LIVE Napa Convention 10-16/17/18/19-2025

Published Scientific Literature for Chiropractors 

Speakers: Drs. Deed Harrison, Dan Murphy, John Maltby, Scott Heun, D.C., and others

Culinary Institute of America
500 First Street
Napa, CA  94559
      Phone: (707) 967-2500

Thursday, 10/16/25 - (9 of 13 hours) Live: James Musick, DC, QME (Conference Room)

This is part of the live 13 hours QME series, as a prerequisite to take the QME examination, with the DWC Medical-Unit, State of California (DWC Medical-Unit approved and CBCE approval pending)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM     Introduction AMA Guides, impairment

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM       AMA Guides, impairment (cont.)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM        Impairment AMA Guides, Cervical Spine

Break

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM        Impairment AMA Guides, Lumbar Spine

3:20 PM – 4:20 PM        Impairment AMA Guides, Upper Extremities

4:20 PM – 5:20 PM        Impairment Lower Extremities Boot Camp

Break

5:20 PM – 6:00 PM        Visit Exhibitors – sign Timeslips

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM         AMA Conversion Rules

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM         AMA Combining Rules

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM         Apportionment under the AMA Guides (Conference Room)

Break                              Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes    

Friday, 10/17/25 - (4 of 13 hours) Live: James Musick, DC, QME (Conference Room)

Continuation of QME Series (Total 13 of 25 hours required for a Certificate of Completion)

Purchase Breakfast Tickets: (Saturday the 18th, Breakfast served from 7:00 – 8:00 AM)

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM         Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM         Apportionment under L.C. §§4663 – 4664

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM       Ethical Billing under 8 CCR §§9793 – 9795

Break 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM 

10:10 AM – 11:10 AM      Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS)

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM      Report Writing 8 CCR §46 - Review Take-Home Exam

 Turn-in Timeslips - Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

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Friday,10/17/25 - (5 of 17 hours) Live: Jennifer Pedley, MS, D.C., DACBR (Atrium)

Purchase Breakfast Tickets: (Saturday the 18th, Breakfast served from 7:00 – 8:00 AM)

This 5-hour Spinal Imaging seminar includes 5 hours each from California Department of Radiological Health and CBCE

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM          Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

8:00 AM – 8:50 AM          Introduction to Spinal X-ray, MRI, and CT scans

8:50 AM – 9:40 AM          Imaging signs of instability, gravity lines, lordosis, intro. to pathologies

Break                               Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes (Banquet)

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM        Sign Timeslips

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM      Spinal Imaging case studies, diagnosis, CT versus MRI

10:50 AM – 11:40 AM      Imaging spinal stenosis, instability, spondylolisthesis, spinal surgeries

11:40 AM – 12:30 PM      Fractures, disc & soft tissue lesions, case studies, PI auto accidents

End - Turn in Timeslips for CBCE & X-ray Credit (California Department of Radiological Health)

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Friday, 10/17/25 - (4 of 17 hours) Live: Dan Murphy, D.C., FICA (Atrium)

This is a LIVE 4-hour Research CBCE seminar (Atrium)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM         Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM         Review the importance of the 2021 Nobel Prize for the
                                        chiropractic profession and the mechanical-based care.

                                        Details of the physiology of the Piezo1 mechanical receptor 
                                        as related to the articular movement and position (examination).

 2:50 PM – 3:40 PM        Distinguish between the clinical management of comprehensive
                                        neuropathology v. supersensitivity nerve interference.

                                        Learn "red flags" associated with compressive neuropathology
                                        (diagnostics and examination).

Break                              Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

3:40 PM – 4:00 PM         Sign Timeslips

 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM        Discuss the integrated physiology between inflammation,
                                        fibrosis, the Gate Theory, and chiropractic adjusting.

                                        Create a model of pain based upon the fibrosis of repair,
                                        motor, and the Gate Theory (examination).

4:50 PM – 5:40 PM        Complete and interactive model of neuroimmunology using
                                       mechanical receptors, the sympathetic nervous system,
                                       norepinephrine and neurological magnification (diagnostics
                                       and examination).

                                       Complete an upper cervical – trigeminal cervical nucleus
                                       relationships for headache (diagnostics and examination).

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM         Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

Purchase Breakfast Tickets: (Saturday the 18th, Breakfast served from 7:00 – 8:00 AM)

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Saturday,10/18/25 - (2 of 17 hours) Live:  John Maltby, D.C., FICA (Atrium)     

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM           Culinary Institute Breakfast (in exhibit area just outside Atrium)
                                         Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

8:00 AM – 8:50 AM          Review Science behind of a Pristine History & Examination

8:50 AM – 9:40 AM          Science behind Chiropractic Adjustive Techniques

Break

Saturday,10/18/25 - (5 of 17 hours) Live:  Deed Harrison, D.C., FICA (Atrium)

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM        Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM       Sagittal Cervical Abnormality & Deformities, Spinal Alignment

10:50 AM – 11:40 AM       Specific Postural Measurements that Influence Outcomes

Lunch – Stamp Timeslips

11:40 AM – 1:00 PM        Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM          Diagnostics to Improve Cervical Lordosis and Sagittal Balance

1:50 PM – 2:40 PM          Spinal Categories of Current Evidence-Based (EB) Outcomes

Break – Stamp Timeslips

2:40 PM – 3:00 PM          Visit Exhibitors to Receive Tickets for Door Prizes

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM          Degenerative Spine Disorders and Reliable EB Outcomes

 Break

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM          Visit Exhibitors to Receive Tickets for Door Prizes

Saturday,10/18/25 - (1 of 13 hours) Live:  Scott Heun, D.C., FICAC(H) (Atrium)

4:10 PM - 5:00 PM          History and Emanation: Doctor-Patient Communications

End Regular Convention Sessions – 12-13 Hours of CBCE Credit

Must Stamp and Turn in Timeslips

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM        Visit Exhibitors – to receive tickets for door prizes

• Annual Awards (visit the website for the nomination form)
• Door Prize Drawings (must visit Sponsors to receive door prize tickets)

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Sunday,10/19/25 - (8 hours) Live: James Musick, D.C., QME (Conference Room)

This 8-hour QME seminar covers LIVE 8 hours mandatory CBCE hours

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM       Antibias Training

                                       DWC Medical-Unit requires Quiz for DWC credit

Break                              Sign Timeslips

10:10 AM – 12:10 PM    California Case Law in Workers’ Compensation

Break                              Sign Timeslips

12:20 PM – 1:20 PM      QME Medical-Legal Fee Schedule

1:20 PM – 2:20 PM        Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund (SIBTF)

Break                              Sign Timeslips

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM         AMA Guides Impairment (multiple body parts)

End - Turn in Timeslips for CBCE & DWC Medical-Unit Credit