Global Conversation on the Future of Care

Dr. Kiplee Bell, MD, PA-C, MS

Founder • Host • Physician • Caregiving Advocate

Opening Keynote

The Double Shift: Leading Through the Future of Care

Session Overview

Healthcare has entered a new era. Clinicians are caring for increasingly complex patients while simultaneously navigating workforce shortages, administrative burden, rapidly evolving technology, family caregiving responsibilities, and unprecedented expectations. This "double shift" extends far beyond the workplace, affecting how we lead, communicate, innovate, and sustain ourselves. Dr. Bell explores the evolving landscape of healthcare through the lens of leadership, resilience, and purpose — drawing from her experience as a physician, caregiver, entrepreneur, educator, and healthcare executive to challenge attendees to rethink what it means to lead in an era where compassion, innovation, and adaptability are equally essential. Participants will leave with a renewed framework for leading themselves, supporting their teams, and creating systems of care that are both clinically excellent and deeply human.

Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

International Dementia Care Educator

What Do I Do on Tuesday Morning? Practical Dementia Care for Every Healthcare Professional

Session Overview

Most healthcare professionals will care for someone living with dementia this week. Yet many have never been taught how to adapt a routine clinical encounter for someone experiencing cognitive change. In this practical, interactive session, internationally recognized dementia educator Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, shares the communication techniques, observational skills, and care strategies that clinicians across every discipline can begin using immediately. Whether you practice primary care, cardiology, endocrinology, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, surgery, or another specialty, you'll leave with practical approaches that improve communication, reduce distress, strengthen caregiver partnerships, and preserve dignity throughout the care journey.

Warren Katz, MD

Board-Certified Rheumatologist • Clinical Educator

Thinking Like a Rheumatologist: Developing a Diagnostic Framework for Musculoskeletal Disease

Session Overview

Musculoskeletal complaints account for millions of healthcare visits each year, yet distinguishing mechanical conditions from inflammatory, autoimmune, infectious, crystalline, and systemic disease remains one of the most nuanced challenges in clinical medicine. The difference often lies not in ordering more tests, but in asking better questions and recognizing meaningful clinical patterns. Dr. Katz shares the clinical reasoning that has guided decades of patient care and physician education — a practical diagnostic framework applicable to virtually every patient presenting with joint pain, muscle pain, stiffness, weakness, or other musculoskeletal complaints. Through real-world cases and expert clinical insight, attendees will develop a structured approach to history-taking, physical examination, interpretation of laboratory and imaging findings, recognition of inflammatory versus non-inflammatory disease, age-related diagnostic considerations, and identification of conditions that require urgent evaluation or specialty referral, with special attention to avoiding common diagnostic pitfalls. Designed for physicians, advanced practice providers, trainees, and clinicians across all specialties.

Learning Objectives

• Develop a systematic diagnostic approach to evaluating patients with musculoskeletal complaints.
• Differentiate mechanical, inflammatory, autoimmune, infectious, crystalline, and systemic causes of musculoskeletal disease using clinical reasoning.
• Interpret historical, physical examination, laboratory, and imaging findings within the context of the patient's overall clinical presentation.
• Recognize clinical "red flags" that warrant urgent evaluation, additional diagnostic testing, or rheumatology referral.
• Apply practical diagnostic principles that improve efficiency, reduce unnecessary testing, and support timely, evidence-informed patient care.