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Pain Management Summit
Conference Overview:
Chronic pain is a public health crisis. Not only does it impact a patient's quality of life and function, it also causes increased health care utilization and loss of productivity. Variability remains in the primary care setting with regard to prevention, assessment and treatment of chronic pain.
In a Journal of Pain Research 2017 survey among primary care providers, 61% reported a "lack of confidence in managing patients with chronic pain." Clinicians describe concern... |
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Tracy Has Chest Palpitations and Cough: What Does Her Imaging Tell Us?
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Choose diagnostic interventions (including consultations with other specialties) that can help confirm the necessary diagnosis of exclusion for sarcoidosis |
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When Should You Consider Palliative Care in the Patient Journey?
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Formulate a management plan that optimizes collaboration with other care providers |
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Is Mary’s PAH Making You Dizzy?
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Choose optimal, recommended testing that can help confirm PAH diagnosis
Summarize available and emerging treatment options for PAH, including combination approaches |
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Eugene’s U(I)P-Hill Battle
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Use a multidisciplinary approach based on ATS/ERS guidelines for diagnosing IPF
Incorporate new findings/recommendations into the diagnostic process for IPF
Recognize signs and symptoms that may indicate IPF
Provide rationales for starting treatment
Use strategies for mitigating IPF treatment side effects and increasing adherence
Address IPF comorbidities
Formulate a management plan that optimizes collaboration with othe... |
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Shedding Light on Jane’s ILD Diagnosis
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Use a multidisciplinary approach based on ATS/ERS guidelines for diagnosing IPF
Incorporate new findings/recommendations into the diagnostic process for IPF
Recognize signs and symptoms that may indicate IPF
Provide rationales for starting treatment
Use strategies for mitigating IPF treatment side effects and increasing adherence
Address IPF comorbidities
Formulate a management plan that optimizes collaboration with othe... |
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What is Your Treatment Recommendation for Sandra’s CTEPH?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Select optimal, recommended testing to confirm CTEPH diagnosis
Summarize available and emerging treatment options for inoperable CTEPH
Discuss radiological tests and features that can help differentiate CTEPH from other pulmonary diseases |
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Jeff’s COPD is No Smoke!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Evaluate data on available inhalers, with a focus on new and emerging combination options
Implement strategies that facilitate proper inhaler use |
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Clearing the Air on Chuck’s Asthma
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
Perform a thorough assessment of asthma severity and control in day-to-day practice
Explain how mechanisms of action of new/emerging type 2 inflammation-directed treatments address the underlying immunology of asthma
Select appropriate type 2 inflammation-targeted therapies on the basis of safety and efficacy data, and phenotype |
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21st Annual AAOS/AOSSM/AANA Sports Medicine Course
Keeping Patients Active Through Biologics, Rehabilitation and Contemporary Surgical Techniques!
Ensure your sports medicine treatment decisions and rehabilitation solutions are current in this rapidly evolving field. Join us for a highly interactive experience featuring small faculty-led case-based groups, participant-expert panel discussions, and open dialogue with faculty on decision-making and treatment strategies.
With an emphasis on injury-specific treatment and rehabilitation guide... |
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Best Practices in Communicating About Sexual Health: What's Your Style?
Part 1: Video-Based Program - Best Practices in Communicating About Sexual Health: What's Your Style?
Compare and contrast patient-clinician interactions
What is your patient not telling you?
