Agenda/View Sessions - April 21, 2025

Hematology

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7:00 am EDT
Benign Anemia (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Define anemia.
  • Understand the proper work up for anemia.
  • Understand the different cause of anemia.
Speaker(s)

Elena C. Coppola, DO (she/her/hers), Medical Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute McLaren Northern Michigan

7:45 am EDT
Hemostasis & Thrombosis (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the pathophysiology of thrombosis.
  • Recognize who should undergo a hypercoaguable work up.
  • Understand the various disease associated with thrombosis.
Speaker(s)

Elena C. Coppola, DO (she/her/hers), Medical Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute McLaren Northern Michigan

8:25 am EDT
Lymphoma & Leukemia (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the proper initial work up for lymphoma.
  • Be able to recognize the initial symptoms of lymphoma.
  • Recognize the lab abnormalities that warrant further work up.
Speaker(s)

Elena C. Coppola, DO (she/her/hers), Medical Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute McLaren Northern Michigan

9:15 am EDT
Other Bone Marrow Disorders (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the lab abnormalities associated with bone marrow failure syndromes.
  • Understand the various causes of bone marrow failure.
  • Know the risk factors associated with bone marrow failure syndrome.
Speaker(s)

Elena C. Coppola, DO (she/her/hers), Medical Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute McLaren Northern Michigan

Oncology

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9:50 am EDT
Clinical Oncology, Physical Diagnosis, Systemic Manifestations, Chemotherapy (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize common physical findings in patients with malignancies.
  • Review common radiographic and laboratory diagnostic studies in the cancer patient.
  • Describe management approaches to common oncologic conditions.
Speaker(s)

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

10:25 am EDT
Oncology Palliative Care Session (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the importance of performance status in predicting survival and tolerance to treatment.
  • Develop and implement management strategies for common side effects of cancer treatment.
  • Develop and implement management strategies for common symptoms affecting patients with cancer.
Speaker(s)

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

11:05 am EDT
Basic Oncology, Markers, Genes (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Review the essentials of tumor biology.
  • Discuss the cell cycle and its role in the use of cytotoxic chemotherapy.
  • Discuss the general principles of targeted therapies and their role in cancer treatment.

Speaker(s)

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

11:40 am EDT
Cancer in Men - Prostate, Testes and Kidney (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of urothelial cancer.
  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of prostate cancer.
  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of testicular cancer.
Speaker(s)

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

12:15 pm EDT
Cancer in Women - Breast, Uterus and Ovary (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of breast cancer.
  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of uterine cancer.
  • Describe management strategies detection and treatment of ovarian cancer.
Speaker(s)

Kevin P. Hubbard, DO, MACOI, Director, Supportive and Palliative Medicine, BJC Health, Western Division

Gastroenterology

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12:50 pm EDT
Update in Esophageal Diseases (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Identify basic information concerning esophageal diseases
  • Recognize diagnostic evaluation for esophageal diseases
  • Recall treatment options for esophageal disease
Speaker(s)

Catherine A. Kerschen, DO, FACOI, Associate Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

1:30 pm EDT
Update in Small Bowel Diseases (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Identify basic information concerning small bowel diseases
  • Recognize diagnostic evaluation for small bowel diseases
  • Recall treatment options for small bowel disease
Speaker(s)

Catherine A. Kerschen, DO, FACOI, Associate Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

2:00 pm EDT
Update in Liver Diseases (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Identify basic information concerning liver diseases
  • Recognize diagnostic evaluation for liver diseases
  • Recall treatment options for liver disease
Speaker(s)

Catherine A. Kerschen, DO, FACOI, Associate Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

2:40 pm EDT
Cancer of the GI Tract, Liver and Pancreas (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss the various malignancies that can arise in the G.I. tract.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to review the best methods of diagnosis of cancer in the GI tract.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to list and discuss the risk factors for the various malignancies of the GI tract.

Speaker(s)

Lindsay Negash, DO, Chief of Gastroenterology, Corewell Health West

3:10 pm EDT
Disease of the Pancreas, Stomach and Colon (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participants will be able to show the connection between the pancreas and other organs and the inner functioning of the other organs.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate how to differentiate diseases of the colon and diagnose them.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss and understand pathology and treatment of disease of the stomach.

Speaker(s)

Lindsay Negash, DO, Chief of Gastroenterology, Corewell Health West