfer your reservation from the JW Marriott Ihilani to the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort. Please contact the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort directly to reserve a room at the best available leisure rate (based on availability).