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Upcoming Events |
September 2022 |
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26th Annual Diabetes Update Saturday, September 10, 2022 This educational opportunity is designed to provide an update on diabetes and diabetes related co-morbidities, and to meet identified needs of diabetes clinicians in this area. |
August 2022 |
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33rd Annual Update in Cardiology Saturday, August 6, 2022 Designed to give primary care physicians and cardiologists updates in advances in cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment. Faculty will address controversial issues and long held paradigms, as well as practical issues across the broad spectrum of cardiology. |
June 2022 |
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Palliative Care Ambassadors Series Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Monthly series to educate providers, nursing, and support staff directly involved in patient care regarding the importance and core principles of palliative care, and how to incorporate this into their own practices. Provides training and updates on palliative care to help caregivers become more aware of resources, as well as empower patients to help identify unmet palliative needs. |
May 2022 |
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William J. Holloway Infectious Disease Symposium Tuesday, May 3, 2022 This virtual symposium will cover the importance of |
April 2022 |
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Parkinson’s Disease Update Friday, April 8, 2022 Parkinson’s Disease is becoming more prevalent with life expectancy increasing and with the number of therapeutics growing every year to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease. With more than 1 million Americans suffering from this neurodegenerative disorder and only 50 movement disorder per year graduating from fellowships, care for these patients are more and more being done through primary care and general neurologists. This year’s annual Parkinson’s Disease symposium will be targeted toward medical professionals to bring them up-to-date with Parkinson’s Disease care in 2022 and how to support your patients with resources in our region and here at ChristianaCare. |
March 2022 |
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Swank Dementia Care-Spring Symposium Thursday, March 10, 2022 An opportunity for the Swank Center to share knowledge with a virtual audience regarding diagnosis and referral resources. |
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5th Perinatal Palliative Care Symposium Friday, March 25, 2022 The importance of emotional support and compassionate communication with families and staff. |
February 2022 |
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Addiction Medicine Symposium Friday, February 18, 2022 For professionals who interact with those struggling with substance use disorders and will feature experts in the area. |
October 2021 |
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28th Annual E.G. Scott Microbiology Symposium Friday, October 1, 2021 This symposium is designed as an update for microbiology technologists and other professionals on current issues in clinical microbiology. |
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Dr. Margaret I. Handy Annual Memorial Lectureship Friday, October 22, 2021 The Dr. Margaret I. Handy Memorial Lectureship is a dynamic series designed to provide insight into cutting edge topics in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine. |
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Orthopaedic Symposium Saturday, October 30, 2021 The Delaware Orthopaedic Symposium is an annual conference on focused on musculoskeletal health. This unique conference is for orthopaedic surgeons, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and physical therapists. It features topics related to orthopaedic surgery, primary care orthopaedic medicine and orthopaedic physical therapy. |
September 2021 |
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8th Annual APC Pharmacology Update Friday, September 10, 2021 This one day virtual conference will address current and new pharmacological and clinical approaches within the primary care setting with the goal of achieving safe prescribing practices and optimal clinical outcomes. |
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8th Neurovascular Symposium Friday, September 24, 2021 Sessions will focus on the recent changes in stroke care including cerebrovascular diseases in pregnancy and neuro assessment in challenging patients. Neurointerventional topics including neurovascular emergencies and an update on the latest stroke interventional devices and methods will be explored. |
May 2021 |
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58th Annual Holloway Infectious Disease Symposium Monday, May 3 to Friday, May 7, 2021 This symposium continues its rich tradition of addressing topics of local and global significance for providers practicing medicine today. Providers will recognize immunodeficiency states, will order appropriate functional and qualitative assays to assess immune deficiency, and will order less antibiotics and patients will receive more disease modifying therapies (e.g. IVIG). Providers do not recognize such conditions (e.g., common variable immune deficiency). |
March 2021 |
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Swank Dementia Care Spring Symposium Thursday, March 18, 2021 This year’s Swank Dementia Care Spring Symposium, Persons with Dementia and Residential Care, will provide an opportunity for the Swank Center team to share insights with our virtual audience regarding the care challenges and complex decisions patients and families face when deciding whether residential care is the best option for a loved one with dementia. The keynote speaker will focus on how to make the transition to residential care and will discuss the difficult decisions that caregivers face. There will also be a panel discussion on the various long term options, management of persons with dementia in residential care facilities, the social worker’s role in these facilities, and comments from a family caregiver whose mother transitioned to Assisted Living. |
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25th Annual Diabetes Update Saturday, March 13, 2021 This educational opportunity is designed to provide an update on diabetes and diabetes related co-morbidities, and to meet identified needs of diabetes clinicians in this area. |
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32nd Annual Update in Cardiology Saturday, March 6, 2021 This symposium is designed to give primary care physicians and cardiologists practical updates in recent advances in cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment. The nationally recognized faculty will address controversial issues and long held paradigms, as well as practical issues across the broad spectrum of cardiology. |
February 2021 |
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Palliative Care Ambassador Program September 2020 to February 2021 This symposium will feature Supportive and Palliative Care (SPC) principles including communication skills, pain management, specialty palliative care, and advanced directives. |
November 2020 |
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15th Annual Nursing Research Conference: Friday, November 6, 2020 This conference is developed for professional nurses and students seeking to use research and evidence-based practice (EBP) to improve patient outcomes. The keynote speaker is Dr. Robin P. Newhouse, Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Dean, Indiana University School of Nursing and Distinguished Professor, Indiana University. |
October 2020 |
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Dr. Margaret I. Handy Annual Memorial Lectureship Friday, October 9 The Dr. Margaret I. Handy Memorial Lectureship is a dynamic series designed to provide insight into cutting edge topics in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine. This year’s conference focuses on health equity. Our speakers include Heather Burris, M.D., MPH, Jennifer Culhane, Ph.D., MPH, and Mona Liza Hamlin, MSN, RN, IBCLC. |
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Swank Fall Dementia Care Symposium Friday, October 9 This symposium will examine Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. |
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27th Annual E.G. Scott Microbiology Symposium Tuesday-Thursday, October 13-15 This symposium is designed as an update for microbiology technologists and other professionals on current issues in clinical microbiology. |
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11th Annual Kidney Transplant Symposium Thursday, October 22 For professional care providers of patients with ESRD. The goal of this year’s symposium is to provide multidisciplinary points of interest to care providers. The speakers will represent the ChristianaCare Kidney Transplant Program. |