Tools, tips, and conversation-starters to avoid stigma and optimize engagement |
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Preventing HIV Infection With PrEP: Manage This Patient
Part 2: Case-Based Program - Manage This Patient: Preventing HIV Infection With PrEP
Assessing HIV risk and PrEP eligibility
Pre-PrEP testing and initiation of treatment
On-treatment monitoring and adherence/risk-reduction counseling |
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Clearing the Air in Severe Asthma Management: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Shared Clinical Decision Making
An outsized proportion of asthma-related morbidity and mortality is borne by the 5% to 15% of affected patients who have severe forms of the disease.1,2 These patients suffer from poorly controlled symptoms and frequent exacerbations, often despite daily treatment with high-dose inhaled corticosteroids and other long-acting controller medications.1,2 Ongoing research has elucidated key pathophysiologic processes and other clinical parameters related to asthma severity and persistence.2,3 In ma... |
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HCV Updates and Insights: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities to Improve Care
We, in the correctional community, have a critical part to play in shaping health care delivery and advocating for our patients. This is especially pertinent to HCV care, in which significant gaps in testing, treatment, prevention, and education persist—both behind bars and upon community reentry. Across the corrections-based HCV-care continuum, providers are faced not only with challenges, but also with opportunities and options. This CorrectCare InPractice/InContext™ HCV supplement is in... |
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HIV Updates and Insights: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities to Improve Care
We, in the correctional community, have a critical part to play in shaping health care delivery and advocating for our patients. This is especially pertinent to HIV care, in which significant gaps in treatment and prevention persist—both behind bars and upon community reentry. Across the corrections-based HIV-care continuum, from testing to harm-reduction practices to sustained viral suppression, providers encounter not only challenges, but also opportunities. This CorrectCare inPractice/inC... |
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Practical Recommendations and Demonstrations: Module 2
Chronic pain affects 100 million Americans. Certain patients with chronic pain are candidates for intrathecal (IT) therapy, which can mitigate some of the risks associated with systemic opioids. Following appropriate patient selection based on medical and psychiatric history and a physical exam, a patient can begin a trial with morphine or ziconotide, the 2 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved IT therapies. Monitoring for adverse events should continue after IT pump implantation, a... |
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Intrathecal Therapy for Severe Chronic Pain: Evidence-Based Recommendations: Module 1
Chronic pain affects 100 million Americans. Certain patients with chronic pain are candidates for intrathecal (IT) therapy, which can mitigate some of the risks associated with systemic opioids. Following appropriate patient selection based on medical and psychiatric history and a physical exam, a patient can begin a trial with morphine or ziconotide, the 2 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved IT therapies. Monitoring for adverse events should continue after IT pump implantation, a... |
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Clinical Issues™ in Chronic Liver Disease: Hot Topics in HBV, HCV, and NASH
Three chronic diseases of the liver – HCV infection, HBV infection, and NASH – are commonly managed by gastroenterologists and hepatologists. Despite the availability of safe and effective treatments for HCV, many chronically infected patients remain unscreened, undiagnosed, and untreated.1 People who inject drugs (PWID) represent a population in particular need of recognition, diagnosis, and treatment; the path to HCV elimination will never be clear without targeting PWID.2 Managing event... |
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PrEP U™: HIV-Prevention Education for University Student Health Centers
PrEP U™: HIV-Prevention Education for University Student Health Centers is a comprehensive professional and lay-leadership training program to help you meet the health needs of your university community. This online enduring activity for professionals from university health centers seeks to help participants understand the changing landscape of HIV in the southeast, particularly among the university community, and implement comprehensive HIV-prevention strategies. Topics to be covered includ... |
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The Big (& Small) Picture of NASH: Building Your Understanding to Combat a Growing Problem
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), part of the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum, is characterized by steatosis, lobular inflammation, hepatocyte ballooning, and varying degrees of fibrosis.1 Both obesity and diabetes play large roles in development and progression of NAFLD and NASH, and the growing prevalence of NAFLD and NASH parallel the rise in obesity and diabetes.2 In addition to obesity and diabetes, multiple comorbidities occur with NASH; the 2 comorbidities that are ... |
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Pathways to Better Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Translating Pathophysiology into Targeted Treatments
SLE is a chronic, autoimmune disorder that can present with a variety of clinical manifestations, commonly including arthritis, fever, photosensitivity, and malar rash.1,2 The disease is pathologically characterized by generalized, multisystem inflammation and the presence of a number of potential autoantibodies and immune complexes.2,3 Scientific and clinical research on SLE has uncovered factors that contribute to the characteristic loss of immune self-tolerance and the development of organ ... |
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Biologics for Severe Asthma A Growing Treatment Class: Module 4
This CME-accredited four-part CME Snapshot™ series is intended for pulmonologists, allergists, and other specialists involved in the long-term care of patients with severe asthma. In this educational series, expert faculty will review clinical practice guidelines, discuss new approaches to therapy, and hear directly from patients with severe asthma. |
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The Changing Landscape of IBD: Emerging Concepts in Patient Management
In the past 2 decades, the introduction of biologic therapies that target underlying disease processes has dramatically changed the treatment of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Current biologic therapy with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and anti-integrins has improved the treatment of IBD flares and maintenance of clinical remission. These agents are, however, limited by primary nonresponse and loss of response in a substantial proportion of... |
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Updates in HCV Screening and Treatment: Key Issues Impacting OB/GYN Practice
This educational activity is designed to better prepare OB/GYNs to identify patients who should be screened for HCV based on relevant professional society recommendations, appropriately link patients to care, and manage pregnancies of women who have HCV. Expert faculty will provide practical information on HCV screening, confirmatory testing, patient education, and counseling strategies for use within the real-world clinical context of OB/GYN practice. Although HCV affects women across diverse... |
