• COURSEWORK
• CE CREDITS
• FACULTY
• PLANNING COMMITTEE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

RH2008 is one of the most comprehensive reproductive health continuing education conferences in the Northwest and offers plenary and concurrent sessions on many important topic areas. The target audience for this conference includes licensed clinical providers (e.g., nurse practitioners and other nurses, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, physicians, etc.) in addition to community health educators, counselors, clinic managers, and program administrators.

Thank you to all participants who joined us for RH2008 in Bellevue, Washington. The coursework is listed below along with a copy of the speaker’s handout (pdf). These speaker’s have given their permission to make their printed materials available to participants. This webpage will be available until April 30, 2008.

COURSEWORK

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

7:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 8:45 am Welcome & Introductions

8:45 am – 10:15 am GENERAL SESSION

Contraceptive Management (Rx)
Deborah Oyer, MD

10:15 am – 10:45 am Break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSION A

This is Not Your Mother's IUD: An Update on Intrauterine Contraception (Rx)
Sarah Prager, MD, MS

Women and PTSD (Rx)
Mary Ann Nihart, MA, ARNP, CS, BC

Preconception Care: New Guidelines, New Opportunities
Michael Policar, MD, MPH

Woman 2 Woman: Inside & Out
Sandy Rice, MEd

Electronic Charting and Health Improvement Technology
Panel: Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood and International Clinic Health Services (ICHS)

12:15 pm  LUNCHEON

1:00 pm  Awards Presentation

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm  KEYNOTE

Sex::Tech—Using Internet and Cell Technology to Advance Reproductive Health, STD Prevention and Healthy Relationships
Deb Levine, MA, Executive Director of Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc.

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Break

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSION B

"You've still got a long way to go, Baby!"—Smoking Cessation and Women (Rx)
Alison Shigaki, MD

Drug Interactions with Contraceptives: EBM or Urban Legend (Rx)
Michael Policar, MD, MPH

How to Increase Patient Satisfaction by Providing Fun, Fast, and Thorough Care
Marti Baird, CNM-NP

Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Steve O’Neil, MA

Title X Guidelines (The Basics and Beyond)
Janet Wildeboor, MS, BSN

4:15 pm – 5:30 pm STATE MEETINGS

Thursday, March 20, 2008

7:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:30 am CONCURRENT SESSION C

Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment
William Lombardi, MD, PACC, PSCAI

Pap and HPV Testing in the Vaccine Era (Rx)
Connie Mao, MD

New Breast Screening & Diagnostic Methods
C. Tien-Bao Chao, MD, FACS

Tattooing, Body Cutting, Piercing and Branding
Sharon Schnare, RN, FNP, CNM, MSN, FAANP

Managing Performance in a Clinical Setting
April Pace, JD

9:30 am – 10:00 am Break

10:00 am – 11:30 am GENERAL SESSION

Adolescent Brain Development—Shaping Interventions to Teens’ Changing Synapses
Joan Mogul Garrity

11:30 am – 1:00 pm LUNCH

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm GENERAL SESSION

STD Update (Rx)
Linda Eckert, MD

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSION D

Asthma Overview (Rx)
Arthur Vegh, MD, FAAAAI

ABCs of Viral Hepatitis (Rx)
Chia Wang, MD

How to Take a Sensitive Sexual History
Sharon Schnare, RN, FNP, CNM, MSN, FAANP

Implementing Routine HIV Testing
Amanda Newstetter, MSW

Cost Management of Contraception
Panel: Don Downing, RPh and Louis Linsmeyer

Friday, March 21, 2008

7:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:00 am GENERAL SESSION

Menstrual Abnormalities & Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (Rx)
Sarah Prager, MD, MS

9:00 am – 10:00 am GENERAL SESSION

Providing Culturally Proficient Services—Clinical Case Studies
Moderator: Wendy Nakatsukasa-Ono

