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Winterfest 2019
New Mexico Society for Respiratory Care
Winterfest 2019 Conference
Winter is Coming
Thursday and Friday, January 17 & 18, 2019
Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive, Ruidoso, NM
CEUs awarded: AARC, NM RN
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
07:00 – 08:00 Vender Set Up
07:30 – 08:30 Registration for participants and Vendors
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome
Sarah Lyon, RRT, President NMSRC
08:45 – 09:45 “Tips and Tricks for the Treatment of COPD with Non-Invasive Ventilation”
Scot Reistad, RRT, CPFT, FAARC
09:45 – 10:45 “You Want The Truth…(Can You Handle The Truth?)”
Daniel “Scotty” Silva, RRT, MBA
10:45 – 11:30 Vendor Break
11:30 – 13:00 Re-evaluation, Rehabilitation & Resilience: An Alpha-1/COPD Adventure
Len Geiger, BS, Alpha-1 Advocate for Eversana
(This is a Grifols sponsored program for which no CEUs will be awarded. Lunch will be provided)
13:00 – 14:00 Challenging the Management of COPD: Ruling Out Alpha-1
Lindsay Megenhardt, MS, CHES
14:00 – 15:00 Reducing Non-Evidence Based Testing and Treatment in Bronchiolitis
Jennifer Achilles, MD
15:00 – 16:30 Vendor Break with snacks
16:30 – 17:30 Respiratory Therapists as Disaster Managers
Wendy Linscott, BS, CRT, RCP
Friday, January 18th, 2019
07:00 – 08:00 Registration/Breakfast
08:00 – 09:00 Pulmonary Exacerbations in Pediatric Trach Vent and Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Abby Redway, RRT-NPS, BOE
09:00 – 10:00 What Do You Mean The Patient Is Not The #1 Customer?
Scot Reistad, RRT CPFT, FAARC
10:00 – 11:00 Vendor Break
11:00 – 12:30 Break for Lunch
1230 – 13:30 Ventilator Data: Understanding the Social Needs in our Community
Kathey Armijo Etre, PhD, MSW
13:30 – 14:30 A Century Later, What Have We Learned Since the Spanish Flu Pandemic? The Epidemiology of Influenza in New Mexico
Lourdes Irizarry, MD
14:30 – 15:00 CEU’s Distribution
Be sure to turn in your CEU Paperwork at the end of the conference
and please print legibly.
CEUs will be emailed within 30 days
For more information contact:
SPEAKERS & CEUS: Sarah Lyon RRT 505-681-2444 sarah.lyon@stvin.org
for nursing ceus: Candi Miller-Morris, MSN 575-624-7232, candi.miller@roswell.enmu.edu
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