Grand Rounds - Nov. 18, 2022
"Quality Pain Care in Older Adults"

Speaker: Michael Bottros, MD. Clinical Operations & Medical Director of Pain Services, Associate Professor, Division of Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Objectives

1. Describe the impact of pain in older adults.
2. Identify the barriers to pain assessment and management in older adults.
3. Briefly describe the multifaceted nature of suffering when performing a comprehensive pain assessment.
4. List both non-pharmacologic & pharmacologic treatment options.
5. Develop a multimodal pain treatment plan for patients with complex pain.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Nov. 11, 2022
"H-Pylori: Helicobacter Highlights"

Speaker: Peter S. Buch, MD, AGAF, FACP. Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine; Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine.

Objectives

1. Identify techniques to improve H. pylori treatment.
2. Utilize H. pylori eradication confirmation in your practice.
3. Recognize the long term consequences of H. pylori infection.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Oher CME or Clerkship questions: also contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Grand Rounds - Nov. 4, 2022
"The Cannabinoid and Opioid Connection"

Speaker: Kenneth P. Finn, MD. Springs Rehabilitation PC.

Objectives

1. Review the endocannabinoid system and how it is related to the cannabinoid system.
2. Educate and communicate with patients who may have questions about marijuana.
3. Identify the close relationship between opioids and cannabinoids systems.
4. Identify what conditions cannabinoids may possibly work for and how expanded cannabis programs impacted the opioid epidemic.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Oher CME or Clerkship questions: also contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Grand Rounds - Oct. 21, 2022
"Multiple Sclerosis"

Speaker: Andrew Woo, MD, PhD. Santa Monica Neurological Consultants; Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Objectives

1. Recognize the typical clinical presentation of Multiple Sclerosis.
2. Implement the initial evaluation of the patient with possible MS.
3. Become familiar with the major disease-modifying therapies for MS.
4. Manage common symptoms of MS.
5. Identify the gender (female) and race (Caucasian) that is affected most often, and improve diagnosis as a result.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Oct. 14, 2022
"Therapeutic Hypothermia"

Speaker: Michael Christopher Kurz, MD, MS, FACEP, FAHA. Heerink School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Objectives

1. Define therapeutic hypothermia.
2. Describe which patients are eligible for TTM and post-arrest care.
3. Incorporate TTM into practice and understand physiologic changes that occur at different target temperatures.
4. Predict and manage the predictable complications that occur when employing TTM.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Oct. 7, 2022
"Water Sports and Recreation: Common Injuries and Prevention"

Speaker: Bianca R. Edison, MD, MS, FAAP. Attending Physician, Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center, Keck USC.

Objectives

1. Assess different water sports available to young athletes and the potential dangers/injuries that can occur.
2. Discuss risk factors for injuries in certain water sports.
3. Identify prevention strategies for injuries discussed.
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Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Sep 30, 2022
"Work‐up and Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease"

Speaker: Natasa Janicic, MD, PhD. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC.

Objectives

1. Incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with thyroid disease.
2. Evaluate screening methods for thyroid disease.
3. Recognize when to treat subclinical thyroid disease, hypothyroidism, and thyroiditis.
4. Determine whether the incidence of thyroid disease is increasing at disproportionate rates for different races and ethnicities.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Sep 23, 2022
"Lessons from the Cockpit"

Speaker: Robert Stephenson. Military Pilot.

Objectives

1. Build upon medical professionals' teamwork and crisis management skills by applying 'best practices' utilized in aviation.
2. Equip medical professionals to analyze medical mishaps with techniques applied during aviation accident investigations.
3. Enable medical professionals to identify hazards, mitigate risk, and prevent mishaps based on lessons learned and existing programs in aviation.
4. Draw a direct correlation between medical and aviation professionals concerning human error and teamwork performance.
5. Identify areas for improvement in the medical profession for teamwork, risk management, and mishap prevention.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Sep 16, 2022
"Aspirin for Primary Prevention"

Speaker: Matt Budoff, MD, FACC. Professor of Medicine, Director, Cardiac CT, Program Director, Division of Cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance CA.

Objectives

1. Review primary prevention trials for aspirin.
2. Evaluate benefit-risk balance for aspirin in primary and secondary prevention.
3. Discuss guideline recommendations.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

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Grand Rounds - Sep 9, 2022
"Utility of Psychedelics for Palliative Care and the Treatment of End‐of‐Life Existential Distress"

Speaker: Anthony P. Bossis, MD, PhD. NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Objectives

1. Identify factors and symptoms in existential and psycho-spiritual distress in palliative and end-of-life care.
2. Recognize the importance of meaning and transcendence in end-of-life distress and psychedelic research.
3. Describe the characteristics of mystical experience; summarize the scientific findings from current psilocybin cancer anxiety research.
4. Identify clinical implications from psychedelic research for palliative / hospice care.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Oher CME or Clerkship questions: also contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].