SPONSORED BY:

Ohio Medical Directors Association, Ohio Geriatrics Society

Ohio Society of Consultant Pharmacists

October 3-5, 2008

Concourse Hotel, Columbus, OH

Course Objectives:

1. Describe evidence-based approach to urinary incontinence, falls, and heart failure

2. Identify recent changes in billing and coding

3. Understand different approaches to practice models in geriatric care of frail elders

4. Integrate hospice and palliative care services into a comprehensive approach to end of life care in the nursing home

Learner Objectives by speaker:

October 3 5-7 pm Poster Session: (Chair, Dr. Arvind Modawal, MD, Dept. Of Family Medicine University of Cincinnati)

October 3 7-9 pm: Managing urinary incontinence in frail elders

Diane K Newman RNC MSN CRNP FAAN, Co-Director of the Penn Center for Continence and Pelvic Health, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

October 4 8:15 to 10:15 Plenary Sessions

8:15 Plenary Session #1 Making a successful home health care practice

Debra Bakirjian, Ph.D., MSN, FNP

9:15 Plenary Session #2: Liability Issues in the ECF

Janet K. Feldkamp, BSN, JD. Vice Chair, Health Care Practice Group, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP

October 4, 2008 4 BREAKOUTS: 10:30-11:15 and 11:15 to 12:00

Larry Lawhorne, DO. , Prof. and Chair Dept. of Geriatrics, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton and Mohan Reddy, MD , Geriatrics, VA Hospital Culture Change

Debra Bakirjian, Ph.D., MSN, FNP Practical ways to overcome barriers for a home health care practice

Laura Trice, MD, FACP,AGSF,CMD Medical Director Trihealth Senior Link and Lynn Jung MSN, ANP Wound Management Collaborative

Randy Fasnaucht, R Ph, FASCP: Medications on the Horizon 2007-2008

October 4, 2008 Saturday afternoon:

1:30-4 pm: Management of Diabetes, Hypertension, CHF and Hyperlipidemia in the frail elderly

What makes sense and what doesn’t? Matt Wayne, MD, CMD: Asst. Prof. Case School of Medicine: Moderator

1:30-2 Meenakshi Patel, MD, FACP, MMM, CMD Director of Geriatrics Miami Valley Hospital

2:00-2:45 Barbara Messinger-Rapport, MD, Ph.D., FACP, CMD, Cleveland Clinic

2:45-3:15 Tossadaq Ahmed, MD, CMD, Gerontologist, Louise Stokes VAMC

3:15-4:00 Panel discussion

October 5, 2008 Sunday morning:

8:15 -10:00 am: Dr. Arvind Modawal, MD, Dept. Of Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati; Chris Thomas, RPh VAMC.: What’s new in dementia

10:30-11:30: Managing unavoidable weight loss

Suzanne Cryst, RD, CSG,LD Director of Nutrition Services and Activities, Maria Joseph nursing center

Joseph Marek, PharmD, PhCGP, FASCP