CME at The Sea Pines Resort

Family Medicine Update, June 24-28, 2024

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Agenda Topics

June 24, 2024

7:15 – 8:00am            Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15am            Introduction and Logistics - John Ragsdale III, MD
8:15 – 9:15am             Evidenced Based Approach to Palliative Care -                                                                                           Jonathan Fischer, MD, CAQHM
9:15 – 10:15am            Prognosis and Preferences - Teah M. Bayless, DO, CAQ Geriatrics
10:15 – 10:45am          Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45am          Cancer Survivorship - John W. Ragsdale III, MD
11:45am – 12:45pm     Cognitive Screening - Teah M. Bayless, DO, CAQ Geriatrics

June 25, 2024

7:15 – 8:00am            Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15am            Introduction and Logistics - John Ragsdale III, MD
8:15 – 9:15am             Changed Management - Gregory Sawin, MD, MPH
9:15 – 10:15am            Hypertension in the Elderly - Gregory Sawin, MD, MPH
10:15 – 10:45am          Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45am          Geriatric High Value Care - Raman Nohria, MD
11:45am – 12:45pm     Health Beyond Healthcare - Gregory Sawin, MD, MPH

June 26, 2024

7:15 – 8:00am            Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15am            Introduction and Logistics - John Ragsdale III, MD
8:15 – 9:15am             Osteoporosis - Teah M. Bayless, DO, CAQ Geriatrics
9:15 – 10:15am            Approach to Nausea - Jonathan E. Fischer, MD, CAQHM
10:15 – 10:45am          Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45am          Deprescribing - Raman Nohria, MD
11:45am – 12:45pm     Prostate Cancer - John Ragsdale III, MD

June 27, 2024

7:15 – 8:00am            Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15am            Introduction and Logistics - John Ragsdale III, MD
8:15 – 9:15am             Frailty/Falls Prevention - Raman Nohria, MD
9:15 – 10:15am            Approach to Behavioral Dementia - 
                                         Jonathan E. Fischer, MD, CAQHM
10:15 – 10:45am          Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45am          Abnormal Weight Loss - Teah M. Bayless, DO, CAQ Geriatrics
11:45am – 12:45pm     Difficult Discussions - Jonathan E. Fischer, MD, CAQHM

Faculty

Raman Nohria, MD received his MD from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, completed his residency training with the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program and his hospital fellowship with the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He currently serves as a teaching hospitalist on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service at Duke Regional Hospital and as a core faculty member and Associate Director for Undergraduate Medical Education for the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His expertise and scholarly interests include the social drivers of health, community-healthcare partnerships, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for health promotion and behavioral change. 

Gregory Sawin, MD, MPH, is a practicing family physician and serves as Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Development for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Sawin’s work reflects his core value in social justice and a passion to increase health equity — to meet vulnerable patients’ needs, he also has experience with expanding the scope of primary care to include addiction treatment with medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and gender affirming hormone therapy for gender diverse individuals. His long work in safety net health systems, along with his MPH that had a focus in Healthcare Policy Law & Ethics, fuels his drive for health system transformation and leaning in to address systemic racism, which is the primary driver of inequities that manifest as social determinants of health. Dr. Sawin believes Just Culture and psychological safety are fundamental pillars to building a better health system. 

Jonathan E. Fischer, MD, CAQHM is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Faculty in the Division of Palliative Care and a Medical Director for the Population Health Management Office at Duke University. Before entering medicine, he served as a Social Worker with homeless families in New York City and volunteered with Tibetan and Ayurvedic practitioners in Asia, which fueled his career-long passion for helping the underserved. After medical school and residency at UNC, he spent 10 years as a primary care provider in federally qualified community health centers and an instructor in the UNC School of Medicine where he continued his commitment to underserved and marginalized populations, he created access programs for refugees and migrant farm workers and developed statewide palliative care initiatives to improve serious illness care for Medicaid recipients. Currently with the Duke Center for Research to Advance Healthcare Equity, he is developing an implicit bias training intervention for medical providers.

Teah M. Bayless, DO is board certified physician in both family medicine and geriatrics. Dr. Bayless pursued a career in program management for 10 years working for organizations such as the American Red Cross, the Boys and Girls Club, the YMCA, and finally, the Robert H. Mollahan Family Charitable Foundation before graduating from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2010 and completed both a family medicine residency (2014) and a geriatrics fellowship (2017) at Duke University. She is currently part of the core faculty within the Duke Family Medicine Residency program, assisting in providing clinical learning experiences for learners not only from the residency program, but also those from the medical school and the physician assistant program at Duke.

John W. Ragsdale III, MD (Course Director) has served as Chief of the Division of Family Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health since 2017. Prior to that he served as Medical Director from 2012 -2017 and has maintained a clinical practice in the Department of Family Medicine since 2009. His clinical and research interests have focused on cancer survivorship specifically with urological cancers and maintains a clinical practice in survivorship at the Duke Cancer Institute. He also has a long-standing interest in women's health, leadership and medical education as he has been an active member for the Family Medicine Residency program as core faculty since 2009.

