19th ANNUAL QLA CONFERENCE

                 Program Agenda

 

 

 

Thursday        August 26, 2004                                                                    

                                                                       

5pm- 11pm      BOARD MEETING

                                                             

      (Post Conference Board Meeting : Saturday, August 28 @ 3:30pm)                                             

 

 

Friday             August 27, 2004

                                                           

8:30am- 9:30am          “Ice Breaker” for early arrivals

WELCOMING COMMITTEE: QLA BOARD MEMBERS

 

10:00am-12noon         “Photo Scavenger Hunt!”

TradeWinds Resort Property 

Sponsor:  Austin Medical Products

(Must sign-up on Registration Form)

 

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

 

1:00pm – 2:00pm        EXHIBITS SET-UP

 

2:30pm – 5:00pm        REGISTRATION

EXHIBITS OPEN

CARICATURES AND QUICK PORTRAIT SKETCHES

By:  Donald D. Pottratz, Professional Artist

 

(Meeting: Patient/Spouse Panel Participants: Joe Turant)

 

3:30pm- 5:00pm          Welcome Reception (Cash Bar)

Light Refreshments  - Sponsor:  Richard Stern

 

5:00pm- 5:30pm          OPENING REMARKS

Velma Bragg, RN,WOC,(ET)

Ann Walker, RN

Sherwood White, CFP

    (Conference Planning Co-Chairs)

 

OFFICIAL WELCOME

Todd Mann, CEO

Palms of Pasadena Hospital

St. Petersburg, Florida

 

5:30pm – 6:30pm        “Panel of CIR Patients/Spouses

Moderator:  Joe Turant

 

6:30pm – 7:30pm        “Laughter – Still the Best Medicine”

Monteen Elliott, RN

Atlanta, Georgia

 

8:00pm                        Social  Event

Dinner and Cash Bar

Caricatures & Portrait Sketches

Dinner Sponsor:  Palms of Pasadena Hospital

 

 

 

Saturday         August 27, 2004

 

7:30am-8:30am           CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Sponsor: J. Sherwood White

REGISTRATION/EXHIBITS

 

8:30am – 8:45am        Presiding:  Joe Turant, President

Invocation:  J. Sherwood White

 

8:45am- 10:45am        Break Out Groups

(Soft drinks / bottle water in rooms)

 

10:45am- 11:00am      BREAK

 

11:00am – 12:15pm    Membership Business Meeting

Election:  One Director

Presentation: WOB Harbinger Award

Presiding: Joe Turant, President

 

12:15pm-  2:30pm       David Boyd Memorial Luncheon

Annual Fund Raising Auction

Auctioneer:  Jerry Hall

Sponsor: Columbia Southern Univ.

     -- Bob & Mimi Mayes

 

Exhibits (3pm closing and take down)

 

2:30pm – 3:30pm        Physician’s Panel: COC Surgeons

Dr. James Pollack

Dr. Ernest Rehnke.

Dr. Don Schiller

Dr. Ron Gaskin

 

3:30pm- 4:30pm          OPTIONAL SESSION

“What You Should Know About   Long Term Care”

Peggy Kinst & Roz Koze

(Sign up on Registration Form)

 

 

Saturday Evening Activities

 

6:00pm – 7:00pm        President’s Reception

 

7:00pm – 8:30pm        Dinner (Cash Bar)

 

8:30pm – 9:30pm        Special Concert

“The Chicken Man”

Mike Culver & Mike Berry

Atlanta, Georgia

 

9:30pm – 12m/n          Dance (Cash Bar)

DJs: Mike Culver & Mike Berry