Fall 2006

September 22, 2006 – September 24, 2006

“Natural Deaths/Pandemic Influenza Preparedness“

Conference Details:

3:00p.m. – 5:00 p.m. NYSACCME Board of Directors Meeting
5:30p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Registration
6:30p.m. Dinner on your own
Hospitality Suite Sponsored by John Hassapakis, President,
Central Valley Professional Services Disaster Pouches,Inc., Modesto, California
and Forensic Medical Services, PC, Rensselaer County,Waterford, New York

Saturday, September 23, 2006

7:00 – 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 am Dr.Thomas Rosano, Director of Forensic Toxicology,Albany Medical Center

Topic: Applications of Clinical Laboratory Testing in Evaluation of Natural Causes of Death

9:00 – 10:00 am Dr.Richard Callery, Chief Medical Examiner State of Delaware, Wilmington

Topic: Overview Alcoholism and Associated Deaths

10:00 – 10:15 am Break Sponsored by Lions Eye Bank at Albany

10:15 – 11:15 am Dr.Richard Callery, Chief Medical Examiner State of Delaware,Wilmington

Topic: Investigated Deaths in the Workplace and their Associated Employment

11:15 – 12:45 pm Dr. Michael Sikirica, Chief Medical Examiner, Rensselaer County

Topic: Natural Deaths in Neuropathology

12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch and Accreditation Meeting

1:45 – 2:45 pm Dr. Michael Sikirica, Chief Medical Examiner, Rensselaer County

Topic: CJD Disease

2:45 – 3:45 pm Dr.James Terzian, Medical Director of Pathology&Laboratory, Lourdes Hospital

Topic: Childhood Homicides

3:45 – 4:00 pm Break Sponsored by Lions EyeBank at Albany

4:00 – 5:00 pm Hon. Richard C. Giardino, FultonCountyJudge

Topic: The C.S.I. Effect from aJudge’sPerspective and Your Role in Testifying in Court

5:00 – 6:00 pm Hospitality Suite Sponsored by John Hassapakis, President,
Central Valley Professional Services Disaster Pouches, Inc., Modesto, California
and Forensic Medical Services, PC, Rennselaer County, Waterford, New York

6:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner/Guest Speaker – Dr. James Terzian,MedicalDirector of Pathology & Laboratory, Lourdes Hospital

Topic:Forensic Show & Tell

8:00 – 8:30 pm Business Meeting

8:30 – ??? Hospitality Suite Sponsored by John Hassapakis, President,
Central Valley Professional Services Disaster Pouches, Inc., Modesto, California
and Forensic Medical Services, PC, Rennselaer County, Waterford,New York

Sunday, September 24, 2006

7:30 – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:30 am New York State Department of Health Presents: Pandemic Flu

Dr. Barbara Wallace, MSPH, Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control in NYSDOH

Deborah H. Orecki, Director of NYSDOH Bureau of Funeral Directors

10:30 – 10:45 am Break

10:45 am – 12:45 am Scott M. Schmidt, C.F.S.P., Funeral Director/ RegionalTraining Officer DMORT ll

Topic: Mass Fatalities