Total Credits: 2 including 2 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
To Code or Not to Code: That is the Question
There is great deficiency in dealing with end of life care, patients and families understanding of CODE situations. Many physicians have resistance to discuss code status with patients and families. Students and residents are not taught how to address. The problem is present in office and hospital situations. Education for doctors and families regarding consequences of coding patients needs to be advanced. We need to be empathetic and realistic when medical situations present difficult decisions for physicians, medical staff, families, and patients.
Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Pediatric Obesity: A Multi-Disciplinary Overview of the Evaluation and Management
This session will explore the evaluation and management of pediatric obesity from the perspectives of a family and integrative medicine physician, pediatrician, and physiologist. By using the recently
released clinical practice guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as a framework and by reviewing advances in the understanding of the underlying basic science of pediatric obesity,
healthcare providers will be equipped with knowledge and skills to provide holistic, patient-centered care for children and adolescents with obesity.
Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Statement of Accreditation
The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. TOMA designates is program for a maximum of 2 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to TOMA's Executive Director at toma@txosteo.org. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt. If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
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Dr. Martha Danhof is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice Palliative Care Medicine. Following graduation from SMU, she worked as the amino acid analyzer technician in the Department of Microbiology at UTSW and then transitioned to graduate work in the microbiology department working on viral molecular genetics. Her desire to pursue a medical career was finally realized after attending TCOM and graduating from UNTHSC-TCOM. She completed internship and residency at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where she served as Chief resident in her final year of training. Dr. Danhof spent the first four-years post training as a Primary Care Physician in Allen, Texas. She then accepted a position at UNTHSC -TCOM, where she taught in the Internal Medicine department. Following, Dr. Danhof transitioned to hospital medicine, where she worked for the next 15 years. During her time as a hospitalist, she established the Palliative Care program at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Danhof has had a passion for palliative care and hospice her entire career and feel there is great misunderstanding as to when and what palliative care can offer.
Dr. Danhof discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Dr. Natalie Slater is a board-certified general pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. She received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering with highest honors at the University of Texas at Austin and then earned her Doctor of Medicine degree with Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society recognition at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine. Dr. Slater completed her pediatric residency training through Baylor College of Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas before joining the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics as faculty in Galveston, Texas. In 2019, she committed to teaching Pediatrics to medical students across the four-years of undergraduate medical training at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine in San Antonio, TX, where she serves as Pediatric Clerkship Director and Director of the OMS-III and IV curriculum.
Dr. Slater discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Rob Slater is a family and integrative medicine physician who earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and his Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Dr. Slater completed residency training in family medicine at Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program in Houston. Following this, he completed a fellowship in Integrative and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, then became an assistant professor at UTMB. In 2019, Dr. Slater joined the newly-founded medical school at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio to help develop their medical curriculum and currently serves as a director of the Developing Osteopathic Clinical Skills (DOCS) program. He has enthusiastically incorporated integrative health and medicine into the formal curriculum at UIW-SOM, which is now integrated into over 70 different large and small group sessions in the first two years of medical school! Dr. Slater is also the director of the Integrative Gastroenterology course of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) Fellowship.
Dr. Slater discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Jessica M. Bradley is an Associate Professor of Physiology at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine’s (UIWSOM) in the Department of Applied Biomedical Sciences. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Physiology in 2013 from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans. She continued her training as post-doctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence at LSUHSC. Her research includes the study of novel therapeutics in the setting of cardiovascular disease including myocardial infarction and heart failure. In 2016, she joined the faculty at the UIWSOM to help in the development and implementation of DO curriculum. She is actively involved in teaching physiology to the first- and second-year medical students and currently serves as the Director of the Phase I Curriculum.
Dr. Bradley discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
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