Improving Bowel Control: A Symposium for Nurses, Physicians, and Allied Health Professionals

This symposium will provide attendees with the knowledge they need to assess, diagnose, and treat fecal incontinence, <BR><BR>as well as to assist patients and families to lower their risk for and cope with the challenges of this condition. *Free Admission! *Boxed Lunch Provided! *Up to 4.25 ANCC Contact Hours Available to All Attendees at No Cost!

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Apr 12, 2012
from 08:00 AM to 01:00 PM

Where

UNC Bioinformatics Bldg Auditorium

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Improving Bowel Control:
A Symposium for Nurses, Physicians, and Allied Health Professionals
April 12, 2012
Bioinformatics Building Auditorium
Program Moderator: Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD
Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine; Director, Center for Aging and Health
 
8:00AM - 8:30AM Registration
 
8:30AM - 8:50AM Definitions, prevalence, QOL impact of FI
Mary Palmer, PhD, RN, C FAAN, AGSF - Helen W & Thomas L Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging; Co-Director, UNC Institute on Aging
5 min Q&A
8:55AM - 9:15AM Physiology of continence
William E. Whitehead, PhD - Professor of Medicine; Director, UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders
5 min Q&A
9:20AM - 9:40AM Risk factors that are the basis for conservative interventions
Christine Norton, PhD, DMS, MA, RN - Professor of Clinical Nursing and Innovation, Bucks New University and Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust, London
5 min Q&A
 
9:45AM - 10:00AM Break
 
10:00AM - 10:20AM Medical assessment and management of FI  
Yolanda Scarlett, MD, RN - Clinical Assistant Professor; Chief, UNC GI Motility Laboratory
5 min Q&A  
10:25AM - 10:45AM Nurse management of FI
Diane Newman, MSN, ANP-BC, CRNP - Instructor, U Penn School of Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Continence and Pelvic Health
5 min Q&A
10:50AM - 11:10AM Biofeedback for FI
Steve Heymen, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, UNC Pelvic Floor Biofeedback Program
5 min Q&A
 
11:15AM - 11:30AM Break
 
11:30AM - 11:50AM Conservative management of FI
Christine Norton, PhD, DMS, MA, RN - Professor of Clinical Nursing and Innovation, Bucks New University and Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust, London
5 min Q&A
11:55AM - 12:15PM Surgery for FI
Reza Rahbar, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at UNC
5 min Q&A
12:20PM - 12:40PM Research on FI at UNC
William E. Whitehead, PhD - Professor of Medicine; Director, UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders
5 min Q&A
 
12:45PM - 1:00PM Closing Remarks
Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD
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