CAPACon 2022
Thursday, October 6th - Sunday, October 9th, 2022
Westin Carlsbad Resort & Spa
Carlsbad, CA
About CAPACon
CAPACon is CAPA's annual Southern California conference for general medicine and specialty PAs. Held during PA Week, this 3.5-day conference will encompass clinical lectures and hands-on workshops for a total of 48 possible Category 1 CME credits! To learn more, check out the CAPACon 2022 Program.
What's Happening This Year?
In addition to a full educational program and busy exhibit hall, CAPACon will have a poster session displaying the professional work of your peers, host three complimentary lunches, bring back the popular Student Challenge Bowl, and offer a Carlsbad food and drink-sampling tour that will delight even the most experienced food enthusiast.
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Thursday, October 6th
Time | Speaker | Title | Track |
7:30am-8:30am | Registration / Breakfast / Exhibit Hall Open | ||
8:30am-9:30am | Lucy Horton | General Medicine | |
8:30am-9:30am | Dri Wang & Elika Hefazi | Born This Way? The Role of Early Life Stress in Adult Mental Illness | Psychiatry |
8:30am-10:30am | Scott Martin | Elevating Suturing Basics | Workshop |
9:30am-10:30am | Kayla McLaughlin | Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery | General Medicine |
9:30am-10:30am | Timothy McCreary | Motivational Interviewing for Advanced Practice Clinicians | Psychiatry |
10:30am-11:00am | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
11:00am-12:00pm | Jed Grant | Nailed It! Management of Common Nail Pathologies | General Medicine |
11:00am-12:00pm | Timothy McCreary | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Advanced Practice Clinicians | Psychiatry |
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch / Innovative Treatments for Migraine Patients Sponsored by AbbVie | ||
1:00pm-1:30pm | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
1:30pm-2:30pm | Anita Nelson | Menopause: Turn Down the Flames | General Medicine |
1:30pm-2:30pm | Ji Chun | Type 3 Diabetes? When it's Not the Typical Type | Cool Cases |
1:30pm-2:30pm | Gregory Yoshida | Physical Examination of the Knee and Shoulder | Workshop |
2:30pm-3:30pm | Robert Ross | Osteoporosis: Latest in Diagnostic and Treatment Options | General Medicine |
2:30pm-3:30pm | Raja Sivamani | Cases in Dermatology: Working Through Differential Diagnoses | Cool Cases |
3:30pm-4:00pm | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
4:00pm-5:00pm | Robert Ross | What You Should Really Know About Peripheral Arterial Disease | General Medicine |
4:00pm-5:00pm | Jennifer Carlquist | Cool EKG Cases | Cool Cases |
Friday, October 7th
Time | Speaker | Title | Track |
7:30am-8:30am | Registration / Breakfast / Exhibit Hall Open | ||
8:30am-9:30am | Arianna Campbell | General Medicine | |
8:30am-9:30am | Maria Tiamson-Kassab | Medical Systems and Psychiatric Co-Morbidities | Psychiatry |
8:30am-11:30am | Jennifer Carlquist | EKG Bootcamp | Workshop |
9:30am-10:30am | Raja Sivamani & Jessica Maloh | Integrative Medicine and Dermatology: The Influence of Nutrition, Mind-Body, and the Microbiome | General Medicine |
9:30am-10:30am | Anita Nelson | Cool Cases in Women's Reproductive Health | Cool Cases |
10:30am-11:00am | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
11:00am-12:00pm | Matthew Levine | Endocrine Pearls for the Primary Care PA | General Medicine |
11:00am-12:00pm | Maria Tiamson-Kassab | Decisional Capacity | Psychiatry |
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch / Consider RYBELSUS Early in Your T2D Treatment Regimen After Metformin Sponsored by Novo Nordisk | ||
1:00pm-1:30pm | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
1:30pm-2:30pm | Kim Zuber | Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease | General Medicine |
1:30pm-2:30pm | Fadra Whyte | Teeth- Turns out they are Attached to the Body | General Medicine |
1:30pm-4:30pm | Scott Martin | Ultrasound for the Clinical Setting | Workshop |
2:30pm-3:30pm | John Beuerle | The Fountain of Youth in the Palm of Your Hand: Medical Aesthetics | General Medicine |
2:30pm-3:30pm | Sonny Cline | Managing Difficult Patients | Psychiatry |
3:30pm-4:00pm | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||
4:00pm-5:00pm | Soha Dolatabadi | How to Recognize Spondyloarthritis | General Medicine |
4:00pm-5:00pm | D. Brady Pregerson | Misses and Near Misses from the ER | Cool Cases |
Saturday, October 8th
