The 28th Annual Family Medicine Update: Fueling the Front Line will offer up to 14 hours of online CME/CE Oct. 23–25 for primary care physicians, doctors of osteopathic medicine, advanced practice registered nurses, registered nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, physical therapists, certified health educators, social workers and substance abuse counselors.
To register, visit https://cvent.me/4X75nd or call 501-686-6626 by Oct. 21.
The annual conference provides an opportunity for health care professionals to learn about the latest advances and information impacting family medicine.
The conference is completely virtual. The first day – All About Opioids – offers six hours of content for only $25. Thursday and Friday sessions are $20 each.
The first day is All About Opioids with talks from local and national experts on opioids, kicking off with Don Teater, M.D. He is a family physician from Denver who has focused on the intersection of pain, opioids and addiction and was medical advisor for the National Safety Council. Another nationally known speaker, Aaron Weiner, Ph.D., will offer ways providers can help those with substance use disorders when abstinence isn’t an option. A team from Boston Mountain Rural Health will give a behind-the-scenes look at how they integrated behavioral health into their clinics to help those with addiction and co-occurring mental disorders. Other speakers include Karen Burks, M.D., a family physician with the UAMS/Baptist Health family medicine residency program, and UAMS’ Bill Fantegrossi, Ph.D., who researches new psychoactive substances such as “bath salts” psychostimulants to amphetamine-like dietary supplements. Kristin Martin, D.O., founder of River Valley Medical Wellness, is bringing her team to talk about their mobile opioid recovery unit which treats patients with substance use disorder in areas where help is scarce.
Talks on the second day will feature topics from UAMS providers on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with Sheena Colclough, APRN, a syphilis update with Mitchell Jenkins, M.D., chronic kidney disease with Paige Beck, M.D., Ph.D., and Cassandra Fritz, M.D., an assistant professor with Washington University Medicine’s division of gastroenterology, who will speak on early onset colorectal cancer.
The third day of the virtual conference will focus on weight loss medications, presented by Bri Morris, Pharm.D., executive director of the Arkansas Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network, and UAMS’ Christopher Johnson, Pharm.D. Patty Harper, CEO of InQuiseek Consulting, will update attendees on Medicare news. The two afternoon sessions will feature pulmonary and cardiology updates with Steven Deas, M.D., a physician with the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, and UAMS’ Srikanth Vallurupalli, M.D.
Participants who attend the entire conference and complete all surveys will be eligible to attend the Family Medicine Spring Review in April at no cost.