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Advanced Techniques in Shoulder Arthroplasty, Arthroscopy and Fractures
May 2 - 3, 2008
Advanced Techniques in Shoulder Arthroscopy, Arthroplasty and Fractures is an intensive, hands-on skills course for orthopedic surgeons treating disorders of the shoulder. This year's course will focus on: arthritis, arthroscopy, arthroplasty, reverse shoulder arthroplasty, minimally invasive repair of rotator cuff pathology, techniques for addressing shoulder instability, fractures, and open and minimally invasive techcniques for fracture reduction and fixation.
Laboratory experience using cadaver specimens complimented by didactic lectures provide a comprehensive approach to the course material. In addition, live video demonstrations and panel discussions will be used to further enhance the learning experience.
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Controversies in Cardiovascular Disease: Practical Approaches to Complex Problems: Medical and Surgical
May 3 - 4, 2008
Make plans to attend this two-day course for a multidisciplinary perspective and discussion on the management of complex clinical challenges in cardiovascular medicine and surgery. Topics that will be covered include end-stage heart disease, adult congenital heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, progress and management of aortic disease, and "zebras" you don't want to miss. Faculty, including leading clinicians in surgery and medicine from Twin Cities' practices and Mayo Clinic, will contribute to this discussion.
Location: The Saint Paul Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota  Meeting Location
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ABIM SEP Medical Knowledge Module: Women’s Health (Module 89-H)
May 4, 2008
This course will be chaired by expert faculty who will analyze each module question, review current evidence and key points and summarize clinical pearls. Course attendees actively participate using an audience response system and verbalize their understanding of current evidence and a common consensus would be achieved in answering these questions. The collective information gathered in these interactive sessions enhances individual knowledge and longer retention of current medical information.
This course is intended for general internists and subspecialists preparing for maintenance of their certification in internal medicine.
Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Learn and receive feedback on new diagnostic testing options
- Learn and receive feedback on new therapeutic options
- Receive feedback on clinical decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment of patient problems
- Learn the similarities and differences in diagnostic and treatment options for common and unusual problems in the discipline
Course Faculty
Karen F. Mauck, M.D.
Deborah J. Rhodes, M.D.
Lynne T. Shuster, M.D.
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Location: Leighton Auditorium, Siebens Medical Education Building, Rochester, MN
Contact: (800)-323-2688 E-Mail
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Valvular Heart Disease: New Strategies. Non-Invasive, Interventional and Surgical Approaches
May 5 - 7, 2008
Valvular Heart Disease: New Strategies will provide a comprehensive, state of the art, panorama of the new pathophysiologic insights, diagnostic methods, surgical and medical therapeutic approaches for valvular heart diseases and project the new strategies available. Valvular Heart Disease is a major world-wide problem despite the decline of rheumatic heart disease due to the emergence of new causes of valve diseases and the expected aging of the population in the new millennium.
The course will provide expert review of new types of surgical interventions of the latest progress in reparative techniques and of the new prostheses available. The alternative options of medical treatment with new and potent drugs and of percutaneous catheter-based interventions with newly developed devices will be discussed. The controversial issue of intervention in asymptomatic patients and the new insights in the selection process for this type of patients will be debated. The latest development in Doppler echocardiographic concepts and their application in clinical practice will be presented didactically. The daunting problem of left ventricular dysfunction due to valvular heart disease and its analysis from bench to bedside will be discussed.
Location: Las Vegas
Contact: 507-266-0677 E-Mail
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29th Annual Practice of Internal Medicine
May 5 - 9, 2008
Mayo Clinic Practice of Internal Medicine, celebrating its twenty-ninth consecutive year, is a postgraduate course designed to provide general internists, internist-subspecialists, family medicine physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners with a state-of-the-art update in internal medicine. The topics represent some of the most common problems encountered in clinical practice. Lectures, panel presentations, and concurrent workshops are presented by specialists from the Mayo Clinic staff.
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Location: Phillips Hall, Siebens Medical Education Building, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Contact: (800)-323-2688 E-Mail
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Upper Mississippi Valley Retina Cases Conference
May 17, 2008
This half-day educational program brings together regional retina specialists from the upper mid-West to share interesting, rare, difficult or unknown cases. The format is a series of case presentations. It is anticipated that most attendees will present one or two cases for discussion. The intended focus of the conference is on angiogram-based cases, but others may be presented. This year will be the fourth year of this very popular conference.
Location: Graves 601, Minneapolis, MN
Contact: (800)-323-2688 E-Mail
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology ~ The Year in Review at DDW
May 18, 2008
This session will synthesize and summarize the latest updates in the three most clinically relevant and rapidly progressing areas of Gastroenterology.
Location: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, San Diego Ballroom, Salon B/C
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ENT for the Primary Care Provider
May 30, 2008
Symposium to update primary care providers on diagnosis and treatment of common ear, nose and throat problems.
Location: Leighton Auditorim, Siebens Building, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Contact: (800)-323-2688 E-Mail
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Biological Frontiers of Alcohol Addiction
May 30, 2008
This course will focus on reviewing the clinical implications of developing biological etiological models for the treatment of addiction. Topics to be covered will incorporate new research findings and will include a review of susceptibility genes related to addiction, the rapid translation of basic science to the clinic, pharmacotherapeutic strategies for treatment, and individualized approaches to the treatment of patients with addiction and comorbid psychiatric diagnoese. Outcome based research using clinical electronic databases and follow-up strategies will also be discusses. Bioethical considerations and the history of the concept of addiction as an illness will also be reviewed.
Location: Radisson Plaza Hotel
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