

COPD: What You Don't Know That You Don't Know
An interactive presentation with Dr. Paul Harkaway
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Beaumont Hospital Auditorium, Royal Oak
6:00 p.m. Light Refreshments • 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Interactive Session
As a free CE opportunity*, this presentation will provide new perspectives to
those in the Nursing and Respiratory Therapy field on the impact of COPD for
patients in the healthcare system. At the end of this educational activity,
participants will:
- Understand complexities of healthcare that can alter optimal patient care
- Understand the complexity of COPD management from the patient’s
perspective
- Identify personal ideas for changing the care of a COPD patient
- Have an increased awareness of the benefits of collaborative care
- Understand living with COPD from the patient’s perspective
Dr. Harkaway has spent 25 years caring for patients with chronic pulmonary
disease. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1976, he graduated from the Wayne State University
School of Medicine in 1980. Dr. Harkaway completed his Residency in Internal
Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor in 1984 and his
Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 1986 at Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit. He is currently a practicing physician with the Pulmonary
and Critical Care Division of Michigan Multispecialty Physicians PC and serves
as the President of the Huron Valley Physicians Association in Ann Arbor.
*Approved for one (1) continuing education contact hour (CRCE) by the
American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC).
*Saint Joseph Mercy Health System is an approved provider of continuing
nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education
Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American
Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. One Nursing
contact hour will be provided.
There is no cost to attend, but RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
PULMONARY ILLNESS: Trends & Treatment Series
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