http://www.codingconferences.com/gen_surgery08a.htm
Make 2008 your most profitable year yet1
Don’t miss your opportunity to receive the latest coding, billing and reimbursement information for general surgery in a highly dynamic, comprehensive format.

Our live conferences have been designed with only one goal in mind: to provide you with the tools to help you overcome your most vexing coding, billing and reimbursement challenges, while maximizing your coding skills and practice’s revenue. It’s a win-win for you and your practice!

2272 Airport Rd

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Education.
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http://www.codingconferences.com/optometry08.htm
Top 5 Reasons YOU need to attend this information-packed event.

1. Implement all related 2008 CPT, ICD-9-CM, and HCPCS changes successfully! If not, you could be losing piles of valuable revenue. Join us to make sure you are accurately applying all 2008 changes and additions, thus increasing your practice?s bottom-line.

2. Receive hard-won, proven, coding and reimbursement advice specifically for optometry. You don?t have to sit through general information to get the tools that will affect how you do your job day in and day out.

3. Boost your revenue with optometry coding exercises and tactics you can put in to practice as soon as you get back to the office!

4. Just a few of the must-have topics available at this information-packed event:
-Narrow Your Focus: Eye Codes Vs. E/M Codes
-10 Pitfalls In Optometry Coding And How To Avoid Them
-Get Post-Op Cataract Care Claims Paid The Very First Time
-Visual Fields: Spot The Differences And Avoid Losing Audits, and much more!

5. How-to coding tactics from the Top Coding Professionals in the Nation!
-Raequell Duran, CPC
-Alice Marie Reybitz, RN, BA, CPC, CPC-H
-Jeffrey P. Restuccio, CPC, CPC-H, MBA
-Nina C. Watson, CMA, CPC, and more!

2272 Airport Rd

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Education.
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http://www.codingconferences.com/ophthalmology08.htm
Top 6 Reasons YOU need to attend this information-packed event.

1. Implement all related 2008 CPT, ICD-9-CM, and HCPCS changes successfully! If not, you could be losing piles of valuable revenue. Join us to make sure you are accurately applying all 2008 changes and additions, thus increasing your practice?s bottom-line.

2. Focus in on your Special Test Coding to ensure you bring in every dollar possible.

3. Solidify your Glaucoma Coding: from screening, to diagnosis, to treatment.

4. Take your retina coding to the next level with 2008?s Retina Coding Changes.

5. Tackle the unique challenges of Pediatric Ophthalmology with ease.

6. Prepare for the increasing number of Complicated Macular

Degeneration Cases crossing your desk…And much more!

2272 Airport Road

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Education.
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http://www.codingconferences.com/dental08.htm
Dental Reimbursement & Practice Management Conference
February 24-26, 2008 ~ Las Vegas, NV

Top 5 Reasons YOU need to attend this information-packed event.

1. Take control of your practice?s financial health as we guide you step-by-step through creating the essentials of a successful dental practice ? from benchmarking to creating a team eager to surpass your practice?s defined goals.

2. Receive information specific to your dental practice, created and presented just for YOU! Find out what really works for dental marketing, patient retention and more.

3. Boost your revenue with hygiene production and case acceptance tactics your whole team can put into practice immediately!

4. Just a few of the must-have topics available at this information-packed event:

Scheduling Your Practice For Success n Prepping For The Growing Aging Population

Proven Tactics To Boost Treatment Acceptance n A-Z of CDT

Focus On Financing And How It Can Fuel Your Practice?s Profits

5 Top Insurance Mistakes And How To Avoid Them…And Many More!
5. 2-1/2 Days Of Top Dental Practice Management Speakers!

Dick Chwalek

Ginny Hegarty

Maryann T. Dillon, CAE

Debra Seidel-Bittke

JoAnne Tanner, MBA

2272 Airport Road

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Dentistry.
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http://cme.ucsd.edu/radiology/
Conference Description:
This course is designed for physicians and allied health personnel. It will cover the applications of imaging techniques in the diagnosis of diseases of the brain, spine, musculoskeletal system and body. Lectures will emphasize image interpretation, differential diagnosis, a review of disease processes, and new imaging techniques. Some interventional techniques will also be addressed.

Target Audience: Radiologists, Technologists, Physicians, Residents/Fellows, Allied Health Professionals
Please see conference website for more information.
9500 Gilman Dr. MC 0617

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Education.
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http://cme.ucsd.edu/radiology/
Conference Description:
This course is designed for physicians and allied health personnel. It will cover the applications of imaging techniques in the diagnosis of diseases of the brain, spine, musculoskeletal system and body. Lectures will emphasize image interpretation, differential diagnosis, a review of disease processes, and new imaging techniques. Some interventional techniques will also be addressed.

