District Meetings

California Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

District Meetings

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PAST DISTRICT MEETINGS:

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     DISTRICT 1 MEETING

         You are invited to a medical education program

            for healthcare professionals only that will be focused on

     Spinal Cord Stimulators

     by Dr. Scott Martin

        Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Time: 6:30 pm   hors d’oeuvre & drinks will be served

Location:   Los Angeles Athletic Club

     431 West 7^th Street

               Los Angeles, CA   90014

              (213) 625-2211     (call for directions)

Corner of 7^th Street and Olive Street

Downtown Los Angeles

Parking in adjacent parking structure –

Olive St. parking lot

            R.S.V.P.   by email to:  jgrewal29@hotmail.com

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DISTRICT 1 SPRING 2009 MEETING

  Treating Physicians Obtaining Expert Fees for Depositions And Court Appearances

and

  Life Care Plans and Developmental Injuries

Christopher Angelo, Attorney at Law

Angelo & Di Monda

Date:  Wednesday, April 8, 2009

         Time:  6:30 pm

hors d'oeuvre & drinks will be served

Location:  Los Angeles Athletic Club

     431 West 7^th Street

              Los Angeles, CA   90014

   (213) 625-2211 (call for directions)

Corner of 7^th Street and Olive Street

Downtown Los Angeles

Validated Parking in building parking

structure on Olive St.

R.S.V.P.   by email to:    jtakhar@uci.edu

DISTRICT 1 REPORT FROM DR. TAKHAR

District 1 held its quarterly meeting at the LA Athletic club on April 8th 2009. The Spring meeting was well attended by private practitioners as well as attendees from both of the educational programs in LA county. Our special speaker, Attorney Christopher Angelo, spoke to us about getting paid appropriately as an expert when an expert opinion is requested through subpoena or otherwise. Co-associate directors, Jaspreet Takhar, MD and Sheba Jilani, MD organized this quarterly district meeting with funding from their sponsor, Sportcat. They are both fourth year PM&R residents at UCI graduating this year. Jaspreet plans to go into private practice upon graduation and Sheba will be joining a pain fellowship. During the meeting, Sportcat gave a live demonstration of its latest products in balance training and fall risk assessment. A reminder was told to all attendees about the annual meeting in Disneyland. We thank all for attending and we will inform you when our next meeeting will take place.

Sincerely,
Jazz

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CSPMR DISTRICT 5 QUARTERLY MEETING

"Recent updates on fibromyalgia:

Medications and current research”

You are cordially invited to the Fall Quarter meeting for CSPMR District 5, Wednesday October 29th the Maggiono’s Little Italy Restaurant at Santana Row in San Jose at 630pm.

Dr. Sean Mackey will be speaking on current updates and neurobehavioral research in fibromyalgia.

Sean Mackey, MD, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor at Stanford in the Departments of Anesthesia as well as Neurosciences Director and Chief of the Pain Management Division. As Director of the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, Dr. Mackey’s primary research interest involves the use of advanced research techniques such as neuroimaging, psychophysics and neurobehavioral assessment, to investigate the neural processing of pain and neuronal plasticity in patients with chronic pain. Dr. Mackey has served as principal investigator and investigator for multiple NIH, foundation and industry-sponsored protocols to investigate chronic pain and evaluating novel analgesics for acute and chronic pain.

Please RSVP by October 22^nd, to mindy@a2ut.com or (408) 842-0140

Dinner is generously sponsored by PFIZER PHARMACUETICALS

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CSPMR District 1 Fall 2008 Meeting

Location: LA Athletic Club

431 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA (parking in building validated)

When: Thursday, October 16, 7:00pm

Phone: (213) 625-2211

Come join us for our Fall Meeting at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

www.laac.com

7:00pm

Meet and Greet

Hors d'oeuvre and drinks will be served

7:30pm

Speaker: Patrick Astourian, PA

Topic: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Sponsor: SonoSite, Inc.

Learning objectives:

   Learn the basic principals of ultrasound

   Learn the basic exam for the shoulder

   Learn the basic exam for the knee]

   Demonstrate the advantages of US compared to MRI

If you have not already RSVP to Andi or evite, please take this opportunity to let us know that you will be attending. For further questions, you can contact Andi at (702) 365-0912 or CSPMR@cox.net

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The Spring 2008 District 1 meeting was:

"Topics in Negotiating"

Robert Bitonte, M.D., J.D.,

Physiatrist and Attorney

Private Practice

Los Angeles

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008

Time: 7:00 pm

hors d’oeuvre & drinks were be served

Location: Los Angeles Athletic Club
431 W. 7th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90014

(213) 625-2211 (call for directions)

Corner of 7th Street and Olive Street

Downtown Los Angeles

Parking in adjacent parking structure – Olive parking lot

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The Fall 2007 District 1 Meeting was:

"The Treatment of Chronic Pain in the

Injured Worker" by Jorge Minor, M.D.,

Physiatrist

Medical Director Los Angeles Pain and Wellness

Institute

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Los Angeles Athletic Club

^{at 431 West
7th Street}

^{Los Angeles,
CA 90014}

^{We try to meet quarterly.
Please look for our announcements.}

^{And contact Dr. Tsai if you have
suggestions or opportunities}

^{which would
be of interest to CSPMR members.}

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REPORT OF DR. ALICE TSAI:

Spring 2007 CSPMR District 1 Meeting

District 1 held its Spring meeting on March 29, 2007 at the historic downtown

Los Angeles Athletic Club with a great turn out of local physicians and guests.

Among the special guests were the CEO of the Los Angeles County Medical

Association, Mr. Arthur Auer, and Executive Officer, Dr. Eileen Chun,

showing their support for the California Society of Physical Medicine and

Rehabilitation. Speaker for the evening was Dr. Ronald Takemoto on the

topic of Impairment Rating for the Low Back Pain According to the AMA

Guide Fifth Edition. After completing his residency in PM&R at UCI in

1987, Dr. Takemoto was in private practice for many years. He was at the

Sharp Rehabilitation Center in San Diego until 2000. During that time he

was also a volunteer faculty instructor in the Department of PM&R at UCI.

He then went to Albuquerque, New Mexico to learn interventional spine

injections under the mentorship of Dr. Brian Delahoussaye, and returned to

his alma mater at the VA Long Beach Rehabilitation Medicine Department

in 2004. His current interests are outpatient musculoskeletal medicine and

interventional spine injections. He is the site director for resident education

at the VA Long Beach. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and

Rehabilitation, and in the subspecialty of Pain Medicine. He is also a

Qualified Medical Examiner for the State of California.Dr. Takemoto is a

member of several professional societies, including the American Medical

Association, American Academy of PM&R, Association of Academic

Physiatrists and the International Spine Injection Society. He has been a guest

oral examiner for the American Board of PM&R on 6 occasions.

Ronald Takemoto, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
VA Medical Center
5901 E. 7th St. (10-117)
Long Beach, CA 90822
(562) 826-8000 x4532
ronald.takemoto@med.va.gov

REPORT FROM DR. TSAI OF THE FALL 2006

DISTRICT 1 MEETING

District 1 held its fall meeting on September 14, 2006 at the historic downtown Los Angeles Athletic Club with a great turn out of local physicians and guests. Among the special guests was the CEO of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, Mr. Arthur Auer, showing his support for the California Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Speaker for the evening was Dr. Hilary Siebens on the subject of physician and patient communication. For more information on the discussion, you can visit her website www.siebenspcc.com.

Siebens Patient Care Communications (click here)

District 1 meeting