Hilton Head, SC Conference
2-day Primary Care + 2-day Pharmacology
March 3-6, 2020
Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa
22 CONTACT HOURS | 15+ PHARMACOLOGY HOURS
Overview
Fulfill your professional development and specific licensure needs at 2-day Primary Care and 2-day Pharmacotherapeutics NP continuing education conferences. Hilton Head, SC Conference sessions emphasize the latest evidence and guideline-based clinical knowledge needed to prescribe and manage high priority primary care topics.
Primary Care (March 3-4) | 10 Contact Hours/(TBA Pharm Hours)
Pharmacology (March 5-6) | 12 Contact Hours/12 Pharm Hours
Conference Registration Deadlines/Fees
Early Registration – by February 1, 2020
General Attendee: $355 (one conference) | $680 (both conferences)
Senior (60+), Student/New Grad: $315 (one conference) | $635 (both conferences)
Standard Registration (all types except Military) – after February 1, 2020
$420 (one conference) | $800 (both conferences)
Military – (anytime)
$295 (one conference) | $585 (both conferences)
All registrations are subject to a $50 non-refundable administration fee.
Keynote speaker
Jay Gupta, RPh, MSc, MTM Specialist, C-IAYT is the Director of Pharmacy and Integrative Health at Harbor Homes in Nashua, NH.
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Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Jay Gupta, RPh, MSc, MTM Consultant, C-IAYT
Jay Gupta, RPh, MSc, MTM Specialist, C-IAYT is the Director of Pharmacy and Integrative Health at Harbor Homes in Nashua, NH.
Recognized by Cardinal Health and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, he is a leader amongst the global community educating about integrative therapies, polypharmacy epidemic and de-prescription. He has compiled many case studies related to his de-prescription efforts over the years.
Jay is also a co-Founder of YogaCaps, Inc. and RxRelax. YogaCaps is the largest free integrative therapeutic yoga program for people with chronic health conditions and has its base in New Hampshire hospitals. RxRelax educates healthcare professionals about evidence-based integrative health approaches and provides certification and continuing education credits.
An internationally trained yoga therapist, Jay began his yoga immersion in India in 1983 and has been scientifically exploring the depths of yoga since then. He is working with Harvard Medical School and MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University on clinical trials testing yoga modalities in substance use disorder and oncology applications.
He is the co-author of De-Prescription: Fact or Fiction (not yet released) and Pharmacology 101, as well as two DVDs “RxRelax Therapeutic Yoga” and "Subtle Yoga for Rejuvenation (SYR)", and two CDs “RxRelax for Insomnia” and “Relaxation Capsules”.
Wendy Biddle, PhD, FNP-BC
Dr. Wendy Biddle is currently an Associate Professor and Program Director for the MSN-Family NP Program at South University in Virginia. She has a unique background because she has had a wide variety of exposure to clinical and research experts with different subspecialties in GI. She focused on Inflammatory bowel disease at the University of Kansas, as well as esophageal disease (and performed esophageal and anorectal manometries in the lab), irritable bowel syndrome and hepatitis C at Dartmouth. In Virginia she worked with a local liver expert as well as continuing to see all GI complaints.
Leslie L. Davis, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAHA
Dr. Davis is a full-time faculty member of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She maintains a part time nurse practitioner (NP) practice with the Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Davis is a fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American Heart Association, and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. She is also a certified hypertension clinician through the American Society of Hypertension. As a clinician, she focuses her care on adults with hypertension, heart failure, and acute coronary syndromes. Her research interests include self-care and symptom management with women who have experienced cardiovascular conditions. She has served as editor for the book Cardiovascular Nursing Secrets (2004), as guest editor for two special cardiovascular editions in the Journals for Nurse Practitioners (2013 and 2019), has authored/coauthored articles 35+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, 13 book chapters, and other scholarly products related to cardiovascular topics.
As a nurse practitioner, Dr. Davis sees patients with difficult to control high blood pressure in the UNC Hypertension Clinic, where a multidisciplinary approach utilizes both lifestyle modification and medications, as well as investigative techniques, to treat hypertension. She also sees patients in the general cardiology clinic and the UNC Heart and Vascular Center.
