Optimize Patient Care
Among the Highest-Rate CME
24.75 hours of Continuing Education
Earn up to 24.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Featuring Best Practices and Effective Preventive Medicine Strategies to Improve Your Practice
A major challenge we face today as primary care clinicians is staying current with the rapid advances in prevention. Prevention is a major component of effective primary care practice and one of the unique strengths that we must possess. Most existing CME courses focus on prevention in one or several limited spheres. In this course, we will focus on screening and prevention and teach you innovative and novel strategies across multiple disciplines. Sessions include prevention of cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes, and risk management issues in primary care, plus hot-off-the-press emerging topics will be addressed to ensure you are up to date with the latest information during the ongoing COVID pandemic. We will address:
- Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and management of COVID long-haulers
- Vaccine angst
- Racial inequalities in medicine
- Genetic causes of cancer: which patients should be screened
- Patient management in the face of alcohol or opioid use
- Screening and treatment of depression
- Nutrition counseling and healthy-lifestyle coaching to prevent chronic illnesses
- Preventative therapies for migraine
- Evolving vaccine recommendations, including COVID-19
- Lifestyle changes to prevent type 2 diabetes, cardiac disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia
- Strategies for smoking cessation
- Recommendations for preventing dementia and osteoporosis
- Reducing medical errors
- Menopause and hormone replacement therapy
Event Pricing
Register on/before Feb 17, 2023
(SAVE $100)- Fees are shown in USD
- All live-stream sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ABIM MOC points, as well as other relevant credits
- Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 1, 2023.
Register After Feb 17, 2023
—- Fees are shown in USD
- All live-stream sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ABIM MOC points, as well as other relevant credits
- Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 1, 2023.
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Registrations for Harvard Medical School CME programs are made via our secure online registration system. To register for this course, please click on the “register” link above
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At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration, and you will have the choice of paying by check, credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express), or wire transfer in USD
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Course Directors
Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP
Course Director
Howard Libman, MD, FACP
Course Director
Maura Moran Brain, DNP, CDCES
Course Director
Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Frequently Asked Questions
Refund Policy
Refunds, less an administrative fee of $75 will be issued for all cancellations received two weeks before the start of the course. Refund requests must be received by email.
Where is the course located?
Which sessions are included in the course?
Thursday, March 30, 2023 (Day 1)
8:00 AM | 8:10 AM | Introduction and Welcome |
Principles of Screening and Prevention | ||
8:10 AM | 8:50 AM | Prevention of Dementia* Daniel Press, MD, MMSc |
8:50 AM | 9:30 AM | Screening and Treatment of Depression Michael W. Kahn, MD |
9:30 AM | 9:50 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
9:50 AM | 10:30 AM | Communication and Resolution of Medical Error* Melinda Van Niel, MBA, CPHRM |
10:30 AM | 11:10 AM | Evidence-Based Approach to Prevention* Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH |
11:10 AM | 11:20 AM | Break |
11:20 AM | 12:20 PM | KEYNOTE – Outpatient Management of COVID-19† Q&A Paul E. Sax, MD |
12:20 PM | 1:10 PM | Lunch Break |
Cancer | ||
1:10 PM | 1:50 PM | Prevention of Colon Cancer: Does Anything Besides Aspirin Decrease the Risk of Colon Cancer?* Helen M. Shields, MD, FACP |
1:50 PM | 2:30 PM | Prostate Cancer – Screening and Beyond: Genetics, Prevention and Therapy*† Marc B. Garnick, MD |
2:30 PM | 2:40 PM | Q&A |
2:40 PM | 3:00 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
3:00 PM | 3:40 PM | Breast Cancer Prevention and Screening: What We Know, What We Do and Does it Make Sense?* Nadine M. Tung, MD |
3:40 PM | 4:20 PM | Which Patients Should be Screened for Genetic Causes of Cancer?* Nadine M. Tung, MD |
4:20 PM | 4:30 PM | Break |
4:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Screening for Skin Cancer* Rachel V. Reynolds, MD |
5:00 PM | 5:40 PM | Cervical Cancer Prevention: Is the Pap Smear Obsolete?* Amy R. Weinstein, MD, MPH |
Friday, March 31, 2021 (Day 2)
Healthy Lifestyles | ||
8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Motivational Interviewing: A Proven Approach for Weight Loss Frank J. Domino, MD |
8:30 AM | 9:15 AM | Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Diabetes Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP |
9:15 AM | 9:55 AM | Pharmacological Management of Weight Loss* Maura Moran Brain, DNP, CDCES |
9:55 AM | 10:15 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Osteoporosis Prevention and Management* Harold N. Rosen, MD |
11:05 AM | 11:45 AM | Obstructive Sleep Apnea* Eric J. Heckman, MD |
11:45 AM | 12:35 PM | Lunch Break |
Infectious Diseases | ||
12:35 PM | 1:35 PM | KEYNOTE – Gun Violence† Q&A Matthew J. Miller, MD, ScD |
1:35 PM | 2:15 PM | Travel Medicine Paula Stering, PA-C |
2:15 PM | 2:35 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
2:35 PM | 3:15 PM | COVID-19 Vaccines Lindsey R. Baden, MD |
3:15 PM | 3:55 PM | 2023 Adult Vaccine Schedule: A Framework for Primary Care Providers* Robin Wigmore, MD |
3:55 PM | 4:05 PM | Break |
4:05 PM | 4:45 PM | Screening, Prevention and Treatment of HCV: A Shifting Paradigm for Primary Care Andrew J. Hale, MD |
4:45 PM | 5:40 PM | Common Outpatient Infections*† Q&A Howard Libman, MD, FACP |
Saturday, April 1, 2022 (Day 3)
8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Managing Menopause Marybeth Meservey, RNP, MS |
8:30 AM | 9:20 AM | Preventive Therapies for Migraine† Q&A Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP |
9:20 AM | 9:40 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
9:40 AM | 10:20 AM | Perspectives on Drug and Alcohol Misuse and Use Disorders Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH |
10:20 AM | 10:50 AM | Treating Tobacco Users: Strategies and Controversies* Nancy A. Rigotti, MD |
10:50 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | KEYNOTE – The History of Antibiotic Medicine*† Q&A Paul E. Sax, MD |
12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Lunch Break |
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention | ||
12:50 PM | 1:30 PM | New Developments in the Management of Hyperlipidemias Mark D. Benson, MD |
1:30 PM | 2:20 PM | Hypertension 2023: Recent Evidence that Will Change Your Practice† Jennifer Cluett, MD |
2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
Special Lectures | ||
2:40 PM | 3:20 PM | Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Michelle Lai, MD |
3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Palliative Care Pearls for Primary Care Brook A. Calton, MD, MHS |
4:00 PM | 4:10 PM | Closing Remarks |
* Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
† Live Session
✻ Optional Wellness Activity