• Date

    Saturday,  August 24, 2024
    8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Reception- 5:00PM – 6:00PM

     

  • Location

    UIC College of Pharmacy and Virtually

    In-Person:
    UIC College of Pharmacy
    833 South Wood St.
    Chicago, IL 60612

    Virtually:
    If joining virtually, instructions for joining will be emailed on Monday, August 19, 2024. See the FAQs tab for more information.

  • Fee

    Participant Fee: $75.00

    Registration Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2024

Registration

Target Audience:

Pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals who manage critically ill patients. Note only pharmacists, nurses, and nurse practitioners will receive CE credits.

Program Description:

Critical care practice & related pharmacotherapy encompasses a wide variety of disease states. New developments challenge the practitioner to stay abreast of emerging therapies & novel treatment strategies. This conference will focus on clinical controversies or novel therapies across the gamut of critical care medicine. The keynote session, Deploying AI for Critical Care: Learning to Make a Difference, will focus on AI in critical care. Our clinical topics will highlight timely adult topics across multiple intensive care units, including medical, cardiac, surgical/trauma, as well as the emergency department.

Registration:

Registration Fee: $75.00
Registration Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2024
Registration Form: Chicagoland Critical Care Conference 2024 Event Registration Form

Registration fee includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch, parking validation, and up to 6.0 contact hours (0.6 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credits. Nurses can earn up to 6.0 contact hours of continuing nursing education credits for the live program. Advanced practice nurses may count a total of 5.0 contact hours for the pharmacotherapeutic educational requirement. All courses will be available for pharmacists as future homestudies and participants can earn up to a total of 6 credit hours (live + homestudy) for pharmacist CE. You will receive a free access code for each session. If you received CE for the live program, you cannot receive CE credit for the same sessions as a homestudy. At this time, homestudies will only be available for pharmacists. Handouts will be provided electronically for attendees to download and print before the conference.

Acknowledgments:

This activity is supported by the Pharmacy Council of Illinois Fund.

Sponsors & Exhibitors:

More sponsors and exhibitors are joining us soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Exhibitors

  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals
  • AstraZeneca
  • Azurity Pharmaceuticals
  • Melinta Therapeutics
  • UCB

Program Chair:

Stephanie Dwyer Kaluzna, PharmD, BCCP
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy

Questions? Please Contact:
Jill Wilson
Director, Educational Programs and Business Development
Office of Continuing Education and Meeting Services
jrmiller@uic.edu