Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain | Roger Kasendorf, DO
This lecture will review and discuss the guidelines for prescribing controlled substances for pain which were released July 2023. This knowledge will assist treating physicians on understanding, treating, and other care that is needed to address patients with acute and chronic care in various settings. This lecture is essential to appropriately manage this patient population.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand Pain Terminology
- Patient evaluation and assessment
- Initiating Opioid Trial
- Counseling patients on overdose risk and response
- Ongoing pain assessment
- Compliance Monitoring
- Tapering and discontinuing opioid therapy
- Terminating Care
- Medical Records Keeping
- Supervising Allied Health Professions
- Special Populations (Acute pain, cancer pain, Emergency care, inherited patients, older adults, pediatrics patients, Cannabis use, pregnancy women, Workers' compensation patients, those with history of substance abuse, psychiatric patients, patients on benzodiazepines, Telehealth)
Eating Disorder Initial Evaluation | Alexandra Myers,
DO
This lecture is designed to help
providers from any specialty identify possible signs of an eating disorder, and to initiate a preliminary work up.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify basic clinical signs and symptoms that may be indicative of an eating disorder
- Perform an initial eating disorder work up
- Determine when a patient may need a higher level of care for referral
- Determine types of care available to patients with eating disorders
New Era of Anti-Obesity Medication | Michelle Look, MD
Embark on a transformative journey into the New Era of Anti-obesity Medications with this presentation. Uncover cutting-edge pharmaceutical advancements of current AOM/s as well as
those in development that are reshaping the landscape of weight management. Understand why long-term treatment of the chronic disease of obesity with lifestyle interventions and medication makes sense and its impact
on other chronic diseases.
This session challenges previous treatment paradigms offering primary care providers a comprehensive understanding
of the evolving treatment of obesity. After decades of limited options, we've entered a new era in which we have anti-obesity medications that produce 15-20% or more weight reduction and are improving health in ways
that we've never seen before.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and prioritize obesity as a chronic, progressive relapsing disease that requires a comprehensive, long-term treatment approach.
- Identify the goals of obesity treatment using pharmacotherapy.
- Implement an evidence-based, stepwise, comprehensive treatment plan that includes pharmacotherapy.
- Discuss how pharmacotherapeutic approaches can both enhance initial weight reduction and improve weight maintenance.
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Diabetes and Beyond 2024 | Jay Shubrook, DO
In this session we will explore the how, when, and why of these agents in a variety of health conditions. The GLP-1RA has foundationally changed
the way we treat diabetes. Now they are used for many on and off label indications with more to come.
Learning Objectives:
- Review the direct and pleiotropic effects of incretin based agonism.
- Explore current and future incretin-based agents.
- Discuss current and future health benefits in diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, heart disease, and cognition.
Establishing a Positive Patient Relationship: Knowing When and How to Let Go | Andrea "Andie" Tena
This presentation aims to provide healthcare professionals with circumstances where the physicians have established a relationship with a patient.
It will highlight indicators that may contribute to the decline of the physician-patient relationship and provide guidelines for effectively terminating the relationship to prevent harm to the patient and mitigate any
accusations of abandonment.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify when a physician-patient relationship is established to determine duty and obligations to your patients.
- Demonstrate how to appropriately terminate the physician-patient relationship to avoid patient harm or allegations of abandonment.
- Assess situations that could lead to the deterioration and subsequent termination of the physician-patient relationship.
- Develop a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan that includes protocols for dealing with difficult patient situations
Urgent Care Vignettes: The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in your Clinic | David LaRue, DO, Gregory Pecchia, DO, Neesheet Parikh, DO
This session will present urgent care cases in cardiology, neurology, dermatology, orthopedic trauma, and infectious disease using classical case
presentation. SOAP note format with cutting edge AI technology. (Panel discussion)
Learning Objectives:
- Definition of AI as it relates to clinical practice.
- Develop a diagnosis using AI.
- Integrate AI into your current methodology when ordering labs and diagnostics.
- Enhance your SOAP note using AI.
Sports-related Concussion | Richard Riemer, DO
This lecture is on Sports-related concussion and provides an up-to-date overview of this topic, including update on the most recently revised side-line assessment tools.
Learning Objectives:
- Define sports-related concussion/mTBI Describe why SRC is a diffuse brain disorder.
- Assess the four common symptom/sign categories of SRC.
- Describe the roles of the licensed healthcare provider in the preparticipation, side-line evaluation, and post injury of the injured athlete.
