Karen Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C of Affinity Health System Appleton, WI successfully completes Emergency Medicine and Primary Care conference

The National Conference on Advances in Emergency Medicine and Primary Care has certified successful completion by Karen Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C, who practices medical excellence in Orthopaedics & Sports medicine with Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. Joseph McCormick, MD at St. Elizabeth Hospital, a member of the Affinity Health System, in Appleton, Wisconsin, upon successful completion through participation in The National Conference on Advances in Emergency Medicine and Primary Care.

The National Conference on Advances
In
Emergency Medicine and Primary Care
Infectious Disease and Critical Care
July 19 to 20, 2003 Chicago, Illinois

CERTIFIED SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION
By
Karen Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C of Affinity Health System

The National Conference on Advances in Emergency Medicine and Primary Care has certified successful completion by Karen Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C, who practices medical excellence in Orthopaedics & Sports medicine with Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. Joseph McCormick, MD at St. Elizabeth Hospital, a member of the Affinity Health System, in Appleton, Wisconsin, upon successful completion through participation in The National Conference on Advances in Emergency Medicine and Primary Care, on July 19 to 20, 2003 held in Chicago, Illinois, sponsored by Olive View-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine and The American College of Emergency Physicians state chapter of California.

At Affinity's St. Elizabeth Hospital, Karen is noted as providing high quality care to new and existing patients, pre-operative care, post-operative care, and Emergency Department and hospital consultations, serving as Surgical First Assist. Her medical practice centers around sports medicine, osteoarthritis, and pediatrics. Common problems and surgeries include knee and shoulder arthroscopy, rotator cuff repair, ACL reconstruction, total knee, shoulder and hip replacements, and fracture care. Fields recently in joint efforts with Dr. McCormick, researched and implemented the osteoporosis prevention and treatment program for the Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine practice, and was a presenter in a community presentations on Osteoporosis, in Arthritis, Pain and treatment with Dr. Dan Metz, MD, and Dr. Brett Young, MD, who are also Orthopaedic Surgeons with Affinity.

Appointments can be scheduled by calling (920) 996-3700.

Karen Fields, PA-C, graduated with a Masters of Science in Physician Assistant Studies with Distinction, from Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania, where she was further honored as a member of the Alpha Epsilon Lambda- Phi Chapter of Graduate National Honors Society, Graduate Dean's List, and winning the highly esteemed Physician Assistant's Academic Coordinator's Award. Karen Fields is nationally certified by National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, having achieved a high score of 728 of a possible 750 points, and is certified by the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board to practice medicine, as a Physician Assistant.

Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C as a Certified Physician Assistant studied medical specialties as: Antibiotics for the Emergency Department Infections; Wound Management and Treatment of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections; Infections That Kill Fast and New Approaches to Treatment; Travel-Related Infections: Prevention and Treatment; Acute Neurologic Emergencies; Acute Coronary Syndromes; Analysis and Interpretation of ECGs:New and Old Tricks; Cutting Edge Toxicology; Latest Advances in Congestive Heart Failure: Beyond Lasix; Pulmonary Emergencies That Will Take Your Breath Away; Snoozing & Tubing:Conscious Sedation and Rapid Sequence Intubation; to enhance the Emergency and Primary Care clinician's level in managing urgent medical problems frequently seen in the emergency and primary care settings. The topics have been selected to provide an update in areas where significant changes have occurred in the past few years.

The speakers at the conference included Medical Doctor clinicians who are board certified and deal everyday with the problems that they are discussing, such as Co-Chairmen; Dr. David A. Talan, MD, FACEP, FIDSA Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Chairman, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Faculty, Div. of Intectious Disease Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Fredrick Molik-Abrahamian, DO, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Education, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Olive View-UCL A Medical Center.

Continued Karen Fields, M.S.P.A.S., PA-C of Affinity Health System page two

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS [PAs]: Are rigorously medically trained similar to doctors in scope and practice, and are licensed advanced medical professionals who establish and build a medical practice diagnosing and treating their own patient roster. PAs serve in a variety of clinical settings, such as specialists in Cardiac care, Orthopaedics and Sports medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Occupational Health, Pulmonary Care, Neurology, Gastroentology, Neonatology, Family Medicine, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, in primary care practices, geriatric long-term care facilities, hospitals, correctional institutions, Federal and community-based clinics. In short, PAs are medically trained and medically certified to give complete and outstanding patient care.

CHARACTER and VALUE: Physician Assistants are by character compassionate advanced medical providers and team builders through individual professional excellence, within clearly defined scopes of medical practice, traditionally carried out by a physician, in collaboration and partnership with physicians, consultants, fellows / residents, nursing and other medical staff, achieving high quality outpatient and inpatient care, through problem solving, working independently and assuming responsibility for their patients. PAs are cost effective medical providers for insurance companies, businesses, and patients, contributing to a solid financial foundation of the whole health care system. Currently there are approximately 50,000 plus Physician Assistants practicing medicine in the United States and the world.

MISSION and SERVICE: The Physician Assistant's mission and service in all medical and surgical specialties are traditionally indistinguishable from such care delivered by physicians, while operating as full accountability colleagues through collaborative care agreements with doctors, hospitals, practices, and clinics. PAs are extended Hospital credentials and privileges as are doctors.
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