Living Your Best Life With Parkinson's

Ames, IA US
November 6, 2019

Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.  

Target Audience

Physicians, Advance Practice Professionals, Nurses, Ancillary Staff, Medical Students (rotating), Non-Medical Students (rotating), and Healthcare Administrators.

Purpose

  • This activity will reinforce the concept that exercise-based interventions, in conjunction with appropriate medication and neurosurgical management, can maximize overall function and quality of life for the person with Parkinson's. This activity will also stress the benefit of timely referrals to rehabilitation therapies in an episodic model of care throughout the course of disease, from time of diagnosis to end-stage disease. This activity will also highlight the importance of wellness initiative to meet the emotional, cognitive, and physical needs of persons with Parkinson's and their care partners.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify motor and non-motor changes associated with Parkinson's Diseases..
  • Discuss the role of the rehabilitation therapist (PT/OT/SLP) in the management of Parkinson's disease throughout all Hoehn & Yahr stages.
  • Identify appropriate referral sources to meet the rehabilitation needs of persons with Parkinson's and their care partners.

Speaker(s)

Courtney Huber, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIS
Speech Language Pathologist, On With Life

Gail McGaughy, MPT, C/NDT, CLT, CBIS
Physical Therapist, On With Life

Sue Sandahl, OTR/L, CBIS
Occupational Therapist, On With Life

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

  • Ms. Huber and Ms. Sandahl indicated the commercial entities with which they have relationships do not produce health care goods or services relevant to the content she is planning, developing, or presenting for this activity.
  • Ms. McGaughy indicated she has no financial relationships with a commercial entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients.

CME Committee

  • No member of the Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee who planned this activity has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

This program is supported by gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, First American Bank, and Green Hills Health Care Center. The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee and not the sponsors of this program.

    Course summary
    Available credit: 
    • 1.00 AOA Category 2­A
    Course opens: 
    11/06/2019
    Course expires: 
    11/06/2019
    Event starts: 
    11/06/2019 - 12:00pm CST
    Event ends: 
    11/06/2019 - 1:00pm CST
    Cost:
    $0.00
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    Mary Greeley Medical Center
    Bessie Myers Auditorium
    1111 Duff Avenue
    Ames, IA 50010
    United States

    Continuing Education Credit

    DO: Des Moines University (DMU) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. DMU designates this program for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 2-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

    EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

    No commercial interest company provided financial support for this continuing education activity.

    DISCLOSURE

    Everyone in a position to control the content of this educational activity will disclose to the CME provider and to attendees all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. They will also disclose if any pharmaceuticals or medical procedures and devices discussed are investigational or unapproved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Determination of educational content and the selection of speakers is the responsibility of the activity director. Firms providing financial support did not have input in these areas. The information provided at this CME activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition. The content of each presentation does not necessarily reflect the views of Des Moines University.

    Available Credit

    • 1.00 AOA Category 2­A

    Price

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