CME Dinner Lecture
Update in NeuroSurgery: Stroke, Brain
Tumors, and Cerebral Vascular
SPEAKERS: Amir Khan, MD, Yu Hung Kuo, MD
and Armen Choulakian, MD
LOCATION: The Palms
7550 North Palm Ave
Fresno, CA
UCSF Neurosurgery Associates
DATE/TIME:
CME 1.0
April 16, 2015
Thursday, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Dinner provided (vegetarian options available)
ATTENDEES WILL:
TARGET AUDIENCE:
1. Attendees will know how to identify patients eligible for treatment
with IV TPA endovascular stroke interventions and/or Neuro-ICU
management and be able to add this knowledge to one’s practice.
2. Gain competency to discuss acute stroke intervention treatment
options with patients and patient families and/or caregivers
improving patient care.
ER Physicians, Primary care physicians,
Internal Medicine, Family Practice, and
Oncologist, PA-C’s, NP’s, RN’s and all Allied
Health Professionals who work in primary care
field.
3. Better understand the goal of surgical resection in brain and spinal
metastases treatment in order to improve patient outcomes.
4. Will know how to identify the indications for radiosurgery and will
be able to add this competency to ones practice.
5. Gain a better understanding the role of the neurosurgeon as part
of a multidisciplinary team.
RSVP to Business Development Outreach
Dept. Denise Jennings, Admin Sec. at
(559) 459-3136
E-mail: Djennings@communitymedical.org.
6. Gain competency in clinical identification of cerebral aneurysms
and their early management, including diagnostic tests and
referrals.
7. Learn to identify patients that are good candidates for endovascular
coiling of aneurysms and for surgical clipping of aneurysms. Learn
to apply this to achieve better patient outcomes.
Community Medical Centers is accredited by the Institute for Medical
Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing
medical education for physicians.
Community Medical Centers designates this live activity for a maximum of1.0
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing
Medical Education.
Disclosures: Speaker Amir Khan, MD, Robert Ryan, MD, Yu Hung Kuo,
Armen Choulakian and event planners - Ric Morales, Kimberly Goldring, Louis
Triana have no disclosures to make.
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