Pri-Med Southwest 2022 returned to Houston on Tuesday, April 5, offering a diverse collection of topics ranging from cardiology to COVID-19, nephrology to neurology, and obesity to health equity. More than 40 sessions are slated for the three-day, in-person event taking place at the George R. Brown Convention Center and focusing on issues of interest to healthcare providers in the primary care space. Healthcare professionals in attendance have the opportunity to earn up to 17.50 CME/CE credits.
According to meeting organizers, this year’s conference features 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 Tuesday morning with an inspiring presentation entitled “Tough as They Come: PTSD, Overcoming Trauma, and Building Resiliency” given by author and humanitarian Travis Mills. Mills is a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant who was 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 are scheduled to take the main stage at the conference:
- 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 are joined at Pri-Med by a faculty of world-renowned healthcare professionals from prestigious institutions. Their topics will include:
- “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”
And more.
The Conference concludes Thursday, April 7, at 2:35 pm Central.
For more information, visit www.pri-med.com.