Ramy H. Elshaboury, PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID
Dr. Ramy Elshaboury, PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID serves as the Residency Director for the Infectious Diseases PGY2 Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2011. Dr. Elshaboury completed a PGY1 and ID PGY2 residencies at Abbott Northwestern Hospital (part of Allina Health) in Minneapolis, MN. He is currently the Clinical Pharmacy Manager for Infectious Diseases, Transplant and Surgery pharmacy services at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Gary G. Graf, MSN, ARNP-C
Gary Graf has been a NP for 18 years. He worked 3 years in family practice and the past 15 years in Diabetes and Endocrinology. He also continued to work the entire time in an urgent care clinic a few nights per week/month. Gary has been the Investigator or Sub-Investigator on over 180 clinical trials in the field of diabetes, HTN, Dyslipidemia, CKD, and ED.
Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, RN-BC, ANP-BC
Theresa Mallick-Searle is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years’ experience at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California.
Theresa’s current clinical practice within the Division of Pain Medicine, focuses primarily on evaluation and treatment of individuals suffering from acute and chronic pain conditions in both the hospital and outpatient settings.
As part of her commitment to education and professional development, she lectures extensively on topics surrounding pain management both locally and regionally.
She has authored and co-authored numerous articles, abstracts, and book chapters on topics pertaining to pain assessment and management. Theresa is a clinical preceptor for NP and PA students in the greater Bay Area; she also mentors and instructs the fellows and residents on the Stanford Pain Service.
Theresa is actively involved in multiple professional organizations including: The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, California Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Society of Pain Management Nursing and American Academy of Pain Medicine.
As part of her commitment to safety and ethical treatment of patients with pain; Theresa has provided services as an independent expert witness on issues related to pain management and treatment.
Angela Richard-Eaglin, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP
Dr. Angela Richard-Eaglinis faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON), where she is an Assistant Professor, Co-Director of the VA Nursing Academic Partnership in Graduate Education Program (VANAP-GE), and Lead faculty for the Veteran’s Health Specialty in the MSN Program. Dr. Richard-Eaglin received a BSN from Northeast Louisiana University (now known as University of Louisiana at Monroe), an MSN from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, LA, and a DNP in Executive Leadership from Loyola University, New Orleans. She is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner through ANCC and a Certified Nurse Educator (NLN). As a result of her leadership in clinical practice and education, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her current/recent clinical practice is in the role of NP Residency supervisor in primary care.
Before embarking on a career in academia, Dr. Richard-Eaglin’s career was dedicated to excellence in clinical practice. She held multiple leadership positions that focused on improving processes to promote optimal patient outcomes. Most notably, she served as Coordinator of Clinical Operations via a mobile health clinic for the SUSON Katrina Health Initiative following Hurricane Katrina, Regional Director of STD & TB Services for the LA DHH OPH.
Sohera N. Syeda, MD
Dr. Syeda is an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine’s Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine and holds a Lecturer of Medicine appointment at the Harvard Medical School. She is a full-time VA faculty member and practicing physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System in West Roxbury, MA and Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital in Bedford, MA. She is also a medical staff at Steward Norwood Hospital’s intensive care unit in Norwood, MA.
She serves as a consultant to the Boston University School of Medicine, Barry M. Manuel Office of Continuing Medical Education and COPD Quality Improvement Consortium and has engaged in several collaborative COPD QI projects.
Dr. Syeda received her medical degree in 2005 in Chicago’s west loop at Rush University Medical Center and then moved east to complete residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She completed a Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine and conducted health services research focusing on the impact of prolonged mechanical ventilation and use of tracheostomy on chronic critical illness. She is ABIM board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
At the Boston VA, Dr. Syeda is engaged in various clinical, educational and administrative initiatives. She is responsible for, and is strangely enthusiastic about, the interpretation of all the hospital’s pulmonary function tests, an estimated 3,300 per year! She regularly teaches medical students, residents and fellows at Boston VA and is actively engaged in various hospital initiatives to improve transitional care and reduce admissions and readmission's for patients with COPD and Heart Failure. To this end, she developed and served as a medical director of a successful intensive care and case management program for veterans with advanced heart failure and COPD.