 

 

Nurse Practitioner / Physician’s Assistant in Hospital Medicine, July 15-19, 2024

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Agenda Topics

July 15, 2024

7:30 – 8:00am           Welcome and Introductions
8:00 – 9:00am           Updates in CHF - Pahresah Roomiany, MD, MS                                                                                      FairHF trial - Doug Hilbert, MD
9:00 – 9:15am            Break
9:15 – 10:00am           Revisiting the controversy: rate vs rhythm control for atrial fibrillation                                              Luana Kohnke, MD and Doug Hilbert, MD 
10:00 – 11:00am          When to get serious about DFO: is there such a thing as a syncope                                                      workup? - Adam Wachter, MD 
11:00am – 12:00pm     Integration of cardiac POCUS into your practice: case presentations -                                                 Luana Kohnke, MD and Pahresah Roomiany, MD, MS 

July 16, 2024

8:00 – 9:00am           Ophthalmology for the Hospitalist - Tina Singh, MD
9:00 – 10:00am          Threatened limb service and updates in wound care - Faye Farber, MD 
10:00 – 10:15am          Break
10:15 – 11:00am           Updates in peri-operative medicine - Faye Farber, MD
11:00am – 12:00pm     Catatonia for the Internist - Doug Hilbert, MD 

July 17, 2024

8:00 – 9:00am            Advancing your career as a PA or NP Hospitalist -                                                                                    Tara McNally, PA-C, Rachel Cline, PA-C and Grace Dreyer, PA-C
9:00 – 10:00am          Covid 19 in ’24: Updates in care for patients with Covid -                                                                        Lalit Verma, MD and Grace Dreyer, PA-C
10:00 – 10:15am          Break                                                                                                                      10:15 – 11:00am           Where did HCAP go? The change in pneumonia classification and how                                                 this relates to clinical care for pneumonia - Rachel Cline, PA-C
11:00am – 12:00pm     SIRS? QSOFA? The current recommendations for sepsis treatment -                                                     Tara McNally, PA-C

July 18, 2024

Break out into small groups

1. Sepsis - Tara McNally, PA-C 

2. Stroke - Lalit Verma, MD 

3. Cardiac - Pahresah Roomiany, MD, MS 

4. Peri-op/wound cases - Faye Farber, MD 

Faculty

Rachel Cline, PA-C is a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital, where she serves as APP Team Lead. She completed PA school at Duke prior to joining the Hospital Medicine team at Duke Regional Hospital in 2011. She appreciates the wide variety of clinical medicine hospitalists are responsible for and values the opportunity to care for the wider Durham community. She is an Adjunct Associate in the Department Community and Family Medicine at Duke and enjoys educating the next generation of PAs through small group learning and clinical year precepting. 

Grace Dreyer, PA-C is a PA preceptor and hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital. She completed her physician associate training at Duke University prior to joining the hospitalist team at Duke. Her main career interests are hospital-based clinical medicine, palliative care, EBP, and clinical research. She has many passions, are few of which are reading, running, yoga, theology, and traveling.

Faye Farber, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University and a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital.  Prior to coming to Duke, she completed medical school at State University of New York - Downstate and her internal medicine residency at Yale.  Her clinical interests include perioperative medicine, quality improvement/ patient safety and limb preservation.  She is currently the Medical Director of the Threatened Limb service at Duke Regional Hospital.  She also enjoys teaching PA and medical students as well as internal medicine and family medicine residents on the inpatient unit and in the pre-operative clinic.

Doug Hilbert, MD is a medical instructor and academic hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital. He completed his medical school training at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia followed by internal medicine residency training at the University of Maryland in Baltimore prior to joining the faculty at Duke. His main career interests include practicing clinical medicine as well as medical education, with a focus on helping residents and struggling learners meet clinical care milestones. In addition, he studied history and classics at the University of St. Andrews prior to his medical career, which has led to a keen interest in the history of medicine and medical humanities.

Luana Kohnke, MD is a hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital. She completed residency at MUSC and has a special interest in POCUS and medical education.

Tara McNally, PA-C is a hospital medicine PA at Duke Regional Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree in general biology from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania and her Master of Health Science and PA certification from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, she became an APP Team Lead within the hospital medicine department at DRH, where she is also a unit medical director for the Clinical Decision Unit. Additionally, she has an interest in academia and is an Adjunct Associate in Family Medicine and Community Health for the Duke PA Program and intermittent faculty with the UNC PA Program. She completed a teaching certificate program with Duke AHEAD. Tara has also served as the secretary for the Triangle NC Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, crafting homemade coffees and perfecting her latte art, visiting local restaurants and breweries, and riding her Peloton.

Pahresah Roomiany, MD, MS is a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital where she serves as Associate Medical Director of Education. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University and has a special interest in POCUS and medical education. She teaches POCUS in the Duke School of Medicine.

Tina Singh, MD is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke University. She focuses on Cornea and Anterior Segment Disease.

Lalit Verma, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He is a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital where he serves as Director of the Hospital Medicine program.

Adam Wachter, MD is a Hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital where he serves as the Associate Medical Director of Operations. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He developed PA and NP onboarding at DRH.

 

 

 

 

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