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ForwardCANCELLED: Hot Topics in Internal Medicine 2020
Due to an increase in respiratory illness and the rise of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), UW–Madison ICEP is following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, AAMC, State and local Public Health, UW Health and Campus guidelines regarding our in-person accredited activities. Registered learners will be notified if any changes are made to the status of this activity.
We may offer the conference content in an online format. We will send you further information if we decide to offer the content online.
Take care of your health by following these steps if you are experiencing mild respiratory symptoms, including sore throat, fever, cough and/or shortness of breath:
- Stay home when you are sick and limit contact with others.
- Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds or use hand sanitizing gel.
- Cover your cough with your elbow and sneeze within a tissue.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects in your home (cellphones, for example).
- Do not travel while sick.
INTENDED AUDIENCE AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE
This activity is designed to meet the needs of practicing internists, family physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals interested in expanding their knowledge and improving their care of patients with complex medical illness.
OBJECTIVES
This activity enhances participants' knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors, with a focus on recent advances in preventive care, acute and chronic disease management, and enhancement of practitioner application of national priorities in health systems improvement. Topics and speakers were carefully considered to be sure that we addressed current challenges for health care issues routinely encountered by primary care providers and their health care professional teams. The overall objective of this activity is to provide a comprehensive review of the most important advances in internal medicine and its subspecialties essential for all medical professionals who care for adults in the following areas:
General Internal Medicine and relevant topics in:
- Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care
- Infectious Disease
- Nephrology
- Rheumatology
ELEMENTS OF COMPETENCE
This activity is designed to change learner competence and focuses on the American Board of Medical Specialties areas of patient care and procedural skills, and medical knowledge. This activity also focuses on the interprofessional competencies of teams/teamwork, and roles/responsibilities.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 UW Internal Medicine Brochure.pdf | 329.45 KB |
SCHEDULE | |
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020 | |
| AM | |
| 7:00 | Registration, Breakfast |
| 7:50 | Welcome, Jeremy P. Smith (Moderator) |
| 8:00 | What's Next? Moving Beyond Metformin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Maxfield P. Flynn, MD, PhD |
| 8:30 | Primary Care Management of Depression, Heather C. Huang, MD |
| 9:00 | Oncology Emergencies: From the Clinic Perspective, Narjust Duma, MD |
| 9:30 | Question and Answer Period |
| 10:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30 | Compelling Cases in Vaginitis, Kristen L. Panther, APNP |
| 11:00 | Things a Pharmacist Wishes All Providers Knew, Timothy S. Yeh, PharmD, BCACP |
| 11:30 | Palpitations: Just Beat It? Miguel A. Leal, MD |
| 12:00 | Question and Answer Period |
| PM | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Rheumatology Cases You Need to Know, Tiffany C. Lin, MD |
| 2:00 | Pre-op Cardiac Evaluation, Karen L. Moncher, MD |
| 2:30 | Question and Answer Period |
| 2:45 | Refreshment Break |
| 3:00 | Alzheimer's Disease Update, Robert J. Przybelski, MD, MS |
| 3:30 | Pro-biotics or Con-biotics? The Search for Clarity in the Uncertain World of Probiotics, Joseph A. McBride, MD, MA, DTM&H |
| 4:00 | Question and Answer Period |
| 4;15 | Adjourn |
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 | |
| AM | |
| 7:00 | Registration, Breakfast |
| 7:50 | Welcome, Kristen L. Panther, APNP (Moderator) |
| 8:00 | STDs in 2020: It's a Scary World Out There, Andrew W. Urban, MD |
| 8:30 | Greatest Hits 2020: The Most Earth-Shattering, Mind-Blowing, Tectonic-Plate-Shifting Studies of the Year, Jeremy P. Smith, MD |
| 9:30 | Question and Answer Period |
| 10:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30 | Think Kidneys: Cases for Outpatient Primary Care, Tripti Singh, MD |
| 11:00 | Tackling Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): Challenges and Opportunities, Aurangzeb Baber, MD |
| 11:30 | COPD: Pearls for Primary Care Practitioners, Nicholas A. Braus, MD |
| 12:00 | Question and Answer Period |
| PM | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Management of Cirrhosis for the Primary Care Provider, Erin K. Spengler, MD |
| 2:00 | Coronavirus Update, Dennis G. Maki, MD |
| 3:00 | Question and Answer Period |
| 3:30 | Adjourn |
Conference Housing
A block of rooms has been reserved at the conference site, the Madison Marriott West. Please contact the hotel directly (1-888-745-2032 or 608/831-2000) to arrange your accommodation. The special rate for a standard guestroom is $146 plus taxes.
