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» ANGELA SILLA
Event Coordinator
 
Continuing Health
Sciences Education & Conference Services
McMaster University
Phone: 905-525-9140
ext. 26327
silla@mcmaster.ca   

TARGET AUDIENCE

General Internists
Subspecialists
ER Physicians
Hospitalists
Community Physicians
Family Physicians
General Practitioners
Interns and Residents in Training Programs for Internal Medicine and its Subspecialities.

Wednesday March 24th, 2010

Morning Session
Akbar Panju, Moderator

07:00 – 07:45 Registration and Breakfast
   
07:45 – 08:00 Welcome & Registration
Paul O’Byrne
Akbar Panju

   
08:00 – 08:20 What to do with the patient who has recurrent and refractory heart failure?
Robert McKelvie
   
08:20 – 08:40 How to manage a patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; pill in pocket and/or ablation?
Jeff Healey
   
08:40 – 09:00 When to order cardiac catheterization?
Madhu Natarajan
   
09:00 – 09:20 Should all patients with low ejection fraction have ICD / cardiac resynchronization therapy?
Girish Nair
   
09:20 – 09:40 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break
   
10:00 – 10:20 When do we combine oral anticoagulants with antiplatelet drugs?
Martin O'Donnell
   
10:20 – 10:40 Nephrotic syndrome; what’s new?
Peter Margetts
   
10:40 – 11:00 An approach to acute renal failure
David Russell
   
11:00 – 11:20 Management of chronic renal failure
Christian Rabbat
   
11:20 – 11:40 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
11:40 – 01:0 Lunch

Afternoon Session

01:00 – 01:20 Sleep apnea; who should be investigated?
Nicole Drost
   
01:20 – 01:40 COPD exacerbations; management of patients with frequent admissions
David Todd
   
01:40 – 02:00 ABC’s of interstitial lung disease
Gerry Cox
   
02:00 – 02:20 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
02:20 – 02:40 Coffee Break
   
02:40 – 03:00 All that wheezes is not asthma; what else should we look for?
Helen Neighbour
   
03:00 – 03:20 Medical and surgical management of obesity
Tony Chetty
   
03:20 – 03:40 Preparing for a pandemic
Mark Loeb
   
03:40 – 04:00 When to call a surgeon for a soft tissue infection?
Fiona Smaill
   
04:00 – 04:20 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
04:20 – 05:00 Debate: Should ACEI’s and ARB’s be combined?
Dianne Arlen vs. Eva Lonn
   
   
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