Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), are characterized by early onset socialization and communication impairments, as well as patterns of restricted interests and behavioral rigidities, that affect individuals across their lifespan. The number of individuals with ASD obtaining cognitive levels at or above the normative range is increasing. Yet, many of these individuals still fail to translate their potential into adaptive, real-life skills.
July 7-10, 2008
22 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Harkness Auditorium
New Haven, CT
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of global blindness, which affects nearly 2.5 million Americans. In the past decade, new advances in diagnostic, medical, and surgical treatments have led to greater patient awareness and demand for increased quality of care. This course is designed to educate clinicians regarding innovative techniques to improve care to patient’s afflicted with this disease. As the only academic ophthalmology department in Connecticut, The Yale School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science is the leader in providing continuing education for eye care professionals in the treatment of glaucoma.
September 5, 2008
5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Water's Edge Conference Center
New Haven, CT
The use of the delivery of focused radiation therapy (radiosurgery) for nervous system diseases has markedly escalated over the past decade. Using a machine called the Gamma Knife, the field has evolved from one where radiosurgery was used for the treatment of benign brain conditions refractory to other therapies, to one where it is now used in some brain cancers as the first line of treatment. Its effectiveness and side effect profiles are vastly different from that of conventional radiation therapy. Given the success of radiosurgery, machines such as the Cyberknife and Novalis have now been designed to deliver similar treatments to cancer in other parts of the body.
Participants who attend this conference will be able to:
- Describe how the use of radiosurgery has evolved over the past decade
- Recognize indications and expected outcomes of radiosurgery in the treatment of brain lesions
- Interpret the evolving indications for body radiosurgery
September 12, 2008
5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
New Haven Lawn Club
New Haven, CT
This conference will provide important updates on a variety of topics of importance to practitioners who care for children. Topics will include diagnosis and management of headaches, strategies to help combat obesity, pelvic pain in adolescents, obstructive sleep apnea, and scoliosis. We will also include small group workshop sessions focusing on current pediatric issues. Educational needs for the course were derived from cross-sectional surveys of target groups and focus-group discussions with practicing pediatricians throughout the region. State licensure requirements for physician CME were taken into account when designing the course.
September 19, 2008
7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
New Haven Lawn Club
New Haven, CT
This full day conference will convene multi-specialty leaders in psychiatric research in order to influence the direction of future research in obesity as it relates to psychiatry, child psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, addiction psychiatry and psychotherapeutics. Special attention is given to evidence for gender differences in obesity research, and the global perspectives regarding the impact of the nutrition transition ~ overnutrition eclipsing undernutrition globally ~ and the obesity crisis in America
October 3, 2008
7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
The Anylan Center
New Haven, CT
It is estimated that 10% of children have special healthcare needs, many of which require multidisciplinary care. This course is aimed at providing new information about some of the most challenging complex health problems in children that most pediatricians and their staff encounter periodically.
October 21, 2008
2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
The Dolce Norwalk
Norwalk, CT
Therapeutic ERCP/EUS is a developing and important part of gastroenterology. Most gastroenterologists in practice have had limited training and exposure in this procedure and this unique forum enables participants to see experts utilize complex techniques to evaluate and manage disorders. This type of course is popular around the country but only available in some centers. The Yale University School of Medicine is proud to bring this to you.
Participants who attend this conference will be able to:
- recognize and learn how to manage complications associated with the procedure
- observe and appreciate advanced techniques utilized for gaining access and providing pacreaticobiliary therapy
- improve skills at x-ray interpretation and obtain better quality films
October 22, 2008
8.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Greenspan Conference Roon - YNHH
New Haven, CT
2nd Neuro-Oncology Update
Department of Neurosurgery
This symposium is intended to provide a comprehensive and concise update on the management of patients with primary brain tumors and common neurological complications of cancer.
Course Director(s): Joachim Baehring MD & Joseph Piepmeier MD
Topics being presented at this symposium were selected with attention to numerous factors. Careful review of evaluations and feedback from our previous symposiums identified a need for all of the topics being presented this year. Participants also communicated that the previous forum offered an ideal learning environment and that further symposiums of similar design and topics would be helpful to their practice. In addition, evaluations from previous symposiums as well as informal communications with community pediatric clinicians and otolaryngologists has confirmed the value of educational offering directly impacting on clinical practice and improving care.
November 6, 2008
3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
New Haven Lawn Club
New Haven, CT
Malaria is one of the foremost examples of a contemporary "reemerging disease" that causes an enormous burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic cost on some of the poorest and most vulnerable nations on the planet. As in the case of other emerging and resurgent diseases, economic, social, biological, and environmental factors suggest that the problem could well be on the point of worsening significantly, particularly in view of the synergy between malaria on the one hand and the pandemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis on the other.
A variety of factors place vast populations at severe and growing risk. These factors include drug resistance, the adaptation of vectors to urban habitats, environmental degradation, population displacement and refugees, the proliferation of developmental schemes such as dam construction that create breeding opportunities for anopheline mosquitoes, lack of access to medical care, poverty, and substandard housing.
This conference will take a "big picture" interdisciplinary look at the background to the present global malaria crisis. It will then examine the epidemiology of the disease; the research strategies of scientists to develop new weapons (medications, genetic engineering, DDT, and a vaccine); the planning of the World Health Organization, of national programs, and of NGOs; the lessons of countries that either successfully eradicate the disease or attempted to do so and failed; and the problem of drug resistance.
A special feature of the conference will be the gathering of specialists from a variety of disciplines -- historians of medicine, clinicians, public health officials, research scientists, public health officials, and representatives of NGOs -- to contribute their insights.
November 7-9, 2008
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
New Haven, CT
24th Annual Ella T. Grasso Memorial Conference
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
This is the 24th Annual Conference to be held in Connecticut. Advances in clinical Gynecologic Oncology are important for practicing physicians.
More information to follow...
November 19, 2008
