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2025 Advanced Practice Conference

UC Davis Health: 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento CA, 95817

North Addition Office Building, Room 1001

Agenda Saturday January 25th, 2025

7:30 am Registration, Continental Breakfast

8:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Christi DeLemos, Chief of Advanced Practice, UC Davis Health

Session 1: Moderator: Lars Gjerde, AGACNP-BC

8:15 am Substance Use Disorder: Best practices

Julie Hettig, FNP & Curt Jones, FNP

8:40 am AI: How it is changing healthcare

Erica M. Dorn MS, FNP

9:05 am Delivering care in remote environments

Kenzi McCalister, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-C

9:30 am Break and Exhibit Viewing

Session II: Moderator: Danise Seaters, ACNP-BC

10:00 am Managing Cardiac Emergencies

Rebecca Hall, NP UCD Heart and Vascular Center

10:30am Intersection of mental health and physical health

Janet Meda, D.N.P., F.N.P.-C., P.M.H.N.P.-B.C., P.H.N., R.N.

11:00 am Say the M Word: managing menopause well

Dr. Louise Krone

11:30 am Early Detection and prevention of head and neck cancer

Beverly Garber, NP Otolaryngology

12:00 PM Lunch and Exhibit viewing

Session III: Moderator: Ron Ordona, NP

1:00 pm Pitfalls of managing Low Back Pain

Christi DeLemos, ACNP-BC, NP Neurological Surgery

1:30 PM Pharmacologic management of atrial fibrillation

Rebecca Gibson, M.M.S., P.A.-C.

2:00 pm Break and Exhibit Viewing

Session IV: Moderator: Brandi Chapman, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC

2:30 pm De-escalating the bad visit

Beth Dubois, NP

3:30 pm Launching your independent practice

Ron Ordona, DNP

4:00 pm Challenging case review: panel discussion

Mary Gallager, PNP Pediatric case study

Sarah Hendricks, FNP-BC Diabetes case study

4:30 pm Closing Remarks