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Treating Obesity 2024: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine - LIVE STREAMING
Education to Optimize Your Care of Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric Patients with Obesity
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.
Highlights of the 2024 program include:
• Update on using the newer GLP-1 based therapies
• Comprehensive evaluation of the patient with obesity
• Emerging precision me... |
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Applying Guidelines and Latest Evidence to the Management of Moderate‐to‐Severe Asthma in Children and Adults
Target Audience
The educational design of this activity addresses the needs of pulmonologists, allergists/immunologists, NPs and PAs, and other clinicians involved in the management of patients with moderate‐to‐severe asthma.
Program Overview
Patients with asthma and underlying comorbidities require personalized treatment to achieve asthma control. Children with asthma have an especially high burden of symptoms, and are at risk of impaired lung development if asthma control cannot be ... |
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It Takes a Village: Working Together to Reduce Racial Inequities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Maternal morbidity and mortality rates are unacceptably high in the United States (US). In fact, Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, prompting the US Department of Health and Human Services to state that maternal deaths are a public health crisis. What can you do to address these inequities in maternal health? Two experts in this field will discuss the latest data on maternal deaths and frame practical and supportive strategies ... |
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CME Escape Room: Putting Together Clues in HIV, CVD, T2D, and CKD: Escaping Management Mishaps
Target Audience
The educational design of this activity addresses the needs of US and ex-US infectious disease and HIV specialist physicians, NPs, and PAs involved in the treatment of patients with HIV.
Program Overview
As people with HIV live longer, they can develop common comorbidities affecting aging patients, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Further, weight gain may be seen in some patients, though the role of antiretrovir... |
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Managing Opioid Misuse Disorder in Pregnancy and Neonatal Care
This course familiarizes physicians with evaluation and treatment of patients who present with maternal opioid use during and after pregnancy.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Identify the specific problems encountered by women using opioids during pregnancy
- Evaluate pregnant patients with a history of maternal opioid use
- Differentiate between maintenance options for opioid treatment during pregnancy
- Assess... |
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Cases in Practice: Applying Proposed Care Pathways for Interdisciplinary Collaboration to the Management of Nasal Polyps
Target Audience
The intended audience for this program is ENTs, allergists, immunologists, specialty nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and other clinicians involved in the management of patients with nasal polyps (NPs).
Program Overview
Clinicians on the frontlines of care for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps " including ear, nose, and throat specialists (ENTs) and allergists-- are largely unaware of the underlying pathophysiology driven by type 2 (T2) inflammatio... |
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Case Studies in Identifying and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence among People with HIV
The prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) is high among people with HIV (PWH). PWH who report IPV are more likely to have poor HIV-related health outcomes (i.e., limited retention in care and poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy), sexually transmitted infections, mental health disorders, and poor overall physical health. HIV care visits are an opportunity to assess for and address IPV and provide comprehensive support to patients who have experienced IPV. Using a combination of did... |
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