2009 Spring Symposium Agenda
    DATE:           Saturday, April 4, 2009
    TIME:            8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    FACILITY:    Comfort Inn
    CITY:            Bismarck, North Dakota
Prairie Rose Chapter
North Dakota
A component of
AHDI
8:00 a.m              REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Check in at the door to pick up your name tag and materials.
Continental Breakfast will include muffins, doughnuts, juice and coffee
8:15-8:30 a.m     WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Bio
Corinne Wolf, CMT, AHDI Prairie Rose Chapter President
8:30-9:00 a.m      AHDI PRAIRIE ROSE CHAPTER BUSINESS MEETING
Bio
9:00-10:00 a.m    BARIATRIC SURGERY                                               
Brent Bruderer, MD, Bariatric Surgery, Q&R Clinic, Bismarck, ND                             
1 Clinical Medicine CEC
An overview of bariatric surgery, including gastric bypass and Lap-Band procedures, as well as pertinent medical and lifestyle weight loss issues.
10-10:15 a.m.      BREAK
Bio
10:15-11:15 a.m  IMPROVING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH  
Melany Jenkins, BS, Associate Director of Program Services, March of Dimes ND Chapter
Melany will talk about the important work of the March of Dimes, which includes improving maternal and child health, working to reduce birth defects and lower premature birth rates, working to improve health insurance coverage for children and pregnant women, and encouraging smoking cessation in pregnant women.
1 Clinical Medicine CEC
11:15-11:30 a.m.  BREAK
Bio
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.         LUNCH/ENDOCRINE JEOPARDY!                
Lori Seaborn, CMT, Prairie Rose Chapter President Elect
Lunch will be catered.  Then, back by popular demand--Jeopardy, this time with terms from the endocrine system, hosted by our own Alec...I mean Bev Borscheid. Questions will be taken from The Language of Medicine, 8th ed.
1 MT Tools CEC
12:30-1:30 p.m.   WATT DEW YEW HERE?  SOUNDALIKES/HOMONYMS
Bio
Corinne Wolf, CMT, AHDI Prairie Rose Chapter President
A pretest of 75 common soundalike/homonym terms followed by discussion and "answers" given in a Zoho Show (free online presentation format similar to PowerPoint).  Soundalikes/homonyms have been around for a long time, but with speech recognition on the horizon for many transcriptionists, it is important to review these terms, as speech recognition does not always select the correct word.  "Its impotent two no witch to chews and how too due it write."
1 MT Tools
CEC
1:30-1:45 p.m.     BREAK
Bio
1:45-2:45 p.m.    THE ND CANCER REGISTRY: WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO WE DO?
Marlys C. Knell, CTR, Program Director, ND Cancer Registry
1 Technology and the Workplace CEC
Marlys will describe the scope of the North Dakota Cancer Registry (NDCR), including data collection and targeting, monitoring and evaluating, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment to reduce the burden of cancer in the State of North Dakota.
2:45-3:00 p.m.     BREAK
Bio
3:00 -4:00 p.m.    WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND YOUR                                     STATUS AS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
Lisa K. Fair McEvers, JD, ND Commissioner of Labor              
1 Medicolegal CEC
Ms McEvers will give an introduction and overview of independent contractor issues, and will discuss discrimination and dealing with people with disabilities.
4:00 p.m.             WRAP UP, SEND OFF
This agenda is subject to change.
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