Physician Wellness Conference is Set for April 25

SLMMS is reviving a popular member program from recent years, the Physician Wellness Conference, scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event will be held in the Emerson Auditorium at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield.

Specifically designed to help physicians “renew their love of medicine,” the topics include building resilience, stress management, physician counseling services, and to address financial wellness, asset protection and the qualified spousal trust. The program, coordinated by SLMMS Councilor Robert A. Brennan, Jr., MD, is offered free of charge to SLMMS members and their spouse/guest. The fee is $25 for all others. Continuing Medical Education credit will be available.

Registration and continental breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. followed by three presentations:

9:00 a.m.
James G. Blase, JD, CPA, LLM
Blase and Associates, LLC
Adjunct Professor, St. Louis University School of Law
“Asset Protection Planning for Missouri Residents and the New Missouri Qualified Spousal Trust”

10:00 a.m.
Jeremy Duke, MA, LPC
Mid-Missouri Regional Coordinator
Missouri Physicians Health Program
“MPHP: We Know More than Substance Abuse”

11:00 a.m.
Stuart Slavin, MD, M.Ed.
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Professor of Pediatrics
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
“Building Resilience and Coping with Stress in Medical Practice”

Advance registration is requested by Monday, April 20. To RSVP, contact Liz Webb at 314-989-1014 ext. 108 or email lizw@slmms.org