Symposia on Hospital, Palliative, Primary & Dental Care

CME/CE Lecture Seminars for Medical, Dental, Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professionals

This Seminar is planned for up to 18 Continuing Education Credit Hours

  • CME/CE Professional Seminar Fee: $695
  • Seminar Attendance Fee: $450

CME/CE credits, Certificates of Completion and possible tax deductible guidelines will be provided for registered Professional Seminar attendees Certificates of Attendance will be provided for ALL registered seminar participants

Seminar Overview/Statement of Purpose:

Healthcare practitioners are currently faced with the challenges of both treating and preventing the ever-increasing incidence of chronic diseases in the US population. The need to adapt best practice models in the context of emerging healthcare reforms impacting patient care delivery and access to care is an important issue for all healthcare practitioners. PES is fortunate to have dental and medical practitioners representing a variety of specialties participating in the CME/CE sessions. PES understands the importance of offering inter-professional healthcare education, allowing colleagues to gain cross-specialty perspectives and updates in the treatment and prevention of disease.

The changing epidemiological profile of the populations in the Caribbean Islands, with an increase in morbidity from diabetes, heart disease and cancer, poses challenges to the current public health systems. Reducing the burden of chronic disease in a multi-ethnic population also necessitates the need for healthcare practitioners to understand the importance of employing “cultural competence” in treating these diverse populations to provide quality patient care and outcomes. Addressing these current healthcare needs in the Caribbean has focused on integrating health services and delivery networks to improve access to a continuum of primary care as the best model for disease control and prevention.

Planned In Country Healthcare Topics Include:

  • Medical Care in the Caribbean: Delivery & Treatment
  • Oral Health and its Role in Overall Health
  • A Bloody Triumph – the Amazing, Frightening and Humorous History of British Medicine (and beyond)
  • Medical Ethics: Past and Present
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sleep
  • Advance Care Planning: A Practical Approach for Providers, and Everyone Else, Part 1 & 2
  • Palliative Care and Hospice: An Overview for all Care Providers
  • Medicine at Sea: Typical Ailments, Common Travelers’ Illness, Challenges of Shipboard Medicine and Onboard Medical Center Supplies

PES Seminar Hosts

Thomas Miller, MD

Dr. Thomas Miller received his medical degree from Medical College of Ohio (now part of the University of Toledo) and completed his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Miller has been a practicing hospitalist since 1999 and is Board certified in Internal Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Miller has ten years’ experience as a hospitalist director, most recently serving as Regional Director overseeing a team of over 80 hospitalists. He has extensive experience in organizing and providing education of physicians and other care team members on many topics. Dr. Miller holds privileges at four hospitals where he has served on many committees, leading numerous medical staff teams and quality initiatives.

Gabriella Miller, MD

Dr. Gabriella Miller completed her medical school and residency training at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Miller is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Palliative Care. She presently serves as the Medical Director of Inpatient Palliative Care and Hospice at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center in Chesapeake, Virginia. Beyond that role, she serves as Chief of Family Medicine, representative to the Advance Care Planning Coalition of Eastern Virginia and has served as Chair of the Medical Ethics Committee. She has also had extensive experience as primary medical consultant for an active Geriatric Psychiatry unit, collaboration with extended care facilities and in leading education of physicians and nurses.

PES Distinguished Speaker

Pell Ann Wardrop, MD, FAASM, FAAO-HNS, PES Advisory Board

Dr. Pell Ann Wardrop is the medical director of the St. Joseph Sleep Wellness Center in Lexington, Kentucky. During her 20 years as a general otolaryngologist with a multispecialty group in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. Wardrop pursued additional training in sleep medicine. She was board certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine in 2003 and the American Board of Otolaryngology in the subspecialty of sleep medicine in 2008.

Educational Goals: Our goal is to provide unparalleled CME/CE travel opportunities for healthcare professionals that combine their most passionate destination desires with their educational goals, fostering exceptional learning experiences, friendships and connections with national and international colleagues.

  • Conduct educational healthcare programs to learn about best practice models reflecting current approaches in medicine and healthcare across different cultures for providing quality patient outcomes
  • Provide professional educational exchanges with international colleagues, healthcare educational organizations and clinics to gain cross-cultural perspectives and updates in the treatment and prevention of disease
  • Allow medical/healthcare professionals to compare and contrast current best practices in medical/healthcare delivery to provide quality patient outcomes in their own professional setting

Learning Objectives: Keep abreast of rapid expansion of medical knowledge and current best practice models on multiple topics to facilitate change and thus provide continually excellent patient care.

By design, this program permits medical experts to collaborate with colleagues and international counterparts to realize cross cultural view points and updates within the treatment and prevention of disease and offers opportunities to compare and contrast current best practices to supply quality patient care and outcomes in their own professional setting

Continuing Education Recognition Awards offered for healthcare professionals on this PES Program include:

Physicians: Programs are reviewed by the American Academy of Family Physicians for a minimum of 18 Prescribed Credit Hours. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) toward the AMA Physician Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.

ADA GreenDentists: The Professional Education Society is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

The Professional Education Society designates this activity for a minimum of 18 continuing education credits.

Nurses: The Professional Education Society is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 5428, for up to 18 contact hours. Although the California Board of Registered Nursing does not approve individual continuing education courses, providers are required by law to be approved by the Board. Reciprocity for continuing education hours for nurses is available in most states. Please check with your regulation board regarding requirements.

For Other Healthcare Professionals: Certificates of Attendance are issued to all participants attending credit sessions and can be submitted for credit approval to their professional board. In order to receive a Certificate of Attendance, registrants must sign-in, attend the programs and complete a program evaluation.

Tax Deduction: This healthcare seminar has been designed to comply with current IRS convention rules and deductibility requirements under Code Section 274(h)(1) as directly related to the conduct of the attendee’s profession and meeting the reasonableness standard of the foreign seminar rules. The formal meetings will be scheduled with lectures and discussions. Seminars in conference rooms, clinics or hospitals will be conducted by in-country speakers as well as distinguished faculty of the Professional Education Society.

Documentation verifying the scheduling dates, locations, hours of attendance, certificate of participation, and appropriate certificate of continuing medical, dental or nursing education will be provided at the completion of the conference. Tax deductible benefits are not guaranteed and we recommend that every attendee should consult with their Tax Consultant about their Individual situation to determine the appropriate amount and reporting of deductible expenses.