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Learn Latest on Sickle Cell Disease on Webcast

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Learn Latest on Sickle Cell Disease on Webcast. This program will go through the challenges for people with sickle cell disease to obtain primary care, especially the challenges around the transition from pediatric to adult care. Learners will also learn about preventative, acute, and chronic care topics important for primary care physicians caring for individuals with sickle cell disease. The second half of the program will go over the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease, disease modifying treatments, and management of chronic pain.

For this webcast, we’ve invited two experts to discuss modern care of patients with Sickle Cell Disease with an emphasis on primary care. First, Dr. Rob Cronin is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and is a clinician scientist who not only provides primary care for patients with sickle cell disease.  He also uses his clinical informatics training to study topics including sickle cell disease, disparities, and transitions from pediatric to adult centered care. Our second presenter is Dr. Andrew Schamess. Andrew is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine who has helped create a novel home-based primary care program for patients with sickle cell disease.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Describe preventive care for people with SCD, including nuances for this population
  • Describe some common acute and chronic issues in SCD that intersect with primary care and how to manage them
  • Identify three disease modifying agents that are used to treat sickle cell disease.
  • Identify three factors that can contribute to chronic pain in adults with sickle cell disease.
  • You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Get A Better Understanding of Non-Opioid Pharmacologic Management of Pain

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This webcast will discuss Non-Opioid Pharmacologic Management of Pain. This program will provide a concise review for practical, non-opioid treatment paradigm and perform high-yield, focused pain assessment. It will also summarize current best practices for non-opioid medications. Additionally, learners will be able to describe safe and effective treatments for common pain syndromes.

Today, we’re pleased have Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Dr Melissa Tornero-Bold back on the program. Melissa specializes in pain medicine and neuromodulation.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Discuss common non-opioid medications 
  • Understand best evidence for most effective treatments of acute, subacute, and chronic pain

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Condition-specific
  • Combination Therapy
  • Efficacy

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

CME Webcast Teaches on Cardiac Risk Assessment

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CME Webcast Teaches on Cardiac Risk Assessment.  This talk will focus on a review of guideline-based risk assessment for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. We will define risk severity for both primary and secondary prevention with the help of some risk calculator tools. We will define risk-enhancing factors for cardiovascular disease and their appropriate utilization, with special focus on coronary artery calcium score and lipoprotein(a).

Back in 1948, there were only a couple of fairly ineffective antihypertensive drugs and there were no drugs to treat high cholesterol. But today, we have extremely effective medications to treat both high blood pressure and high cholesterol in order to reduce the chances of cardiovascular disease. But which patients should be treated and how aggressively should they be treated? Fortunately, we have solid evidence-based answers to those questions and today, we are going to explore the tools that every primary care provider can use for every adult patient to prevent cardiovascular disease. We’re pleased to welcome cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dr. Benjamin Romer.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

Understand guideline-based risk assessment for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Be able to utilize risk calculators and understand risk-enhancing factors to best define risk

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • When to begin cardiovascular risk assessment in your patients
  • Harnessing the electronic medical record for cardiovascular risk assessment
  • Use of cardiovascular risk assessment for medication de-escalation
  • Statin dosing
  • Lipoprotein(a) testing
  • When to order Hs-CRP
  • Treatment of elevated levels of Hs-CRP
  • Role of the routine EKG in cardiovascular risk assessment

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn About Lung Cancer and What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know

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Learn About Lung Cancer and What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know on webcast.  This webcast will discuss Lung Cancer: What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know. This activity will review the epidemiology, staging, and initial treatment of lung cancer. In addition, the approach to the incidental pulmonary nodule will be discussed.

Primary care providers and hospitalists are on the front line and are usually the first ones to suspect lung cancer in patients. Because of this, it is incumbent on all physicians and advance practice providers who see adult patients to be able to recognize the earliest signs of lung cancer and to initiate the workup. Our presenter, Dr. Jim Allen, will be discussing a lot of the exciting driver-directed medications used in lung cancer today. The reality is that the medical oncologists are generally going to be the ones to make decisions about which particular drug is best for each individual patient. Instead, his presentation will focus on what the non-oncologist needs to know.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Improve how quickly patients with suspected lung cancer are directed toward appropriate treatment by educating physicians on the correct tests to employ for diagnosis and staging.
  • Improve primary care providers’ correct selection of either thoracic surgeons or medical oncologists for initial referral of lung cancer treatment.
  • Improve the percentage of patients with lung cancer diagnosed at early, curable stages by increasing utilization of lung cancer screening CT scans.

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Get An Update on Breast Cancer Screening

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Get An Update on Breast Cancer Screening.  By participating in this activity, the learner will gain an understanding of the importance of breast cancer screening and how best to approach and utilize breast cancer screening tools. The learner will gain a deeper understanding of the methods and approaches available for breast cancer screening and how to choose the best screening paradigm for different patient groups.

For this program, we’ve invited one of Ohio State University’s Breast Radiology experts to help break down the breast cancer screening and give us guidance on the various types of screening modalities. Dr. Clayton Taylor is an Associate Professor of Radiology here at the James Cancer Hospital and is fellowship trained in breast imaging.  

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Understand how breast cancer screening tools such as mammography, breast MRI, and breast ultrasound work and how to best use them for breast cancer screening.
  • Learn how to use breast cancer risk and breast density to determine the best breast cancer screening approach for different patients.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Risk Assessment
  • Breast Density
  • Breast Ultrasound
  • Breast MRI

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.