University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium

Local Spotlight!
Karen Wonders, Ph.D, FACSM, will present on integrative approaches to cancer care at this year's healthcare symposium. Dr. Wonder's research illustrates improved patient outcomes and cost savings associated with well-rounded cancer care and provides a successful model for implementation at the local level. Make sure you make it out to this year's local spotlight presentation!

Come visit our student committee in the atrium of the science center today to register and learn more about this year’s symposium!

Up to 80% of our health is impacted by factors outside of a hospital or clinic. Social, intrapersonal, environmental, and lifestyle factors play a role in our overall health and are not always addressed in a traditional healthcare setting. Check out this article from Time Magazine that discusses the role of a healthy diet in our health and healing.
http://time.com/5534352/food-best-medicine/

Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All Doctors are embracing creative ways to use food to improve health and prevent disease

Are you interested in attending the Tenth annual UD & MVH Healthcare Symposium? Our student committee will have an information table in the atrium of the Science Center this Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm. Stop by to register or learn more about the event!

Online registration is now open for the 2019 UD & MVH Healthcare Symposium! Follow the link below to register and learn more about his event!
https://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/initiatives/healthcare-symposium/index.php

Welcome : University of Dayton, Ohio

Only 12 more days until the pre-event and 23 more days until the symposium! Anyone is welcome to join us at the pre-event and don't forget to register for the symposium at go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium if you haven't already!

Welcome : University of Dayton, Ohio It seems a day does not go by that we do not see headlines related to drug addiction, overdose related deaths and the cost of the present “opioid epidemic.”

Check out these recent articles from CNN about how the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will hear a set of more than 20 bills during a hearing focusing on addressing the opioid crisis beginning on March 21st (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/politics/house-opioids-bills-two-day-hearing/index.html) and about how the number of children admitted to hospitals for opioid overdose has nearly doubled since 2004 (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/health/opioid-overdose-children-doubles-study/index.html)!

House to hold two-day hearing to consider more than 20 opioid bills The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will hear a set of more than 20 bipartisan bills during its second hearing focusing on addressing the opioid crisis, CNN has learned.

UPDATE ON THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS: Staff from project Dawn (check out their website: https://www.odh.ohio.gov/health/vipp/drug/ProjectDAWN.aspx) will provide a Naloxone (also known as Narcan) training session at 1:30 pm in Kennedy Union after the luncheon on April 14th for anyone (students, healthcare professionals, or community members) who is interested! If you want to attend this session and receive a free Naloxone kit, register for the symposium at go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium and select this session. Those who attend will be instructed on:
-Recognizing the signs and symptoms of overdose
-Distinguishing between different types of overdose
-Performing rescue breathing
-Calling emergency medical services
-Administering intranasal Naloxone
For those who don't know, Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an overdose caused by an opioid drug. Communities are arming citizens with these kits in an effort to provide an accessible way to save the life of someone experiencing an overdose.

Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone)

A recent study has shown that not even children are safe from the opioid epidemic. Hospitalizations for child opioid ingestion requiring intensive care doubled from 2004-2015. See this article for more information: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/03/01/peds.2017-3335

Opioid-Related Critical Care Resource Use in US Children’s Hospitals BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: There has been a rapid increase in the rate of pediatric opioid-related hospitalizations. It is unknown how this increase has impacted the use of pediatric critical care. Our objective in this study was to assess the trends in pediatric hospitalization for opioid ingestion...

Check out this recent article from Time Magazine about how a group of photographers set out to capture evidence of the Opioid Epidemic: http://time.com/james-nachtwey-opioid-addiction-america/

The Opioid Diaries: Inside the Epidemic That's Ravaging America Photographer James Nachtwey traveled across America to capture the devastating toll of opioid addiction

Here is an article about one of our presenters, Caleb Tang, and his groundbreaking work with opioid disposal bags. He has worked with Wright State med student Michael Holbrook to create and distribute an environmentally friendly way to deactivate unused opioids. Check it out!

http://www.xeniagazette.com/news/25365/students-lead-research-on-opioid-disposal-bags

Students lead research on opioid disposal bags - Xenia Gazette FAIRBORN — Students at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and Cedarville University School of Pharmacy are helping to lead a study into the use and effectiveness of opioid disposal bags. The bags may represent a new tool in the fight against the epidemic of opioid abuse. The ...

Come see us today and tomorrow in the Science Center atrium from 11-2. We'll be handing out more information on the symposium and free candy!