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7:30am-8:30am | Registration / Breakfast / Exhibit Hall Open | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:30am-9:30am | Curtis Fowler | General Medicine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:30am-9:30am | John Beuerle | A Case that'll Make You Sweat | Cool Cases | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:30am-11:30am | Eric Glassman | Common Musculoskeletal Injections and Joint Aspirations | Workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:30am-10:00am | Exhibit Hall Visit / Break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00am-11:00am | Kim Zuber | The Role and Utility of MRA in Diabetic Kidney Disease | General Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00am-11:00am | Sonny Cline | Psychiatry for the Primary Care Provider | Psychiatry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:00am-2:00pm | Career Expo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:00am-12:00pm | Nancy Hamler | Integrating Nutrition Therapy into Patient Care | General Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:00am-12:00pm | Joe Gilboy | Atypical Presentations of Can't Miss Cases | Cool Cases | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch / Treatment Considerations for Patients With HFrEF and 2022 HF Guideline Updates Sponsored by Merck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00pm-2:00pm | Brianna Cardenas | Joint Hypermobility and the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes | General Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1:00pm-2:00pm | J. Michael Smith | Psychiatric Emergencies | Psychiatry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:00pm-5:00pm | Student Challenge Bowl
To help attendees maximize their experience at CAPACon, for the first time ever, this conference will be a hybrid event! All lecture sessions*, except those scheduled on Sunday (Oct. 9), will be recorded and accessible through CAPA's online Education Hub through Oct. 31, 2022. This means that attendees may attend one lecture in-person and view a concurrently scheduled lecture later! With access to both in-person and virtual education, attendees may earn a possible total of 36 Category I CME - 20 units in-person and 16 units streaming. *Hands-on workshops not included. Conference Attendance
This year also brings the return of some new and popular hands-on workshops! These optional workshops provide an additional 12 Cat I CME. Workshops may be purchased by conference attendees for an additional fee. Can’t make it to the full conference? Workshop-only registration is now available! Click the workshop titles below to learn more or register. Optional Workshops
Carlsbad Food Tour Carlsbad is known for its beaches, perfect climate, and great restaurants. CAPA can help you take advantage of the beautiful location with an exclusive food tour just for CAPACon attendees! A Taste of Carlsbad takes guests on a walking tour of six unique Carlsbad Village eateries, an urban winery, and a local brewery. You will get full! Both CAPACon attendees and their guest (limit one guest per attendee) may register, but space is limited. Register today to ensure your spot in this unique gastronomic experience! CAPACareers Expo The Westin Carlsbad Resort & Spa Saturday, October 8th, 2022 10:00am - 2:00pm About The CAPACareers Expo is a professional launchpad for early career PAs, PAs seeking lateral mobility, and PA students ready to get a head start in their profession. This group is exploring practice setting options, employment opportunities, fellowship programs, doctoral programs, and specialty experience.
*Must be a CAPA member. Presentations
California PA schools graduate approximately 1,400 new PAs and accepts another 1,600 students each year. Among practicing PAs, about 7% change specialties in any given year. These laterally mobile PAs, student cohorts, and early career PAs are eager to get a jumpstart in their profession and see what practice setting or other options are most appropriate for their skills and interests.
Student Challenge Bowl Directly following the CAPACareers Expo, CAPA will host the annual Student Challenge Bowl on the Ocean Blue Lawn at the Westin Carlsbad Resort. As in previous years, each PA school will assign a Team Captain and two other Team Members to represent their schools. Teams will face off against each other, two at a time in bracket format, culminating in a final winner.
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