2025 Summit Schedule: Day 1
2025 CALTCM Summit for Excellence: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Pre-Conference: Wound Care - Collaboration with CA Geriatric Society
12:30 PM Registration
   
1:00 PM Welcome
  Speaker: President, Ashkan Javaheri, MD, CMD & Education Committee Chair Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
   
1:10 PM Wound Care
  Speaker: Kevin Broder, MD and Adriana Salas, NP
  Learning Objectives:
  1. Correctly classify wounds as pressure, arterial, vascular, or traumatic, and correctly stage wounds.
  2. Discuss controversies and the range of therapies that can be considered to meet the standard of care.
  3. Prognosticate whether a wound will heal.
  4. Identify if a wound has underlying osteomyelitis or fistula and proper documentation/management of these conditions.
  5. Utilize evidence based tools for wound tracking and management.
   
2:40 PM Break (20 Minutes)
   
3:00 PM Wound Care Workgroup Demonstration
  Speaker: Program Faculty
   
3:30 PM Adjourn

 

Pre-Conference: Medicolegal Summit

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