Agenda
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Registration
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Primary Care Conference Registration
Primary Care Conference
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Keynote: Yoga Capsules for Self Care
Health is the experience of physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being. Nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals across the globe use yoga as a tool for valuable self-care, as well as in their practice settings. Yoga can be safe, science-smart, effective, affordable and therapeutic, depending upon the application. Jay Gupta, a pharmacist and yoga therapist, will discuss the potential ways that yoga might act like a medicine and be positioned as the next blockbuster drug.
Speakers:
9:15 am - 10:15 am
A1: Vaping Update
The use of electronic cigarettes has rapidly risen over the past 20 years even as smoking cessation efforts have been largely successful. Since the summer of 2019, there have been many reports of e-cigarette related deaths. This is a fast-moving topic with new information from a public health, clinical and public policy perspective. E-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) is a new diagnosis that describes patients afflicted with this life threatening critical illness. This session will review epidemiology, pathophysiology and up-to-date knowledge on vaping related injury with a special emphasis on how to counsel patients about risks of vaping.
Speakers:
10:25 am - 11:25 am
B1: Polypharmacy, Deprescription and Older Adults
We live in a drug culture with pills for every ill, and ills for every pill. This has resulted in an unprecedented experience of polypharmacy, where prescribing essentially continues to be a one-way street, despite our best efforts with medication reviews. Taking the medicine away is not the acceptable solution. What is? This session considers polypharmacy and deprescription in the older adult population.
Speakers:
11:25 am - 12:00 pm
Sign in with Sponsor for Product Theater
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
LP1: NON-CE Product Theater Lunch Session
This session is provided by a commercial interest. Contact Hours will not be awarded.
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
C1: Asthma: From the Basics to the Biologics
Most patients with asthma are managed by primary care providers and not by specialists. This session will summarize the advances in the evaluation and management of asthma from basics to biologics using updated 2019 GINA guidelines. Treatment of difficult asthma, especially severe asthma and asthma/COPD overlap will be discussed. Use of personalized medicine with biologics and new drugs in development for asthma will be reviewed. The challenges of delivering healthcare in rural and other environments with lower access to resources will be incorporated in all treatment approaches.
Speakers:
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Psoriasis Dinner Program
In conjunction with the National Psoriasis Foundation this Psoriasis Recognition Program is designed to help enhance your skills in caring for those with psoriasis. After completing this program, attendees will be formally recognized as up-to-date in the latest psoriasis education.
This activity is supported by educational grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Janssen.
The National Psoriasis Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Primary Care Conference
8:00 am - 9:00 am
E1: Person 1st Patient Care: Merging Evidence with Individualized Care Objectives
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Exhibit Hall Grand Opening
10:40 am - 11:40 am
G1: Diagnosis and Management of Hydradenitis Suppuritiva
11:40 am - 12:15 pm
Sign in with Sponsor for Product Theater
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
LP2: NON-CE Product Theater Lunch Session
This session is provided by a commercial interest. Contact Hours will not be awarded.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
NPHF1: Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits: Part 1
Sponsored by the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation, this newly updated session addresses: nature and pathophysiology of pain; assessing patients in pain and creating a treatment plan; non-pharmacologic pain treatment strategies; initiating and managing patients on opioid therapy; educating patients and caregivers; and understanding opioid use disorder. Fully compliant with the September 2018 FDA Blueprint for Opioid REMS Education, this session meets many states’ requirements for controlled substances CE.
The curriculum is developed by the Collaborative for REMS Education (CO*RE) http://core-rems.org and supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies (RPC).
Note: You must attend Parts 1 and 2 to receive 2.0 hours of credit from the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation. The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Partial credit will not be given. Certificates of Completion will be distributed on-site in exchange for the session Assessment and Evaluation.
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Registration
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Pharmacology Conference Registration
Pharmacology Conference
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Sign in with Sponsor for Product Theater
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PH-LP1: NON-CE Product Theater Lunch Session
This session is provided by a commercial interest. Contact Hours will not be awarded.
