MARCH 4th - MARCH 7th, 2024

We have an exceptional schedule in store for you during your stay in Grenada!

From women’s health to sarcoid to intricacies of cardiac dysfunction, learn about a wide array of topics during the next four days.

Interested in some extra-curricular activities that we'll be hosting? Click here for the non-academic schedule.

The conference will be held on the SGU Campus in Belford Hall. Transportation will be going to most of our hotels listed here.

Monday 3/4/24

07:30 - 08:00 Registration
08:00 - 08:10 Announcements
08:10 - 09:10 Physiological and Psychological Changes in Pregnancy and Postpartum - What Every Healthcare Provider Should Know - Dr. Constance Guille
Objectives:

  • Recognize key cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic changes that occur during

    pregnancy and postpartum.

  • Know how to access needed resources to provide optional care for peripartum people.

  • Provide better management of the conditions that can lead to maternal mortality.

09:10 - 10:10 Chronic Cough - Dr. Peter Dicpinigatis
Objectives:

  • To understand the mechanisms and common etiologies of chronic cough.

  • To incorporate a diagnostic-therapeutic algorithm into the evaluation of the patient with chronic cough.

  • To be aware of potential new antitussive drugs currently in clinical development.

10:10 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20 Navigating New Frontiers in Treating Obesity: from GLP-1 to Emerging Therapies - Dr. Jamie Almandoz
Objectives:

  • Review mechanisms of actions and effectiveness of GLP-1 Receptor agonists for treating obesity and cardiometabolic diseases

  • Discuss off-target and management of adverse effects of GLP-1 receptor agonist therapies

  • Outline new and emerging nutrient stimulated hormonal therapies for obesity

11:20 - 12:20 Creatures, Crohn’s, Colitis, and IBD in the ED - Dr. Joseph Martinez
Objectives:

  • Understand the initial presentation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

  • Recognize the complications of IBD

  • Discuss the appropriateness of imaging in the emergency department

  • Know the medications commonly used to treat IBD and how those medications may impact

    the patient’s care in the ED

tuesday 3/5/24

08:00 - 08:10 Announcements
08:10 - 09:10 Interpreting Chest X-rays: What You Know that the Radiologist Does Not - Dr. Joseph Mammarappallil
Objectives:

  • Understand radiographic anatomy on a chest radiograph.

  • Be able to identify common imaging findings, pertinent to chest diseases and acute symptoms.

  • Use chest Imaging findings to appropriately triage patients and understand optimal imaging follow up.

09:10 - 10:10 The impact of Dobbs v Jackson on the well-being of pregnant people and their families - Dr. Constance Guille
Objectives:

  • Describe the current landscape of abortion access in the United States.

  • Describe the mental health impact of an abortion and being denied an abortion.

  • Describe the effects of abortion and abortion denial on other aspects of people’s lives including medical complications, children’s health and development and longer-term financial impact on women and families.

10:10 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20 Cannabis - What is it Good for? What are the Risks? - Dr. Neal Reynolds
Objectives:

  • To Understand the past, current and likely future legal status of cannabis

  • To appreciate details of cannabis modes of delivery, pharmacodynamics and associated language

  • Review several important toxicities associated with cannabis

11:20 - 12:20 Sarcoidosis - Not Just a Pulmonary Disease - Dr. Daniel Culver

Objectives:

  • To recognize the systemic manifestations of sarcoidosis 

  • To understand the impact of health equity on manifestations and outcomes of sarcoidosis 

  • To appreciate the approach to holistic assessment and management of sarcoidosis from a generalist perspective

wednesday 3/6/24

08:00 - 08:10 Announcements
08:10 - 09:10 Tik-Tak-Slow – How to win the arrhythmia game - Dr. Leen Alblaihed
Objectives:

  • Understand the physiology behind ECG findings of arrhythmias and why there are different treatment methods

  • Identify the different types of tachyarrhythmias utilizing a simplified algorithm.

  • Utilize a simplified approach in managing malignant tachyarrhythmias

09:10 - 10:10 Community Acquired Pneumonia – What is New - Dr. Lisa Lancaster
Objectives:

  • Microbiology review of CAP

  • Review of treatment in the outpatient and inpatient setting

  • Review of mimickers of CAP not to miss

10:10 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20 How to Interpret a Clinical Trial Journal Publication and Apply it to Your Practice - Dr. Craig Conoscenti
Objectives:

  • Be able to identify the objective of the clinical trial and how it applies to your practice.

  • Establish an understanding of the clinical significance of the outcome of the clinical trial.

  • Identify the patient population and whether it is diverse or not and whether there is anything to suggest that it may or may not be applicable to all of your patients

11:20 - 12:20 Rheumatological Diseases Updated: Lupus, RA, and Scleroderma - Dr. Linda Bockenstedt

Objectives:

  • Know the initial work-up of patients with autoimmune inflammatory arthritis

  • Understand current recommendations for use of glucocorticoids in RA, SLE, and Scleroderma

  • Understand latest therapies for RA, SLE, and Scleroderma

thursday 3/7/24

08:00 - 08:10 Announcements
08:10 - 09:10 Dont Fear the Fib: Managing Atrial Fibrillation - Dr. Leen Alblaihed
Objectives:

  • Determine when managing A-Fib is required emergently

  • Apply evidence-based recommendations for managing Afib in an acute setting

  • Identify decompensated heart failure associated with A-fib and avoid contraindicated rate control medications

09:10 - 10:10 Interpretation of Spirometry and Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests for the PCP - Dr. Lisa Lancaster
Objectives:

  • Review straightforward interpretation criteria of spirometry, lung volumes and diffusion capacity

  • An improved understanding of the physiologic meaning of obstruction and restriction with disease correlates

  • A case-based approach with practice reading pulmonary function tests.

10:10 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20 Pills Pacers, Pumps, and Pigs – Advancement in heart failure treatment - Dr. Brian Houston
Objectives:

  • Be able to delineate the recent advancements in pharmacologic therapy for heart failure with both preserved and reduced ejection fraction.

  • Establish an understanding of novel noncardiac pacing techniques to treat heart failure.  

  • Identify potential upcoming advancements with percutaneous pumps and shunts to treat patients with heart failure.

11:20 - 12:20 Unsuspected Killers in Medicine - Dr. Joseph Martinez
Objectives:

  • Identify patient presentations where innocuous appearing complaints hide life-threatening pathology

  • Describe historical factors to assist in identifying these diseases

  • Outline a treatment strategy for each condition