- Recognize the “red flags” of SRC leading to emergency evaluation and treatment.
- Gain confidence in transitioning the athlete back to the classroom and back into competition: “Return to Learn” and “Return to Play”.
- Counsel the older athlete about retirement from contact sports.
Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Incontinence | Paul Lee, MD
This session will present an up-to-date review of the current status in the diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence primarily focused on female urinary incontinence,
overactive bladder and pelvis floor muscle dysfunction.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss various causes of urinary incontinence.
- Diagnosis of different types of urinary incontinence.
- Behavioral, dietary and medical therapies.
- Surgical treatment options.
Osteopathic Approach to Gynecological Patient with Metabolic & Hormonal Disorders | Vladimir Leibovsky, DO
This presentation will focus on implementing a distinctly osteopathic approach to gynecological patients with addressing the whole “person” rather
than “individual system” care. We will discuss how metabolic and hormonal disbalances affect gynecological patient in terms of generalized Women’s health, sexual health, cardiovascular, reproductive health, and risk
of malignancy. Specific examples of PCOS, perimenopausal/menopausal patient, and Metabolic syndrome will be used to demonstrate the need for different types of testing and patient counselling.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand distinctly Osteopathic approach to gynecological patients.
- Recognize the role of metabolic and hormonal disbalance in the overall health evaluation and interventions in gynecology.
- Learn to implement Osteopathic healthcare principles of physician patient relationships in gynecological care.
Complementing Stroke Recovery with Osteopathic Care | Alan Yee, DO
This session will discuss e a new osteopathic examination paradigm to identify, and quantify, the burden of somatic dysfunction among stroke survivors. Incorporating HRQoL assessment and osteopathic musculoskeletal evaluation and a potentially impactful approach to a chronic disease with few effective long-term treatment options.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the burden of motor disability after stroke and common secondary musculoskeletal complications.
- Differentiate patient reported outcome measures (i.e. Health related-quality-of-life) from traditional stroke outcome assessments (i.e. modified Rankin Scale & Barthel’s index).
- Summarize the current evidence of inter-rater reliability of select osteopathic physical examination tests in evaluation of somatic dysfunction.
- Describe a (new) osteopathic musculoskeletal diagnostic paradigm and its applicability in stroke recovery assessment.
Beyond the Hot Flashes: HRT Health Benefits Over Age 65 | Jacquelyn Sammons, DO
New evidence, as released in the April 2024 edition of "Menopause" has demonstrated several major health benefits of HRT for women over the age of 65. These include a REDUCTION in rates of breast, ovarian, endometrial, colorectal and lung cancers, as well as a decrease in cardiovascular events, AMI, AFib, and even dementia. It would be of benefit to the primary care and specialty providers of this forum to be introduced to this enlightening data, to be better equipped to counsel their patients about the potential health benefits of HRT in relation to overall longevity and health span.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the health benefits of HRT in women over the age of 65 based on current evidence.
- Improve understanding of health-related morbidities and mortality associated with menopause.
- Improve understanding of overall benefits of HRT to tissue integrity and organ systems beyond climacteric symptoms.
- Understand differences in dosing and route of administration of synthetic vs bioidentical hormone therapy.
Vaccine Updates | Massoud Mahmoudi, DO
The purpose of this talk is to update the audience on the recent recommendations of ACIP and CDC on vaccination practices. This information includes the new vaccine indications, adverse reactions of vaccines, and ongoing trials and research on selected vaccines.
Learning Objectives:
- The audience will learn about the recently approved recommendation on vaccinations.
- Audience will learn the updated recommendation from ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices)
- Audience will be updated on ongoing research and trials on vaccines.
Overview of Unsheltered in California and HOUSEDBEDS | Traci Stevenson, DO
In this recorded presentation participants will review general concepts of Structural Determinants of Health while exploring the relationship of structural determinants to the health of person's experiencing homelessness. We will overview recent findings from the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness Report and conclude with utilization of mnemonics such as the HOUSEDBEDS tool.
Learning Objectives:
- Review aspects of structural determinants of health and impact on marginalized communities.
- Recognize the extent of People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) in California.
- Relate Osteopathic Principles to concepts of SSDH effecting health of PEH.
- Understand importance of specialized tools when working with marginalized populations such as PEH.
- Be able to Identify the components and administer HOUSED BEDS as a tool for taking and effective history with a PEH.
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