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Join surgical teams from across the country to discuss emerging issues in the surgical setting and imperative steps to improving surgical patient safety. The sixth annual Executive Symposium on Surgical Patient Safety will feature nationally known experts in the areas of quality improvement, safety, and leadership. 

The Symposium provides an opportunity for networking with members of the surgical team, surgical association leaders, and surgical industry in the resort town of Beaver Creek, located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Discussion around team interaction and its impact on surgical patient safety, as well as the challenges of instilling change in your facility will be discussed from varying perspectives. Team presentations from leading hospitals will discuss their challenges and demonstrate how their successes were attained.

Who will be attending?

• Surgical Teams
• Nurse Executives/Directors
• Surgeons
• Anesthesiologists
• Quality/Risk Managers
• Consultants
• Surgical Industry Representatives
• Surgical Association Leaders
  
  
  Featured speakers will include...
  
                Dale Bratzler, DO, MPH
                        Medical Director
                        Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality
  
                Sheila Chauvin, PhD
                         Professor of Medicine & Public Health
                         Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
  
                 Jay Crowley
                          Senior Advisor for Patient Safety, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
                          Food and Drug Administration
  
                 Charles R. Denham, MD  
                          CEO, HCC Corporation
                          Chairman, Texas Medical Institute of Technology
  
                  David Maxfield
                         VP of Research, VitalSmarts, LC
                         New York Times Best Selling Author and Leading Researcher
  
  Team presentations by:
                 
                 Vanderbilt University Medical Center
   
                 Geisinger Health System
  
  Symposium facilitated by:

             Geri Amori, PhD, ARM, DFASHRM, CPHRM
                       Sr. Director, The Risk Management and Patient Safety Institute


View the Symposium Agenda

New this Year!
The Executive Symposium now offers continuing education contact hours (CE) and continuing medical education (CME) credit.

Earn 12.5 CE, 12.5 CME


Register today to ensure a space! Seating is limited.
Download Registration Form

Symposium participants receive a FREE copy of the book Influencer: The Power to Change Anything.

Bring Your Surgical Team
We encourage your entire surgical team to join us.  Learning with your team will help you to better evaluate your own circumstances and find the areas where new approaches could be applied in your OR.  Take advantage of the discounted team registration rate.


                            Thank You to Our 2008 Education Grant Providers. Visit their websites below.
                          

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Accreditation Information

Physicians
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Pfiedler Enterprises and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.  Pfiedler Enterprises is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation
Pfiedler Enterprises designates this educational activity for a maxiumum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

AORN is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13019.

AdvaMed Guidelines
This course complies with the AdvaMed Code of Ethics effective January 1, 2004.  Additional information about the Code of Ethics may be found at www.advamed.org/publicdocs/doe.html.  The educational meeting and related hospitality events are intended solely for the invited Health Care Professionals and not their guests.  We appreciate your compliance with this matter.