Conference for Physicians, Health Professionals to be held in Valley

Weslaco— Continuing medical education credits for physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals will be available during a 29th Annual Rio Grande Valley Medical Education Conference on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at the Isla Grand Beach Resort, 500 Padre Blvd. on South Padre Island.

The conference, presented by Prime Healthcare / Knapp Medical Center, is for primary and specialty care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, pharmacists, medical students, and other interested health professionals.

The event will provide a minimum of 12 hours of continuing medical education credits, including two hours in medical ethics, for physicians and other healthcare professionals; as well as continuing nursing education credits for nurses.

The conference will address a wide variety of medical topics, including heart disease, obesity, peripheral vascular disease, neuro-vascular procedures to treat stroke patients, diabetes, management of sepsis, bariatric surgery and weight management, post-COVID syndrome, surgical removal of a blood clot in an artery or vein, outpatient medicine, human trafficking training, burnout in the healthcare industry, and coding and documentation.

A special motivational speaker at the conference will be four-time Olympic athlete and author Rubén González, who will share what he had to do to make it to the Olympics and how a person can go from surviving to thriving in this rapidly changing world. Rubén competed in the sport of luge – an intense race in which an athlete lies down on a sled and slides downhill at rapid speeds (over 87 miles per hour).

Also at the conference, medications for weight management will be discussed by Dr. Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, of the National Center for Weight & Wellness in Washington, D.C.

Additional speakers will include Dr. Paryus Patel, Corporate Chief Medical Officer for Prime Healthcare in Ontario, California; Dr. Robert Salazar, a cardiologist from the Houston area; Dr. Naim El-Aswad, an internist from the Houston area; Dr. Jorge Leiva, a surgeon from Cypress, Texas; Dr. Suraj Kamat, an interventional cardiologist from the Corpus Christi area; Dr. Ofsman Quintana, cardiologist; Dr. Patricia Fernandez, neuroradiologist; Dr. Adolfo Kaplan and Dr. Juan Rey Mendoza, pulmonologists; and Dr. Fatimah Bello and Dr. Chelsea Chang, internal medicine physician.

For more information, please contact Lizette Medina or Mitty Reyna of Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco at (956) 973-5110 or (956) 969-5455; or at LMedina1@primehealthcare.com