LIVE STREAM ONLINE CME: Primary Care Update: COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Primary Care Update: with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Overview
This online live stream CME is designed to provide primary care clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues with with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The online learning format will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, quality of content, opportunity for Q&A, interactive audience participation, and nationally recognized speakers. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates with Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Speakers Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier and quicker during a 20 minute office visit.

Faculty Speakers: 

• Theophilos (Phil) E. Yphantides, M.D. – Medical Director, Department of Urgent Care, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, San Diego, CA. Board of Directors, North County Health Services Community Clinics, San Diego, CA.
• Kenneth Brummel-Smith, MD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Geriatrics, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL. Past President, American Geriatrics Society. Health and Aging Policy Fellow, Senate Special Committee on Aging, Washington DC. Member, Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC.
• Dr. Reamer L. Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA – Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Director, Translational Workforce Development, Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National, Washington, D.C.
• Theodore A. Stern, MD – Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation, Harvard Medical School. Chief Emeritus, the Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service; Director, Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine; and, Director of the Office for Clinical Careers, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Editor-in-Chief, Psychosomatics.
• Mario Skugor, MD, FACE – Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Director, Problem Based Learning Case Development, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. Chair, Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Edward A & Catherine L. Lozick Foundation. Former President, Member and Board of Directors, Ohio River Valley Chapter of American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Former Vice Chairman, Global Patient Services, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

Program Topics, and Objectives: 

Friday, June 26
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Best Practices in Prescribing Opioids: A Regulatory Perspective – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Describe evolving opioid prescribing and regulatory practices in the United States 2) Discuss recently released opioid prescribing guidelines, highlighting the relevance to primary care providers 3) Describe best practices for managing patients with chronic nonmalignant pain, highlighting guidance from a regulatory perspective

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: Assessment and Management of Depression – Psychiatry
Objectives: 1) Learn how to diagnose depression 2) Understand the downstream consequences of untreated depression 3) Learn practical treatment strategies for depression

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Normal and Maladaptive Responses to Medical Illness – Psychiatry
Objectives: 1) Understand a variety of coping strategies 2) Learn how people with certain personality styles react to having a medical illness or condition 3) Learn how to interact successfully with people who have difficult-to-manage personality traits or disorders

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM: Falls – Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) Describe the relative risk of falls compared to diseases as a cause of mortality in older patients 2) Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors 2) Describe an evidence-based approach to the work-up of the elder who has fallen 3) Describe medical and functional interventions to reduce the risk of falls

Saturday, June 27
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: How to Address Some Tough Obesity Questions from our Patients – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Why is it so difficult to lose weight? 2) Why is it so difficult to maintain weight loss? 3) Review of topics related to the importance of different diets, physical activity, resting energy expenditure

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Treat Obesity – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Obesity is a chronic disease 2) Nutrition and lifestyle interventions 3) Learn about the different dietary approaches to treat obesity 4) Importance of physical activity on weight loss interventions 5) Psychological factors

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM: Drug Therapy Challenges in Older Adults – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Discuss key physiologic and common pathophysiologic changes of aging that impact drug therapy 2) Apply age-sensitive principles for medication dosing and management to patient scenarios 3) Apply practical tools to screen and appropriately manage complex drug regimens among older adults with or at-risk for drug injury

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM: Optimizing Psychopharmacotherapy in Depression: Clinical Cases – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Discuss pharmacologic management options within clinical cases of patients with depression 2) Relate physiologic and pathophysiologic alterations of brain neurochemistry to symptoms of depression, including the genetic link and molecular basis of injury 3) Apply clinical practice guidelines for antidepressant therapies 4) Describe key parameters for medications used to treat mechanism, safety, tolerability, efficacy, cost, and simplicity of use

Sunday, June 28
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: What You Need to Know and How to Help in this COVID-19 Pandemic – Emergency Medicine: COVID-19
Objectives: 1) Understand how to safely screen and provide outpatient care to COVID-19 infected patients 2) Understand how to partner with your local Public Health system and ensure adherence to local directives

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: Health Screening in Older Persons: Balancing the Benefits Against the Harms – Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) Describe the USPSTF and AGS recommendations for screening in those above age 75 2) Discuss 3 controversies in health screening in the “old-old” 3) Describe a patient-centered method for making health screening recommendations 4) Demonstrate use of a health screening app in office practice

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM: Exercise – The Medicine of Choice! – Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) List the evidence for the benefits of exercise for longevity and disease prevention 2) Describe the evidence for exercise interventions in conditions such as heart failure, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease 3) Describe the current recommendations for exercise in older adults

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM: Approach to Diabetes Therapy by Treating Patient’s Obesity – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Learn how to treat T2D by addressing the weight 2) Learn how diabetes medications work and their impact on weight gain

11:20 AM – 11:50 AM: Medications to Treat Obesity – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Have a clear understanding of the medications FDA approached for weight loss 2) Understand pros and cons 3) Learn about what medications should be avoided when treating a patient with obesity 4) Identity alternative therapies

Note: Content is subject to change without notice. Please refer to the activity website for the most current information.