UNP 2016 Pharmacology Conference - Registration Open

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Friday, May 20, 2016

• 7:00am - 8:00am

  Registration Continental Breakfast

• 7:45am - 8:00am

  Conference Welcome

  Penny Kaye Jensen, DNP, FNP-C, FAAN, FAANP 2016 Pharmacology Conference Co-Chair & Dallen Ormond, PhD, FNP-BC UNP President

• 8:00am - 9:30am

  Pharmacology Update: New Drugs in the Arsenal 2015-2016

  Alan Agins, PhD President, PRN Associates Tucson, Arizona

• 9:30am - 10:15am

  Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall

• 10:15am - 12:00pm

  Update on Opioid Prescribing: Balancing Safety While Treating Chronic Pain

  Brett Snodgrass, MS, FNP-C Director of Clinical Operations Lifeline Anesthesia-Pain Centers Memphis, Tennessee

• 12:00pm - 1:30pm

  Non-CE/Product Theater Luncheon

• 1:30pm - 2:30pm

  Heart Failure Medications: What's New, Tried & True?

  Kismet D. Rasmusson, DNP, FNP-C, FAHA Intermountain Health Salt Lake City, Utah

• 2:30pm - 3:15pm

  Afternoon Break with Exhibitors

• 3:15pm - 4:15pm

  Drug Induced Liver Injury

  Don Gardenier, DNP FNP-C, FAAN, FAANP Assistant Professor Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York

• 4:15pm - 5:15pm

  Pediatric Asthma: Why is Your Child Coughing?

  Sophia LeBlanc Thomas, MN, APRN, FNP-BC, PPCNP-BC, FNAP FAANP St. Charles Community Health Center New Orleans, Louisiana

• 6:30pm - 8:30pm

  Evening Event: 2016 Legislative Update: Town Hall Meeting/Meet & Greet

Saturday, May 21, 2016

• 7:00am - 8:00am

  Registration

• 8:00am - 8:15am

  Conference Welcome

  Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC 2016 UNP Pharmacology Conference Co-Chair & Dallen Ormond, PhD, FNP-BC UNP President

• 8:15am - 9:00am

  Non-CE/Product Theater Breakfast Sponsored by: Novo

• 9:00am - 10:00am

  Psychopharmacology: Review & Update, Part I

  Alan Agins, PhD President, PRN Associates Tucson, Arizona

• 10:00am - 10:30am

  Break with Exhibitors

• 10:30am - 12:30pm

  Psychopharmacology: Review & Update, Part II

  Alan Agins, PhD President, PRN Associates Tucson, Arizona

• 12:30pm - 1:30pm

  Non-CE/Product Theater Luncheon

• 1:30pm - 2:30pm

  Genetics in Primary Care: What Does This Mean for My Practice?

  Kenneth Wysocki, PhD, CRNP Matrix Medical Network Phoenix, Arizona

• 2:30pm - 3:00pm

  Afternoon Break

• 3:00pm - 4:00pm

  Traditional Chinese Medicine: What Are Your Patients Doing & How Can It Affect Medication Management?

  Kathy Morris, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C, FAANP Assistant Professor UNMC College of Nursing Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska

• 4:00pm - 5:00pm

  Not Just for Kids: Adult Vaccinations

  Joy Elwell, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C, FAANP Associate Clinical Professor University of Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut