The Connecticut Athletic Trainers' Association is honored to welcome a panel of nationally recognized speakers to the 2010 CATA Symposium: "Preventing Sudden Death in Sports." This notable group will discuss topics of vital importance to Athletic Trainers. Many of them have been involved in the development of various NATA Position Statements, and are experts on their respective topics.

Tickets for CATA Day at the Rock Cats can also be ordered while you register for the 2010 CATA Symposium. This event is a CATA Family Fun Day for members, friends and family, and a fundraiser for the CATA . Please come out to New Britain Stadium on Sunday June 6, 2010 for day of great fun! Anyone ordering 6 or more tickets will be eligible to throw out the first pitch! Click here for more information.

NOTE: General Admission tickets are SOLD OUT! There are still Reserved seats available.

Post Symposium Reimbursement Workshop -  Earn 1 Free CEU!

Sponsored by: CATA Committee on Revenue

"Reimbursement leads to reinvestment: how being able to generate revenue can help perpetuate the  AT profession."

Type: Roundtable Discussion

Focus: Why reimbursement is so important and the processes that follow.

Speakers: Scott Andrews, MSS, LAT

    Founder, Leading Edge, LLC

    District 1 Committee on Revenue Chair

    Second speaker: TBA

Time: Immediately following the symposium

Where: Main Symposium Room

Preliminary Symposium Agenda

7:00 - 7:30am   Registration

7:30am               Welcome

7:45 - 8:45          Doug Casa, PhD, ATC, FNATA, FACSM

                              University of Connecticut

                              "Exertional Heat Stroke"

8:45 - 8:55           Announcements (& raffle)

8:55 - 9:40           Eric Crespo, MD, MPH

                              Cardiac Electrophysiology

                              Henry Low Heart Center - Hartford Hospital

                              "Arrhythmic Causes of Sudden Death in Athletes"

9:40 - 10:10        Q & A

                              Break - See Exhibitors

10:10 - 10:55      Scott Anderson, ATC

                              University of Oklahoma

                              "Exertional Sickling, Fulminate Rhabdomyolysis, and Sudden Death"

10:55 - 11:15      Awards & Announcements (business meeting & raffle)

11:15 - 12:00pm Q & A

                               See Exhibitors

                               Pick up lunch (b/w 11:40 - 12:00)

12:00 - 12:45       (Working lunch)

                                Tim Neal, MS, ATC

                                Syracuse University

                                "Emergency Planning in Athletics"

12:45 - 1:30          Erik Swartz, PhD, ATC

                                University of New Hampshire

                                " Acute Management of Cervical Spine Injuries in Athletics"

1:30pm                 Q & A 

                               Adjourn

1:45 - 2:45            Post Symposium Reimbursement Workshop

This symposium is approved for 5.5 BOC CEUs.

Please note: registration cost will increase after April 30, 2010.

For a paper invoice, please click HERE.

On-site registration by check only.