WMREF Events
Continuing Education
Opportunities for Healthcare Professionals
WMREF funds several healthcare symposiums and conferences each year, primarily through endowed funds, to provide continuing medical education opportunities.
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Goal: To help medical professionals continually update their knowledge and skills to provide quality care.
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Availability: These educational events are often available at no cost to college students and at a reduced cost to professional attendees.
Conferences and Symposiums​​​
Gore-Farha Critical Care Nursing Symposium
This 2-day Symposium is designed for critical care nurses, as well as other nurses and allied health professionals, desiring to enhance their critical care nursing knowledge base. An outstanding group of national and local speakers with critical care expertise comprise the faculty.
Townsend Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium
As the field of cardiology expands, a multitude of opportunities in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is available to enhance outcomes for patients. This one-day symposium brings national and local expert faculty to the virtual platform to present on a variety of cardiovascular related topics.
Maternal Child Nursing Symposium
The Maternal Child Nursing Symposium seeks to expand our knowledge in women’s, infant’s and children’s health care. This one-day symposium brings national and local expert faculty to the virtual platform to present on a wide variety of pertinent topics.
Healthcare Ethics Conference
The Kansas Healthcare Ethics Conference offers healthcare professionals and the public an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about ethical concerns in healthcare, covering topics like end-of-life care, resource scarcity, diversity, religious decisions, technology's impact, and post-pandemic challenges.
Who Gets to Choose | Wednesday, February 4, 2026 | Presented Virtually
Join us for the 13th Annual Kansas Healthcare Ethics Conference! This year's conference,
"Who Gets to Choose?", will address the growing importance of medical ethics, caretaker decisions, and patient autonomy. This event is structured to stimulate discussion of real-life
ethical issues. Healthcare professionals as well as the general public can benefit by joining
the discussion at this conference. If you are a physician, nurse, patient, family member,
health care worker, social worker, chaplain, or adult care home administrator, you are faced
with ethical decisions in health care. Ethical dilemmas can occur in the delivery of health care
with decisions about end-of-life care, scarcity of resources, ethnic and diversity issues, honoring religious decisions of patients, and shared decision making in today's health care delivery.