An Educational Outreach Initiative in Colorado

646,000 adults in the state of Colorado smoke; are some of them your patients? 80% of smokers want to quit, yet less than 5% are successful on their own.

Please join us for a half-day educational symposium in your area and learn how you can improve the health outcomes of your patients.

8:00 am — 1:00 pm
Continental breakfast and lunch included

Symposium Agenda

  • Health Implications of Smoking & Physician Approach to Smoking Cessation
  • NRT and Other Pharmacological Treatment Options presented by a local physician
  • How to Use Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change Model, Practical Strategies - Q&A
  • Relapse Prevention, Case Presentations and Role Playing
  • COPD

    Target Audience

    Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Physicians, Pulmonologists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Pharmacists and other allied health professionals.

    Speakers

    Barry Make, MD
    Co-Director COPD Program, National Jewish Health
    Director, Pulmonary Rehab and Respiratory Care>br> Professor of Medicine

    Adam Friedlander, MD
    Staff Physician, COPD Program, National Jewish Health
    Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
    University of Colorado Denver

    Scott Van Da Walker, MSN, FNP-C
    COPD Clinical Program Coordinator, National Jewish Health

    There is no cost for this event. Seating is limited.

    These symposia are non-certified, educational outreach programs.

    National Jewish Health reserves the right to make changes to this event without notice. We will contact registrants if the course has been canceled or moved to another date.


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    85% of healthcare professionals are more likely to participate in a CME/CE activity when it is offered by National Jewish HealthTM.

    Based on an August 2007 National Jewish Health survey of more than 7,000 healthcare professionals