NGMC Continuing Medical Education

Title: Cardiology Grand Rounds: Lessons Learned from DOAC's and the New Factor XI Anti-thrombotic Therapies Being Studied Speaker: Manesh R. Patel, MD Chief, Division of Cardiology Co-Director, Duke Heart Center Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke University, Durham, NC Disclosures: Research Grants: PACIFIC-AF: Bayer, Janssen, Heartflow, Idorsia, NHLBI, Novartis Advisory Board/Consulting: Bayer,...

IM Grand Rounds: Delirium in Hospitalized Older Adults Speaker: Akshay Kumar, MD PGY-3 IM Resident No Disclosures Objectives: -Identify what constitutes delirium in an institutionalized older adults. -How to appropriately assess and manage delirium in acute setting as per latest guidelines. -Measures healthcare provider should take to prevent onset of delirium in hospitalized setting.

Neuro Science Grand Rounds: UPDATED AHA GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE Speaker: Andres Ruiz, MD, Neuro Critical Care No Disclosures Objectives: - Review updated algorithm for management through different phases of care - Summarize new recommendations that differ from 2012 guidelines - Review pathophysiology and updated management strategies for delayed cerebral...

Title: ID Grand Rounds: Hepatic Infections Speaker: Merin Varghese, MD Consultant, Infectious Disease Physician Lead, Antimicrobial Stewardship No financial disclosures Objectives: Review common etiologies of liver abscesses Review common fungal etiologies of liver infections Brief overview of pathogens associated with viral hepatitis

Title: Comprehensive Care of the Cardiomyopathy Patient: From Pillars that Sustain to Buttresses that Assist Presented by: J. Eduardo Rame, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FESC Director of Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplant Thomas Jefferson University Division of Cardiology, Philadelphia, PA Financial Disclosure: Co-Primary Investigator ReSTAGE HF (Thoratec, now Abbott, Inc) Primary Investigagor ADVANCE...

Speaker: John Torous, MD, MBI Objectives: - Assess which digital phenotyping data streams could be most useful in helping understand your patients' clinical trajectories and list three risks and benefits of this method of data collection - Apply a digital literacy frame to be able to evaluate which of your patients may most benefit from digital health and which first require training / support - D...

Enduring CME will expire on 6/23/2025 Objectives: 1. Describe the barriers to mental healthcare among Hispanic/Latino communities and their prevalence 2. Utilize screening tools/assessments and strategies to overcome language barriers in diagnosing mental health conditions 3. Demonstrate cultural competence when interacting with Hispanic and Latinx patients Speakers: Marshall Bruner, PsyD Assistan...

Enduring CME will expire on 6/8/2025 Speakers: Supriya Mannepalli, MD, CIC, MBA Sandy Bozarth, RN No disclosures Objectives Review Candida auris epidemiology Review infection prevention and control measures to prevent the spread of candida auris Review treatment for Candida auris infections Accreditation and Designation: The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by t...

Enduring CME will expire on 6/2/2025 Speaker: Mariam Anwar, MD No disclosures Objectives: •Understand early palliative care. •Recognize and identify patients that benefit from early palliative care. •Discuss hospice and non-hospice survival. •Review evidence demonstrating that hospice is associated with longer survival times for certain terminally ill patients Accreditation and Designation: The No...

Enduring CME will expire on 6/1/2025 Speakers: Jaime Morel Ruiz, MD Pathology Addison Parris, MD NGPG Infectious Disease Supriya Mannepalli, MD, MBA, CIC NGHS Medical Director, Infection Prevention No disclosures Objectives: •Discuss clinical presentation of clostridium difficile infection. •Discuss diagnosis and testing of clostridium difficile infection. •Review infection prevention and control...

Enduring CME will expire on 6/26/2025 Speaker: Jeffrey Popma, MD Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Structural Heart, Coronary and Renal Denervation, Medtronic Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston No disclosures Objectives: • Review the critical value of clinician investigation in the discovery of medical devices to serve unmet patient needs. • Discuss the risks a...

Enduring CME will expire on 5/11/2024 Speakers: Nathaniel J Kim, MD IM Resident PGY-3 Ahreum Lim, PhD University of Georgia Postdoc Researcher No disclosures Objectives: •Analyze ChatGPT and explain the concept of Large Language Models. •Assess the applications of broad and narrow Artificial Intelligence in clinical medicine and medical education. •Generate discussion concerning the role and neces...

