Live Events & Conference Calendar
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
October 2025
Case Management Conference
Oct. 21
Join us at the 25th Annual Case Management Conference on October 21, 2025 as we celebrate 25 years of collective insight and collaboration! We invite nurses, social workers, case managers, and other interested healthcare professionals to engage with us in conversations that matter most for our work and our patients. Come explore in thought-provoking discussions on ethics, bias, pain, and artificial intelligence through a lens shaped by years of making meaningful connection.
Rural and Urban Differences in Suicide
Oct. 22 | 12:00 am - 1:00 pm FREE and ONLINE
At the end of the session, participants will be able to explain how geography, demographics, and social factors affect suicide rates and identify one evidence-based rural intervention. Speaker Quian Huang, PhD, MA, MPA, will summarize suicide rate trends and differences of rural vs urban by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and region. Identifying factors driving higher rural suicide rates will be covered and compared with those in urban regions, and rural-suicide prevention strategies will be reviewed and related to participants' professional or community settings. Target Audience: Nurses, Advanced Practice Providers, Community Health Workers, Physicians, Social Workers, Nutritionists.
CE/CNE: 1 contact hours. **Meets the content requirements for 1.0 contact hour of State of Michigan implicit bias continuing education (CE) credit.
The Transformative Power of Teaching Kitchens to Address Nutrition Security & Population Health
Oct. 30 | 12:00 am - 1:00 pm FREE and ONLINE
At the end of the session, participants will be able to define Teaching Kitchens and culinary medicine, and explain how hands-on cooking can improve diet-related diseases, food access, and health outcomes.. Speakers Paula Martin, MS, RDN, LDN, and Kelly Wilson, RDN, DipACLM, will define and describe teaching kitchens and culinary medicine using research on their effectiveness to describe population health, compare two Teaching Kitchen operations and programs in Michigan, and Connect and evaluate future uses of teaching kitchens to address local food access, nutrition security and improvements in population health. Target Audience: Nurses, Advanced Practice Providers, Community Health Workers, Physicians, Social Workers, Nutritionists, Dietitians.
CE/CNE: 1 contact hours. **Meets the content requirements for 1.0 contact hour of State of Michigan implicit bias continuing education (CE) credit.
November 2025
Henry Ford + MSU LARA Conference
Nov. 14 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm FREE and ONLINE
The Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences partnership invites Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University registered nurses, physicians, residents, fellows, and healthcare professionals to the virtual 2025 Henry Ford + MSU LARA Conference. This virtual partnership conference provides accredited education to fulfill state requirements in pain management, opioids and controlled substances awareness, implicit bias, human trafficking, and ethics.
Conference attendees can expect a day of learning, reflection, and connection focused on pressing health care topics such as human trafficking, pain management, medical ethics, implicit bias, and opioid awareness. Each session is designed to deepen clinical insight and support transference of new knowledge to more compassionate, informed care. The day concludes with evaluations and details on continuing education credits. CE/CNE: 5 contact hours.
Please save all CE certificates for your records. Starting January 1, 2025, replacement certificates will not be issued more than 30 days after the event.