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New Insights Into Rheumatoid Arthritis Pathophysiology: Module 6
This CME-accredited CME Snapshot™ series of educational videos has been created for rheumatologists and other clinicians involved in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). During each 15-minute activity, two expert rheumatologists focus on a specific aspect of long-term RA management, including practical advice on implementing international treat-to-target guidelines as well as the mechanistic profiles and clinical evidence for therapies designed to inhibit signaling via interleuk... |
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HIV Experts & Evidence™: Evolving Models of HIV Care (Volume 1) - Rapid ART Initiation: A New Addition to the HIV-Care Tool Box
Best practice recommendations for treatment of patients infected with HIV are continually evolving and now include strategies related to early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART).1 The results of pivotal clinical trials have demonstrated not only the benefits of early and continuous ART for long-term health outcomes in people living with HIV,2,3 but also a profound decrease in HIV transmission.4 Same-day HIV diagnosis and treatment approaches have been developed to minimize the rate of ... |
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BRIDGE: HCV
BRIDGE HCV is an exciting grassroots initiative that taps into the strengths and resources of communities in inner-city and metropolitan areas to provide effective treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in people who inject drugs (PWID). Now, drawing upon dynamic content presented at live small-group meetings for community-based health care professionals, this enduring program will bring the critical content to the greater online learning community. Key learning emphases will be placed on feasi... |
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The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine
COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF CARE
Mind body approaches such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, cognitive skills, lifestyle interventions and positive psychology now boast an impressive evidence base to support their ability to improve—and in some cases, prevent—stress-related illnesses, ranging from asthma to hypertension, functional bowel diseases and pain syndromes.
Whether you are a physician, nurse, psychologist, social worker or therapist, mi... |
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Updates in Neurology & Infectious Diseases 11-Night Japanese Explorer CME Cruise
Join us on a Japanese Explorer CME Cruise. Ports include: Tokyo (Yokohama), Japan ● Mt Fuji (Shimizu), Japan ● Osaka, Japan ● Kobe, Japan ● Kochi, Japan ● Fukuoka, Japan ● Busan, South Korea ● Aomori, Japan. |
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Clinical Pearls in Respirology & Family Medicine 7-Night Barbados Resort CME
Join us at Sandals Barbados & Royal Barbados for a "Clinical Pearls in Respirology & Family Medicine" CME conference. |
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Updates in Ophthalmology & Cardiology 13-Night New Zealand CME Cruise
Sail through New Zealand roundtrip from Sydney, Australia, Ports include: Sydney, Australia ● Doubtful Sound (Scenic Cruising) ● Milford Sound (Scenic Cruising) ● Dusky Sound (Scenic Cruising) ● Dunedin, Port Chalmers, New Zealand ● Akaroa, New Zealand ● Wellington, New Zealand ● Tauranga, New Zealand ● Auckland, New Zealand ● Bay of Islands, New Zealand. |
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Clinical Pearls in Family Medicine & Practice Management 7-Night Eastern Caribbean CME Cruise
Sail roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale. Ports include: San Juan, Puerto Rico ● Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas ● Punta Cana, Dominican Republic ● Nassau, Bahamas. |
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Rheumatology & Pain Management 12-Night Royal Touch of Morocco CME Land Tour
Morocco, known as the land of the distant sunset, is bound to charm the most demanding of travellers. From storytellers to snake charmers, from Berber artists to contemporary fashion designers, the Kingdom of Morocco opens its heart to anyone who will listen. Join us in Morocco for a land tour and rheumatology & pain management CME conference. |
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Emergency Medicine & Managing Chronic Disease 10-Night South Africa CME Adventure
Join us on a bucket list trip to South Africa and enjoy CME focused on emergency medicine and chronic disease at the same time! |
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ENT and Dental Approaches to Head and Neck Conditions 10-Night Galapagos Islands CME Cruise
Join us in Quito & the Galapagos Islands for an "ENT and Dental Approaches to Head and Neck Conditions" CME conference. |
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Updates in Endocrinology & Gastroenterology 7-Night Qatar, Bahrain & The UAE CME Cruise
Sail roundrtrip from Dubai and sail through Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE. |
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Update in Women’s Health & Imaging 14-Night Antarctica CME Cruise
No other destination can elicit the sense of excitement and adventure as Antarctica. The most unspoilt and remote place left on Earth, this is the ultimate journey of a lifetime. Join us for an "Update in Women’s Health & Imaging" onboard the Celebrity Eclipse. |
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Pearls in Family Medicine & Practice Management 10-Night Southern Caribbean CME Cruise
Sail from Fort Lauderdale roundtrip and enjoy CME focused on family medicine and practice management. Ports include: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas ● Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos ● Amber Cove, Dominican Republic ● Kralendijk, Bonaire ● Willemstad, Curacao ● Oranjestad, Aruba. |
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Rheumatology, Osteoporosis & Medical Cannabis 7-Night Southern Caribbean CME Cruise
Sail roundtrip from San Juan, Puerto Rico and enjoy CME focused on rheumatology, osteoporosis & medical cannabis. |
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A Change of Plans: Adjusting Treatment and Prescribing Protocols to Address the Opioid Epidemic
Nurses, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners are at the forefront of primary care, orthopedic surgery, and oral surgery patient care. Clinicians practicing in the primary care setting are well suited to manage chronic pain as they are adept at managing chronic disease and associated comorbidities, coordinating care, and applying a biopsychosocial approach to multimodal pain management. Incorporating best practice strategies for the evaluation of pain, integration of risk assessment to... |
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Opioid Use Disorder in Special Populations: Making Recovery a Goal
The opioid epidemic is ravaging many parts of the United States, resulting in drug overdose deaths emerging as the leading cause of injury death. The 2015 statistics from Health and Human Services on human and economic costs were staggering, reporting that 12.5 million people misused prescription opioids that year, resulting in $78.5 billion in economic costs. Yet the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA)'s National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol Abuse and Related Condit... |
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Fatal Attraction: Why are Opioids so Addicting?
