February 3, 2020
Let’s D.O. It!!!
Greetings and salutations to my awesome osteopathic family at NOMA:

There is so much happening as the year truly gets on its way. At NOMA our desire is to continually grow our family as well as strengthen our ties with our existing family members. Together we are stronger than the sum of us as individuals. In an uncertain future politically and professionally, we will strive to be that unifying voice for Osteopathic Physicians to be sure our voices are heard as well as try to enact changes to benefit Osteopathic Medicine at large. Remember we are D.O.’s and we are better because of who we are; so let’s move forward together and D.O. all we need to make the future that much brighter.

(Not yet a member? Please consider joining our family by clicking on the following link: http://www.nevadaosteopathic.org/images/files/Member%20Application%20Master.pdf )

Bruce Fong, DO
President
Current Events and Reminders

New Trustees for the NOMA Board

The NOMA Board of Trustees warmly welcomes our two newest members in Dr. Al Moloff and Dr. Henry Lok. Together, along with our current Board, we will have a much more diverse group of individuals to truly assess and address the needs of our community/osteopathic family at large. We are all excited to work together as we all have varied experiences which will benefit NOMA and help it to develop and grow even further.

Continuing Education

Awesome Winter Conference

Although we may have lacked snow, the 2020 NOMA Winter Symposium still delivered up-to- date, compelling and relevant topics during a somewhat slow ski season. Some of our cutting- edge topics included updates on vaping related lung injuries and magnetic brain wave modulations, in addition to the latest updates in cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, gynecology, interventional radiology and of course extensive topics in pain management, suicide (including a pharmacologic review of agents) and ethics.

Based on your feedback, we have decided to make some changes to our future Winter meetings. The biggest change is that we will be dropping the Sunday morning session, therefore the meeting will run from Wednesday thru Saturdays (still 30 hours of CME) as we will add an extra hour each day to the Thursday, Friday and Saturday curriculums. (The current Wednesday afternoon schedule will remain unchanged). We will have parallel tracks on specific topics daily on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and not try to jam them all in on one day. Finally, we will space out our evening receptions more throughout the week so that more attendees can enjoy them.
 
The slides from the conference are posted to our website:

Don’t forget to mark your calendar for the American Osteopathic Society of Rheumatic Diseases Annual Medical Congress at The Peppermill Hotel Casino Resort in Reno, NV from February 28 th through March 1 st .

DO in The Spotlight

This issue’s focus is on our newest trustee Dr. Henry Lok, who has stepped up on multiple occasions to help make various NOMA meetings successful with his insightful and informative lectures. Dr. Lok has been tireless in volunteering to help NOMA in all facets.

Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Dr. Henry Lok completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Lok then obtained a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Touro University Nevada.

He left Las Vegas for Miami, Florida where he continued his training at Larkin Community Hospital's accredited ACGME/AOA Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment residency. Following his residency, Dr. Lok achieved the status of Chief Fellow of Pain Medicine at Larkin Community Hospital's accredited AOA Pain Medicine Fellowship.

After completion of his Pain Medicine fellowship, he returned home to establish the Lok Clinic to educate and treat the people of Las Vegas. Specializing in exemplary pain treatments, the Lok Clinic is a comprehensive, integrative, multidisciplinary, interventional pain practice with a mixture of best practices from conventional western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. 

Dr Lok can be found at:
The Lok Clinic
( 702) 732-1063
Clinical Pearls

Since we just completed an extensive educational meeting, let’s just take time to check out the slides from our wonderful faculty and other lecturers from late January. We will resume the clinical pearls section in the next issue.

NOMA wishes all of our D.O. family the best. If there is ever anything that we can do for you, please never hesitate to contact us.
702.434.7112 | Staff@NVOsteopathic.org | www.NVOsteopathic.org