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UPMC Hamot 2023 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 stages of fatty liver disease progression.
- List causes and risk factors for fatty liver disease.
- Review testing options for liver fibrosis assessment.
- Describe the role of gratitude in wellness.
- Name three gratitude exercise for use in daily work life.
- Identify the role of purpose in promoting work satisfaction.
- Name three strategies to clarify purpose in work life.
- Explore evidence-based coping strategies to deploy in everyday life.
- Review pancreatic cancer resectability.
- Discuss multimodality treatment of pancreatic cancer.
- Describe advances in pancreatic surgery robotics.
- Describe the common accessibility problems patients with various disabilities encounter within a healthcare setting.
- Apply legislation, standards and guidelines applicable to ensuring accessible healthcare for patients with disabilities within their facilities.
- Name key stakeholder groups within a healthcare system who can champion the needs of patients with disabilities and facilitate staff awareness.
- Describe the epidemiology of symptomatic disease, hospitalizations, and death due to SARS-CoV-2.
- Review factors impacting changing epidemiology, including SARS-CoV-2 variants.
- Discuss how the response to the COVID-19 pandemic may inform approaches to minimizing harm from current and future respiratory virus epidemics.
- Identify common pediatric illnesses.
- Review treatment recommendations for common pediatric illnesses.
- Review the definition of COPD.
- Define how pulmonary function testing supports diagnosis, guides treatment, monitors condition over time.
- Describe the range of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options available for patients with COPD.
- Recognize the role of CGRP in migraine production.
- Recognize CGRP medication mechanism of actions and how they vary.
- Review CGRP medications.
- Review CGRP medication prescription for primary care and prior authorization.
- Review new updates on antibiotics.
- Discuss ways to improve antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
7:30 – 8 | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
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8 – 8:05 | Introduction | Maggie Benson, MD, Ben Bongutu, MD |
8:05 – 8:35 | The Fatty Liver Disease Epidemic | Matthew Klinge, MD |
8:40 – 9:20 | Rekindling Your Fire…Without Burning Out | Mandy Fauble, PhD, LCSW |
9:25 – 9:55 | Kidney Disease & Transplant | Amit D. Tevar, MD, FACS |
9:55 – 10:10 | Refreshment Break |
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10:10 – 10:55 | Updates in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery | Amer H. Zureikat, MD |
11 – 11:30 | Accessibility for Disabilities | Matthew Berwick, MA |
11:35 – 12:20 | Emerging from COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Future Impact | Graham Snyder, MD, MS |
12:20 – 1 | Lunch and Networking |
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1 – 1:30 | Children’s TiPS (virtual presentation) | Abigail Schlesinger, MD |
1:35 – 2:05 | Identification and Management of Common Pediatric Illnesses | Robert Burns, MD |
2:10 - 2:40 | COPD Management | Mihir Buch, DO |
2:40 - 2:55 | Refreshment Break |
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2:55 – 3:25 | Migraine Treatment in the Era of CGRP medications | Karen Bellini, DO |
3:30 – 4 | Antibiotic Update | Joseph Welch, PharmD |
4 | Closing Remarks, Adjournment |
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TWO WAYS TO ATTEND THIS HYBRID CONFERENCE:
OPTION 1:
In Person at the Bayfront Convention Center at 1 Sassafras Pier, Erie, Pa.
Registration fees includes 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 Benson, MD
Division of Internal Medicine
UPMC Hamot
Ben Bongutu, MD
Division of Family Medicine
UPMC Hamot
Faculty
Karen Bellini, DO
Division of Neurology
UPMC Northshore Neurology
Matthew Berwick, MA
Program Manager
Disability Accommodations in Clinical Services
UPMC Health System
Mihir Buch, DO
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
UPMC Hamot Comprehensive Lung Center
Robert Burns, MD
Division of Pediatrics
UPMC Children's Community Pediatrics
Mandy Fauble, PhD, LCSW
Director of Clinical Care Services
UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor
Matthew Klinge, MD
Division of Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology
UPMC Hamot
Abigail Schlesinger, MD
Medical Director, Ambulatory Integrated Behavioral Health Service
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Chief, Behavioral Science Division and Children’s Telephonic Psychiatric Services
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Graham Snyder, MD, MS
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology
UPMC
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Amit D. Tevar, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program
Starzl Transplant Institute
Chief of Transplant Surgery
UPMC Hamot
Amer H. Zureikat, MD
Professor of Surgery, Bernard F. Fisher Chair in Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology
Director of Surgical Oncology
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
No 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 6.25 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 6.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Nursing (CNE)
A maximum of 6.25 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
- 6.25 AAPA Category I CME
- 6.25 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.
- 6.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 6.25 Attendance
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.