AAPM&R Connection E-Newsletter

#AAPMR2017, October 12-15 in Denver is quickly approaching. If you haven’t already signed up for one of our limited-attendance Skills Labs, you’re missing out. Offering 3 hours of blended didactic and hands-on immersive learning, each Skills Lab is limited to 40 participants to ensure an intimate learning environment. Check out some of our available Labs below and register now for hands-on learning.

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging of Lower Extremity Nerves: Identification and Injection Techniques
• Comprehensive Approach to Evaluation and Gait Retraining for Management of Patellofemoral Pain
• Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
• Basic Wound Care Skills
• And more
  

We’re excited to host our President’s Reception at Wynkoop Brewing Company, Colorado’s first brewpub, located in downtown Denver. Challenge your peers to a friendly game of billiards or shuffleboard, enjoy New American pub grub in the brewery’s billiards parlor, and listen to live music with a freshly-brewed glass of custom AAPM&R beer, named by our members! Learn more and purchase your ticket now, as there is limited availability.

AAPM&R extends its thoughts and well wishes to all of those impacted by Hurricane Irma, including the 500 physiatrists who practice in those areas, along with their family and friends. If you would like to support those in need, please consider donating to the American Red Cross.

Click on the links below to read more and learn how you can enhance your clinical knowledge in these areas:

• Pain Awareness Month
• Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
  

We’re celebrating Women in Medicine Month (#WIMmonth) throughout September. Use our social media channels to tell us which #FemalePhysiatristRockstars motivate and inspire you.

We’ll have a great group of women physiatrists presenting at #AAPMR2017. Our Past President Kathleen R. Bell, MD, FAAPMR, is co-directing our new leadership strategies preconference course with Rachel A. Brakke, MD, FAAPMR. See these 2 power-house physiatrists and all of our #FemalePhysiatristRockstars in action for yourself.

Keep an eye on your mailbox for the latest issue of The Physiatrist. The September issue features:

• AAPM&R Advocacy Principles: Let’s Continue the Conversation
• How to Win Patients and Influence Insurers: The Managed Medicare IRF Admission Gauntlet
• The Inside Scoop on the STEP Ultrasound Certificate Program
• AAPM&R Comments on the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
  

The Academy is now the CME-accredited provider for AMSSM’s Sports Ultrasound online videos. Learners can access links to the videos, post-tests, and evaluations on me.aapmr.org as 5 individual packages or as a complete set. Learn more.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given notice of its intent to establish the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force. Through this notice, HHS is requesting nominations of individuals who are interested in being considered for appointment to the Task Force. Any Academy member interested in applying for this opportunity is encouraged to contact AAPM&R by September 27. Learn more.

Listen to a set of interviews from the JCSMS meeting held February 17-19, 2017. These invited speakers were interviewed after their presentations and they discuss key take-home points and highlights of their talks.

Jonathan Halperin, MD, FAAPMR, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego, is president of JCSMS and serves as AAPM&R’s representative. Thank you for representing the Academy, Dr. Halperin!

• David X. Cifu, MD, FAAPMR, associate dean of innovation and system integration, chairman of the department of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine, and AAPM&R past president, discusses treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury in war veterans. Read more.
  
  
• Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD, FAAPMR, medical director of the brain injury and stroke programs at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, shares her personal experience of being on-call and working during Hurricane Harvey. Read more.
  
  
• Aaditya Verma, DO, a 2017 graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, recently joined Labette Health’s medical staff. Read more.
  

Do you have a newsworthy story to share with your peers? Send us an email at: pressinquiries@aapmr.org. Please note: AAPM&R reserves the right to deny requests where the purpose or content may not be considered in the best interests of AAPM&R or its members.