
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™21 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- Obese patient: root cause analysis and approach to treatment from lipidologist perspective
- Identify medical factors, medication, insulin resistance as secondary causes of obesity and approach to work up
- Discuss how diet, genomics, microbiome and environmental factors influence the treatment of obese patients
- Review new medications FDA approved for treament of obesity
- Diabetes medications and new Treatment options, including Cardiovascular outcomes data
- Review approach to treatment of diabetes, including discussion new cardiovascular outcomes data for GLP 1 agonists, SGT2 inh, Quick release bromocriptine
- Biomarkers: Role of Apo B, lp (a), LDL-P vs LDL -C in primary and secondary prevention cardiovascular disease, also inflammation and role in women's cv health
- Discuss outcomes data for Apo B, LDL P and cost effective approach to treatment of residual risk
- Describe concept of concordance and discordance of DLL cholesterol vs LDL particles or Apo B and clinical application
- Management of complex dyslipidemia including Lowering triglycerides and raising HDL Cholesterol, does it matter?
- Review lipid treatment guidelines
- Review clinical impact of HDL c raising trials including AIM HIGH and HPS 2thrive >li>Review of TG lowering therapies and outcome data
- Case studies in cardiometabolic disease: focus on women throughout lifespan
- Review treatment of genetic disorders in women of childbearing age, children and adolescents, Postmenopausal women
- Learn specific clinical applications through use of real case
- The Microbiome and Its Impact of Cardiometabolic Disease
- Discuss role of microbiome in health and disease across the lifespan including mode of delivery (c section vs vaginal), use of antiobiotics, dietary choices
- Evaluation of the Asymptomatic Patient with Abnormal LFT's on Routine Testing
- Interpret and work up the abnormal liver tests on routine testing
- The Gas We Pass or Clearing the Air of Flatulence
- To better understand the Physiology of gas in the GI Tract; to enable better diagnosis and treatment of this common problem
- Less Common Causes of Liver Disease 1
- Improve the knowledge of non- Alcohol related liver diseasesand through case studies & to improve the work up.
- Probiotics in GI Disease
- Differentiate between Prebiotics and Probiotics: be able to discuss the current evidence for their use in GI Disease
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Discuss the mechanisms of acute pancreatitis & differentiate the mild from severe cases
- Is Acute Diarrhea More than Just a Nuisance?
- Differentiate between acute and chronic diarrhea and make better decisions in the work up of acute diarrhea
- Dysphagia--A Topic Hard to Swallow
- Improve their diagnostic approach to history taking and work up of dysphagia
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Show & tell
- Develop a better understanding of the Pathology and Radiology involved in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and differentiate the various forms
- Caustic Injuries to the Esophagus
- Understand the various forms of caustic injury to the esophagus and the current standard of care in treatment
- Less Common Causes of Liver Disease #2: Case Presentations
- Be familiar with non-alcoholic and less common causes of Liver Disease
- Learn how to workup before referral to the Hepatologist or Gastroenterologist


























