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
  Moderator: Kourosh A.P. Moshiri, MD, MHA, FACP, AGSF, CMD, HMDC, 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: Program Faculty
  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.
 
4:20 PM Deposition Demonstration
  Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C; Legal Team: Program Faculty
  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.
   
4:30 PM Medicolegal Summit Case # 1
  Moderator: Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C; Legal Team: Program Faculty
  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: Program Faculty
  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
7:00 PM President's Reception