2026 KYSGNA Fall Conference

Program Agenda

ERBE Dinner

September 18th, 6:00PM-8:00PM

Conference Day

*Contact Hours are currently in the planning phase*

September 19th, 7:00AM-3:15PM

7:00AM-7:30AM: Sign-in, Breakfast, Poster Preview

7:30AM—8:30AM: Dr. Teena Nerwal, Pelvic Floor Disorders

8:30AM-9:30AM: Dr. Zachary Jurkowski, Under Pressure: A Nurse’s Guide to Portal Hypertension and Varices

9:30AM-10:00AM: Break/Vendor Exhibits/Poster Preview

10:00AM-11:00AM: Dr. Michael Hsu, A Pain in the Gas: Dealing with Abdominal Bloating

11:00AM-12:00PM: Dr. Daniel Fagel, Management of Endoscopy Complications

12:00PM—1:00PM: Lunch Break / Poster Presentations: Claire Lawson, MSN, RN, SANE, Raising the Barcode

Scanning in Endo, Tonya Ferguson, BSN, RN, Effects of Nurse Lead Communication, Barbara Diebold, RN,

Esophageal Motility

1:00PM—2:00PM: Maiah Hodge BSN, RN, Improving Patient Experience: The Role of Endoscopy Discharge

Practices

2:00PM—3:00PM Bryan Wilson, MSN, RN, CGRN, GI Jeopardy

3:00PM-3:15PM Prizes and Evaluations