Robert Bondurant, RN, LCSW, Chief Operating Officer, Performance Intervention Associates, LLC, Chesterfield, Missouri

Scott W. Grisolano, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Gastro-enterology/ Hepatology/Motility, Kansas City, Kansas 

David K. Hill, MD, FACS, Otolaryngologist, Midwest Ear, Nose & Throat, P.A., Olathe, Kansas

Sarah J. Hon, DO, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine. Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences Kansas City, Missouri; Northland Neurological Associates, North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Missouri

Marin H. Kollef, MD, FACP, FCCP, Professor, Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Director, Respiratory Care Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Melissa L. Parkhurst, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center Department of General and Geriatric Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas

David S. McKinsey, MD, Clinical Professor, Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS; Private Practice, Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

Richard S. Muther, MD, Director of Nephrology, Research Medical Center; Nephrologist, Kidney Associates, Kansas City, Missouri

Allen J. Parmet, MD, MPH, Private Practice, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri

George B. Pierson, MD, PhD, FACC, Overland Park Cardiovascular, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas

Steven Q. Simpson, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas

David G Skolnick, MD, Cardiovascular Consultants, P.C., Kansas City, Missouri

William T. Stephenson, MD, Medical Director, Midwest Cancer Care, Kansas City, Missouri

Robert T. Tenny, MD, Neurological Surgeon, Overland Park, Kansas

Janice L. Zimmerman, MD, Head, Critical Care Division and Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas

Planning Committee

Michael J. Waxman, MD, Medical Director, ICU, Research Medical Center; Private Practice, Kansas City Pulmonology Practice; Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine (Respiratory and Critical Care), University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

Sonora S. Thigpen, Executive Director, Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society, Kansas City, Missouri

Penny Shaffer, RN, BA, MA, Program Director, Health and Human Services, Center for Business and Technology at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

Disclosure of Faculty &
Provider Relationships

All faculty & planning committee members participating in this course are required to disclose to participants any relationship, including financial interest or affiliation with a commercial company. Full disclosure of faculty & planning committee relationships will be made available to participants in conference materials.