Agenda

 

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Morning:

7:45-8:30am - Breakfast

8:30am - Welcome & Opening Remarks

  • Treatment Options for Medical Weight Loss (Dr. Mignon Marquina, MD)
    • Since consumers will spend over $58 Billion on weight loss products in the US this year alone, you can be assured your patients have tried many retail treatment options without success. Here, you'll learn from our speaker how she successfully integrated medical weight management treatments into her practice. Topics will include integrating a multi modality approach of integrating medical weight management into your practice, including: diet, physical therapy, behavior modification, pharmacology, and surgery.
  • The Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy in Weight Management (Dr. Richard Foxx, MD)
    • Advancing age is frequently cited as an important cause of weight gain. The past decade has seen an increase in research that documents the beneficial effects of hormone therapy in managing this major health risk factor. Restoring hormone balance with hormone replacement seems to improve the body’s ability to control weight. in the past few years the use of natural hormones that approximate what the body makes has become more accepted for this purpose. In this presentation, the use of physiologic doses of these hormones to restore balance in men and women will be discussed.
  • Developing an Exercise and Behavior modification program for your Patients (Dr. Sherry Bell & Liezl Bardilas, PT)
    • There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all exercise and behavioral modification plan. Many people are daunted by the idea of starting an exercise program. Furthermore, physicians and nutritionists in weight loss programs find themselves in unknown territories when their patients ask about exercises and making behavioral changes. Learn how to develop an effective program that utilizes personality type as determined by results of Myer Briggs Personality type with a "tailored-to-fit" exercise prescription and lifestyle coaching.
  • Current Strategies for Non-invasive Body Recontouring (Dr Christopher Ho, MD)
    • The fastest growing trend in aesthetic medicine is body contouring, it is projected to increase by 350% in the next 5 years. Learn the latest body contouring equipment and techniques. Learn the latest strategies from LA dermatologist, Dr. Christopher Ho.

12:00-1:00pm

  • Working Lunch: How to Make Medical Weight Management a Healthy Revenue Stream in Your Practice (Catherine Maley, MBA)
    • Speaker, writer, consultant and author of "Your Aesthetic Practice" will give you the step-by-step "crash course" in marketing medical weight management.  This presentation will show you how to attract this lucrative patient to your practice in a cost-effective way, using proven marketing strategies.

Afternoon:

1:00pm - Afternoon Session

  • Workshop: Laser Assisted Fat Removal
    • Laser liposuction holds promise as a less invasive alternative to liposuction surgery. We'll review the LipoLaze, the latest entrant into the laser-assisted liposuction field. The LipoLaze's 980nm beam specifically targets fat cells, using a special wavelength of light that vaporizes the deposits from underneath the skin. The targeted laser beam also minimizes bruising and tightens skin. While SmartLipo® coagulates the blood in small vessels to prevent bleeding; LipoLaze's specifically targeted beam treats fat cells and blood cells to minimize bruising while it vaporizes fat.
  • Workshop: No-Needle Mesotherapy
    • Developed in France over 50 years ago, Mesotherapy has been successful in body shaping, cellulite reduction and skin rejuvenation. The limitation of the growth of Mesotherapy has been the pain and side effects due to the needle delivery process. Using needles, the abandonment rate is estimated as high as 80-90%. This is directly attributable to the pain and discomfort experienced by patients. No Needle Mesotherapy is a new technique without pain and without bruising. No Needle Mesotherapy gives patients with a low pain threshold an opportunity to receive Mesotherapy. more information

Workshops are all tentative and subject to final confirmation.

 

Lunch and breaks are included.

* times, faculty, content subject to change

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