KAPA Heart of America CME and Annual Members Meeting

OVERVIEW

This conference has been designed to provide a broad overview of clinical and professional issues that impact Physician Assistants. Its main focus is to address those issues from a primary care perspective.  We aim to address the growing educational needs of PAs by providing current information from specialists within their respective fields.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The educational design of this activity addresses the needs of PAs involved in the treatment of patients in a primary care setting.

SPEAKERS

Below is the list of speakers and topics.  

• Sara Cox PA-C - Lifestyle Medicine
• Tanner Speake PA-C - Ortho or possibly other topic 
• Amy Steinhour PA-C - Unmet Non-medical Needs of Patients
• Summer Snowden PA-C - Covid Long Hauls
• Dr. Seery - Peds
• Dr. Bhalla - ENT 
• Beth Norhern PA-C - Alpha Gal Syndrome
• Dr. Katz - Cardiology
• Dr. Duff - What you need to know about the rising use of GLP-1 drugs in your patients
• Janine Ohler - Pharmacology 
• Dr. Poell - Zebras in Medicine 
• Dr. Orth - Ortho topic 
• KAPA State Update 
• KTRACS Update to meet the opioid CME requirement
• WSU speaker and program update, topic pending
• KSU - Dr. Botz to speak and give program update, topic pending  
• More topics under consideration

ACCREDITATION

This program was planned in accordance with AAPA’s CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial support of Live Programs.  Conference organizers will be requesting 20 hours of AAPA Category I CME credit from the Physician Assistant Review Panel.

KAPA ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING

The Members Meeting will be Friday, October 18th at the conclusion of the CME sessions. This is a KAPA Members only meeting.

REGISTRATION FEES

Online registration will open soon.

The early registration discount will on expire on September 26, 2025. Registration Deadline is October 10, 2025.

CONFERENCE PLANNING

CME Committee Chair

• Kami Albers, PA-C, Manhattan, KS

Conference revenues help to fund the day-to-day operations of KAPA, so your attendance at KAPA conferences helps support your Academy.

The Kansas Academy of Physician Assistants sponsors this conference with support from AAPA

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** for NCCPA members

We will be using the NCCPA’s logging system for our CME hours again this year. So after the conference all  you have to do is go to their website and complete your CME conference logging. By having the CME hours logged through the NCCPA, the credits are verified and won’t be audited by the NCCPA.

If you are a NCCPA member enter your NCCPA ID number where indicated on the registration form.

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Bluemont Hotel - Lodging information

The Bluemont Hotel is offering a special per night rate for our event. 

Our group room block is for a limited time so make your reservations as soon as you can.

Booking instructions:

MAKING RESERVATIONS BY PHONE:

• Call the hotel at (785) 473-7091, press “0”.
• Let me know you’d like to make a reservation in the CME group “b216947”.

MAKING RESERVATIONS ONLINE:

• Go to www.bluemonthotel.com
• Click on the BOOK ONLINE button at the top of the page.
• On the top of the page, select Check-in and Checkout date. (You must enter dates before the promo code)
• Just below the dates, click, “Have a promo code?” and enter b216947 and click APPLY CODE (Case sensitive, use a lowercase letter b)

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Registration Refund and Cancellation Policy

 

Cancellations and refund requests will only be considered when received in writing.

All such requests should be emailed to kansaspa@sbcglobal.net

 

To receive a 100% refund of your paid conference registration fees your written cancellation request must be received by KAPA on or before midnight on October 3, 2025. Written notices of cancellation received after the close of registration on October 4, 2025, receive a 50% refund of paid conference registration fees.