When making your reservation, please tell the reservation agent that you are booking a room under the 2020 UW Internal Medicine Conference. The block of rooms will be held on a first-come, first-served basis and any available rooms that have not been reserved by April 21, 2020, will be released to the general public.
PLANNING COMMITTEE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Jeremy P. Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Melissa M. Stiles, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Andrew W. Urban, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease
UW HEALTH
Kristen L. Panther, APNP, Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber, Internal Medicine Clinic
Timothy S. Yeh, PharmD, BCACP, Clinical Pharmacist
FACULTY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Aurangzeb Baber, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Narjust Duma, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care
Maxfield P. Flynn, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Heather C. Huang, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) and Psychiatry
Miguel A. Leal, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; Director, Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service; Director, Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrophysiology Fellowship Programs
Tiffany C. Lin, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Dennis G. Maki, MD, Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine; Attending Physician, Center for Trauma and Life Support and eICU
Joseph A. McBride, MD, MA, DTM&H, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Disease), and Pediatrics (Division of Infectious Diseases)
Karen L. Moncher, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Robert J. Przybelski, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology
Tripti Singh, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Jeremy P. Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Erin K. Spengler, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Andrew W. Urban, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease
UW HEALTH
Kristen L. Panther, APNP, Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber, Internal Medicine Clinic
Timothy S. Yeh, PharmD, BCACP, Clinical Pharmacist
WILLIAM S. MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL
Nicholas A. Braus, MD, Staff Pulmonologist
Policy on Faculty and Sponsor Disclosure
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) that the faculty, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this continuing education (CE) activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests in order to allow CE staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation. Detailed disclosures will be made available with the activity handout materials.
Accreditation Statement
 | In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. |
Credit Designation Statements
American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABIM MOC Statement
 | American Board of Internal Medicine: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. |
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) & Iowa Board of Nursing
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 ANCC and Iowa contact hours. ANCC pharmacotherapeutic contact hours will be calculated and awarded as appropriate to meet the needs of advanced practice nurses. The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing is Iowa Board of Nursing provider 350. A copy of the evaluation may be sent to the Iowa Board of Nursing, 400 SW 8th Street, Suite B, Des Moines, IA 50309.
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this knowledge-based activity for a maximum of 12.5 hours (1.25 CEUs) of CPE credit. Credit can be earned by documented attendance. Credit will be provided to NABP CPE Monitor within 60 days after the activity completion.
Universal Activity Number (UAN): JA0000358-0000-20-059-L04-P; 12.5 hours/1.25 CEUs.
Continuing Education Units
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 1.25 continuing education units (CEUs) or 12.5 hours.
Available Credit
- 12.50 MOC: ABIM Medical Knowledge Points (Part II)
- 12.50 ACPE Contact Hours - Pharmacist
- 12.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 12.50 ANCC Contact Hours
- 12.50 Iowa Board of Nursing Contact Hours
- 12.50 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY
Requests for cancellation must be submitted in writing to help@icep.wisc.edu. Cancellation requests received at least 96 hours prior to the conference will allow a full refund except for the nonrefundable processing fee of $50. No refunds will be made for cancellations received less than 96 hours prior to the activity start date.
QUESTIONS ABOUT REGISTRATION
Email help@icep.wisc.edu or call 608-262-7226.
PROGRAM CHANGES
Emergency situations occasionally occur and may necessitate topic or speaker changes. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP reserve the right to alter or substitute a topic or speaker without prior notification.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For registration assistance please email help@icep.wisc.edu or call 608-262-7226. For all other questions please contact Cathy Means at cathy.means@wisc.edu.