Title: ID Grand Rounds: Hepatic Infections

Speaker: Merin Varghese, MD

Consultant, Infectious Disease

Physician Lead, Antimicrobial Stewardship

No financial disclosures

Objectives:

Review common etiologies of liver abscesses

Review common fungal etiologies of liver infections

Brief overview of pathogens associated with viral hepatitis

Title:

Comprehensive Care of the Cardiomyopathy Patient: From Pillars that Sustain to Buttresses that Assist

Presented by:

J. Eduardo Rame, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FESC

Director of Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplant

Thomas Jefferson University Division of Cardiology,

Philadelphia, PA

Financial Disclosure:

Co-Primary Investigator ReSTAGE HF (Thoratec, now Abbott, Inc)

Primary Investigagor ADVANCE and ENDURANCE (HeartWare, now Medtronic Inc)

National PI: SoPRANO (Macitentan post LVAD, Jannsen)

Objectives:

1. To describe the different adaptations of human heart failure

2. To describe the potential for myocardial recovery

3. To describe the pillars of heart failure therapy

Speaker: John Torous, MD, MBI

Objectives:

- Assess which digital phenotyping data streams could be most useful in helping understand your patients' clinical trajectories and list three risks and benefits of this method of data collection

- Apply a digital literacy frame to be able to evaluate which of your patients may most benefit from digital health and which first require training / support

- Define digital phenotyping and list three risks and benefits of this method of data collection

- List the four stages of the APA app evaluation framework in order of use

- Be able to guide a patient through informed decision making in using a mental health related smartphone app

Enduring CME will expire on 6/23/2025

Objectives:

1. Describe the barriers to mental healthcare among Hispanic/Latino communities and their prevalence

2. Utilize screening tools/assessments and strategies to overcome language barriers in diagnosing mental health conditions

3. Demonstrate cultural competence when interacting with Hispanic and Latinx patients

Speakers:

Marshall Bruner, PsyD

Assistant Professor, Director of the Center for Counseling & Psychological Services, and Assessment Coordinator at Brenau University School of Psychology and Adolescent Counseling

Betsy Escamilla, MS

Lead School Counselor at Gainesville City School System

Vanesa Sarazúa

Founder & Executive Director of Hispanic Alliance Georgia

No disclosures

Objectives

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 6/8/2025

Speakers:

Supriya Mannepalli, MD, CIC, MBA

Sandy Bozarth, RN

No disclosures

Objectives

Review Candida auris epidemiology

Review infection prevention and control measures to prevent the spread of candida auris

Review treatment for Candida auris infections

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 6/2/2025

Speaker:

Mariam Anwar, MD

No disclosures

Objectives:

•Understand early palliative care.

•Recognize and identify patients that benefit from early palliative care.

•Discuss hospice and non-hospice survival.

•Review evidence demonstrating that hospice is associated with longer survival times for certain terminally ill patients

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 6/1/2025

Speakers:

Jaime Morel Ruiz, MD

Pathology

Addison Parris, MD

NGPG Infectious Disease

Supriya Mannepalli, MD, MBA, CIC

NGHS Medical Director, Infection Prevention

No disclosures

Objectives:

•Discuss clinical presentation of clostridium difficile infection.

•Discuss diagnosis and testing of clostridium difficile infection.

•Review infection prevention and control best practices for patients with clostridium difficile infection.

•Review current guidelines and best practices in management of clostridium difficile infection.

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 6/26/2025

Speaker:

Jeffrey Popma, MD

Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Structural Heart, Coronary and Renal Denervation, Medtronic

Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston

No disclosures

Objectives:

• Review the critical value of clinician investigation in the discovery of medical devices to serve unmet patient needs.

• Discuss the risks and benefits of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis.

• Outline the clinical outcomes associated with transcatheter treatment of patients with symptomatic, severe mitral regurgitation with edge-edge repair and other advanced therapies.

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 5/11/2024

Speakers:

Nathaniel J Kim, MD

IM Resident PGY-3

Ahreum Lim, PhD

University of Georgia Postdoc Researcher

No disclosures

Objectives:

•Analyze ChatGPT and explain the concept of Large Language Models.

•Assess the applications of broad and narrow Artificial Intelligence in clinical medicine and medical education.

•Generate discussion concerning the role and necessity of learning in the context of Artificial Intelligence and automation.

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Enduring CME will expire on 5/11/2024

Speaker: Paul Takla, MD

No disclosures

Objectives:

• Decrease stigma surrounding opioid use disorder

• Improve ability to identify patients at risk for opioid withdrawal

• Understand the pharmacology of Buprenorphine and methadone

• Be able to better manage hospitalized patients on Buprenorphine and methadone

• Increase use of our hospital’s opioid withdrawal protocol

• Learn who can initiate patients on opioid substitution therapy

• Connect patients with available resources for opioid use disorder

Accreditation and Designation:

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.