Dates: March 4 - 5, 2027 / Virtual Meeting - Live Streamed
Course# MOC27001 Department: Interdisciplinary
Course Overview
This unique interdisciplinary conference is created for providers who care for children, youth, and adults with developmental disabilities and complex health care needs. Whether you have never attended a conference on this topic, or make a point to attend every year, we welcome you and look forward to learning together. This year’s theme is Adapting to Change: Opportunities Out of Disruptions. You’ll hear from leaders in the field, community activists, self-advocates, and distinguished clinical experts. The activity will address ways to meet this moment and provide quality care to patients from a perspective that will benefit all members of the care team - from the physician or nurse practitioner, occupational therapist, case manager to patient themselves as well as community and family caregiver.
Featured topics this year include systems change, health equity, mental health, healthcare transitions, early education, reproductive health, learning disabilities, evidence-based approaches for people with autism, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disability, self-injurious behaviors, climate change, and so much more. While the conference is designed and accredited for healthcare professionals, we welcome families and individuals with developmental disabilities to also attend.
The virtual conference format will provide access to learners across the country and will offer opportunities for interaction and networking. Live lectures will be recorded and available for replay on demand after the conference, so you don’t miss a moment.
Clarissa Kripke, MD and John I. Takayama, MD, MPH
Conference Co-Chairs
Learning Objectives
An attendee completing this course will be able to:
- Improve systems of care for people with disabilities by considering social and cultural diversity and disparities, structural bias, and implications for access to quality healthcare;
- Improve interprofessional teamwork and community collaboration to effectively address gaps in care for people with developmental disabilities;
- Describe federal, regional and state organizations and policies relevant to access to health and related services;
- Review the range of novel and evidence-based approaches to the care of patients with autism, cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Apply methods to improve quality mental and behavioral health care for people with disabilities and their caregivers
- Optimize health care outcomes for people with disabilities, especially during transition stages
- Improve screening and access to care for learning disabilities
- Discuss ways to support people with developmental disabilities to adapt to climate change
- Describe innovations in reproductive healthcare, communication, and cancer care for people with developmental disabilities
- Discuss the importance of, and strategies to enable, participation in the arts to support the wellbeing of children, youth and adults with disabilities
Live Stream Meeting
This course will be offered as a virtual conference. Login instructions along with the digital syllabus will be shared with the attendees a week before the meeting. Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand after the conference and for 30 days after the course. You must tune in to the live conference (remotely) to claim CME.
Acknowledgements
This activity is developed by a community planning and advisory committee made up of self-advocates and representatives from the following agencies: UCSF, Stanford University, University of the Pacific, The Arc San Francisco, Golden Gate Regional Center, East Bay Regional Center, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Support for Families, WITH Foundation, Disability Voices United, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the California Department of Developmental Services.
Accessibility
UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please submit a learner support ticket as soon as possible.