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
PH3: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Trends of Antimicrobial Resistance, and Future Implications
This presentation will provide an overview of the efforts and progress of antimicrobial stewardship initiatives and implications on current and future practice. This overview will include current progress and limitations of the current regulatory landscape for new antimicrobial approval and development.
Speakers:
2:55 pm - 4:25 pm
PH4: Updates on Treatment of Skin Infection, UTI and STI
This presentation will address updates in the management of each of the disease states, including recent data on epidemiology and outcomes, treatment recommendations and practice controversies. The presentation will also summarize how antimicrobial stewardship plays a role in the management of each disease state.
Speakers:
Friday, March 6, 2020
Pharmacology Conference
8:00 am - 9:30 am
PH5: Therapeutics Updates: Respiratory Infections
Speakers:
9:45 am - 11:15 am
PH6: Therapeutics Updates: Vaccinations in the Ambulatory Setting
Speakers:
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
PH7: Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics: Part 1
2:10 pm - 3:40 pm
PH8: Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics: Part 2
Fee
BOTH CONFERENCES: 2-DAY PRIMARY CARE + 2-DAY PHARMACOLOGY
General Attendee $800.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$680.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Senior (60+) /Student/New Grad $800.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$635.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Military $585.00
PRIMARY CARE ONLY (2 DAYS)
General Attendee $420.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$355.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Senior (60+)/Student/New Grad $420.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$315.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Military $295.00
PHARMACOLOGY ONLY (2 DAYS)
General Attendee $420.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$355.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Senior (60+)/Student/New Grad $420.00
Discounted Price
If Registered By
$315.00
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Miltary $295.00
All registrations are subject to a $50 non-refundable administration fee.
REFUND AND CANCELLATION POLICY
FEES:
All registrations must be paid in full by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover) at the time of registration. NPACE no longer accepts payment by check. 4th for Free, Letter of Credit and complimentary registrations all require a $50 non-refundable administration fee upon registration.
If using Letter of Credit, 4th for free, or complimentary registration, please contact NPACE 508-907-6424 x1 for registration information.
CANCELLATION BY REGISTRANT:
Written notice of cancellation must be received by email or letter. A refund, excluding the $50 non-refundable administrative fee, will be issued when cancellation is received no later than one month prior to the conference start date. Refunds are processed based on the original form of payment.
A letter of credit, excluding the $50 non-refundable administrative fee, will be issued when cancellation is received between 30 and 8 days of the conference start date. This is valid for 12 months from issuance and may be used for towards any NPACE conference.
No refunds will be issued for cancellations received within 7 days of the conference start date.
CANCELLATION OF EVENT:
In the very unlikely event that NPACE cancels or postpones a conference due to circumstances beyond its control, NPACE’s liability shall be limited to refund of paid registration fees.
HOTEL
HOTEL INFORMATION
| Marriott Hilton Head Resort & Spa
1 Hotel Circle Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
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| Cut Off Date: | February 10, 2020 |
| Discounted Rate: | $169 Single/Double (plus taxes) |
| Resort Fee: | Waived |
| Online Reservations: | CLICK HERE TO BOOK |
Group rates apply 3 days before and after the conference dates; subject to availability
OTHER INFORMATION
SPA Discount: 20%
Resort Fee (Waived and includes the following):
Self-Parking Spa access with use of Sauna, Steam room and Spa Pool, Board Games located in Hotel Lobby, Local Calls and Fax Service, Select Recreational Resort activities, enhanced wireless high speed internet access throughout resort, shuttle service to golf and local shopping, use of basketballs and basketball court, turn down service upon request, complimentary day use of game room with X-box, PlayStation, Wii, Ping Pong, and Foosball
NPACE Room Block Note
NPACE strongly advises that you do not make travel reservations until you have a confirmed conference registration. NPACE conferences frequently sell out prior to early registration date.
Hotel Rates are based on room block availability and can’t be guaranteed if room block sells out before cut off dates. Space and room types are limited, so please make your reservations early! Hotel cancellation policies vary, check with hotel for cancellation policy if you need to cancel your reservation. Only reservations made through the group block are eligible for additional amenities and discounts.
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