EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
ROANOKE AREA

Wound Care Challenges: Tools for the Health Care Professional, sponsored by PESI Healthcare. All day seminar, $164, can register online www.pesi.com. Group rates available. CEU's pre-certified for CCMs, RNs, dieticians, certified diabetic educators, athletic trainers, physical therapists, physician assistants.   Roanoke: March 31, 2008, Holiday Inn, Tanglewood. 8 am to 4 pm. (Registration, continental breakfast start 7:30 am). Lunch on your own.

Roanoke Area Rehab Networking Breakfasts 2008

January 4: "Gauging and Engaging the Aging Brain", Yvonne Behrens, MEd, Brain Fitness Consultant, Innovative Therapies, Roanoke.

February15 (as rescheduled) " Special Challenges of Communication amongst Health Care Providers and the Community", Steve McClintock, Editor in Chief, Our Health.

March 7 "My View of Physiatry: Improving Functionality", Dr. Michelle McFarlane, practicing in Christiansburg, has recently joined Dr. Murray Joiner and Associates.

April 4 "Mattress Issues in People with Back Pain: Practical and Legal Considerations, New Consumer Products Safety Commission update" Lee Carter, Sleep Essentials, Roanoke.

May 2: "New Research in Management of Low Back Pain" Dr. Trevar Chapmon, physiatrist, Carilion Bone and Joint, Roanoke.

June 6 "Chiropractic Branches Out" Dr. Mark Schueller, Roanoke Chiropractic and Clinical Nutrition Center. Dr. Schuler, with degrees in both chiropractic and nutrition, will discuss unique breadth of services he makes available to his patients.

July-NO BREAKFAST , holiday break.

August 1, Meet and eat, gather ideas for 2009 (no program this month)

September 5 "Update in Orthopedic Appliances", Ron Deaton, Roanoke Orthopedic Appliance.

October3 " Surprising New Findings about Alternatives to High Dose Narcotics in Chronic Pain Patients", Dr. Peter Coleman, The Coleman Institute, Richmond.

November 7 "Medical Identity Theft" , Kathy Terry, Virginia Attorney General's Office.

December 5 " End of Life Issues--What's new in Palliative Care." Dr. Syed Haider, Valley Internal Medicine.