Education

Cardiorespiratory Diagnostics 2008 - Orlando, Florida
Sep. 15-17, 2008

This course (the fourteenth consecutive year for this popular seminar series) updates participants' knowledge of testing techniques, performance standards, quality assurance procedures, and clinical applications for basic and advanced cardiopulmonary diagnostic testing. Some of the topics to be covered include theory, methodology, clinical indications and performance standards of plethysmography, bronchial provocation, dilutional lung volumes and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.   The program format includes lectures, hands-on demonstrations and small group discussions, and is conducted by a faculty of experts from across the country.

Agenda

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The format accommodates the needs of a diverse audience utilizing "tracks" to allow participants to choose topic modules most applicable and interesting to them. Two tracks will run concurrently with topic modules ranging from basic to advanced and covering everything from clinical indications to performance standards in each module.

This course has been approved for 23.0 CRCE Category I credits from the American Association for Respiratory Care.

Faculty:

Susan Blonshine, RRT, RPFT, FAARC, AE-C, TechEd
David Kaminsky, MD, University of Vermont
Carl Mottram, BA, RRT, RPFT, FAARC, Mayo Clinic Pulmonary Function Labs & Rehabilitation
Gregg Ruppel, MEd, RRT, RPFT, FAARC, St. Louis University Health Science Center
Michael G. Snow, RPFT, Medical Graphics Corporation
Jack Wanger, MSc, RRT, RPFT, FAARC, Pharmaceutical Research Associates, Inc.

Tuition: 

• $690.00
• Includes course syllabus, continental breakfast, breaks and lunch
• Tuition is due in full at the time of registration

Date and Location: 

• September 15-17, 2008 
• Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
  1001 West Buena Vista
  Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
  407-939-1020
  * Advance purchase, discounted tickets, are available to Walt Disney World® Resort theme parks.
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A Practicum: Exercise Testing and Interpretation
including Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications

Offered by the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California

This three day program comprises didactic lectures, small group tutorials, and laboratory demonstrations. Educational objectives are to provide an understanding of the physiologic basis of gas exchange responses to exercise, and the practical knowledge necessary to conduct and interpret clinical exercise tests.

The course is intended for physicians in either clinical practice or in academics, including housestaff and faculty of Harbor-UCLA, and laboratory personnel involved in cardiopulmonary exercise testing. No specific preparation is required. A textbook is provided to registrants prior to the start of the course.

Harbor-UCLA is a CME-accredited provider; physicians attending the course may report up to 17 hours of Category 1 credit toward the California Medical Association Certificate in Continuing Medical Education and the AMA’s Physician’s Award.

Dates and Location:

October 16-18, 2008

March 19-21, 2009
October 22-24, 2009

Location:    Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA

Registration Limit: Approximately 30

For more information contact:

Shirley Zagala, Box 405
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center
1000 West Carson Street
Torrance, CA  90509-2910

Phone: (310) 222-3803
Fax: (310) 328-9849
email: szagala@labiomed.org 

11th European Practicum on Clinical Exercise Testing

September 10-13, 2008
Oporto, Portugal

Course Chairman:	Martin Brutsche, M.D., Ph.D
Course Directors:	Karlman Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D. Pier Giusseppe Agostoni, M.D., Ph.D.
Organizing Committee:	Michael Tamm, M.D. Paul Older, M.D.

See the International Society for Exercise Intolerance Research and Education website for information: http://www.iseire.org