COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
7½ Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
The time has come to acknowledge the grave flaws of the WHI, and openly explore the myriad ways estrogen supports the female body and to acknowledge the grave impact of menopause on female cardiometabolic health. As well, the past 20 years has brought incredible new understandings of how the female body works, with revelations of the role of the gut microbiome, the circadian and lunar rhythms, the endocannabinoid system, and recognition of the healing effects of nutritional and lifestyle choices, as well as the benefits of fasting, all working synergistically to optimize female health.
These lectures will explain every facet of these new understandings, ultimately presenting a therapeutic approach, each health care practitioner can implement in their practice, to optimize the health of every women patient, as she transitions into the menopause and during the remaining years of her life.
Topics:
- Estrogen & cardiometabolic health in women & the impact of menopause - part 1
- Define the metabolic impact of menopause due to loss of ovarian hormone production
- Estrogen & cardiometabolic health in women & the impact of menopause - part 2
- Demonstrate knowledge of hormone therapy options in menopause, assessing prior studies and the newest data
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: the poster child for female cardiometabolic dysfunction
- Summarize the myriad reproductive and metabolic manifestations of PCOS and the underlying causes & new therapeutic approaches
- Circadian rhythms, hormones, and cardiovascular health
- Appraise the importance of rhythms to cardiovascular health and the role of clock genes and the master clock
- The gut microbiome & cardiometabolic health - new dietary therapeutic approaches
- Critique the gut microbiomer's role in maintaining cardiometabolic homeostasis & the impact of nutrition
- Female-dominant medical conditions with cardiometabolic risk- but rarely recognized
- Describe which chronic diseases often occurring in menopausal women are associated with serious cardiometabolic risk
- Diagnosing & treating cardiometabolic issues in women - inflammation & fasting explored
- Assess how inflammation underlies all cardiometabolic disease, how to diagnose it, and how to treat it with various forms of fasting
- Update on Dyslipidemia
- Apply knowledge gained to improve management of complex cholesterol related issues
- Diabetes and CV disease: Focus on new treatments
- Distinguish therapies in diabetes management that are beneficial or harmful from a cardiovascular perspective
- Atrial Fibrillation: New therapies in stroke prevention
- Gain insight into New Oral Anticoagulants and their judicious utilization
- Hypertension: The debate about newer guidelines
- Manage hypertension in a complex patient with multiple comorbidities
- Congestive Heart Failure: evolving strategies in management
- Synthesize diagnostics and create an algorithm based intervention using new therapies
- Cardiorenal Intersection: The comorbidity conundrum
- Classify types of CRS, employ biomarkers to predict AKI, CKD and ESRD and propose new hypothesis to generate ideas for new therapies
- EKG Pearls: Clinical corelation
- Analyze EKG abnormalities and corelate with potential clinical scenario