2024 Recent Advances in Medicine Conference

2024 Recent Advances in Medicine Conference is organized by Orear Institute and will be held from Jun 27 - 28, 2024 at Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America.

Objectives:
Presentation on Thursday, June 27, 2024

Basal Cell Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Jonathan B. Karnes, MD

• Identify clinical features of nonmelanoma skin cancer.
• Discuss treatment options for nonmelanoma skin cancers.

Integrative Approach to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Bradley Freilich, MD

• Understand the natural history of Metabolic Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH) and its relationship to Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Gain knowledge on how to identify patients at risk for MASH and how to stage them properly.
• Understand the fundamentals of lifestyle changes in the treatment of MASH and Obesity and become familiar with how modern pharmaceuticals interact with this disease process.

5 TIWIKLY (Five Things I Wish I Knew Last Year) – Louis Kuritzky, MD

• Recognize potential toxicity of turmeric
• Employ carvedilol for telangiectatic rosacea
• Consider duloxetine for treatment of stress incontinence

Updates in Male Hypogonadism – Micol Rothman, MD

• Audience should know how to approach the patient with low testosterone to assess for hypogonadism.
• Audience will become familiar with recent data regarding risks and benefits of testosterone treatment.
• Audience should know how to initiate testosterone treatment and monitoring strategies.

Clinical Pearls in General Internal Medicine, Part 1 – John B. Bundrick, MD

• Apply to clinical practice facts which are useful, proven, and yet not widely known, with regard to an often-misdiagnosed cause of abdominal pain, management of nasal symptoms in URI, and multiple other common conditions in general medicine.

Skin Biopsy – What, Where, and How – Jonathan B. Karnes, MD

• Review common skin biopsy techniques.
• Evaluate best biopsy practices for specific clinical situation including skin cancer, blistering disorders, and vasculitis.

Breaking Bad News: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Seriously Ill Patients and Their Families – Benjamin Skoch, DO

• Recognize the importance of structure for sharing difficult information and discussing serious illness with patients and families
• Demonstrate serious illness conversations with patients and families utilizing key resources

Something Better – Richard Wadsworth, DO

• Teach physicians how to integrate effective health-improving therapy and teaching techniques into short clinic visits.
• Teach how to perform quick cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing techniques.
• Learn how to evaluate common issues relating to mental health that can obstruct the treatment of depression.
• Learn how to evaluate polypharmacy and how it can relate to depression.

Presentation on June 28, 2024

60 Minutes of Female Sexual Medicine – Becky Lynn, MD, MBA, IF, NCMP

• Understand the most common types of female sexual dysfunction
• Understand how to work up, diagnose, and manage low libido, painful sex, and orgasm dysfunction
• Be able to apply knowledge of sexual dysfunction treatment to clinical patients

Management of Osteoporosis – Micol Rothman, MD

• Recognize available tools for assessment of fracture risk.
• Personalize medication choice for patients at high risk of fracture.
• Understand when treatment discontinuation is indicated and for which agents this is appropriate.
• Be aware of how systems-based approaches to fracture can help the crisis in osteoporosis treatment.

Clinical Pearls in General Internal Medicine, Part 2 – John B. Bundrick, MD

• Apply to clinical practice facts which are useful, proven, and yet not widely known, with regard to unique causes of anemia, testing and complications of osteoporosis, and multiple other common conditions in general medicine.

Top 10 New Drugs & What Makes Them Important– Louis Kuritzky, MD

• Appreciate the pharmacologic stride forward represented by the first GIP/GLP agent, tirzepetide
• Decide whether the first FDA-approved SGLT2/SGLT1 inhibitor, sotagliflozin offers meaningful advantage over existing products.
• Determine whether the potential benefits of turmeric outweigh the currently proven risks

How to Help Someone with ADHD Survive in a World Not Made for Them – Richard Wadsworth, DO

• Raise awareness of ADHD.
• Teach diagnostic identification discerning it from similar disorders.
• Teach how to approach tertiary prevention in relation to events often associated with an ADHD diagnosis.
• Discuss alternative treatment options for ADHD.

Implementing the AAP Clinical Practice Guideline on Obesity in Primary Care – Sarah Hampl, MD

• The learner will identify multiple evaluation and treatment recommendations for patients with obesity.
• The Learner will assess their clinical setting’s readiness to implement main evaluation and treatment elements of the AAP Child and Adolescent Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline.

Symptom Management at the End of Life – Benjamin Skoch, DO

• Describe common symptoms patient’s experience near and at the end of life
• Discuss accepted interventions for symptoms described above
• Demonstrate through cases care at the end of life

Update on Hormone Replacement Therapy – Becky Lynn, MD, MBA, IF, NCMP

• Understand the current evidence-based guidelines to treating women with hormone therapy
• Gain knowledge on how to evaluate risks and benefits of hormone therapy when treating patients
• Understand treatment regimens and how to develop an appropriate plan