Join us October 22-25, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio and the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, for the 24th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Conference for Prevention and Healing. The conference is produced by Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, publisher of Advances in Skin & Wound Care.

The conference will meet the continuing-education needs of multidisciplinary skin and wound care practitioners, from novice to expert, by providing a forum for educational sessions and interactive workshops that offer comprehensive wound management strategies.

We’re expecting 1,100 multidisciplinary practitioners at this year’s conference—nurses, physicians, podiatrists, physical therapists, dietitians and others who manage skin and wound care patients across the continuum of health care. We’ll offer CE credit for nurses, CME credit for physicians, CPME credit for podiatrists, CEUs for physical therapists, and CPEUs for Registered Dieticians and Dietetic Technicians.

Objectives

After attending the symposium, you'll be able to:

• Apply basic to advanced concepts in the science of wound healing to your practice or role in preventing and managing wounds.
• Discuss current clinical practice, plus how to integrate cutting-edge treatments, emerging technologies, and research breakthroughs.
• Identify credible, balanced, and relevant clinical practice issues.
• Network with faculty and colleagues to maintain and grow relationships.

We also encourage you to share your research findings and wound management tips, tricks, techniques and expertise as a presenter in our poster session. Display details of your clinical innovations and give colleagues information they can take home and apply in their work settings. Poster guidelines can be downloaded from this page (see column on right).

Continuing Education Provider Information

Accredidation Statements
Physicians: Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 22.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Nurses: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), publisher of Advances in Skin & Wound Care, will award up to 22.5 contact hours for this continuing nursing education activity.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This activity is also provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 11749 for 22.5 contact hours. LWW is also an approved provider by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN 00014360), District of Columbia #50-1223 and Florida #FBN2454, and Iowa #75. Your certificate is valid in all states.

Your Lippincott Williams & Wilkins-issued CE contact hours are valid wherever you reside.

Podiatrists: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has applied for 22.5 continuing-education credits for podiatrists from Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine.

Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistance: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has applied for continuing-education course approval from the Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, and Texas Physical Therapy Examinaers and the Florida and Ohio Physical Therapy Associations.

Dieticians: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is a continuing professional education (CPE) accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered Dieticians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians® (DTRs) will receive 22.5 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material. Provider number LI001/Level 2 offering.

Mission Statement

The Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Conference for Prevention and Healing will meet the continuing-education needs of multidisciplinary skin and wound care practitioners, from novice to expert, by providing a forum for educational sessions and interactive workshops that offer comprehensive wound management strategies. Discussions will highlight current clinical practice, plus how to integrate cutting-edge treatments, emerging technologies, and research breakthroughs. All sessions will meet the standard of providing content that is credible, balanced, and relevant to clinical practice.