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AGENDA

This year's agenda is still under development. We are working on bringing some of the following ideas to this year's conference: 

  • “Pilonidal Puzzles: When Sitting Becomes a Problem”
  • “Obesity Medicine: Beyond Calories and Willpower”
  • “You’ve Been Named in a Lawsuit—Now What?”
  • “Unusual Cases in Underserved Medicine: What Just Walked Into My Office?!?”
  • “Shockingly Simple: Triage of the EKG”
  • “ADHD Diagnosis After 30: It Wasn’t Just Grad School Stress”
  • “AAPA Update: What’s New, What’s Next”
  • “Vaccine & Communicable Disease Update: What Is This Rash?”
  • “Lupus Update: When the Immune System Won’t Sit Still”
  • “Secondary Hypertension: It’s Not Always the Salt”

Last year's agenda is below for an idea of what to expect: 

THURSDAY
July 10, 2025
6:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Open 
Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. Breakfast Bar With Exhibitors
Grand Ballroom B
6:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open 
Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Speaker: MOAPA President and CME Committee
Grand Ballroom A
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Update from NCCPA: Focus on the PANRE/PANRE-LA
Speaker: Alicia Quella PA-C
Grand Ballroom A

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Non-Traumatic Hand Complaints
Speaker: Terry Carlisle, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.  Refreshment Break With Exhibitors
Grand Ballroom B
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
The Gray Area: Psychotic Medications in Aging Populations
Speaker: Cynthia Hollis-Keene, NP
Grand Ballroom A
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Pain Management
Speaker: Nolan Snider, MD
Grand Ballroom A
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Product Theater Lunch
Hearth Room
Sponsored by Abbvie

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Digital Health and Cardiovascular Disease
Speaker: Lisa Roelle, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Obesity Management in the Elderly
Speaker: Cindy Griessel, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  Refreshment Break With Exhibitors
Grand Ballroom B
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Hyperbilirubinemia
Speaker: Torria Slagle, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Sepsis
Speaker: Rebecca Loveless, PA-C, DFAAPA
Grand Ballroom A
 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  Social Event
FRIDAY
July 11, 2025
6:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Open 
Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. Breakfast Bar With Exhibitors
Grand Ballroom B
6:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open 
Grand Ballroom B
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. AIS AIS Baby: Management of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Speaker: Meghan Glover, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Ditch the Dizziness - HINTS
Speaker: Amanda McCormick, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

 Refreshment Break With Exhibitors 
Grand Ballroom B

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
The Digital Clinician Will See You Now: AI's Role in Health Care Innovation
Speaker: Jeff DelVecchio, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
        10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.      
Empowering Options: Updates in Contraception Care
Speaker: Shana DelVecchio, NP
Grand Ballroom A
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch
Hearth Room

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
POTS/Autonomic Dysfunction
Speaker: Laura Phillips, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.  Dermatology Identification, Procedures and Tips
Speaker: Brett Neill, MD
Grand Ballroom A
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  Refreshment Break With Exhibitors
Poster Sessions
Grand Ballroom B
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wound Care Essentials
Speaker: Bethany Lemmon, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Peripheral Nerve-Common Ailments from Headache to Ankle Sprains
Speaker: Kelli Dean Riegel PA-C
Grand Ballroom A

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Eosinophilic Esophagitis: AKA An Allergist and a
Gastroenterologist Walk into a Bar

Speaker: Minh-Thu Le, MD
Grand Ballroom A
 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.   PA Student Trivia Bowl
Grand Ballroom A
SATURDAY
July 12, 2025
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration Open 
Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast Bar 
Grand Ballroom B
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. You Can Have a Long and Happy Career in Healthcare
Speaker: Kathryn Egly, MD
Grand Ballroom A
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Occlusion MI - Will it be the New STEMI?
Speaker: Kelsey Cozby, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Is Your Patient Optimized for Surgery? Optimizing Your Patient for Surgery - Utilizing the Current Guidelines and Risk Tools
Speaker: Christopher Berner, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.  Clinical Practice Update: EKG for the Primary Care PA
Speaker: Justin Gambini, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA
Grand Ballroom A
11:45 a.m. Working Lunch (Boxed Lunch)
Grand Ballroom A

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Beyond Ensure: Real Tools for Tackling
Malnutrition in the Elderly
Speaker: Natalie Allen, RD
Grand Ballroom A
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
My Child has a Fever
Speaker: Katelyn Maben, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Total Laryngectomy Patient Care
Speaker: Ashley Hrabik, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
Speaker: Sara Cox, MPAS, PA-C
Grand Ballroom A
 
 4:00 p.m.  Closing Remarks

















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