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    Educational Update for the APP

    Thursday, February 20, 2025
    1:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST

    Disclosure(s):
    Gina Duel, MSPAS, PA-C: No financial relationships to disclose
    Kenneth M. Crandall, MD: cerapedics: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Stryker Co.: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)
    Lara Massie, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

    Presentations:

    • 1:30 PM – 1:32 PM EST
      Introduction

      Speaker: Lara Massie, MD – Drexel College of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network

      Speaker: Gina Duel, MSPAS, PA-C – Hoag Specialty Clinic/ HOAG Hospital

    • 1:33 PM – 1:42 PM EST
      Inpatient Complications After Spinal Surgery

      Speaker: Kenneth M. Crandall, MD – University of Maryland School of Medicine

    • 1:43 PM – 1:52 PM EST
      Panel: Bone Density Management Pilot Program at Buffalo

      Speaker: Jeffrey Mullin, MD MBA – UBNS

      Speaker: Lara Massie, MD – Drexel College of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network

      Speaker: Andrea Wincowski, PA-C – University at Buffalo Neurosurgery

    • 1:53 PM – 2:02 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Cervicogenic Headache and Occipital Neuralgia

      Speaker: Kellie Gater, DNP, MSN, RNFA – UCSF

    • 2:03 PM – 2:12 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Social Determinants of Health

      Speaker: Julia Balandiat, PA-C – Allegheny Health Network

    • 2:13 PM – 2:22 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Conservative Management: When Less is More 

      Speaker: Janneinne Le, PA-C – Hoag Spine Institute

    • 2:23 PM – 2:32 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Which Injection to Order and Why

      Speaker: Charles De Mesa, DO – The BIOS Institute

    • 2:33 PM – 2:42 PM EST
      Panel: Career Evolution

      Speaker: Gina Duel, MSPAS, PA-C – Hoag Specialty Clinic/ HOAG Hospital

      Speaker: Adam S. Kanter, MD, MBA – Hoag Neurosciences Institute

    • 2:43 PM – 2:52 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Neuromodulation

      Speaker: Jocelyn Dominick, Master's of Physician Assistant Sciences – Allegheny Health Network

    • 2:53 PM – 3:02 PM EST
      Case-Based Presentation: Neuromodulation

      Speaker: Stephanus Viljoen, MD – Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery

    • 3:03 PM – 3:13 PM EST
      Q&A
    • 3:14 PM – 3:24 PM EST
      Break
    • 3:25 PM – 4:27 PM EST
      Hands-on Demostrations and Practice Exercise

      Speaker: Lara Massie, MD – Drexel College of Medicine, Allegheny Health Network

      Speaker: Joshua W. Trbovich, PA-C – AHN Neurosurgery

      Speaker: Adam S. Kanter, MD, MBA – Hoag Neurosciences Institute

      Speaker: Gina Duel, MSPAS, PA-C – Hoag Specialty Clinic/ HOAG Hospital

    • 4:28 PM – 4:30 PM EST
      Wrap Up