It’s Time You Took Credit (CME Credit)
While Enjoying an Amazing Passover Vacation in the Natural Wonder of Costa Rica
Who Knows 16?
We Know 16!
16 are the number of Category 1 CME credits you can receive for attending a unique Pesach getaway for you and your family.
Beyond the Chol Hamoed Costa Rican Adventures, amazing Glatt Kosher food, Daf Yomi and multiple shiurim, you will be able to hone your medical knowledge in a beautiful tropical location and enjoy wonderful speakers.
Our Rav and lead speakers will be joined by a staff of six other clinicians with fascinating and timely topics
Costa Rica Kosher Adventures is the longest running Glatt Kosher Pesach Experience provider in this beautiful country. Situated on a Pacific Coast beachfront, the entire premises are made Kosher for Passover. Safety standards continue to be based upon CDC recommendations.
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg is the Founder and International Director for Kids Kicking Cancer. He is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Rabbi Goldberg received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University, where he graduated summa cum laude....
He holds a First-Degree Black Belt in the Korean art of Choi Kwang Do. Kids Kicking Cancer is a nonprofit organization that teaches martial arts to children battling cancer as well as to those facing other serious challenges in their lives. The therapy techniques he has developed, using meditation, and breathing exercises, have been very successful in decreasing the pain of pediatric patients. Rabbi Goldberg began the program in 1999, nearly eighteen years after losing his first child to leukemia. The program sees patients in 104 hospitals and facilities around the world with the vision of empowering one million children to lower their pain by the end of 2025. In 2005, Rabbi Goldberg created The Heros Circle, a global wellness and healing initiative inspired by the children of Kids Kicking Cancer. Both adults and children facing trauma are taught by very sick kids how to use the Breath Brake® regulating pain, fear, and anger. This work has lowered craving and pain in a study with adult heroin addicts and significantly helped disadvantaged urban youth defeat the trauma of abuse. This unique circle provides purpose for sick children, lowering their pain, while changing the lives of those who join the Heroes Circle. Rabbi Goldberg also conducts stress seminars at Fortune 500 companies and lectures around the world on the subjects of pediatric pain and end of life care as well as issues of spirituality and health, including in Canada, Italy, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Israel. He served for twenty years as a pulpit rabbi and police chaplain in Southfield, Michigan. Among the many honors and commendations, Rabbi G. was awarded the 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leaders Award, the nation's most prestigious honor in community public health, and in the same year he was the recipient of the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Detroit Red Wings, McCarty Cancer Foundation. In 2012 he was featured in People magazine's "Heroes Among Us" page, and in 2014 he was named a “Top Ten CNN Hero.” The Rabbi was also honored by Ford Motor Company with their “Best Picture of Hope” award and recently by the Mass General Cancer Center at their annual gala. The Rabbi has been featured on "Good Morning America", "The Today Show", "The Early Show", The Associated Press and hundreds of news stories. In 2015 Rabbi Goldberg authored A Perfect God Created an Imperfect World, Perfectly: Thirty Life Lessons From Kids Kicking Cancer.
Dr. Bernard Gonik
Dr. Bernard Gonik is currently a tenured Professor and the Fann Srere Endowed Chair of Perinatal Medicine in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He was recently named the Interim Specialist-in-Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Detroit Medical Center Health Care System...
Dr. Gonik completed his undergraduate studies with honors at the University of Michigan and received his M.D. degree at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He has received numerous honors throughout his career, including the Berlex International Research Award which allowed him to spend a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Lady Davis Fellow and more recently he was awarded a Jefferson Science Fellowship through the National Academy of Sciences to serve as a Senior Scientific Advisor in the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health at the United States Agency for International Development. In 2021 he was awarded both the national ACOG Distinguished Service Award and the ACOG Mentor of the Year Award. He has been a Castle and Connolly Top Doc for the last 20 years. Dr. Gonik is an internationally recognized academician and author of numerous scientific articles, book chapters and textbooks. He has had research funding through the NIH, professional medical societies, private foundations, and industry. He has served as a consultant to the WHO, CDC, FDA, ACOG, public health agencies, medical societies, and industry. His research interests include infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology, adult and maternal vaccination, and labor force dynamics. This latter interest began as a third-year resident when he and his colleagues first described the universally recognized and utilized McRoberts Maneuver for a shoulder dystocia event. He is a fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of numerous professional societies including the Infectious Disease Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, Society for Reproductive Investigation, and Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Daniel Gonik, BSE, ME
Daniel Gonik, BSE, ME graduated Cum Laude from the University of Michigan College of Engineering with a BSE degree in chemical engineering and ME degree in pharmaceutical engineering. He started his career at Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California where he worked for nearly a decade as a scientist in the formulation and process development department focused on early to late-stage drug development...
