CMDA Beaver Creek Winter Conference

February 1, 2025 – February 8, 2025

Edwards, Colorado

Beavercreek

Join the “CMDA ski club” for an inspiring retreat on the slopes and in fellowship with morning Faith Prescriptions discussions and nightly discussion of “The 6 H’s: How our History, Heroes, Hobbies, Highlights, Heartbreaks, and Hopes can Impact and Influence your Practice, your Family, and your Faith”. Together, we will delve into different themes each day through a lens of Scripture, from surveying the influence of our personal history/upbringing, and the heroes who inspire us, to our hobbies/avocations and highlights/successes, and examining heartbreaks, while sharing our hopes/legacies. By the end of the week, we will have practical and Biblically-informed applications of the 6 H’s in our personal practice, family life, and faith journey.

The registration fee includes the healthcare professional and spouse.

Rooms in two rental homes can be selected in registration on a first-come, first-served basis. Room rental for the entire week is $2,395.

Children are welcome, but there is no childcare provided.

Healthcare Professional – CMDA Member: $395

Healthcare Professional – CMDA Non-member: $495

Spouse of Healthcare Professional: $0

Child age 5 & under: $0

Child age 6-18: $45

Weekly room rental: $2395

Eleven rooms are available in two rental homes, Aspen Meadow and Millers Circle, with all morning and evening meetings being held in Aspen Meadow.

We highly recommend EPIC Pass for skiing at Beaver Creek.

Consider taking a shuttle to and from the airport, since a rental car is not really needed at the conference.

There is a free shuttle from the rental houses to Beaver Creek Ski Resort.

Light breakfast items will be provided daily in each rental home. Dinners on Mon, Tues, and Wed will be provided.

Rooms in 44 Aspen Meadow Dr. Edwards, CO 81632 (this will be headquarters for all meetings):

#1 – Master Bedroom #1: King bed with an en-suite bathroom and jetted tub on the main floor.

#2 – Guest Suite – King Bed with an en-suite bathroom located above the garage

#3 – Queen bed with an en-suite bathroom on the main floor.

#4- One Twin over Twin bunk bed; Two Twin beds with an en-suite bathroom on the lower level.l

#5- Master Suite #2: King bed with an en-suite bathroom and jetted tub.

#6- King bed with an en-suite bathroom on the lower level.

 

29 Millers Circle Road, Edwards, CO 81632

#1 – Two Double beds located on the top floor; shares a full hallway bath.

#2 – One King bed located on the top floor; shares a full hallway bath.

#3 – One King bed located on the top floor; full master bath with shower & tub, fireplace, and private balcony.

#4 – One Queen bed located on the main floor; en-suite access to a shared household bathroom.

#5 – Basement (best used by a family with children): One Double bed (private room); One Twin bed with One Twin trundle bed; and One Double futon, both in room with exercise equipment; all spaces sharing one full bath.

W. Curt LaFrance Jr. is director of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology at Rhode Island Hospital and professor of psychiatry and neurology at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School. He is Director of the VA Mind Brain Program, Program Director for VA National Expert Consultation & Specialized Services Neuropsychiatry Clinic, and a staff physician at the Providence VAMC. He studied at Wake Forest University (B.A. in Psychology), Medical College of Georgia (M.D.) and Brown University (MPH). He trained in Brown’s combined neurology/psychiatry residency and is double boarded. He has served on the EFA Professional Advisory Board and chaired task forces with the American Epilepsy Society and International League Against Epilepsy. He has received grants from EF, AES, Foundations, Veterans Affairs and the DoD, and a NINDS K23 Award. He trains clinicians around the country using distance supervision in neurobehavioral therapy (NBT), used for seizures, movement disorders, head injuries, cognitive and somatic symptom disorders, based on a whole-person, integrative medicine bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach. His research focuses on developing new biomarkers and treatments for neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy, conversion (functional neurological) disorders and traumatic brain injury. His studies are published in neurology and psychiatry journals. He is co-editor of the fourth edition of “Nonepileptic Seizures”, and co-author of “Taking Control of Your Seizures: Workbook” and “Taking Control of Your Seizures: Therapist Guide.” A goal of his work at Brown, nationally and internationally, has been to bridge neurology and psychiatry clinical practice and scientific research and to dissolve arbitrary boundaries between the two fields.

Saturday, February 1

4:00 pm – Guests arrive and settle in


Sunday, February 2

6:30 pm – Dessert & Fellowship at Aspen Meadow


Monday – Friday, February 3-7

7:15 am – Devotions & Faith Prescriptions at Aspen Meadow

8:30 am – 4:30 pm – Free Time on the Slopes

5:30 pm – Dinner at Aspen Meadow on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

7:00 pm – The 6 H’s: How History, Heroes, Hobbies, Highlights, Heartbreaks, and Hopes can Impact and Influence your Practice, your Family, and your Faith

8:30 pm – Sessions conclude


Saturday, February 8

10:00 am – Guests depart