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Pri-Med East

CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

November 7-9, 2008 Pre-Conference Symposia Day Thursday, November 6, 2008

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Boston, Massachusetts

Earn up to 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Powerful New Curriculum Includes: • Review of Recent Optimal Management of Type 2 Diabetes: What’s New? • Cervical Cancer Prevention and Screening • What’s Happening to Our Eyes: An Update for the Primary Care Physician • Live Orthopedic On-Stage Demonstration • Live On-Stage Demonstration for Pediatrics and Adolescents

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Pri-Med extends the reach of knowledge in a single direction: toward your patient. With a growing practice, you likely have less time to care for each patient. At Pri-Med, we’ll help you make the most of this precious time by providing expert insights and information you can use to immediately impact the care of your patients. As a leading provider of continuing medical education for more than 13 years, Pri-Med presents clinicians in various specialties with education and information about the very latest advances in research, treatment protocols, and technology that directly improves the quality of care. Pri-Med Conference & Exhibition is the premier CME convention featuring first-rate clinical lectures, a dynamic exhibit hall, and Industry-Supported Symposia. • Choose from over 50 sessions developed by Harvard Medical School at the 3-day program, Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care. Sessions addressing clinical challenges you face every day are led by speakers from Harvard Medical School

• Learn more about the business of health care at the Practice Solutions sessions focusing on practice management and technology. • Interact with over 150 exhibitors offering the latest tools, products, and services for improving patient care. • Gain additional insights into cutting-edge therapies by registering for Industry-Supported Symposia held during Pre-Conference Symposia Day as well as the conference’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner breaks.

Pre-Conference Symposia Day, Thursday, November 6, 2008 A full day of symposia is offered the day before the core program, providing you with an excellent opportunity to jumpstart your learning and help you make the most of your time at Pri-Med East. Earn up to 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. The following are tentative topics. Visit www.pri-med.com/east08/r24 for up-to-date session information.

Together with leading institutions, we’re building new pathways to high-quality, highly relevant knowledge.

Track 1

Track 2

Pain - Opioids Dyslipidemia - Statin

Making a Case for Adjunct Therapy in Treating Residual Cardiovascular Risk

Migraine

Treating Musculoskeletal Pain: Current Options

GERD

Targeting HDL to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Call to Action

Diabetes - Oral

VTE Prevention in 2008: Are You Ready to Make a Difference?

Additional sessions to be announced. Schedule subject to change. Pre-Conference Symposia Day is a ticketed event and registration is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Exhibit Floor is not open on Pre-Conference Symposia Day. Pre-Conference Symposia Track 1 Accreditation Statement: Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation Statement: Pri-Med Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. AAFP Credit: Application for CME credit has been filed with American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending. AANP Accreditation Statement: Pri-Med Institute is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. AANP provider 040308. This program has been approved for 6.25 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 3.125 hours of pharmacology). Special Needs: In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Pri-Med Institute seeks to make this conference accessible to all. If you have a need which might require special accommodations, please call 866-263-2546 or email [email protected] three weeks prior to the meeting. These activities are being commercially supported by Abbott; GlaxoSmithKline; Merck & Co., Inc; Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals; and TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. Pre-Conference Symposia Track 2 Accreditation Statement: Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation Statement: Pri-Med Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. AAFP Credit: Application for CME credit has been filed with American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending. AANP Accreditation Statement: Pri-Med Institute is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. AANP provider 040308. This program has been approved for 6.25 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 3.125 hours of pharmacology). Special Needs: In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Pri-Med Institute seeks to make this conference accessible to all. If you have a need which might require special accommodations, please call 866-263-2546 or email [email protected] three weeks prior to the meeting. These activities are being commercially supported by Abbott; Allergan, Inc; Alpharma Pharmaceuticals LLC; and Merck & Co., Inc.

Register Today • www.pri-med.com/east08/r24 • 866-263-5444 (Mon–Fri, 9 am–8 pm EDT)

Friday, November 7, 2008 - Exhibit Hall is open 8:45 am - 4:30 pm Morning & Afternoon Sessions 6:15 - 7:45 Breakfast Symposia: ACS Essential Elements in the Management of Acute Respiratory Illnesses

Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care

Pri-Med Practice Solutions

8:00 - 9:00 Welcome and Keynote Address Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP, MD, Moderator

Voodoo Death Revisited: The Modern Lessons of Neurocardiology Martin A. Samuels, MD 9:00 - 9:45 9:45 - 11:45

Break Session 1: Diabetes Symposium

Session 2: Women’s Health

Mark D. Aronson, MD, Moderator

Karen J. Carlson, MD, Moderator

Session 3: Men’s Health (Audience Response System) Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Moderator

9:45

10:25

Review of Recent Optimal Management of Type 2 Diabetes: What’s New?