Enduring CME will expire on 5/11/2024 Speaker: Paul Takla, MD No disclosures Objectives: • Decrease stigma surrounding opioid use disorder • Improve ability to identify patients at risk for opioid withdrawal • Understand the pharmacology of Buprenorphine and methadone • Be able to better manage hospitalized patients on Buprenorphine and methadone • Increase use of our hospital’s opioid withdrawal...

Enduring CME will expire on 5/11/2024 Learning Objectives: • Improve their knowledge base in substance use disorder in adult patients • Recognize appropriateness of in office treatment versus referral to specialized treatment programs • Improve their knowledge base about medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) Accreditation and Designation: The Northeast Georgia Me...

Enduring CME will expire on 5/10/2024 Objectives: Familiarize the audience with the latest robotic mitral valve technology Detail methods of repair including a live case Education audience on the overlap between transcatheter structural heart technology and robotic cardiac surgery. Disclosures: - There is no commercial support for this activity - The speaker has disclosed the following financial r...

Objectives: Recognize the association between post-COVID syndrome (or long COVID syndrome) and post-COVID tachycardia. Identify the difference between post-COVID tachycardia and inappropriate sinus tachycardia and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Discuss the demographics, comorbidities and severity of COVID-19 infection associated with post-COVID tachycardia.

Objectives: Understand the pathophysiology of chronic subdural hematomas Know the techniques for neurointervention in subdural hematoma Review the recent research outcomes on endovascular techniques in chronic subdural hematomas

Objectives: •Understand Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), including definitions, signs, symptoms, and risk factors. •Discuss the proposed pathophysiology of heart failure with both preserved and reduced ejection fractions. •Review the new trial called “MyPACE” to discuss effects of personalized accelerated pacing in patients with HFpEF.

Objectives: • Examine what is POLST and its use in Northeast Georgia Health System. • Review patient criteria for POLST qualification. • Understand POLST’s role in assisting patients with expressing their medical wishes. • Recognize when POLST is appropriate for patient completion.

Today's Speaker: ZAHI A. FAYAD, PHD, FAHA, FACC, FISMRM Director, BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School, NY Disclosures: Grant/research support from NIH. Consultant for Trained Therapeutix Discovery and Co-founder/Board of directors for Trained Therapeutix Discover. Objectives: •Understand personalize...

Today's Speaker: Rosemary Chofor, MD IM Resident, PGY-3 Objectives: • Define polypharmacy and deprescribing. • Recognize patients at risk for deleterious effects of polypharmacy. • Integrate screening tools when completing medication reconciliation. • List the strategies that can help minimize polypharmacy.

Today's Speaker: Speaker: Oluseyi Abidoye, MD Objectives: - Review and understand the pathophysiology of VTEs in patients with traumatic fractures - Understand role of Antithrombotic agents in preventing VTEs in post-surgical patients - Review current guidelines of VTE prevention in patients with fractures - Understand the Role of Aspirin as a single agent for venous thrombophylaxis in patients af...

Today's Speaker: Sahil Parag, DO IM Resident, PGY-3 Objectives: 1. Understand the mechanism of action of Finerenone, and how it differs from currently used mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists 2. Identify patients that may benefit from addition of this medication 3. Understand adverse effects and monitoring for these patients 4. Identify the recommendations for specific population that may benef...

Speakers: Jaime Morel Ruiz, MD Pathology William O’Sick, MLS (ASCP)CM Microbiology Supervisor, Laboratory Objectives: • Detail the most common samples received from microbiology testing. • Explain proper sample collection and its intended uses. • Detail adequacy requirements for microbiology samples. • Clarify expectations from microbiology reports.

Speaker: Hadia Ahmad, MD IM Resident PGY-3 No Disclosures Objectives: •Define treatment resistant hypertension. •Understand the role of endothelin and aldosterone in the pathophysiology of hypertension. •Recognize the endothelin pathway as a target for treatment of resistant hypertension. •Review current research investigating endothelin-receptor antagonists and aldosterone synthase in the treatme...