Description
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+ Target Audience: primary care physicians
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+ Information:
Lisbon, Portugal – InterContinental Lisbon
June 2 – 5, 2025
Target Audience
This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
- Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence basedmedicine for heart failure
- Recognize the clinical manifestations of valvular heart disease
- List pharmacologic options for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and the benefits ofeach
- Perform a cardiovascular workup
- Discuss evidence-based management options for Alzheimer’s disease
- Evaluate weakness and recognize cardinal features of Parkinson’s disease as well as othermovement disorders
- Utilize history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms
- Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines
- Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
- Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratoryinfections
- Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
- Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lungcancer
- Identify clinical practices shown to prevent cancer
- Discuss the diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected cancer
- Evaluate and manage risks of the cancer survivor
- Describe the mechanism of action of new antiplatelet agents
+ Topics:
Monday, June 2, 2025
7:00 am Registration
Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.
7:30 am – 8:30 am – Cardiology
Office Management of Heart Failure
Etiologies and stages of heart failure; Differentiating heart failure with reduced EF (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved EF (HFpEF); Work-up and pharmacological treatment options; Cardiac amyloidosis; Importance of end-of-life care
8:30 am – 9:30 am – Cardiology
Primary Care Approach to Valvular Heart Disease
Comprehensive review of the clinical presentation choice and the appropriate diagnostic testing and guidance for choosing medical or surgical intervention; Approved indications for catheter based interventions will also be reviewed
9:30 am – 9:40 am
Coffee Break
9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology
Update on Atrial Fibrillation for the Primary Care Provider
New methods of detection, rate vs rhythm control, new options for stroke prevention
10:40 am – 11:40 am – Neurology
Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias
Definition; statistics; neurological changes of normal aging; pathology; etiological theories; vascular dementias; investigations; social issues; symptomatic treatment; research therapies
11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Neurology
Parkinson’s Disease & Other Movement Disorders
Epidemiology; cardinal features; secondary features; pathology; neurochemistry; differential diagnosis; treatment; complication; other movement disorders; neuroleptic- induced movement disorders; chorea
12:40 pm
Session Adjourns
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
7:00 am Registration
Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.
7:30 am – 8:30 am – Neurology
Evaluating Weakness
Using the history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms; characteristics of neurological diseases that produce weakness; presentations of representative diseases of the nervous system
8:30 am – 9:30 am – Neurology
Headaches & Migraines
Basic headache mechanisms; headache history: characteristics, precipitating factors, medical conditions; migraine: common tension, classic, treatment, complicated, cluster, sinus; trigeminal neuralgia; Giant Cell Arteritis; brain tumor; subarachnoid hemorrhage; emergency room treatment
9:30 am – 9:40 am
Coffee Break
9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology
Cardiac Testing for the Non-cardiologist
Uncomplicating the menu choices; Selecting the right test for the right patient and making sense of the results
10:40 am – 11:40 am – Pulmonology
Asthma
The medical impact of asthma; fundamental role of inflammation, with possible scarring and irreversible loss of lung function; practical points of diagnosis; goal setting management based on levels of severity; risk factors for mortality and treatment in the acute setting; management options for the difficult to control asthmatic patient
11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Pulmonology
Controversies in the Treatment of Common Respiratory Infections
Acute and chronic bronchitis; pneumonia (community versus hospital-acquired); role of the Pneumonia Severity Index score in determining indication for hospitalization; cost- effective use of antibiotics; clinical significance of drug resistance; guidelines for management
12:40 pm
Session Adjourns
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
7:00 am Registration
Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.
7:30 am – 8:30 am – Pulmonology
COPD
Definition; pathophysiology; early detection and intervention; risk reduction; management update including new modalities (including lung volume reduction surgery) and the role of inhaled corticosteroids and domiciliary oxygen
8:30 am – 9:30 am – Pulmonology
Lung Cancer Screening & Pulmonary Nodules
Appropriate use of the new lung cancer screening recommendations; Fleischner Society guidelines and American College of Chest Physician Lung Cancer guidelines; approach to definitive evaluation and management strategies
9:30 am – 9:40 am
Coffee Break
9:40 am – 10:40 am – Oncology
Cancer Prevention
Cancer screening and clinical practices shown to prevent cancer will be reviewed
10:40 am – 11:40 am – Oncology
Approach to the Patient with Suspected Cancer
Symptoms, signs and diagnoses that raise the suspicion of cancer will be reviewed, and an approach to evaluating these patients will be presented
11:40 am
Session Adjourns
Thursday, June 5, 2025
7:00 am Registration
Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.
7:30 am – 8:30 am – Oncology
Management of Cancer Survivors
Medical issues related to cancer survivorship and approaches to surveillance for cancer recurrence will be reviewed
8:30 am – 9:30 am – Oncology
A Primary Care Review of New Antiplatelet Agents
Mechanisms of action, clinical indications, effectiveness, safety and peri-procedure management of current antiplatelet agents will be reviewed
9:30 am
Conference Adjourns
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