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Demystifying Dementia: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy
A Half-Day Course for Primary Care Clinicians and Health Professionals
See our flyer.
Saturday, February 23, 2013 (speakers tentative)

	Welcome
	Diagnostic Tools	Vineeth John, MD
	Mild Cognitive Impairment	Vineeth John, MD
	Alzheimer’s Disease	Vineeth John, MD
	Break
	Vascular Dementia	Cristina Bocirnea, MD
	Diffuse Lewy Body and other movement disorders	Mya Caryn Schiness, MD
	Frontotemporal Dementia	Paul Schultz, MD
	Miscellaneous Dementias	Carmel Dyer, MD
	Break
	Case Studies	Paul Schultz, MD

Faculty
Cristina Bocirnea, MD UTHealth Medical School, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
Carmel B. Dyer, MD Houston Geriatric Education Center Project Director UTHealth Medical School, Professor and Director, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Chief of Staff, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Harris Health System
Vineeth John, MD UTHealth Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
Paul Schulz, MD UTHealth Medical School
Mya Caryn Schiess, MD UTHealth Medical School

Location
The class will be held at Amazing Place, 3735 Drexel, Houston, TX 77027.

Cost
No cost to attend this course.

Registration
Please RSVP to Jennifer Larson at Jennifer.A.Larson@uth.tmc.edu or 713-500-9942.

CEU Information
Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits will be provided for Demystifying Dementia.

Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The UTHealth School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.