2025 Summit Schedule: Day 1
2025 CALTCM Summit for Excellence: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Pre-Conference: Wound Care Summit
12:30 PM Registration
   
1:00 PM Welcome; Speakers: President, Ashkan Javaheri, MD, CMD & Education Committee Chair Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
   
1:05 PM Wound Care: Clinical Priorities from Bedside to Boardroom
  Speakers: Kourosh A.P. Moshiri, MD, MHA, FACP, AGSF, CMD, HMDC, FACCWS and Richard Simman, MD, FACS, FACCWS
2:45 PM Break (15 Minutes)
3:00 PM Wound Care Workgroup Demonstration (No CME)
3:30 PM Adjourn

 

Pre-Conference: Medicolegal Summit

3:30 PM Registration
4:00 PM Understanding Nursing Home Litigation
 

Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C

Legal Team: Kim Valentine, Esq.
  Learning Objectives:
  1. List 5 important factors in documentation to reduce chance of litigation.
  2. Identify characteristics of patients, families and providers which pose an increased risk of litigations.
  3. Assess your own documentation to ascertain areas of potential improvement.
 
4:30 PM Deposition Demonstration
 

Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C

Legal Team: Mark Ginella, Esq., Sean O'Niell, Esq., Brandon Singleton, Esq., and Kim Valentine, Esq.
  Learning Objectives:
  1. Recognize the importance of expert testimony in elder abuse and medical malpractice litigation.
  2. Evaluate your own qualifications as a potential consulting or testifying expert.
   
4:40 PM Medicolegal Summit Case # 1
 

Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C

Legal Team: Mark Ginella, Esq., Sean O'Niell, Esq., Brandon Singleton, Esq., and Kim Valentine, Esq.
  Learning Objectives:
  1. Explain three factors in high-quality documentation that reduce exposure to litigation.
  2. Identify characteristics of patients, families, and providers that pose an increased risk of litigation.
  3. Analyze the factors attorneys consider in evaluating the merits of a potential malpractice or elder abuse cause of action.
   
5:30 PM Dinner Served
   
5:45 PM Medicolegal Summit Case # 2 
 

Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C

Legal Team: Mark Ginella, Esq., Sean O'Niell, Esq., Brandon Singleton, Esq., and Kim Valentine, Esq.
  Learning Objectives:
  1. Explain three factors in high-quality documentation that reduce exposure to litigation.
  2. Identify characteristics of patients, families, and providers that pose an increased risk of litigation.
  3. Analyze the factors attorneys consider in evaluating the merits of a potential malpractice or elder abuse cause of action.
   
7:00 PM Closing Comments
7-9 PM President's Reception