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INTERNAL MEDICINE FOR PRIMARY CARE: CARDIOLOGY/NUTRITION/OBESITY/ PULMONOLOGY
Nassau, Bahamas – Atlantis Paradise Island Resort March 5 – 8, 2026

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:
– Describe current diagnostic approaches and the role of drug therapy to the patient with acute chest pain
– Explain current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension
– Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based medicine for heart failure
– Implement lifestyle changes as well as lipid and cholesterol guidelines for the prevention of CAD
– Discuss how popular diets and nutritional science can lead to healthier lifestyles
– Identify expectations for optimal nutrition across the patient’s expected life span
– List strategies to modify diet and behaviors in patients with a range of health issues
– Describe options for personalizing a patient-specific nutrition plan to each patient
– Explain the underlying mechanisms and physiological processes that contribute to the development and progression of obesity, including the roles of genetics, hormones, metabolism, and environmental factors
– Discuss non-surgical obesity treatment options
– Describe the pathophysiology surrounding obesity and council patients on the various weight management strategies, including patient selection criteria for surgery
– List the advantages and disadvantages of surgical options and the post-surgery care of patients
– Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
– Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory infections
– Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
– Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung cancer

 

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*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below

• March 5, 2026 (Day 1).mp4
• March 6, 2026 (Day 2).mp4
• March 7, 2026 (Day 3).mp4
• March 8, 2026 (Day 4).mp4

* Detail:

Thursday, March 5, 2026

7:00 am

Check-In and Breakfast

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Cardiology

Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Patient with Acute Chest Pain

Diagnosis and initial evaluation in the primary care setting, urgent care clinic and emergency department; Initial workup, treatment, and follow-up; Diagnosing and treating ST segment elevation and non-ST segment elevation MIs; The role of drug therapy–primary vs adjunctive to PCI; Follow up after acute coronary syndromome

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Cardiology

Hypertension

The 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guidelines; The 2024 ESC Guidelines for hypertension; Approaches to treatment thresholds and goals; Choices for initial and combination therapy; Resistant hypertension; Treating special populations: diabetics, the elderly, patients with renal failure; Risk factors by new pooled equations

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology

Heart Failure

Etiologies and stages of heart failure; ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines; Heart failure with reduced EF (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved EF (HFpEF); Determining patients for referral using biomarkers, eg NT Pro BNP; Treatment options: ACE inhibitors, ARBs, ARNI, beta blockers, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, SGLT2i; The role of devices (ICD and/or CRT) in treatment and antiplatelet drugs; Issues related to the hospitalized patient with acute decompensated heart failure and readmissions

10:40 am – 11:40 am – Nutrition

Myths vs. Science in Nutritional Trends: Approach for the Medical Professional

Discussion of how to scientifically navigate the nutritional maze of popular diets and nutritional trends;

The potential nutrition benefits and pitfalls of various dietary preferences and related patient concerns; Ways nutrition affects healthy lifestyles

11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Nutrition

Nutrition Through the Ages: Prevention and Potential Pitfalls

A working guide for a nutritional and behavioral rubric to understand what is expected (and what may undermine) optimal health from infancy through the elderly; Barriers patients face in implementing and sticking with nutritional strategies

12:40 pm

Friday, March 6, 2026

7:00 am

Arrival and Breakfast

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Nutrition

Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Practical Approach to Diet and Disease

Science-based Nutrition and Behavioral Guide to Treating “The Big” Medical Problems that are taking over your practice; Essential (and proven) strategies to help guide patients’ diet and behaviors in the treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and GI health; Travel through the google-mess of what patients hear and why they turn to these as resources; The science-based strategies and resources that can be implemented to help patients take rational control of their health

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Nutrition

Cutting Edge Nutrition Innovation: A Personalized Approach

How to critically evaluate nutrition tools that patients can use to promote optimal health; Review the “latest and greatest” nutrition applications and technologies that can be used to greatly improve patients’ nutrition and health pursuits; Creation of personalized health plans based on unique, patientspecific plans, tests, and analyses

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology

Primary Prevention of Cardiometabolic CVD

Definitions; AHA/ACC and other lipid guidelines updates; HDL Cholesterol: The good cholesterol?; Metabolic syndrome and/or obesity; Who needs treatment and how much; The role of lifestyle changes, exercise and cardiac rehabilitation; Drug therapy updates; Risk calculation; Role of pooled equations for risk estimates

10:40 am – 11:40 am – Obesity

Pathophysiology of Obesity

A guide to understanding practice demographics and considerations; The what and why of epigenetics; A practical guide to behavioral and medication management

11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Obesity

Medical Management of Obesity

Overview of obesity as a disease state; Costs to the individual of being obese; Use of appetite suppressant medications and lifestyle modifications

12:40 pm

Session Adjourns

Saturday, March 7, 2026

7:00 am

Arrival and Breakfast

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Obesity

Guiding Patients in the Medical and Surgical Care of Obesity

Differences in treating obesity vs. other medical conditions, treatments, and procedures; Strategies for better engagement and understanding of patient pathways, perspectives, and team partnership

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Obesity

Complications and Considerations of Bariatric Surgery

An overview of risks and effectiveness of bariatric surgery; Overview of potential surgical options; Potential complications; The role of support and behavior modification, nutrition, and the stages of patient management post-surgery

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 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

10:40 am – 11:40 am – 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

11:40 am

Session Adjourns

Sunday, March 8, 2026

7:00 am

Arrival and Breakfast

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

Conference Adjourns