Past Events |
Upcoming Events |
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. |
