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3/6/2025 to 3/7/2025
When: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Where: InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront
11 E Kellogg Blvd
St Paul, Minnesota  55101
United States
Contact: Danielle O'Laughlin, CME Chair
mapa@libertysquaregroup.com


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Join us for the 2025 Spring CME Conference in Saint Paul, MN on March 6-7th!


The Conferences feature two days of live CME sessions, a networking reception, Exhibit Hall, product theater (non-CME) sponsored presentations and more! The CME program will highlight a variety of practice related topics. Previous presentations have included interactive case studies, clinical pearls, the latest cutting-edge procedures or treatment options, and professional development education. CME lectures are scheduled for 55 minutes, with mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks, plus a 60 minute break for lunch.

 

March 6 - 7, 2025

2-day conference (All day)


Member Pricing:

Early Bird Rate:

Until Feb. 12th!

Member - Practicing PA

$375

Member - Student

$100

Member - Retired

$150

Member - Pre-PA

$100

Single Day Pass

$200

Regular Rate:

Member - Practicing PA

$425

 Member - Student

$100

 Member - Retired

$150

 Member - Pre-PA

$100

 Single Day Pass

$250

 

Non-Member Pricing:

 Regular Rate:

 Non-Member Conference Pass

(Includes 1yr Membership)

$585

 Non-Member Single Day Pass

$350


Online pre-registration will close March 2, 2025.  You are welcome to register on site at the conference if your plans allow last minute!

 

The Conference will be held at the 

InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront

11 E Kellogg Blvd, St Paul, MN 55101

 

Guest Room Group Rate: $130/night (plus taxes & fees) for standard room

Reservations must be received by February 21st

 

To make reservations, please contact the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront inhouse reservations team at (651) 292-1900. Let them know you are with MAPA Spring Conference 2025

 

Preliminary Schedule:

 

Exhibit Hall is open 7:00am – 5:00pm each day

 

Course Descriptions (to be updated)

 

 

Thursday

Presentation

Presenter

7:00 – 8:00am

Registration and Welcome
(breakfast buffet provided)

 

 7 - 7:55amBreakfast Product Theater
Merck
 

8 – 8:55am

Updates in Breast Cancer

Amanda Holland, PA-C

9 – 9:55am

The Good, the Bad, and the Iatrogenic: Medication errors

Becky Ness, PA-C, MPAS, DFAAPA, FNKF

10 – 10:30am

Break

 

10:30 – 11:25am

Inpatient Management of Sepsis


Clinton Billhorn, PA-C, CAQ-HM

11:30 – 12:25pm

Aesthetics 101 for Primary Care, UC/EM providers

Stephanie Peters, Aesthetic PA - MSPAS, RD, PA-C

12:30 – 1:30pm

Lunch buffet

 

12:35 – 1:20pm

Lunch Product Theater

AstraZeneca, Amyloid Team

1:30 – 2:00pm

Annual Membership Meeting

MAPA President: Clinton Billhorn

2 – 2:55pm

Inclusivity in PA education and the profession

Emma Sellers, MS

3:00 – 3:15pm

Break

 

3:15 – 4:45pm
Workshop 1:
20 participant max

Utilize Medical Improv to improve empathy, communication skills, and uncertainty tolerance

Meredith Wold, PA-C, CAQ-HM,
Tracy Keizer, PA-C

3:15 – 4:45pm
Workshop 2

Orthopedic Splinting Workshop

Michelle Roof MPH, MPAS, PA-C
Lindsey Johnson, PA-C

5:00 – 7:00pm

Networking Event at Citizen's (Lobby of Hotel)

 

 

Friday

 

7:00 – 8:00

Breakfast and Welcome

 

8 – 8:55am

 

Pay if Forward, Precepting is Foundational       

Mike Butler, MPAS, PA-C,
Nicole Lamb PA-C, MPAS, MPH
Tammie Haveman PA-C

 

9 – 9:55am

Improve Healthcare? PAs Do That!

Joe Strangfeld, MPAS, PA-C

10:00 – 10:30am

Break

 

10:30 – 11:25am

The Patient Pathway: ER Evaluation to DC

Lindsey Johnson, PA-C
Lauren Johnson, PA-C

11:30 – 12:25pm

What is new and around the corner in CGM

Ashlyn Smith, PA-C

12:30 – 1:30pm

Lunch Buffet

 

12:35 – 1:20pm

Lunch Product Theater
Axsome Therapeutics

 

 

1:30 – 2:25pm

Pediatric OCD Demystified: From Fundamental Insights to First-line Treatments

John (Chun Wing) Lee, DMSc, PA-C

2:30 – 3:25pm

Harm reduction in Opioid Use Disorder

Matt Weiseman, PA-C

3:30 – 3:45pm

Break

 

3:50 – 4:45pm

Decoding the Signal of Cardiac Distress - High Sensitivity Troponin

Juan D. Goracke, PA-C

5 – 7:00pm

Challenge Student Bowl

 

 

This program is approved for CME credit. Conference organizers plan to apply for 17 AAPA Category 1 CME credits from the AAPA Review Panel.
The total number of approved credits is yet to be determined

 

On Demand sessions available following conference:

Acute Vaginitis

 

Danielle O'Laughlin, PA-C, MS 
Bloating Unraveled: A Strategic ApproachVictoria Louwagie, DMSc, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA 

Occupational Hazards of First Responders

 

 Brittany Strelow, PA-C
 Liver Transplant: A general post-operative review Sarah McCarthy, Nurse Practitioner

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