The American College of Legal Medicine will be holding its annual meeting Thursday February 26 – Sunday March 1, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Here is the preliminary agenda:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration and Information Desk Open
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Board of Governors Meeting
4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ABLM & ABMM Review Course (Pre-registration is required)
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Committee Meetings
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
6:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration and Information Desk Open
6:45 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Past President’s Breakfast (Open to past presidents of ACLM)
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. Poster Session I Karin W. Zucker, JD, LLM, MSF
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
7:50 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Welcome and Announcements
GENERAL SESSION I
8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Recent Developments in Legal Medicine
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Federal and State Legislation
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Federal Court Rulings
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. State Court Rulings
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Break
GENERAL SESSION II
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. FDA – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10:00 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. FDA: General Overview
10:25 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. FDA: The Successes
10:50 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. FDA: The Failures
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pediatric Use of Antidepressants
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 9th Annual Professional Development Lunch (Pre-registration required)
GENERAL SESSION III
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Health Care Reform
1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Access to Coverage and Access to Care: Health reform and the new administration
1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Canadian Health System
2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Israel and Health Care
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Health Care Reform: Has Its Time Politically Arrived?
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.Q&A
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
GENERAL SESSION IV
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Your Good Name: Reporting and Discipline
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. State Boards: Physicians Taking a Stand
4:00 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. Federation of State Medical Boards: What Role are They Playing Today?
4:20 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. National Practitioner Data Bank
4:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Q&A
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. President’s Welcome Reception
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009
7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Registration and Information Desk Open
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. Poster Session
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Women’s Leadership Breakfast (Pre-registration is required for breakfast)
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSION
8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Medical Staff vs. Hospitals: Can’t We All Get Along?
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Overview of Physician/Hospital Relationships
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Update on Poliner
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Peer Review: Hospital Perspective
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Peer Review: Physician Perspective
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.Q&A
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Communication
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Communicating with Dying Patients and Family
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Effective Communication: A Critical Factor in Malpractice Risk Management and High Quality Patient Care
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Physician Prosecutions
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Q&A
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSION
8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Records and the Law
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. HIPAA: Why You Still Need to Care About It
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Electronic Health Information: Pros & Cons
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Big Brother and You
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Freedom of Information Act
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Q&A
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Federal Law Issues
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Social Security: Determining Disability
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Legal Implications of Caring for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EMTALA: Conflicts Between Hospital, Staff, and Uncle Sam
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Q&A
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Cyril Wecht Luncheon – Medical Legal and Forensic Scientific Objectivity in Celebrity and Nationally Prominent Cases: Can Truth Withstand the News Media Onslaught? (Pre-registration is required)
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSION A
1:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Public Health Emergencies and Natural Disasters
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. “We Got a Lot of Sick People Here!”: Chemical and Biological Terrorism
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Pandemic Influenza
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Natural Disasters
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. The Humanitarian Role of the Military in Domestic Post-Disaster Management
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Q&A
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSION B
1:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Restraints of Regulation
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Regulation and Ophthalmology
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Regulation and OB-GYN
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Regulation and Pain Management
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Who’s Regulating Quality of Care?
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Q&A
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. The S. Sandy Sanbar Lecture: Worst Case Bioethics
4:30 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. Annual Meeting of Fellows
6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Annual Reception & Banquet
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2009
7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration and Information Desk Open
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ABLM & ABMM Exam (Pre-registration is required)
GENERAL SESSION V
8:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Medical Mistakes
8:00 a.m. – 8:25 a.m. The Joint Commission, ACR and Plaintiff’s Attorneys: New Rules, Standards and Legal Precedents Mandating Critical Test Result Management in Radiology
8:25 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Medical Mistakes: What are Our Options?
8:50 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Q&A
GENERAL SESSION VI
9:05 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
9:05 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Tissue Ownership
9:30 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. Pharmacogenetics
9:55 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Q&A
10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Hoffman Bioethics Award Presentation
10:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Hoffman Bioethics 1st Place Winner
10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Q&A
GENERAL SESSION VII
10:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. New Trends in Law and Medicine
10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Medical Malpractice in Nevada
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. New Trends in Forensic Medicine
11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. New Trends in Medical Experts
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. New Trends in Mediation and Arbitration
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m. New Trends in Psychiatry and the Law
12:20 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. Q&A
For more information, please visit the PRN event page.
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