Nourishing Our Future: Supporting Breastfeeding in the Primary Care Setting

Merri Pendergrass, MD

Ellen Long-Middleton, PhD, NP

Insulin Treatment for Diabetes: An Update

Fibromyalgia Update Joanne Borg-Stein, MD

Martin J. Abrahamson, MD

Benign Prostate Disorders: A Potpourri of Pesky Problems

The Seven Deadly Sins of Practice Management

Mary F. McNaughton-Collins, MD

Cheryl Toth

Defining the Expanding Role Stopping Embezzlement of the PCP in Prostate Cancer: Cheryl Toth An Ever-Changing and Complex Journey Mark B. Garnick, MD

11:05

Answering Your Questions

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Both Session 1 Speakers

Robert L. Barbieri

Treatment of Low Testosterone in Men—Pharmaceutical Scam, Anti-Aging Panacea, or Just Good Medicine

Creating Financial Policies Laurie Hyland Robertson

Abraham Morgentaler, MD 11:45 - 1:45 Lunch Break 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Symposium: Implementing a Roadmap for Care in the Management of Cardiometabolic Disease: A Guide for the Primary Care Practitioner

Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care 1:45 - 5:30

Session 4: Cardiovascular Medicine

Session 5: Women’s Health Karen J. Carlson, MD, Moderator

Gerald W. Smetana, MD, Moderator


Session 6A: Common Curbside Consults (Audience Response System) John D. Goodson, MD, Moderator

1:45

Cervical Cancer Prevention and Screening

Curbside Consults in Nephrology

Optimizing Coding in Primary Care, Part 1

Eileen E. Reynolds, MD

David Steele, MD

Bill Dacey, MBA, MHA, CPC

Atrial Fibrillation

Advances in Breast Cancer

Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD

Irene Kuter, MD, PhD

Curbside Consults in Pulmonary Medicine

Optimizing Coding in Primary Care, Part 2

Christopher H. Fanta, MD

Bill Dacey, MBA, MHA, CPC

Work-up of Claudication Duane Pinto, MD

2:30

3:15 - 4:00 4:00

Break

Break

Break

Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging

Mood Disorders in Women During Reproductive Life

Session 6B: Recent Articles Technology and Money That Will Change Your Practice Rosemarie Nelson, MS (Audience Response System)

Warren Manning, MD

Hadine Joffe, MD

John D. Goodson, MD, Moderator

Recent Articles That Will Change Your Practice Mark D. Aronson, MD

4:45

Panel Discussion

Osteoporosis: Cases

All Session 4 Speakers

Randy Wertheimer, MD

Recent Articles That Will Change Your Practice

Can EMR=ROI? Rosemarie Nelson, MS

John D. Goodson, MD

5:45 - 7:45

Dinner Symposium: Chronic Opioid Therapy: Understanding Risk While Maximizing Analgesia



offered and sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education.

sponsored by Pri-Med Institute in collaboration with Physicians Practice.

Saturday, November 8, 2008 - Exhibit Hall is open 8:45 am - 4:30 pm Morning & Afternoon Sessions 6:15 - 7:45 Breakfast Symposium: Demystifying Fibromyalgia - A Primary Care Primer Hypertension



8:00 - 9:00 Keynote Address Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP, Moderator

Honoring a Father’s Dream: The Story of the Sons of Lwala Milton Ochieng’, MD and Frederick Ochieng’ 9:00 - 9:45 9:45 - 11:45

Break Session 7: Viral Hepatitis Symposium

Session 8: Live On-Stage Demonstration for Pediatrics and Adolescents

Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Moderator

Session 9: Caring for the Older Patient Jane S. Sillman, MD, Moderator

Harvey P. Katz, MD, Moderator

9:45

10:25

Advance Care Planning for the Geriatric Patient

Don’t be Paralyzed, Analyze: Part 1

Sanjiv Chopra, MD

Muriel R. Gillick, MD

Susanne Madden

Hepatitis A: An Update

Drug Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

Don’t be Paralyzed, Analyze: Part 2

Jane S. Sillman, MD

Susanne Madden

Staffing 101

Panel Discussion

Difficult Conversations: Focus on Treatment Choices in Geriatric Oncology

All Session 7 Speakers

Lidia Schapira, MD

Chronic Hepatitis C: A Multifaceted Disease

Neurological Examination David K. Urion, MD

Michael P. Curry, MD

10:45

Hepatitis B: A Primer for the PCP

Orthopedic Exam of the Lower Extremity

Nezam H. Afdhal, MD

Brian Gottkau, MD

11:05 11:25 12:00 - 1:30

Lunch Symposium: Diabetes-Insulin


Laurie Hyland Robertson

Session 10: Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine


Session 11: Medicine Potpourri Session 12: Live Orthopedic On-Stage Demonstration Jane S. Sillman, MD, Moderator


John D. Goodson, MD and Frank Domino, MD, Moderators

1:45 - 3:15

2:30

Food Allergy in Infancy and Childhood: Is Water Still Safe?