He is currently a Principal Scientist at Neurocrine Biosciences in San Diego, California working in the Late-Stage Product Development Division. During his time in industry Daniel has helped bring multiple drug products to the market. He has extensive experience working with various administration routes including immediate release oral drug products, long acting injectables, and bolus intravenous routes. Some of his recent investigative work has been published in Nature Medicine. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Microencapsulation.
Esther Krohner, B.S, M.S
Esther Krohner, B.S, M.S. is a licensed therapist providing counseling, training and consultation throughout the United States and internationally. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Wayne State University in 2009. She received a Master of Science degree in Educational Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University-East Bay in 2014...
She undertook additional postgraduate studies in Brief Therapy at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California from 2013 to 2020. She has also trained as a Yoga instructor in 2009 (RYT 200) and 2014 (RYT 500) and applies these skills to her current activities. Esther has conducted research on the intersection between yoga and brief therapy for children and teens. She has contributed to published texts on creative therapy approaches. Esther works both as an independent provider and with a team of brief therapists providing consultation, training and therapy to many companies, universities and other organizations. Her work has expanded to the international community, with collaborations in China, Spain, Mexico and Paraguay. Recently she and her team have begun introductory Brief Therapy training sessions at the Shanghai Mental Health Center in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Esther believes people are best served when they are viewed as a whole, with integrative assessments and counseling that are tailored to their needs. Esther brings pragmatic tools, a systems lens and hope to some of life’s most difficult problems.
Nathan Gonik, M.D., M.H.S.A.
Nathan Gonik, M.D., M.H.S.A., is Assistant Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2003...
He matriculated with a Master of Health Science Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2005. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2009. Dr. Gonik completed his residency training in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Hospital in New York, New York in 2014. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine/Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2015. He has membership in numerous professional societies including the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Pediatrics-Section of Head and Neck Surgery (AAOHNS). For this latter organization, he has several leadership roles, including Committee Chair of the CIM Committee. His list of honors include membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society, the DMC Otolaryngology Residency Teaching Award, the AAOHNS Committee Service Excellence Award and the Hour Detroit Top Doc Award. He is an active researcher and collaborator, with grant support from local and national organizations and societies. He is an international lecturer, and has more than 30 peer reviewed abstract, journal, and textbook publications in nationally recognized scientific forums.
Elizebeth Dubey, MD
Elizebeth Dubey, MD is Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Program Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She received her Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree with a concentration in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. She undertook postgraduate training from 2008-2012 in Emergency Medicine at the Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She started her career as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center New York Presbyterian Hospital from 2012-2014 before moving to Detroit, Michigan and joining the Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center until the present time. She is a member of numerous major professional societies with leadership roles within those organizations. She has represented the American Academy of Women Emergency Physicians (AAWEP) as a counselor at the annual American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Council meeting. In 2019, she wrote and helped pass a resolution to advocate for implicit bias training for all Emergency Medicine physicians. . In addition, with the help of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Ethics Committee, she created a didactic session exploring the relationship between physician bias and health disparities for their annual national conference. She has been honored with numerous awards, including the Wayne State University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017-2018. In addition to her academic and clinical activities she is an active researcher with grant support from institutional, industry and governmental sources. The focus of her research is primarily on medical education. She has numerous scientific collaborations with many presented abstracts, peer-reviewed journal publications and contributions to reference textbooks and other digital publications.
Navigating Medicine and the Health Care Field: Updates Impacting the Patient and Provider
Day 1 - Saturday
- Reigning in the Adrenal Gland (EG)
- The Ontology of Oncology (EG)
Day 2 - Sunday
- The Evolving Maternal Vaccine Platform: Why pregnancy is the right time to be vaccinated (BG)
- Reproductive Genetics Screening and Testing (BG)
Day 3 - Monday
- Everyday ENT Emergencies: Diagnosis and Management (NG)
- New Directions in the Surgical Management of Sleep Apnea (NG)
Day 4 - Tuesday
- Blackbox Warnings Against Narcotics and Anesthesia in Fetuses and Children (NG)
- Better Outcomes Using New Algorithms for Stroke Management (ED)
Day 5 - Wednesday
- From Pharm to Table: How New Drugs Get Created (DG)
- New Concepts in Drug Delivery Systems (DG)
Day 6 - Thursday
- Nonverbal cues: How to Relate to Them (EK)
- Problem Solving Brief Therapy (EK)
Day 7 - Friday
- Implicit Bias in Health Care (ED)
- End of Life Decisions at the Beginning of Life (BG)
Day 8 - Saturday
- Pain Extraction vs Distraction (EG)
- Integrative Therapies in Pain Management to Reduce Opioid Related Adverse Reactions (EG)