103rd Annual Fall Clinical Conference

November 6-8, 2025
Overland Park Convention Center, Overland Park, KS

Select lectures will be available onDemand from November 20 to December 31, 2024

Agenda

Topic are subject to change without notification. Topics and speakers are added as they are confirmed.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Breakfast (ticketed event)

Pulmonary 

• 8:30 AM      Cystic Fibrosis, Ali Rueschhoff, MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
• 9:15 AM      Lung Cancer: Behind the Smoke Screen, Jordan Wilkerson, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
• 10:20 AM    COPD, Sahil Pandya, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
• 11:05 AM    TBA

Occupational Medicine

• 8:30 AM       TBA
• 9:15 AM       Disability Determination Examination, Daniel Zimmerman, MD, Daniel D. Zimmerman, M.D., P.A. Westwood, KS
• 10:20 AM    Post Concussive Syndrome
• 11:05 AM    Low Back Pain, C. Lan Fotopoulos, MD, Interventional Physiatrist, Kansas City Orthopedic Alliance, Overland Park, KS

Luncheon (ticketed event)

Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nephrology

• 1:30 PM     Managing Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease: Best Approaches and Strategies
• 2:15 PM     Fatty Liver
• 3:00 PM     Break and Visit Exhibitors
• 3:15 PM    Treating IBD
• 4:00 PM    Less is More: Update on Diverticulitis 

Joint Replacement

• 1:30 PM     Shoulder Replacement
• 2:15 PM     Hip Replacement
• 3:00 PM     Break and Visit Exhibitors
• 3:15 PM     Knee Replacement
• 4:00 PM     Ankle Replacement

Friday, November 7, 2025

Breakfast (ticketed event)

Imaging and Lab Interpretating 

• 8:30 AM      TBA
• 9:15 AM      TBA
• 10:20 AM    TBA
• 11:05 AM    TBA

Diabetes

• 8:30 AM       Treating Peripheral Vascular Disease in Diabetic Patients
• 9:15 AM       Update on Antidiabetes Medication
• 10:20 AM     Advances in Diabetes Self-Monitoring 
• 11:05 AM     Treatment Choices for Type 2 Diabetes

Luncheon (ticketed event)

Women's Health

• 1:30 PM     Pelvic Health Across the Lifespan
• 2:15 PM     Pregnancy Planning
• 3:00 PM     Break and Visit Exhibitors
• 3:15 PM     Incontinence
• 4:00 PM     Mental health treatment for pregnant and postpartum patients

Cardiology

• 1:30 PM     Myocardial Infarction and Acute Coronary Syndrome, Tabas Ghose, MD, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, and Vascular Surgery, Liberty Hospital, Liberty Missouri 
• 2:15 PM     TBA
• 3:00 PM     Break and Visit Exhibitors
• 3:15 PM     TBA
  
• 4:00 PM     Bridging Evidence and Practice: The New AF Guidelines for Primary Care, Ravi K Yarlagadda, MD, University of Kansas Health System, Olathe, KS

Saturday, November 8, 2025

• 8:30 AM     Nutritional Deficiencies after Bariatric or GI Surgeries, 
• 9:20 AM     Vestibular Therapy for Vertigo, Tyler Bischof, PT, DPT, CMT, Comprehensive Manual Therapist, Vestibular Rehabilitation Certified:  Clinic Director, SERC Physical Therapy, Tiffany Springs, Kansas City, MO
• 10:10 AM   Break
• 10:20 AM   TBA
• 11:00 AM   TBA

Luncheon Speakers

Thursday, November 6

Implementation of Algorithms to Enable Patients to Manage Their Own Health Records,

Friday, November 7

Street Medicine, 

Breakfast Speakers

Thursday, November 6

7:30 am    Breakfast Buffet

7:45 am   Rheumatology, Christopher Koenig, MD, MBA, Kansas City Physician Partners, Overland Park, KS

Dr Koenig graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1993. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Brooke Army Medical Center and rheumatology fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After serving in the Army, he came to Kansas City and has worked as a private practice rheumatologist since 2002. He previously provided instruction to medical students and internal medicine residents. He has spoken at numerous medical meetings and patient seminars on various rheumatic topics. He currently participates in clinical research through KCPP and appreciates the importance of research for the advancement of medical care to patients with rheumatic disease. He is board certified in Rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Friday, November 7

7:30 am Breakfast Buffet

7:45 am   Out on a Limb: Extremity Rashes, David Kaplan, MD, Adult and Pediatric Dermatology, Overland Park, KS

Dr. Kaplan is a regionally and nationally recognized master clinician in dermatology. He lectures locally as well as nationally, publishes regularly in peer-reviewed medical publications, and has appeared numerous times on television and radio. He holds professorships at UMKC School of Medicine and University of Kansas School of Medicine, and has mentored students from numerous physician assistant and nurse practitioner graduate programs. Dr. Kaplan provides care for all ages, from newborn to the elderly. Having been trained and board certified in both dermatology and internal medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He then obtained a Masters Degree in Microbiology from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. From there, Dr. Kaplan received his medical degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He went on to complete a full internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He returned to North Carolina upon receiving a Dermatology Foundation research fellowship in dermatopharmacology at Duke University Medical Center Division of Dermatology. Dr. Kaplan then completed his dermatology residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Dr. Kaplan is board certified in both dermatology and internal medicine. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Registration Fees

• KCSWCS Physicians, Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Member:  FREE    
• KCSWCS Honorary Member: $250   
• Non-member Physician:  $425    
• Non-member Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner:  $375
• Non-member Registered Nurses: $350
• Non-member Other Health Care Professional:  $350
• Breakfasts (Optional):  $35 includes .75 CME
• Luncheons (Optional):  $45 includes 1 hour CME

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