10:00 am – 10:15 am Break

10:15 am – 11:45 am CONCURRENT SESSION E

Clinical Case Management (Rx)
Anna Kaminski, MS, MD

Community Associated MRSA (Rx)
Jeffrey S. Duchin, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Addiction as a Brain Disease: Implications for Its Treatment and Management (Rx)
Ron Jackson, MSW

HIV Integration Projects: Sharing Best Practices & Lessons Learned
Moderator: LaJuana Locklin

Understanding the Health Care Needs of American Indians & Alaska Natives
Fransing Daisy, PhD

11:45 am – 12:15 pm Break

12:15 pm – 1:45 pm GENERAL SESSION

A Potpourri of Pharmacology (Rx)
Speaker: Susan Rawlins, MS, RNC, WHNP

1:45 pm Closing Remarks and Conference Evaluation

2:00 pm Adjourn

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CE CREDITS

Course Objectives

At the end of this conference, participants will be able to:

• Discuss up-to-date information about a variety of reproductive health clinical issues, including contraceptive options for women and men, management and treatment of STDs including HPV, BV, and cervicitis, hepatitis, pre conception care, and taking a sexual history for men and women.
• Discuss clinical assessment, management, and treatment issues regarding menstrual irregularities and abnormal uterine bleeding, fibroids and endometriosis, cardiovascular disease in women, breast screening and new technologies, and smoking cessation.
• Describe strategies for providing effective counseling and education interventions in these categories: women and PTSD, using SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment for substance abuse) model, how adolescent brain development impacts effective interventions, how understanding culture improves clinical care, and what addiction really means.
• Identify management strategies in topics such as evaluating staff performance in a clinical setting, interpreting Title X guidelines, managing the increasing cost of contraception, and implementing electronic health records into a family planning setting.

CE Credit Information

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of Cincinnati and the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, and the Center for Health Training. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Cincinnati designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credits commensurate with the extent of their participation.

The University of Cincinnati is committed to resolving all conflicts of interest issues that could arise as a result of prospective faculty members significant relationships with drug or device manufacturer(s). The University of Cincinnati is committed to maintain only those speakers with financial interest that can be reconciled with the goals and educational integrity of the CME program.

The Center for Health Training (Provider #PA/23/Mar/09) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. RH2008 coursework is approved for a maximum of 30 contact hours, depending on the attendance of one or more of the pre-conference or post-conference workshops.

Pharmacology credits are offered throughout the conference to allow providers with prescriptive authority to gain the required number of annual pharmacology contact hours. Participants will be able to earn up to 10.5 pharmacology credits depending on which concurrent sessions are selected. Approved courses for Pharmacology credit are marked with a (Rx) symbol.

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FACULTY

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PLANNING COMMITTEE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Center for Health Training gratefully acknowledges the following support for this program.

Funding Support*

US Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS),
Office of Population Affairs (OPA),
Office of Family Planning, Region X

CMEs Jointly Sponsored By:

University of Cincinnati Office of Continuing Medical Education

Center for Health Training (CHT)

In conjunction with:
Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (PTC)

CHT gratefully acknowledges the following organizations* for their in-kind support of this program:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Infertility Prevention Project (IPP)

Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC)

Northwest Frontier Addiction Technology Transfer Center (NFATTC)

Washington State Department of Health, WA Breast and Cervical Health Program

*non-commercial, non-profit organizations or government agencies

CHT gratefully acknowledge the following companies for their educational grants in support of this program:

Mission Pharmacal

Exhibitors will include:

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals

California Family Health Council — Cooperative Programs

Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), Region X Office on Women’s Health

EarlyDETECT

Elsevier

FDA, Office of Regulatory Affairs

Gen-Probe

GlaxoSmithKline

Mission Pharmacal

Open Adoption & Family Services 

OraSure Technologies, Inc.

Organon, a Schering-Plough Corporation

Ther-Rx Corporation

University of Washington Book Store

WA State Department of Health Family Planning and Reproductive Health

WA State Department of Maternal-Infant Health Program

WA State Department of Health, Washington Breast and Cervical Health Program

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