Target Audience: Radiologists, Technologists, Physicians, Residents/Fellows, Allied Health Professionals
Please see conference website for more information.
9500 Gilman Dr. MC 0617

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health: Education.
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http://www.jax.org/courses/2008/methodsstem08.html
This is the last in an annual series of workshop provides hands-on training for investigators learning how to culture, manipulate, and differentiate ES cells from humans in vitro. This workshop reflects an increasing need for practical training in the manipulation of human stem cells in the laboratory and will draw heavily on state-of-the-art expertise in the area of growth, maintenance and differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, for 16 seats, so early application is highly advised. To meet the objectives of this course, consideration will be limited to applicants with a doctoral degree or near completion of a doctoral degree.

students, post-docs, and medical interns pay a reduced fee of $1,200.00

All others: $1,500.00

Registration fee includes all laboratory materials, meals, and lodging at Highseas Conference Center

Employees of pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations that belong to our Research Affiliates Program are eligible for either a registration fee waiver or 25% reduction. Please contact Teresa Chu for more details about the Affiliates Program benefits for conference registration.

Application for admission is made by submitting to the contact person (link above) via email, post, or fax, all of the documents listed here:

-Application cover form (pdf file) If this form does not save your data electronically, you may fax a print-out to the number provided on the form.

-Current CV, 2 page maximum;

-A letter of recommendation from your advisor if you are a pre-doctoral student, or from your supervisor if you are a postdoctoral fellow.

-An additional survey form will be sent to all applicants for completion before applications are reviewed by the organizers.

Limited travel scholarships may be available to qualified applicants (US Citizens or foreigners working in US funded laboratories). Requests for scholarship consideration must accompany your application and include your citizenship/immigration status and description of need. Incomplete applications will not be considered for scholarship support. Scholarship award amounts depend on the number of qualified applications demonstrating need.

Applications by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.

Accepted applicants will be provided with registration information.
600 Main Street

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Science.
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http://www.jax.org/courses/2008/earmeeting08.html
Building upon the success of the 2003 and 2005 meetings, this meeting provides a unique opportunity for established investigators and students to interact and exchange ideas regarding the use of new and developing technologies to study the ear of the mouse. One objective is to provide non-mouse researchers an introduction to the mouse through reviews, tutorials, and hands-on workshops. Another objective is to provide state-of-the-art information to experienced investigators through research talks on new developments and special topics of current interest. Finally, meeting participants are provided an opportunity to communicate their research findings through podium and poster presentations.

Preliminary topic list:

Proteomics
RNAI application
Regeneration Stem Cell Replacement
Electrophysiology acoustic emissions
Free Radicals, from toxicity and noise
Eye Movement Recordings in Mice
Mouse Models of Otitis Media
Biomethods & Mouse Genetics
Emerging Tools: non-invasive and new approaches to imaging
New ENU Mutants
Ear Development
KOMP and European Projects
Brain Mechanisms, central nervous system compensatory remodeling, behavioral consequences
Download Registration Form

Registration Fee: students $250.00, all others $450.00. Proof of student or post-doc status must be presented at time of registration.

Employees of pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations that belong to our Research Affiliates Program are eligible for either a registration fee waiver or 50% fee reduction. Please contact Teresa Chu for more details.

Attendance by women and minorities in the life sciences are highly encouraged.
600 Main Street

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Science.
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http://www.jax.org/courses/2008/grad_course08.html
This is a graduate-level genetics course for predoctoral and postdoctoral students as well as established investigators entering the field of mouse genetics. The course focuses on the mouse as an experimental tool in cancer research.

Workshops will include: mouse genome informatics; laboratory animal biomethods (optional); and gross pathology, necropsy and tumor histo-pathology. The intensive course offers a mix of formal lectures, discussion groups, demonstrations, workshops and tutorials. The course is held in a retreat-like setting and is limited to 35 participants to ensure a supportive learning atmosphere with exceptional interaction between students and faculty.
Students $1,200.00; all others $1,500.00

The registration fee includes course materials, meals, and lodging at Highseas Conference Center.

Student discount requires proof of enrollment in an accredited degree program, or postdoc training, or medical internship.

Travel scholarships are available for students who have financial need/minority status. If you wish to apply for a scholarship, please include a statement in your application letter that demonstrates your eligibility for support. The amount of scholarship will depend on the number of accepted applicants who are qualified to receive the funding support.

Employees of pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations that belong to our Research Affiliates Program should check with their program liaison for registration fee waiver or 25% fee reduction options. Contact Teresa Chu with Affiliates Program questions.

Free out-of-print books about the laboratory mouse are available online. If you are not familiiar with mouse genetics or anatomy you might find the advance reading helpful.
600 Main Street

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Science: Life_Sciences.
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http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/imim/TehnonavCall.htm
Thr 6-th edition of the International Conference Tehnonav is organized by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Ovidius University from Constanta, Romania.
The authors are invited to contribute with papers that may deal both with theoretical and practical question, covering problems oriented basic to theoretical research, applied research, development of technologies and engineering sciences and solutions of practical problems. The papers should reflect an advance in knowledge, in methodology or in the interpretation or application of existing knowledge; the unicity of the material provided stands in autor’s responsibility.

Mamaia 124

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Science: Engineering.
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