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Thursday March 6th Kaskaskia College hosted the 3rd annual ISRC Chapter
4 Kaskaskia College Respiratory Care Conference.
Five speakers addressed the audience of 120 attendees on various topics dealing
with respiratory care and practice. The conference was also attended by
10-vendors including: SISA, Draeger Medical, Tri-Anim, Pel-VIP, Maquet Inc,
Bemes, Respironics, Deaconess Hospital, Carle Foundation Hospital, and Mobile
and Medical Mainenance Co. The evening included a poster presentation exhibiting
30 posters put together by the Sophomore class of the Kaskaskia Respiratory
Care Program. Two of the posters won scholarships to attend the Illinois
Society for Respiratory Care annual state conference in Chicago Illinois
this coming May. Attendees were treated to a fine meal put together by the
Kaskaskia college culinary arts program.
The program consisted of the following sessions
Session 1 Terry DesJardins
Session 2 Curtis Kretschmer
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Curtis Kretschmer has been a respiratory therapist since 1996. He has been
in southern Illinois since 1997 and has been teaching since 1999. Curtis
has a Bachelors degree in Human Biology from Brigham Young University and
his respiratory education from Weber State University in Utah. Although he
has been a full time teacher for much of his career, he has always had an
affinity for working with children, so, after a few years working at St.
Elizabeth's hospital in Belleville and putting in some time with Apria and
Wood River Township hospital he found his clinical niche in St. Louis, at
Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, where he in on the transport
team, and has worked weekends, summers, and holidays for the last 7 years.
He is probably most proud of his family of 4 children and his beautiful wife
Colleen who is a nurse and whom he recruited to work at Glennon as well.
He calls the occasional Friday nights when he works with his wife "Date night
at Glennon" His lecture was entitled: Fixing Little Wheezers - Treatment
of childhood wheezing.
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Synopsis:
Session 3 Dr Anthony Vacca
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Dr. Anthony Vacca is a local practicing Pulmonologist and works out of Mt
Vernon Illinois. Dr Vacca is a doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated
from the University Of New England College Of Osteopathic Medicine in 1988
following a master's of science degree from Villanova and a BS from LaSalle
University in Philadelphia PA. He has acted as director of Respiratory Services
at several hospitals and is currently the Director of the intensive care
unit, respiratory services and the Chairman of Critical Care Committee at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon IL. Our students have been lucky to
prosper under the occasional tutelage of Dr Vacca in the ICU and endoscopy
unit at Good Sam. He is a former teacher of the year. Dr Vacca is currently
is board certified in Pulmonary and Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr Anthony Vacca's presentation was entitled: Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Disease
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Synopsis:
Session 4 Doug Cannon
Session 5 Desiree Miller
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Desiree Miller worked as a Registered Respiratory Therapist for 15 years
including caring for pulmonary patients in adult, pediatric, and neonatal
ICU's. She has served on a trauma team and as shift supervisor. She had done
time with Apria Home Health and was working at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in
Belleville Illinois when she started thinking it was time for a change. While
Respiratory care was a wonderful job she felt that maybe some other choices
might afford her greater personal satisfaction. So she took a chance and
enrolled in Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's Physician Assistant
Program in 1999. She did great and graduated with a BS. Desiree worked as
a physician assistant for several Illinois medical practices, including Southern
Illinois Pulmonary Consultants before accepting her current position as a
hospitalist back at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Desiree' Cravens-Miller is
a certified and licensed physician assistant in the St. Elizabeth's Hospitalist
Program. Desiree Miller's lecture was entitled: Respiratory Therapy and Beyond
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