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Discipline-Specific Continuing Education
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Faculty List		 Program Presentation Contact Hours

Nursing
Contact hours are provided by AASCIN, accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The maximum contact hours for the conference is 21.5 [Paper evaluation: 18.5, Poster evaluation: 3].

Psychology and Social Work
Has been approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886370851) to issue certificates of attendance for up to 21.5 CE contact hours (including up to 2.5 credits in ethics).

APA Division 22 – Rehabilitation Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 22 – Rehabilitation Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The program offers up to 21.5 continuing education contact hours (including up to 2.5 credits in ethics).

American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers is accredited as a provider of CE by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC). This program was approved by CRCC (Approval #8926346326) for up to 21.5 continuing education contact hours. No ethics hours have been granted for Certified Rehabilitation Counselors (CRC).

Medicine
APS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. APS designates this medical education activity for a maximum of 21.5 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Each conferee should claim only those credits for sessions actually attended.

Therapy
A Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to participants documenting 18.5 contact hours of continuing professional education.

Disclaimer

The associations do not promote or endorse the information or products discussed at this conference. These are offered solely for educational purposes. It is the responsibility of the conferees to determine their efficacy and safety in clinical, research, and educational applications.

 

Joint Program Committee Members
American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
Carol Ann Emerick, MSA, BSN, RN, CRRN
Laura J. Johnson, MSN, RN
Joan K. McMahon, MSA, BSN, RN, CRRN		 American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers
Nancy M. Benjamin, MSW, LCSW, CSW
Stanley H. Ducharme, PhD
Alan L. Goldberg, PsyD, ABPP, JD
American Paraplegia Society
Indira S. Lanig, MD, Chair
William L. Bockenek, MD
Harry G. Goshgarian, PhD		 Therapy Leadership Council
Jacqueline Wolz, MSPT
Theresa F. Berner, MOT, OTR/L, ATP
Amy Icarangal, PT, NCS

Administrative Staff
Vivian Beyda, DrPH, Associate Executive Director
Sara Lerman, MPH, Program Manager
Marion Smith, Executive Secretary

The Joint Program Committee of American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses, American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers, American Paraplegia Society and the Therapy Leadership Council in Spinal Cord Injury was established in 2007 to develop an integrated conference on spinal cord health care.

The 2008 Congress on Spinal Cord Medicine and Rehabilitation is unique in its approach of integrating the disciples of medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, behavioral health and rehabilitation therapy. The platform and poster presentations include clinical, educational, administrative and research themes. The conference program is organized into four concurrent tracks: Nursing, Psychosocial, Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy.