Education: Professionals

Upcoming CE Events

• Dinner and CE Presentation, "Preventing Elder Investment Fraud: Assessing for Vulnerability to Financial Exploitation"
  Wed Nov 16, 2011 | Arizona Room, Little America Hotel (Salt Lake City, Utah)

  The Utah Geriatrics Society is hosting a dinner and continuing education program on November 16, 2011 at the Little America Hotel. Dr. Randall Rupper will be the discussing the Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation (EIFFE) Prevention Program, and will then be joined for a panel discussion by Kelly Davis Garrett, Maureen Henry, Nan Mendenhall, and Keith Woodwell.

  The EIFFE Prevention Program teaches healthcare professionals how to screen for vulnerability to financial exploitation in older persons. The EIFFE Prevention Program in Utah is part of a larger coalition of 27 states and jurisdictions joining clinician educators with investor educators to combat the high prevalence of fraud perpetrated against older Americans.

  For information and registration, please visit the University of Utah Center on Aging website at aging.utah.edu. The registration deadline is November 7, 2011.

• Online Event & CE Calendars
  

  The University of Utah Center on Aging unites aging-related research, education, and clinical programs. By linking its faculty and programs, the Center synergizes the growth and progress of interdisciplinary research and supports the development of multidisciplinary clinical and training programs. To view the Center on Aging Events Calendar, which includes CE courses, please visit aging.utah.edu or click here.

  The Brain Institute at the University of Utah also sponsors ongoing Neurosciences seminars and CE Events. To learn more about the Brain Institute and sponsored events, please visit brain.utah.edu.

Past CE Events

• 9th Annual Rocky Mountain Geriatrics Conference
  Sep 14-16, 2011 | Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort

  This year's Rocky Mountain Geriatric Conference: "Safety in the Balance: Fainting, Falling, and Maintaining Independence" will be held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Salt Lake City's Little Cottonwood Canyon from September 14-16, 2011. The conference is held in cooperation with the VA Salt Lake City GRECC. For more information, please visit aging.utah.edu.

• Generations 2011
  Apr 20-21, 2011 | Salt Palace Convention Center (100 S. West Temple)

  The annual Generations Conference, founded by the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, provides solid clinical education and skill-building for professionals providing mental health and substance abuse treatment for today's adult generations. CE credits will be available. To download the conference brochure and registration form, please click here.

• 38th Meeting, Western Intermountain Neurological Organization
  Mar 11-12, 2011 | Clinical Neurosciences Center (175 N. Medical Dr. East)

  WINO is the must attend conference for mapping brain activity, adding corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy, rapid onset-dystonia-parkinsonism (RDP), spasticity debilitating condition, Botox, upper limb spasticity, etc. This informative meeting-of-the-mind will stimulate your thinking through didactic lectures, lively debate, complex case studies and engaging panels. There will also be CME credits awarded. Please visit winomeeting.org for complete details about the 38th WINO Meeting.

• Gala Professional Education Symposium: "Transforming
  Primary Dementia Care in an Era of Health Care Reform"
  Mar 5, 2011 | Salt Lake Marriott Downtown (75 S. West Temple, SLC)

  The Utah Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and the Center for Alzheimer's Care, Imaging and Research (CACIR) have partnered to offer the 2nd Annual Gala Professional Education Symposium in conjunction with the Assocciation's Annual Gala. This year's Symposium will feature a Keynote presentation by Dr. Malaz Boustani, Associate Professor of Medicine, Center Scientist at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, and Research Director at the Healthy Aging Brain Center at Indiana University.

  To download a PDF copy of the program or register for the Symposium, please click here or contact the Alzheimer's Association, Utah Chapter at (800) 371-6694 or (801) 265-1944. Click here to download a copy of the syllabus for this program.

• Utah Psychological Association: "Evidence-Based
  Neuropsychological Assessment for the Practitioner"
  Presented Jan 14, 2011 by Gordon J. Chelune, Ph.D., ABPP(CN)

  This event was sponsored by the Utah Psychological Association (UPA), who is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. For additional information on UPA sponsored events, visit www.utpsych.org. Participants may download a copy of Dr. Chelune's course materials here.

• NAN 30th Annual Conference
  Presented Oct 2010 by Drs. Kevin Duff and Gordon J. Chelune

  The National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) held its 30th Annual Conference in Vancouver in October 2010. At the conference, Kevin Duff, Ph.D., discussed "Evidence-Based Indicators of Neuropsychological Change in the Individual Patient" (NAN CE Workshop #24) and Gordon J. Chelune, Ph.D., ABPP(CN), presented "Understanding and Using Evidence-Based Clinical Neuropsychological Principles in Daily Practice" (NAN CE Workshop #35), an overview of a model for evidence-based neuropsychology science and practice. To download materials from Dr. Chelune's workshop, please click here.

• AAN Seminar: "Improving Accuracy of Dementia Diagnosis:
  Case Studies with Both Imaging and Neuropathology" (2007-11)
  Presented at the 2007-2011 Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

  Directed by Norman L. Foster, M.D., this program asks participants to diagnose dementia case studes based on clinical scenarios alone, and again after visual interpretation of neuroimaging. Audience votes are tabulated and then compared against detailed neuropathology, stimulating lively discussion. For results from past courses, please see below. All presentations copyrighted by the American Academy of Neurology.

  Seminar #2ES.001: Results from the 2011 Annual Meeting
  Please check back soon for participant results from the 63rd Annual AAN Meeting in Honolulu.

  Seminar #3AS.001: Results from the 2010 Annual Meeting
  Please check back soon for participant results from the 62nd Annual AAN Meeting in Toronto.

  Seminar #3AS.005: Results from the 2009 Annual Meeting
  To see participant results from the 61st Annual AAN Meeting, please click here.

  Seminar #2BS.002: Results from the 2008 Annual Meeting
  To see participant results from the 60th Annual AAN Meeting in Chicago, please click here.
  To download the handout for course 2BS.002, click here.

  Seminar #7BS.006: Results from the 2007 Annual Meeting
  To see participant results from the 59th Annual AAN meeting in Boston, please click here.
  To download the handout for course 7BS.006, click here.

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