AKMG Convention 2017

Updates, Advances and Best Practices to Optimize Patient Care Educational Program provided by Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG) CME 2017
July 21-22, 2017

Sheraton Chicago, 301 East north Water Street, Chicago, IL 60611

CME CHAIR:

Shyla Vengalil, MD

CME COURSE DIRECTOR:

Sreekumar Madassery, MD

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The purpose of this symposium is to provide Medical Practitioners with comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based advances in the understanding and treatment of the most common disorders that they will encounter in everyday practice in a changing landscape of medicine .

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon Conclusion of this Program, participants should be able to:

Integrate new knowledge and research findings into the evaluation and treatment of common and uncommon medical disorders.
Recognize the most effective interventions leading to reduction in modifiable risk factors.
Employ practice relevant new research in their everyday practice to provide state-of-the-art care to patients with a wide range of disorders
Determine an appropriate approach to assessing patient-specific risks and benefits of opiates for chronic pain.

ACCREDITATION:

In support of improving patient care, Rush University Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Rush University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AKMG CME Sponsored for CME credit by Rush University Medical Center

AGENDA

Friday 7/21/2017
7.30 AM - 8.10 AM	Breakfast
8:10 – 8:15 am	Welcome address
8:15 – 8:45 am	Bench to bedside: Story of treatment of rickets in children Farzana Perwad, MD Associate Professor Director, Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program Department of Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
8:45 – 9:15 am	Headache: It's all in your head . . . or is it? Paul Mathew, MD, DNBPAS, FAAN, FAHS Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women's Hospital John R. Graham Headache Center Boston, MA
9:15 – 9:45 am	Screening for Gynecological Malignancies Rajee Vijayanand MBBS, MRCOG Departmental Medical Lead for Gynaecology MDT lead, Gynae Oncology & Colposcopy Consultant Gynaecologist Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading UK
9:45 – 10:15 am	Undernutrition in Low and Middle Income Countries Fahad Razak, BASc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10:15 – 10:30 am	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 am	Temporomandibular Dysfuntion and Orofacial Pain Shyam Prasad Aravindaksha, BDS, MDS, PGDMLS Interim Chairman Assistant Professor & Director of Internship Department of Oral Maxillofacial surgery University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry Detroit, MI
11:00 – 11:30 am	Cardiology update- Dr.Sandeep Nathan
11:30 – 12:00 pm	Diagnostic Errors in Medicine Mihas Kodenchery, MD, FACC Interventional cardiologist Methodist Physician Group Merrillville, IN
12:00 – 12:30pm	Malignant Coronary Artery Disease in Young Indians Enas A.Enas, MD, FACC Director, Advanced Heart Lipid Clinic President & CEO, Coronary Artery Disease among Indians (CADI) Research Foundation Chicago, IL
Saturday 7/22/2017
7:30 – 8:15 am	Breakfast
8:15 – 8:45 am	Management of Type 2 diabetes Sreekumaran Nair, MD, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Endocrine Research Unit, Director, Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Core Lab Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester MN
8:45 – 9:15 am	Attention deficit disorder in children: An overview Satish Sundar MD.,FAAP.,DCH Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics- Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Attending Faculty, St. Joseph Mercy in Oakland Royal Oak, MI
9:15 – 9:45 am	Therapeutic options in hydrocephalus: A contemporary update Sunil Manjila, MD Staff Neurosurgeon, Bay Neurosurgery Associates, McLaren Bay Region Medical Center, Bay City, MI
9:45 – 10:15 am	Recent Advances in the Management of Parkinson’s Disease Pratap R Chand, MBBS, DM , FRCP, ABPN Professor of Neurology, Director Movement Disorders, Director Division of General Neurology, St Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
10:15 – 10:30 am	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 am	Newer agents in the management of osteoporosis Nisha Nigil Haroon MD, DM, Dip NB, CCD, MSc Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Ontario Staff Endocrinologist, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
11.00 - 12.00 noon	GI updates Moderator: Easwaran P. Variyam, MD Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Department of Internal Medicine University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX
11:00 - 11:30 am	Hepatitis C and Non Alcoholic Liver Disease in Children Paul Joseph Thuluvath, MBBS., MD., FRCP. Professor of Medicine & Surgery University of Maryland School of Medicine & Medical Director, Institute of Digestive Health & Liver Disease Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
11:30 - 12:00 pm	Chronic Hepatitis C in Children Parvathi Mohan, M.D. Director of Hepatology Interim Chief, Division of Gastroenterology Professor of Pediatrics Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition The George Washington Univ School of Med & Health Sciences Children's National Medical Center Washington D.C
12.00 - 12.20 pm	Evolving Trends is Prostate Cancer Screening and Diagnosis Arvin K. George, MD Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Urology University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
12:20 - 12.40 pm	Active Surveillance for Prostatic Cancer Khurshid Ridwan Ghani, M.B.Ch.B., M.S., F.R.C.S. Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Urology, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
DISCLOSURE POLICY:
Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) adheres to all ACCME Accreditation Criteria and Policies. IT is RUMC’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (planners, faculty, reviewers, Course Director and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that RUMC may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity.

Updates, Advances and Best Practices to Optimize Patient Care Educational Program provided by Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG) CME 2017 July 21-22, 2017