Flyers and healthcare professionals, we have an eye-opening pre-symposium event on April 3rd at 8pm in SC 114! We will be screening the documentary "Understanding the Opioid Epidemic" to highlight the devastating impact of chronic addiction.

Save the Date! The Ninth Annual University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 14th 2018. The theme is , and will focus on how the Dayton community is addressing the opioid epidemic that has claimed so many lives. Speakers will be discussing topics such as the Neuroscience of Addiction, how Primary Care Physicians can help those who are addicted, and innovative new practices in the Dayton area such as an Opioid Disposal Bag Program. Registration for the symposium will be available online around February 16th, we will publish the link once it's available for those who are interested. To learn more about how the opioid crisis is affecting the Dayton area, check out this link: https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/health/ohio-heroin-opioid-crisis-morgue-full/index.html.

City's morgues are full, thanks to opioids As Ohio grapples with the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the criminal justice system has undergone a transformation: To stop an epidemic, they have to think like medical professionals.

University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium updated their information in their About section.

The Institute of Medicine recently published a report titled "A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health". See the report at nationalacademies.org. Join the conversation in our local efforts to address social determinants of health at the 2017 UD & MVH Healthcare Symposium: "Building a Healthy Dayton One Connection at a Time".

www.nationalacademies.org

Registration is open for the University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium. This year the symposium theme is "Building a Health Dayton One Connection at a Time."
For details and registration, go to go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium

The abstract submission deadline for this year's Student Poster Session has been extended to March 14, 2016.

To see abstract and poster guidelines, go to the symposium web page at go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium.

Welcome : University of Dayton, Ohio The Seventh Annual University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 in the East and West Ballrooms of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Student Union on the campus of the University of Dayton.

Come join us at this year's University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium. This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Rishi Manchanda speaking on "'The Upstream Effect' -- What Makes Us Get Sick?" Here is a link to his 2013 TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/rishi_manchanda_what_makes_us_get_sick_look_upstream?language=en -65188

What makes us get sick? Look upstream Rishi Manchanda has worked as a doctor in South Central Los Angeles for a decade, where he’s come to realize: His job isn’t just about treating a patient’s symptoms, but about getting to the root cause of what is making them ill—the “upstream" factors like a poor diet, a stressful job, a lack of fre…

The Seventh Annual University of Dayton & Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 in the East and West Ballrooms of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Student Union on the campus of the University of Dayton. More information will be posted here and on our web page as it becomes available.
https://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/initiatives/healthcare-symposium/welcome/index.php
Posters session applications will be accepted starting January 29, 2016. https://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/initiatives/healthcare-symposium/poster_session/index.php

STUDENT REGISTRATION FOR THE SYMPOSIUM IS NOW OPEN! Celebrate registration opening by stopping by the Science Center Atrium today 11-1 and pick up your souvenir cup and chocolate! Register at go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium.

This is why your medical education should include exploring end of life care at the 2015 UD/MVH Healthcare Symposium

The Patient-Doctor Conversation That Matters Most Excerpted from Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, published on Tuesday by Macmillan. I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery co**se to dissect in anatomy class in my...

Even the radiolab guys are talking about advance planning! Interesting study they cite about physicians' preferences regarding their own end of life care.

The Bitter End We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want done for themselves.

It takes a community to improve end of life care!

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This interview with Atul Gawande was on the PRI's The World last night. You can listen to the story and also join the discussion. We will be discussing these topics at our symposium on March 28.

Spreading my father's ashes on the Ganges felt like a link across the globe and across generations "What I felt on the Ganges," says Atul Gawande, the surgeon and author of Being Mortal, "was he had brought us there and connected himself to all that was important to him, but he was connecting us as well."

Check out the Symposium website! Professional registration is now OPEN!

go.udayton.edu/udmvhsymposium

Seems like everybody is talking about improving end of life care. Join us at the University of Dayton/Miami Valley Hospital Healthcare Symposium 2015 as we tackle this important and timely topic!

http://thedo.osteopathic.org/2015/02/provide-better-end-life-care/

How to provide better end-of-life care - The DO Palliative medicine physicians share the techniques they use to find the best treatment for their patients.

Tomorrow night at 10 pm on PBS (Channel 16 ThinkTV in the Dayton area)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/pressroom/press-release-frontline-teams-with-atul-gawande-to-explore-being-mortal/

Press Release | FRONTLINE Teams with Atul Gawande to Explore Being Mortal – Being Mortal - FRONTLINE Death is something we will all one day face. So why is it so hard for doctors to talk about dying with their patients? And how can the medical profession better help people navigate the final chapters of their lives with confidence, direction and purpose?