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17th Annual CME Symposium – Sept 7th, 2024

Presentation of the speakers:

Advances in Neurosurgery: Andrey Belayev, MD

Sports injury, Musculoskeletal pain & Arthritis: The Vascular solution: Siddharth Rao, MD

Practice optimization insights: Top opportunities to grow: Paul Hain, MD

Medical weight management: Do’s & Don’t’s: Naomi Parrella, MD

Anxiety & Depression – Latest treatment trends: Haresh Tharwani, MD

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16th Annual CME Symposium – Sept 16th, 2023

Presentation of the speakers:

Cardiovascular risk in Diabetes & Hypertension:Thomas O’Connell, MD, FACE

Advances in treatment of Bi-polar disorder Haresh Tharwani, MD, DFAPA

Stimulant and Non-stimulant therapies in ADHD: Richard Weisler, MD

Updates and Management of NASH: Alfred S Barritt IV, MD

Early diagnosis of lung cancer and evaluation of pulmonary nodules: Hiren Mehta, MD

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15th Annual CME Symposium – Oct 8th, 2022

Presentations of the speakers:

Ripple effects of Insomnia: Rahul Kakkar, MD

Facts & trends in Covid treatments: David Weber, MD, MPH

Opioid misuse & addiction crisis:: Ashwin Patkar, MD

IR – New age for the primary care provider: Vishwan Pamarthi, MD

Evolution of anti-Obesity therapies – The future is here: Sriram Machineni, MD

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14th Annual CME Symposium – Sept 25th, 2021

Presentations of the speakers:

Gauri Dhir, MD: Multispecialty approach to management of type-2 diabetes

Elizabeth Cox, MD: Postpartum depression

Serena Wong, DO: Deprescribing: Principles of appropriate prescribing across age spectrum

Ajay Gulati, MD: FMT: The art of Repoopulating the gut

John Vavalle, MD: The Structural Heart Disease Revolution

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Covid-19 Updates:

Letter to Mandy Cohen, Secretary, NC DHHS on 1/2/2021
- Requested to get vaccine access to community based physicians, APPs and health care staff that do not enter hospital system in Phase 1a
Third Townhall Session on Covid-19 conducted on 5/14/20
- Speaker panel:
  - Ashwin Patkar, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University
  - Vinay Saranga, MD, Board certified Psychiatrist to treat children & adolescents
  - Vandana Devalapalli, MD, President TIPS
  - Moderated by Kamal Kolappa, MD, Cardiologist, Alignment Healthcare
- Playback recording link
Second Townhall session on COVID-19 conducted on 3/30/20
- Speaker panel:
  - Hiren Mehta, MD, MBA, Pulmonologist, UNC Rex Hospital
  - DevDutta Sangvai, MD, MBA, Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy
  - Hattie Gawande, DHHS, NCAbhay A
  - Abhay Agarwal, MD, Primary Care, Cary Medical Clinic
  - Umesh Chaudhary, PharmD, Pharmaco Therapy
  - Moderated by Kamal Kolappa, MD, Cardiologist, Alignment Healthcare
- Playback recording link
First Townhall session on COVID-19 conducted on 3/25/20
- Speaker panel:
  - Ravindran Padmanabhan, MD, MRCP (UK),
  - Sharad Vora, MD,
  - Ritesh Patel, PharmD
  - Vandana Devalapalli, MD, President TIPS
  - Moderated by Kamal Kolappa, MD, Cardiologist, Alignment Healthcare
- Playback Recording link
NC Health Secretary, Mandy Cohen’s call for volunteers – 3/20/20
Volunteer registration though NC Training, Exercise, and Response Management System (NC TERMS) guidelines
To support efforts to recruit qualified volunteers, NCMB has created an Emergency Temporary license application that allows physicians and PAs who inactivated their NC licenses within the past 24 months to quickly return to practice. Access the online application here.
NC Local Health Departments
NC Medical Board
COVID-19 guidance for older adults (>65)
Centers for Disease Control – COVID-19
McDonald Memo for Providers from Wake County, NC
Q&A for Providers from Wake County, NC
Johns Hopkins Corona Virus Tracker

12th Annual CME 2018 (8/25/2018) – Topics covered by Speakers:

Scientific Publications

Local Hospitals

Medical Societies