Internal Medicine Program

Q&A to follow each lecture

Monday, March 12, 2012
7:30 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 Genomic Analysis in Medicine, Gabriel Haddad, MD, PhD
Topics in Neoplasia
9:10 Genetics and Cancer Causation and Treatment, David Cheresh, PhD
9:50 Break
10:10 Lung Screening: To Do or Not To Do, Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD
10:50 Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Myeloproliferative Diseases, Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD
11:30 Preservation of Fertility in Cancer Treatment, H. Irene Su, MD
12:10 PM Lunch
Topics in Hematology
1:30 Too Little Iron, Too Much Iron, John Adamson, MD
2:10 Myelodysplastic Syndromes: An Epidemic in the Aging Population, Peter Curtin, MD
2:50 Break
Topics in Dermatology
3:10 Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers, Brian Jiang, MD
3:50 ID and the Skin, Taraneh Paravar, MD
4:30 Atopic Dermatitis, Larry Eichenfield, MD
5:10 PM Adjourn
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Topics in Renal Disease

8:30 Geriatric Nephrology: Preserving Function and Averting Harm, Dena Rifkin, MD, MS
9:10 Sodium and Potassium Disorders, Danuta Trzebinska, MD
9:50 Break
10:10 Acute Kidney Injury, Prabhleen Singh, MD
Topics in Hospital Medicine
10:50 Novel Anticoagulants: Promise and Peril, TBD
11:30 America’s Cost Quality Healthcare Crisis, Gregory Seymann, MD SFHM
12:00 PM Lunch

Topics in Women's Health
1:30 Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, Theodore Ganiats, MD
2:10 Finding a Way Through the Wilderness of Menopause Management, Kathryn Macaulay, MD
2:50 Break
3:10 Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Heather Hofflich, DO
3:50 How to Deal with HPV Controversies, Cheryl Saenz, MD
4:30 PM Adjourn

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Topics in Cardiology

8:30 The Role of Cardiac CT in Clinical Practice, Afshin Karimi, MD, PhD, JD
9:10 Do We Still Need Warfare in 2012? Updates in Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation, , Navinder Sawhney, MD, FACC, FHRS
9:50 Break
10:10 Advanced Heart Failure 2012: Rise of the Machines, Eric Adler, MD
10:50 New Horizons in Cardiovascular Interventions, Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FACC
Topics in Rheumatology
11:30 Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome: Work Up, Management, Co-Morbidities, Management in Pregnancy and Complications, Arnold Ceponis, MD, PhD
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 How to Treat Common Knee Problems, Natalie Voskanian, MD
Topics in Gastroenterology
2:10 Persistent Heartburn: The Angst Surrounding Proton Pump Inhibitors, Brian Clay, MD
2:50 Break
3:10 Probiotic Therapy: Hope or Hype? Derek Patel, MD
3:50 Helicobacter Pylori, Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastric Cancer, Denise Kalmaz, MD
4:30 PM Adjourn

Thursday, March 15, 2012
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Topics in Infectious Diseases
8:30 Update on C. Difficile, Randy Taplitz, MD
9:10 The Changing Face of HIV & Cancer, William Wachsman, MD, PhD
9:50 Break
10:10 Principles of Travel Medicine, Joseph Vinetz, MD
10:50 TBD
11:30 Advances in HCV Therapy, Robert Schooley, MD
12:00 PM Lunch

Topics in Pulmonary Medicine
1:30 Breathing at Altitude with Chronic Lung Disease: Is it Smart and Safe? Xavier Soler, MD, PhD
2:10 Deaths Due to Unsuspected Pulmonary Embolus, Timothy Morris, MD
2:50 Break
Topics in Endocrinology
3:10 Improving Intervention Compliance from Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Patients, Dorothy Sears, PhD
3:50 Management of Incidental Adrenal Nodules, Deborah Oh, MD, PhD
4:30 PM Adjourn

Friday, March 16, 2012
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Topics for the Liver Team
8:30 Non-Fatty Liver Disease: How to Get the Fat Out of the MISH-NASH!, Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
9:10 Hepatocellular Carcinoma: When to Biopsy, Cut, Burn, Replace or Embolize…That is the Question, Yuko Kono, MD
9:50 Break
10:10 New Treatments for HCV: How We Have Entered a New Therapeutic, Millennium in 2012, Alexander Kuo, MD
10:50 Acute Liver Failure: When to Manage and When to Refer, Heather Patton, MD
11:30 Work-Up of Abnormal Liver Enzyme Studies: LFTs Do Not Equal Liver Enzymes, Robert Gish, MD
12:10 PM Lunch

Topics in General Medicine
1:30 Medical Use of Tablet Devices: Present and Future, Thomas Stibolt, MD
2:10 Free Radicals Sources and Dynamics in Aging Brain, Sameh Ali, PhD
2:50 Break

Topics in Palliative Care
3:10 New Diagnostic Guidelines in Alzheimer's Disease, John Daly, MD
3:50 Bioethics: Case Studies in Primary Care, Madhusree Singh, MD
4:30 PM Adjourn

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