Hot Topics in Primary Care Symposium

2nd Annual

This important CME symposium “Hot Topics for the Primary Care Provider” will educate and promote improved patient outcomes in a broad range of therapeutic areas commonly encountered in the busy primary care practice.

When:

  

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Time:

  

7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Registration
8:00 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Primary Care Symposium

Where:

  

Auditorium, Patterson Education Building
Guthrie Healthcare Campus, Sayre, PA

Course Learning Objectives:

 

Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Identify both common and uncommon clinical presentations of disorders seen in the primary care clinic.
  • Describe current updates in diagnosis of disorders seen in the primary care clinic.
  • Describe current updates in management (including pharmacotherapeutics) of disorders seen in primary care clinic.
  • Provide an opportunity to interact with peers, colleagues, consultants, residents, and physicians.

Agenda:

  • 7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Registration/Breakfast – Patterson Auditorium
  • 8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Welcome - Sheela Prabhu, MD
  • 8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Latest Advances in Type 2 Diabetes – Mal Homan, MD
  • 8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Osteoporosis and Vita.m.in D – Jackie Clowes, MD
  • 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Radiology for the Primary Care Provider – David Channin, MD
  • 9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Evaluation of Chest Pain When the Stress Test is Negative – Venu Thirumurti, MD
  • 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
  • 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Rational Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care and End of Life – Peter Cronkright, MD
  • 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Rational Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care and End of Life – Judith Setla, MD
  • 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch/Resident Poster Competition – Patterson Auditorium
  • 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Cancer Screening 2012 – Philip Lowry, MD
  • 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Polypharmacy in the Elderly – Sheela Prabhu, MD
  • 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Update to Cardiovascular Pharmacology – Dwight Stapleton, MD
  • 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Closing Remarks/Award Presentation – Sheela Prabhu, MD / Palak Patel, MD

Registration:

  

To register or for more information, call Guthrie’s Office of Continuing Medical Education at 570-887-5762. Or fill out and return the registration form.

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Accreditation Statement:

  

“Guthrie Health is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.”

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Designation Statement:

 

“Guthrie Health designates this live educational activity for a maximum of (5.0) AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”