Introduce How Palliative Care can help the hospitalist

Recognize when to refer a patient to Hospice vs. Palliative Medicine

Educate on determining decision making capacity

Annette T. Carron, DO, MACOI, Medical Director, Seasons Hospice Michigan

Describe the rationale for opioid treatment in the patient with history of opioid use disorder

Outline the scope of the opioid epidemic

Recognize the importance of using tools for managing pain

Annette T. Carron, DO, MACOI, Medical Director, Seasons Hospice Michigan

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Diagnose: Understand stroke warning signs and diagnostic modalities
• Treat: Review acute stroke therapies
• Recovery: Consider short-term and long-term recovery plans

John Dahdah, DO, Staff Physician, AdventHealth Tampa

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Diagnose hypertensive urgency and hypertensive emergency
• Understand antihypertensive medication regimens aimed at managing hypertensive crises and providing long-term hypertension control
• Review evidence guiding management of intracranial hemorrhage secondary to hypertensive emergency

John Dahdah, DO, Staff Physician, AdventHealth Tampa

To review the rationale for glycemic control in the hospital and evidence-based recommendations for glycemic targets

To discuss management strategies for common inpatient clinical scenarios

To review important aspects to consider with new therapies for diabetes including use of non-insulin agents and technology in the acute setting and implications for transition of care

Nadine E. Palermo, DO

(45 mins)

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Give exposure to the hospitalist's history, daily duties as a generalist (Internal medicine/Family Medicine), as a specialist/subspecialist, and particularly that of a gastroenterologist.
• Revealing and confirming the transformative changes in the practice of medicine for the inpatient and outpatient.
• Revealing the new lifestyles for the modern physician.

J. Steven Blake, DO, FACOI, President & CEO, Blake Gastroenterology Associates, LLC

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• List key concepts and terms pertaining to transgender and gender diverse identities.
• Outline the principles of gender-affirming hormone therapy.
• List approaches to management of gender-affirming hormones in patients admitted to the hospital.

Ole-Petter R. Hamnvik, MD, Program Director, Endocrinology Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital

In this session, you'll learn:

• To help make our Osteopathic Internists more thoughtful, more compassionate, more knowledgeable, and overall uniquely more capable clinicians than their allopathic counterparts
• To (hopefully) provide “pearls” useful to the internist in the care of his/her patients with complex or otherwise challenging medical problems
• In the appropriate scenario, to remind clinicians to consider Toxic Shock Syndrome, potentially resulting in an improved outcome where current mortality estimates are 30-70%

Gerald W. Blackburn, DO, MACOI, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine

Joanne Kaiser-Smith, DO, FACOI (President), Associate Dean

Charlene A. LePane, DO, FACOI, Gastroenterologist, AdventHealth

John E. Prior, DO, FACOI, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine