Pri-Med East is returning to Boston for a 3-day in-person learning from Thursday, December 8 to Saturday, December 10. As always, this year’s primary care conference is designed to bring you high-quality CME/CE courses, presented by faculty experts from renowned institutions, that address case challenges you experience in your daily practice. Course topics include cardiology, COVID-19, diabetes, health equity, medical literature updates, nephrology, neurology, obesity, pain management, and USPSTF updates.
Below is a tidbit of insight into the three keynote speakers.
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, Senior Associate Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, is a prominent voice in medicine with a uniquely humanistic view of the future of healthcare. He received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, “for reminding us that the patient is the center of the medical enterprise.”
Dr. Verghese will present an inspiring keynote address called “A Doctor’s Touch: Caring for the Patient and Oneself,” where he’ll discuss the epidemiology and root causes of burnout and wellness amongst health care providers, explore the clinician-patient relationship in the context of history, ritual and the advent of the technological age, as well as wellness solutions both institutionally and individually; the latter includes celebrating what is timeless in medicine and highlighting those things that give our work meaning.
Steve Pemberton’s, Chief Human Resources Officer, Workhuman, early life was anything but easy. Steve experienced unstable foster homes from the time he was just three and struggled to find safety, security, and a sense of family. Today, however, Steve is considered one of the nation’s most inspiring business and HR leaders. How did he get there? You’ll be able to hear about Steve’s personal story during his presentation entitled, “A Chance to Lead: Breaking the Cycle in Health Disparities,” where his goal is to elevate the conversation around disparities in healthcare. Other objectives of his talk will include advocating for under-privileged, minority group patients and patients with socio-economic problems that impact the quality of their healthcare.
Daniela Lamas, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care Doctor at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Faculty at Harvard Medical School, whose recent book, You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death and In Between,” examines the thin border between life and death through real stories of patients, whose lives were saved by modern medical technology. Her talk, “Opening the Door: Telling the Stories of Life, Death, and in Between,” will discuss what’s in her book and will also touch on the long-term consequence of survival faced by many coronavirus patients.
Why Attend Pri-Med East?
Pri-Med East is an interactive learning experience filled with expert clinician-educators who are affiliated with renowned healthcare institutions, including Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and more. During the 3-day conference, you’ll be able to:
- Discover new products and services relevant to your practice
- Enjoy safe, in-person learning
- Get your questions answered
- Interact with knowledgeable faculty
- Share experiences with colleagues
- Earn up to 18.00 CME/CE credits for only $99
Click here to learn more and/or register.
What You Missed at Pri-Med Southwest 2022
Last April, Pri-Med Southwest returned to Houston, Texas and offered attendees a diverse collection of topics, which ranged from cardiology to COVID-19, and obesity to health equity, among others. Over 40 sessions were available to audience members for the three-day, in-person event and focused on issues of interest to healthcare providers in the primary care space.
Pri-Med Southwest featured a brand-new curriculum, which was developed in collaboration between Richard J. Hamill, MD, and Michael Fordis, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine.
The conference opened with an inspiring presentation entitled “Tough as They Come: PTSD, Overcoming Trauma, and Building Resiliency” given by author and humanitarian Travis Mills, who is a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant critically injured by an improvised explosive device (IED) in 2012 during his third tour of duty in Afghanistan. The IED cost Mills both of his arms and legs, leaving him a quadruple amputee, one of only five individuals to survive such extensive injuries from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Four additional keynote speakers included:
- Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Professor of Medicine and former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, who for 12 years led the most robust academic Continuing Medical Education enterprise in the world, one that reached out to 80,000 clinicians in 150 countries annually.
- Frank J. Domino, MD, Professor and Pre-doctoral Education Director for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA, and the Editor in Chief of Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins’ “5-Minute Clinical Consult” series.
- Hana El Sahly, MD, Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology and Medicine, Infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chair of the FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
- Robert L. Atmar, MD, the John S. Dunn Research Foundation Clinical Professor in Infectious Diseases in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, and a member of Baylor’s Vaccine Treatment & Evaluation Unit.
Doctors Chopra, Domino, El Sahly, and Atmar were joined at Pri-Med by a faculty of world-renowned healthcare professionals from prestigious institutions. Their topics included:
- “Evaluating the Latest Evidence in ASCVD Risk”
- “Challenging Cases in Urgent Care”
- “Updates in Obesity”
- “Beyond the SSRI: Treating and Managing Major Depression”
- “New Onset Atrial Fibrillation”
- “A Toolbox for Triaging Urgent Ophthalmic Conditions”
- “Updates in Cancer Screening”