“Can’t-Miss Diagnoses: PMR and Giant Cell Arteritis”

Physical Examination and Diagnoses of Hand and Wrist

Creating Your Ideal Practice

Ronald E. Kleinman, MD

William P. Docken, MD

Charles S. Day, MD

and David Albenberg, MD

An Integrative, Family-based Approach to Childhood Obesity

IBD: A Primer for the PCP

Shoulder Examination

Adam S. Cheifetz, MD

Arun Ramappa, MD

Creating Your Ideal Practice, Part 2

David S. Ludwig, MD

3:15 - 4:00 4:00

Laurie Hyland Robertson,

Laurie Hyland Robertson,

Break

Break

What the Primary Care Clinician A Common Sense Approach Needs to Know About Puberty: to Anemia Too Early, Too Late or Just Right? William Mason, MD

Break

and David Albenberg, MD

Hip Lecture and/or Live Demo Selecting an EMR Video Clip Jeffrey Hertzberg, MD, MS Dennis W. Burke, MD

Harvey P. Katz, MD

4:45 5:00

ADHD—When Stimulants Aren’t Working Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH

ENT for the PCP

Making Your EMR Work

William Mason, MD

Jeffrey Hertzberg, MD, MS

Panel Discussion All Session 12 Speakers

5:45 - 7:45

Dinner Symposium: Clostridium Difficile Infection in Primary Care: Tackling a Virulent Pathogen

Choose the registration method that’s most convenient for you: Online: www.pri-med.com/east08/r24 Call: 866-263-5444 (Mon-Fri, 9 am - 8 pm EDT)

Sunday, November 9, 2008 - Exhibit Hall is open 8:45 am - 1:45 pm Morning & Afternoon Sessions Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care 8:00 - 9:00 Keynote Address Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP, Moderator

Reverence for Life in Medicine: Ethics, Skills, and Professional Satisfaction B. Lachlan Forrow, MD 9:00 - 9:45 9:45 - 11:45

Break Session 13: Pediatric and Adolescent Puzzles: Interactive Clinical Problem Solving (Audience Response System)

Session 14: Morbidity and Mortality Conference *

Session 15: Eye and Derm Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Moderator

Mark D. Aronson, MD, Moderator


9:45

Urinary Tract Infections in Children: Current Perspectives on Evaluation and Management

Case Presentations

What’s Happening to Our Eyes: An Update for the Primary Care Physician Mark Kuperwaser, MD

Michael Somers, MD

10:25

Challenging Patients in Pediatrics Harvey P. Katz, MD

Common Dermatologic Issues in Primary Care

10:45 11:05

Hearing Loss in Children

Peter A. Lio, MD

Greg Licamelli, MD, MHCM

11:45 - 1:45

Lunch Break

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch Symposium: RAPID: Rheumatoid Arthritis: Primary Care Initiative for Improved Diagnosis and Outcomes


Session 16: Challenges in Primary Care: A Case-Based Approach (Audience Response System)

Session 17: Prevention or Controversies Gerald W. Smetana, MD, Moderator

Ellen Long-Middleton, PhD, NP, Moderator

1:45 2:25

The Pressure Is On: Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Hypertension

Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Insomnia

Todd S. Perlstein, MD

Karen J. Carlson, MD

Hyperlipidemia Update

New Drugs for the Primary Care Provider: What You Need to Know

Jorge Plutzky, MD

Gerald W. Smetana, MD

3:05

Thyroid: A Primer

Vitamin D Deficiency in the Ambulatory Setting

Erik K. Alexander, MD

Frank Domino, MD

* Risk Management Credits.

Schedule subject to change.

Accreditation Statement Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians. Designation Statement Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity. Practice Solutions Accreditation Statement Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation Statement Pri-Med Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ANCC Accreditation Statement Pri-Med Institute is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Designation Statement This activity for 10 contact hours is provided by Pri-Med Institute. Special Needs In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Pri-Med Institute seeks to make this conference accessible to all. If you have a need which might require special accommodations, please call 866-263-2546 or email [email protected] three weeks prior to the meeting. M|C Communications, LLC and Pri-Med Institute provide equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. © 2008 M/C Communications LLC. All rights reserved. Pri-Med is a registered trademark and KNOWLEDGE THAT TOUCHES PATIENTS is a trademark of M/C Communications, LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

*For complete activity information, including acknowledgement of commercial support, please refer to www.pri-med.com/east08/accreditation.

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Register today and be a part of the 14th Annual Pri-Med East Conference & Exhibition. • Choose from over 50 clinical lectures, a dozen practice management sessions, and Industry-Supported Symposia • Explore the latest products and services offered by more than 150 exhibiting companies • Earn up to 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Earn up to 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Register online by September 20 for just $35. After September 20, registration is $75. Visit www.pri-med.com/east08/r24 or call 866-263-5444 (Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 8 PM EDT) to register.

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