For the PA profession, the AAPA's annual IMPACT conference is like Thanksgiving Day wrapped in Halloween and smothered in the Fourth of July. It really is the center of the social, educational and leadership universe around which the rest of the PA calendar rotates. If you don't believe me, ask anyone who ventured to Vegas two years ago (what ...

On the evening of April 27, the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation presented their annual awards to occupational therapy practitioners who have made outstanding contributions to the profession in leadership, advocacy, education, practice and research. Former AOTA President Penny Moyers ...

On the afternoon of Saturday, April 27, AOTA conducted its Annual Business Meeting during the association’s annual conference in San Diego. The meeting included some notably highlights from various leaders in the Association. AOTA Treasurer Ben Herz, OTD, MBA, OTR/L, reported on the financial status of the association. During fiscal year (FY) ...

On Friday, Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA, gave the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture. His talk, titled ''A Fork in the Road: An Occupational Hazard?'' looked at contemporary OT practice through a historical lens. He couched his metaphors in terms of one of the basic plots of fiction, the Voyage and Return (think Gulliver's Travels or the Wizard of Oz). ...

So I'm back in the US about six months now and I've got a massive amount of continuing education to do. Before anyone starts wagging fingers about ''serves you right'' or anything else that sounds like your mother scolding, I had to do lots of CPD (continuous professional development) in the UK... none of it counts here. The UK accepts everything ...

Editor's note: This blog post is written by Jill Hoffman, ADVANCE staff. She can be reached at jhoffman@advanceweb.com.At the third annual PharmEHR Summit April 17, leaders in the electronic health record (EHR) and pharmaceutical industries gathered to discuss the status of EHR adoption and potential collaboration between EHR and pharmaceutical ...

The 93rd Annual AOTA Conference and Expo kicked off yesterday to great fanfare, with the University of Southern California marching band leading off the Welcome Ceremony and Keynote Address. AOTA President Florence Clark greeted thousands of conference attendees in a packed hall that was nearly standing room only. This conference, she said, is on ...

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners conference in Orlando is in full swing. Day two of the event opened with the associaton's business meeting, offering insight into the achievements of the group over the last year, introducing candidates for the upcoming presidential election and sharing the latest association ...

This weekend I taught a continuing education course with three other therapists. It took well over a year for us to organize the content, create the handouts and visual displays and market the course to get as many participants as possible. It was a fun process to figure out the best way to engage the participants and relay the most important ...

Here at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) 2013 conference in Orlando, leagues of NPs are gathered for 3 days of educational sessions, CE credits and networking.  At today's opening session, hundreds of NPs were welcomed to the Hilton Orlando's Orange Ballroom to launch the week's events. NAPNAP president ...