Early in the opioid crisis, physicians were the principle source of opioid use and abuse due to overprescribing, often leading to patients storing leftover prescriptions at home and friends or family members finding and using these leftovers. Unfortunately, simply restricting opioid prescriptions is not an effective strategy in a culture that has wildly available and accessible drugs of abuse available.
Opioids are the most addicting drugs of abuse; they interact with the brain's pleasure ... |
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Understanding the Big Picture of Pain and Pain Assessment
Statement of Need
The number of opioid related deaths in the US is on the rise and health care providers (HCPs) often struggle finding a balance between prescribing guidelines and the individual needs of patients with acute and/or chronic pain. It’s imperative that clinicians seeing patients with pain are knowledgeable about acute and chronic pain pathways and underlying mechanisms so that they may appropriately assess and manage pain.
Biopsychosocial assessment tools such as PEG (Pai... |
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3rd Annual Ethics and Opioids Conference 2019
Ethics and Opioids Conference |
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28th University of South Alabama Obstetrics and Gynecology Conference
Ob/Gyn Conference |
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Controversies & Advances in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease, the Nineteenth in the Series
We are proud to be celebrating the nineteenth annual Controversies and Advances in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease symposium in 2019!
The scientific program will be released very soon and will focus on realistic views of controversial issues in cardiovascular disease. Sessions will include a combination of lectures, debates, and roundtable discussions presented by a faculty of internationally renowned leaders. |
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ADVANCED/INTERVENTIONAL MSK ULTRASOUND WITH REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Advanced/Interventional MSK Ultrasound with Regenerative Medicine Live Training Course is designed to expand and update the participants' skills to integrate advanced MSK applications and ultrasound-guided regenerative medicine techniques into clinical practice. These courses are taught by leading musculoskeletal ultrasound experts that incorporates comprehensive evidence-based lectures and interactive case presentations featuring a 3:1 faculty to participant hands-on scan ratio with live mode... |
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ADVANCED AND INTERVENTIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND
Advanced & Interventional Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Live Training Course is taught by leading experts in the field of MSK ultrasound that incorporates comprehensive lectures and interactive case presentations. This course features a 3:1 faculty to participant hands-on scanning with live models and human cadaveric specimens for advanced applications and ultrasound-guided procedures including (but not limited to) regenerative therapy. Learn the advanced and interventional musculoskeletal essent... |
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INTRODUCTION TO MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND WITH OPTIONAL INTERVENTIONAL CADAVER LAB
Introduction to Musculoskeletal Ultrasound with Optional Interventional Cadaver Lab Live Training Course provides participants a comprehensive introduction to musculoskeletal ultrasound on topics based on AIUM practice guidelines. These courses are taught by leading musculoskeletal ultrasound experts that incorporates comprehensive lectures and interactive case presentations featuring a 3:1 faculty to participant hands-on scan ratio with live models, phantoms and human cadaver labs. Introducti... |
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Biologics for Severe Asthma: Case-Based Conversations
This CME-accredited four-part CME Snapshot™ series is intended for pulmonologists, allergists, and other specialists involved in the long-term care of patients with severe asthma. In this educational series, expert faculty will review clinical practice guidelines, discuss new approaches to therapy, and hear directly from patients with severe asthma. |
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