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UPMC Hamot 2024 Primary Care Conference
Join your colleagues to learn about the most recent updates related to a variety of fields affecting your patients in Primary Care!
Target Audience
Primary care physicians, hospitalists, advanced practice providers, and nurses, as well as other healthcare professionals will benefit from attendance at this activity.
Learning Objectives
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS ACTIVITY, THE PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
- Describe the diagnostic criteria for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia.
- Identify long term risks for patient with pregnancy induced hypertension.
- Review common aortic valve disorders.
- Discuss how to appropriately evaluate aortic valve disorders.
- Describe management options for aortic valve disease.
- Review the definition and prevalence of waste in the US healthcare system.
- Outline the findings of recent literature regarding health services that qualify as low-value care.
- Provide you with the tools and resources to reduce low-value tests and procedures and deprescribe low-value medications.
- Discuss the impact of urinary incontinence.
- Describe components of the evaluation of women with urinary incontinence.
- Identify conservative management options for urinary incontinence.
- Recognize medical and surgical management options for each type of incontinence.
- Recognize common history and physical findings for common conditions of the shoulder and knee.
- Discuss in office injection options for conditions of the shoulder and knee.
- Understand the workup and staging of Melanoma.
- Define Surgical Management of Melanoma.
- Describe new treatment options for Melanoma.
- Identify the patients that will benefit from CGM.
- Discuss CGM data interpretation.
- Describe how to incorporate CGM into existing workflows.
- Discuss newer guidelines and therapeutics for management of chronic kidney disease.
- Describe safety concerns and safe prescribing practices for newer medications in chronic kidney disease.
- Discuss the idea of dictating your note in the office in front of the patient.
- Develop strategies for efficiently managing overwhelming patient communications and complex patient appointments with extensive concerns.
- Explore recent updates and enhancements to the EPIC system, focusing on optimizing documentation and ordering processes through improved use of quick buttons and personalized settings.
7:30 – 8:15 | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
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8:15 – 8:20 | Introduction | Maggie Benson, MD, Ben Bongutu, MD |
8:20 – 8:50 | Preeclampsia and Gestational Hypertension in Pregnancy, the Post Partum and Beyond. | Nikole L. Bucsek, MD, FACOG |
8:50 – 9:20 | The Aortic Valve: Evaluation and Management | Robert Maholic, DO, FACC, FSVM |
9:20 – 10:05 | Improving Healthcare Value: From the Choosing Wisely Campaign to the Latest Evidence-Based Approaches to Reduce Low-Value Care | Thomas Radomski, MD, MS |
10:05 – 10:20 | Refreshment Break |
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10:20 – 10:50 | First-Line Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women | Gnankang Sarah Napoe, MD |
10:50 – 11:20 | Common Shoulder and Knee Conditions | Francis P. Foti, II DO |
11:20 – 11:50 | Surgical Melanoma | Geoffrey Nunns, MD |
11:50 – 12:40 | Lunch and Networking |
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12:40 – 1:10 | All You Need To Know About CGM | Esra Karslioglu-French, MD |
1:10 – 1:55 | Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease Management | Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH |
1:55 - 2:10 | Refreshment Break |
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2:10 – 2:40 | Maximizing Efficiency in a Busy Primary Care Office | David Hutzel, MD |
2:40 – 3:10 | EPIC Tips & Tricks | Nathan Moore, MD |
3:10 | Closing Remarks, Adjournment |
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TWO WAYS TO ATTEND THIS HYBRID CONFERENCE:
OPTION 1:
In Person at the Sheraton Bayfront Hotel in Erie, PA.
Registration fees include the seminar, continental breakfast, refreshment breaks and lunch.
OPTION 2:
Virtually through Zoom
Registrants will be e-mailed a Zoom link 3 days prior to the conference. Virtual attendees will be able to ask questions using the Q&A function in Zoom.
Attire:
Attire for the seminar is business casual. Since meeting room temperatures and personal comfort levels vary, it is recommended that you bring a sweater or jacket to the conference.
Special Needs
Participation by all individuals is encouraged. Advance notification of any special needs (i.e. gluten free or vegan meal, private room for nursing mothers, handicap accessibility) will help us provide better service. Please notify us of your needs at least two weeks in advance of the program by calling or sending an e-mail to UPMC Hamot’s CME office at HAM_CME@upmc.edu or 814-877-5691.
Travel
If attending this conference in person and staying at a hotel, please e-mail espositoh@upmc.edu for a link to our discounted room rates.
COURSE DIRECTORS:
Maggie K Benson, MD, MS, FACP
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
UPMC Hamot
Ben Bongutu, MD
Hospitalist
Chairman, Department of Family Medicine
UPMC Hamot
Faculty
Nikole L. Bucsek, MD, FACOG
Obstetrics and Gynecology
UPMC Magee-Womens Specialty Services - Hamot
Robert Maholic, DO, MHSA, FACC, FSVM
Regional Medical Director
UPMC-Hamot Cardiology
Thomas Radomski, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical & Translational Science
Assistant Director, Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE)
Director, Graduate Programs in Clinical and Translational Science
Director, Post-Doctoral Clinical and Translational Science Fellowship (TL1)
Core Faculty, Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing (CP3)
Division of General Internal Medicine
G. Sarah Napoe, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Francis P. Foti, II DO
UPMC Hamot Family Medicine/Primary Care Sports Medicine
Director Primary Care Sports Medicine
Team Physician Erie Otters
Geoffrey Nunns, MD
Surgical Oncologist
UPMC Division of Surgical Oncology
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Esra Karslioglu-French, MD, MBA
Clinical Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH
Renal-Electrolyte
Associate Chief
Co-Director of Clinical Research
Associate Professor of Medicine (with Tenure)
Director, Center for Population Health Management
David Hutzel, MD
Internal Medicine
Greenfield Internal Medicine
UPMC Hamot
Nathan Moore, MD
IT Medical Director, Northern Tier
UPMC
All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity have disclosed all financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships for the individuals listed below have been mitigated:
▪ Manisha Jhamb, MD MPH, receives grant/research support from Pfizer LLC, Dialysis Clinic, Inc., CKD Leaders Network.
▪Manisha Jhamb, MD MPH, is a consultant for Boehringer-Ingelheim/Eli Lilly, CKD Networks of Excellence.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Nursing (CNE)
A maximum of 5.5 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS CREDIT (AAFP)
AAFP credit is pending approval.
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 5.50 AAPA Category I CME
- 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 5.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 5.50 Attendance
If you are interested in exhibiting at this conference, please reach out to Haylee Esposito at espositoh@upmc.edu or 814-877-5691.
Price
UPMC EMPLOYEE PAYMENT VIA JOURNAL ENTRY TRANSFER OR MEB SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS
If you are a UPMC employee and your department will be responsible for payment, we can charge your department directly.
DO NOT SUBMIT a disbursement to UPMC Accounts Payable.
For journal transfer and MEB funds, please fill out the appropriate form below:
MEB Tracking Form reviewed 7-6-2020.pdf
CANCELLATION POLICY
Please notify UPMC Hamot’s CME Department of substitutions and cancellations, via email to ham_cme@upmc.edu or by telephone at 814-877-5691.
IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PAY BY CHECK
Please contact the UPMC Hamot CME Department at: 814-877-5691 or e-mail: HAM_CME@UPMC.EDU.