Meridian Health
Institute for Evidence-Based Care

2010 Conference

Interdisciplinary evidence-based care remains fraught with challenges and controversies and poses acute needs for new learning. The 2010 Knowledge in Motion: Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Care conference will address the major challenges in health care today. How do clinicians make translation effectively happen? What are the controversies and emerging knowledge for shared decision-making between patients and clinicians? What can be learned from qualititative meta-syntheses? What are the evidence challenges and promises for our nation’s hospitals’ most acute problems, such as medication safety?

Designed for a multidisciplinary audience, we will tackle subjects in evidence translation, patient preference, post-partum depression qualititative evidence, health care-associated infection controversies, research supporting team training for health care and more. Featured speakers include Bernadette Melynk, Ph.D., R.N., of Arizona State University; Dale Collins Vidal, M.D., MS, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Cheryl Beck, DNSc, CNM, of the University of Connecticut; Karen Frush, BSN, M.D., of Duke Medical Center; and Richard Hader, Ph.D., R.N., Chief Nursing Officer of Meridian Health and Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Management Magazine.

November 30 & December 1, 2010
Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
2 Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Keynote Speaker
	Bernadette Melynk, Ph.D., R.N., CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, is Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing at Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Dr. Melynk is an internationally-recognized expert in theory-based intervention research and evidence-based practice, as well as in child and adolescent mental health.
Endnote Speaker
	Karen Frush, BSN, M.D., is Chief Patient Safety Officer, Duke University Health System, and Vice Chair of Strategic Initiatives, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center. She is a Master Trainer for the Department of Defense’s TeamSTEPPS® team training program, and serves on the Pediatric Patient Safety Expert Panel for Joint Commission Resources and on the Board of the Josie King Foundation.

Conference Program:

Concurrent Sessions

Conference Materials:

Registration Information:

Registration and payment due by November 12, 2010

Two easy ways to register:

• Via phone (credit card payments accepted): 1-800-560-9990
• Mail your completed registration form with a check to:
Meridian Health Institute for Evidence-Based Care
2020 State Route 33, Neptune, NJ 07753
• Make checks payable to Meridian Health Institute for Evidence-Based Care

Physician: $250
Non-physician: $225
Meridian Health Team Members and Residents: $175

Call us with any questions, 732-776-4933

*Cancellations will only be accepted via written notice. Deadline is 11/12/10. Refunded in full minus a $25 administrative fee. Substitutions are welcome

Hotel Information:

Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
Two Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-873-1234
Web: www.newbrunswick.hyatt.com
Mention "Institute of Evidence-Based Care"

Conference room rate is $129.00 single/double, plus 15% tax. Reservations must be made by November 15, 2010. Please refer to the "Institute for Evidence-Based Care" to receive this special rate. Rooms not reserved by this date are subject to the hotel’s availability and prevailing rate. Please make room reservations as early as possible as the group room block may sell out prior to the cut-off date.

The Conference is conveniently located and easily reached via the NJ Turnpike, by train, and by air via Newark Liberty Airport. For more information on local restaurants and attractions visit www.cityofnewbrunswick.org

CME Accreditation Statement: Meridian Health is accredited by the Medical Society of New Jersey to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: Meridian Health designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Accreditation Statement: Meridian Health is an approved provider of continuing education for Nurses, provider number P115-12/2007-2010, by the New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA). NJSNA is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Disclosure Statement: Meridian Health, in approving activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, adheres to the ACCME Standards for Commercial SupportSM. Meridian Health is responsible for every aspect of the activity it certifies. Faculty and planners in a position to control content are expected to disclose relevant financial commercial relationships related to the activity. If a conflict is identified it is Meridian Health’s responsibility to initiate a mechanism to resolve the conflict. NJSNA accreditation refers to a recognition of continuing education activities only and does not imply ANCC Commission Accreditation approval or endorsement of any commercial product.