NAMDRC members are all physicians in nearly 2,000 hospitals nationwide
who work in respiratory care departments, critical/intensive care units, sleep labs, blood gas laboratories, pulmonary rehabilitation services, and other respiratory related services.
Annual Meeting
The NAMDRC Annual Educational Conference affords a truly unique educational opportunity for physicians in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine by providing a special opportunity for them to interact with their colleagues, listen to state-of-the-art presentations related to pulmonary/critical care/sleep medicine, current financial and legal issues impacting physicians, as well as updates related to pending regulatory and legislative issues in medicine. Three half-days of educational sessions are devoted to the most recent clinical and management advancements in these areas.
The Annual Meeting program is jointly sponsored by the Creighton University School of Medicine and offers CME credit for physicians who attend.
Curricula for past NAMDRC conferences have included topics such as:
- New Directions in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Emboli
- Emerging Strategies in the Treatment of COPD
- Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in Respiratory Disorders
- Regulatory: Coding and Reimbursement
- Political, Economic and Social Perspectives of Sleep Medicine
- The Future of the Specialty Physician in Managed Care
- Legal Issues for the Hospitalist and Intensivist
- Essentials in Pulmonary Medicine
- The Changing Landscape of Pulmonary Medicine
- Practical Advances in Clinical Management of Pulmonary Medicine
- The Science and Politics of Pulmonary Disease
- And many other timely presentations