Cleveland Clinic CME Newsletter: January 2008

Dear Colleague,

January is getting better! The holidays may be behind us, but we're still giving out gifts. Take our web site survey and your name will be entered into a drawing for one of our several prizes. It should take 5 minutes so why not take this opportunity to tell us how we are doing.

We are hoping that you might stay a while and check out the newest additions to our site, including several free podcasts, several new online CME series and our comprehensive live course calendar. A selection of our upcoming live courses are shown below.

Cleveland Clinic CME

To make this newsletter more concise, and easier to navigate, CME courses for the next 3 complete months (including the current month). Links to the following months are below.
May 2008	June 2008	August 2008	September 2008	October 2008

8th Annual Orthopaedics: Excellence Through Education
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Feb. 1, 2008 \| InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Audience:	•	Physician assistants, RNs, LPNs, clinical technologists, orthopaedic technologists, and others directly involved in the care of orthopaedic patients in the ambulatory, operating room, or inpatient areas.
Accreditation:	•	Accreditated by the Ohio Nurses Association and the American Academy of Physician Assistants
		www.ccfcme.org/OrthoEd08

Diastology & New Echo Technologies Summit featuring: Contrast Echo Mini Symposium
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF \| Refer A Friend
Feb. 7-9, 2008 \| Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Daytona Beach, Florida
Audience:	•	Cardiologists, Sonographers, Fellows, Nurses, and Basic Scientists
Accreditation:	•	18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Now Includes:		Non-CME Satellite Breakfast Symposium - FDA “Black Box Warning” on Ultrasound Contrast Agents
		www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/Echo08

Emerging Diagnostic and Screening Strategies in Breast Cancer
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Feb. 8, 2008 \| Executive Caterers at Landerhaven, Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Audience:	•	Primary Care Physicians, Internists, Family Practice Physicians, Gynecologists, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Accreditation:	•	3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/BreastCancer08

Pain Management for the Primary Care Physician
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Feb. 16, 2008 \| Loews Coronado Bay Resort & Spa, San Diego, California
Audience:	•	Family, General, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Practitioners, Internists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Rheumatologists, Neurologists, Geriatricians, Physician Assistants, and other health care providers who care for patients with chronic pain.
Accreditation:	•	7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/PainPhysician08

10th Annual Pain Management Symposium
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF \| Refer A Friend
Feb. 16-20, 2008 \| Loews Coronado Bay Resort & Spa, San Diego, California
Audience:	•	Anesthesia Providers, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Primary Care Physicians, Physical Therapists, and Nurses who are interested in the practice of pain management.
Accreditation:	•	24.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
	•	Each Cadaver Workshop - additional 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
	•	Live Model Workshop - additional 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/Pain08

Second Annual International Symposium on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Submit An Abstract \| Event PDF
Feb. 22-24, 2008 \| Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Audience:	•	Radiation Oncologists, Neurosurgeons, Medical Physicists, Neuro-Oncologists, Medical Oncologists, Spine Surgeons and Neurologists.
Accreditation:	•	12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/Stereotactic08

Neuromuscular Disorders, Epilepsy, and Sleep Disorders: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Update
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Mar. 9-15, 2008 \| InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Audience:	•	Neurologists and neurologists-in-training.
Accreditation:	•	50.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/NeuroTherapeutic08

Palliative Medicine 2008
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Submit An Abstract \| Event PDF \| Refer A Friend
Mar. 13-15, 2008 \| The Westin-Kierland Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona
Audience:	•	International Audience of Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Pharmacists, and other Healthcare Providers involved with palliative care. Healthcare Professionals in Hematology/Oncology, Internal Medicine, Family Practice, and Hospice Care will benefit.
Accreditation:	•	15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/pm2008

3rd Ambulatory Urology Symposium: The Changing Face of Urology
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Mar. 13-15, 2008 \| InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Audience:	•	Urologists and other professionals interested in issues relating to ambulatory urology
Accreditation:	•	19.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/AmbUrol08

2nd Annual Innovations In Ophthalmology
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF \| Refer A Friend
Mar. 25-28, 2008 \| Marquis Los Cabos Hotel, Los Cabos, Mexico
Audience:	•	Ophthalmologists
Accreditation:	•	16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/Eye

Comprehensive Anesthesiology Review
Overview \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF
Apr. 7-12, 2008 \| InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Audience:	•	Anesthesiologists, Certified Nurse Anesthetists & Student Nurse Anesthetists
Accreditation:	•	55.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
	•	43 CE credits - approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
		www.ccfcme.org/AnesReview08

The Society of Black Academic Surgeons: Eighteenth Annual Symposium
Overview \| Objectives \| Agenda \| Faculty \| Hotel Accommodations \| Event PDF \| Refer A Friend
April 17-20, 2008 \| InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Audience:	•	The Society of Black Academic Surgeons is composed mainly of African-American surgeons in multiple fields of focus of academic surgery.
Accreditation:	•	15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
		www.ccfcme.org/SBAS08

Save-The-Date

Find out about Cleveland Clinic CME courses coming up in 2008. Provide your email address and receive instant notification when important course information becomes available online.
Apr. 14-15	50 Years of Excellence: Enterostomal Therapy/Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing at the Cleveland Clinic	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
May 7	11th Annual Moll Pavilion Cancer Symposium	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
May 15-17	Advances in Gynecologic Surgery: Surgical Innovations and State-of-the-Art Perioperative Care	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
May 17-18	A Hands on Approach to Diagnostic Pathology	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
May 29-30	Advanced Management Issues in HIV Medicine	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
May 30	Update in Headache Management	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
June 1-6	20th Annual Intensive Review of Internal Medicine	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Aug. 17-21	Ninth Annual Intensive Review of Cardiology	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Aug. 25-29	Pediatric Board Review	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Sept. 10-12	Obesity Summit	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Sept. 11-12	44th Annual Gastroenterology Update	Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH