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10/19 - Agenda/Sessions

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9:00 am EDT
Evaluation & Management Notes in 2023 - Returning to Basics

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Overview

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Discuss the changed that occurred to Evaluation and Management services in 2021 and how those relate to the changes being made for 2023.
-  Identify areas that have been clarified or re-defined in the 2023 AMA change to alert physicians to the need for updating their knowledge base. 
-  Compare notes done in current Electronic Health System for Hospital services and show how they should look for 2023.

Speaker(s)

Jill M. Young, CPC, CEDC, CIMC, Principal Consultant, Young Medical Consulting, LLC

9:45 am EDT
Remote Monitoring and Enhanced Patient Care

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Understand how RPM devices work in clinical settings.
-  Recognize the importance of cybersecurity strategy in an RPM setting.
-  Data utilization in an RPM program.

Speaker(s)

Anthony J. Wehbe, DO, FACOI, Teaching Faculty, Internal Medicine, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine

10:45 am EDT
Physician Burnout: Panel

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Discuss the stress physicians are under today.
-  Learn new ways to recognize stress, depression, anxiety. 
-  Learn how to help yourself, patients and staff treat stress factors.

Speaker(s)

Jeffrey M. Krepps, PhD, Associate Professor of Behavioral Health, Campbell University, School of Osteopathic Medicine

Joanne K. Baker, DO, FACOI, FAODME, FHM, FACP (she/her/hers), Professor of Medicine, IM Residency Program Director, Director of Osteopathic Education, WMU Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine

Christine M. Samsa, DO, FACOI

David L. Tolentino, DO, FACOI, FACP (he/him/his), Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine

11:15 am EDT
COPD In the Internists Setting: Optimizing Patient Outcomes

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Recognize and implement evidence-based screening strategies for better identifying COPD patient and associated comorbidities.
-  Select appropriate treatments to manage both COPD and comorbid conditions. 
-  Employ strategies for implementing GOLD guidelines in clinical practice.

Speaker(s)

Carol E. Ash, DO, FACOI, Chief Medical Officer, RWJ University Hospital Rahway

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Lunch Break (45 mins)

1:00 pm EDT
New Agents in Lipid Management

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Understand translational biology of lipid management.
-  Understanding the treatment of lipid trials.
-  Discuss guideline recommendations.

Speaker(s)

Robert J. Chilton, DO, MACOI, Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center

1:45 pm EDT
Update in Chronic Heart Failure: Bridging the Gap to GDMT

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Streamline care to support the best possible patient outcomes with heart failure (HF).
-  Increase use and awareness of drugs originally developed for treating Type 2 Diabetes however, now approved for reducing cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with HF, with our without Type 2 Diabetes. 
-  Better individualize HF care while continuing to increases the number of patients receiving guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT).

Speaker(s)

Chad A. Link, DO, FACC, FACOI, Cardiologist, University of Michigan Health- Sparrow

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Break (15 mins)

3:00 pm EDT
Structural Update

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Overview of aortic stenosis and discuss ACC/AHA guidelines for patient selection and evaluation for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
-  Overview of mitral valve disease and discuss ACC/AHA guidelines for patient selection and evaluation for transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve (TEER). 
-  Overview of atrial Fibrillation and discuss indications for left atrial appendage occlusion.

Speaker(s)

Troy L. Randle, DO, FACOI, Cardiology Fellowship Program Director, RowanSOM

3:45 pm EDT
AFib Ablation and New Procedures

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Define Atrial Fibrillation and review AFib mechanism.
-  Review AFib health and economic bruden.
-  Discuss rhythm management strategies with focus on AFib ablation.

Speaker(s)

Ali H. Sheikh, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine

4:30 pm EDT
Tests I Wish You'd Never Ordered

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-  Be ware of the impact of polypharmacy on patient health and well-being; Recognize the pill burden is a real issue for the elderly.
-  Understand supplements and herbal remedies that cna have side effects. To be aware of the impact of polypharmacy on patient health and well-being. 
-  Recognize that pill burden is a real issue for the elderly.
-  Supplemental and herbal remedies can have side effects too. Appreciate the importance of physical exam for appropriate testing.
-  A focus on physical exam has been deemed adequate in the ER in patient evaluation; Technological progress does not supersede clinical judgement.

Speaker(s)

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

Annette T. Carron, DO, MACOI (she/her/hers), Director Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital

Pedro Espat, DO, FACOI, Department of Medicine, Sebastian River Medical Center

Roberta S. Rose, DO, Neurologist