Focus on Outcomes: Pharmacogenomics, Medication Optimization and Collaborative Care & Clinical Principles of Geriatrics

Focus on Outcomes: Pharmacogenomics, Medication Optimization and Collaborative Care & Clinical Principles of Geriatrics is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Dec 31, 2023 - Jan 07, 2024 at Celebrity Ascent, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America.

Program Purpose:

• Navigating challenges in patients diagnosed with mental illness: cardiovascular, QTc prolongation, and metabolic disease.
  • Describe the cardiovascular challenges associated with managing patients diagnosed with mental illness
  • Identify treatment regimens to optimize patient care
• Addressing medication safety challenges: Navigation FDA boxed warnings and adverse drug reactions
  • Identify both emerging and ongoing medication safety issues related to pharmacologic management to better prepare providers to address treatment challenges in older patients and those diagnosed with mental illness
• Examining the overlap of diagnostic and pharmacologic treatment challenges in physical and mental health; addressing the consequences of insomnia, depression, and related comorbidities
  • Identify the treatment challenges that are commonly seen as comorbid conditions in the general population such as insomnia, depression, and other related medical and psychiatric illnesses
• Addressing the challenges that patients with movement disorders have
  • Identify risk factors that lead to falls and how to mitigate adverse outcomes
  • Describe the characteristics of different movement disorders
• Navigating physical challenges that can have behavioral consequences
  • Recognize physical conditions that can lead to behavioral problems
• Metabolic disease and current recommendations for primary prevention and treatment
  • Review what metabolic syndrome is
  • Identify what the current recommendations are for primary prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome