Here is what’s in it for you:
  • 26 Plenary presentations
  • 40 Workshops (8 in parallel)
  • Live question and answer period for each talk from November 25-27
  • Asynchronous on-demand recordings and option to submit questions Dec 2, 2024 - March 2, 2025

Schedule

Ce cours est présenté en anglais.

Monday
Nov 25

08:15 - Welcome Remarks
  • Ivan Rohan
  • Marion Dove
  • 08:30 - Plenary 1
    • A Glimpse into History - Maimonides, Mechnikov and Kellogg
      Joseph Schwarcz
    • Approach to CBC abnormalities
      Chantale Cassis
    • Approach to EKG reading
      Jacqueline Joza
    • Pregnancy hypertension, preeclampsia, and post partum follow up
      Tiina Podymow
    11:00 - Workshops A
    • ECG abnormalities - When not to worry
      Jacqueline Joza
    • Neurology
      Michael Sidel
    • Nuclear medicine imaging in dementia
      Karine Provost
    • Proteinuria
      Tiina Podymow
    • PEER Guidelines
      Marc-Antoine Turgeon
    • Providing Infectious Disease Screening and Care to Immigrants in the Primary Care Setting
      Christina Greenaway
    • New vaccines in the elderly
      Brian Ward
    • MGUS
      Chantale Cassis
    13:00 - Plenary 2
    • UTI
      Gianpaolo Capolicchio
    • Electrolyte abnormality - A pragmatic approach
      Samuel Mamane
    • Physiatry - Injections
      Mohan Radhakrishna
    • Osteoporosis - New guidelines 2023
      Suzanne Morin
    15:30 - Workshops B
    • UTI - Case-based discussion
      Gianpaolo Capolicchio
    • Electrolyte abnormality - Case-based discussion
      Samuel Mamane
    • Adolescent medicine
      Giuseppina Di Meglio
    • Refractory depression
      Fiore Lalla
    • Secondary HTN and resistant HTN
      Sheldon Tobe and Rahul Jain
    • Thrombosis
      Carolyne Elbaz
    • Immunodeficiencies: What Are We Missing?
      Jordan Trevisonno
    • Medical abortion in family practice
      Samantha Cogan

    Tuesday
    Nov 26

    08:30 - Plenary 3
    • Walking a fine line: A geriatrician's approach to balance impairment in the elderly
      Wendy Chiu
    • Hepatitis B
      Giada Sebastiani
    • Peds - common GI consults
      Rilla Schneider
    • Everything about tremor in 10 questions
      Sylvain Chouinard
    11:00 - Workshops C
    • Paediatric IBD for the primary care physician
      Rilla Schneider
    • CRPS/topical treatments in pain medicine
      Ning Nan Wang
    • CHF in the elderly (a geriatrician's POV)
      Wendy Chiu
    • Hepatitis B
      Giada Sebastiani
    • AI - Topic to come
      Elisabeth Bellefleur-Mercier
    • DM2 - Topic to come
      Jean-Francois Yale
    • Personality disorders
      Gabriel Souza
    • Prenatal care for family physicians
      Marisa Zampini
      13:00 - Plenary 4
      • Medication management of dementia
        Julia Chabot & Carolyn Pavoni
      • Food protein allergies
        Christine McCusker
      • Red Eye
        Devinder Cheema
      • Dermatology
        Carolyn Jack
      15:30 - Workshops D
      • Peds ENT- adenoids, sleep apnea
        Melaie Duval
      • Top POEMs (research studies) of 2023 for Primary Care
        Roland Grad
      • Migraines
        Robert Altman
      • CKD
        Sameena Iqbal
      • Dermatology - case discussions
        Carolyn Jack
      • CSST workshop
        Peter Rohan
      • Transgender health - Pearls of prescribing
        Rachel Bond
      • Medication and management of dementia - Case-based discussion
        Julia Chabot & Carolyn Pavoni

        Wednesday
        Nov 27

        08:30 - Plenary 5
        • Approach to febrile infant
          Earl Rubin
        • PCOS
          Magali Bidal Saint-Aubin
        • Update on gout and pseudogout: Crystallizing the current approach to diagnosis and management
          Michael Starr
        • DM2 - History of insulin past, present and future
          Tina Kader
        11:00 - Workshops E
        • PCOS - Case-based discussion
          Magali Bidal Saint-Aubin
        • Endo - New insulins on the market
          Tina Kader
        • Approach to febrile infant - Case-based discussion
          Earl Rubin
        • Rheumatology pearls for the office: A case-based workshop
          Michael Starr
        • Caring for patients with lung nodules and lung cancer
          Jason Agulnik
        • PFT - Case-based discussion
          Maxime Cormier
        • Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
          Cleve Ziegler
        • Update on breast cancer screening in 40-49 age range
          Sabrine Leblond-Murphy
        13:00 - Plenary 6
        • Menopause and perimenopause
          Cleve Ziegler
        • PFT/spirometry report
          Maxime Cormier
        • Approach to chronic pain
          Mark Ware
        • Can I help my patients in clinic with alcohol use disorder?- Detox and relapse prevention
          Vanessa Pasztor
        • Common MSK sports injuries
          Debra Heilpern
        • The Dr. Clown Foundation
          Melissa Holland

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