Pituitary Disorders: Advances in Diagnosis and Management

Pituitary Disorders: Advances in Diagnosis and Management is organized by University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) Continuing Medical Education and would be held on Oct 22, 2016 at San Francisco Marriott Union Square, San Francisco, California, United States of America. The CME conference has been approved with 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Objectives:
An attendee completing this course will be able to:
• Explain the risks, benefits, and alternatives of pituitary surgery to patients with different disease states;
• Discuss complex management of patients with acromegaly;
• Improve interpretation of subtle radiographic clues to the differential diagnosis of pituitary disorders in practice;
• Explain the genetic role of acromegaly and pituitary tumors and their implications on the role of medical therapy when discussing management with patients;
• Appropriately manage hypopituitarism;
• Improve their evaluation of medical and surgical options to manage hyperprolactinemia;
• Better assess the potential for clinically silent pituitary adenomas to transition to functioning adenomas.