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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.

Friday March 26th, 2010

Morning Session
Hugh Fuller, Moderator

07:00 – 08:00 Registration and Breakfast
   
08:00 – 08:20 New drugs for diabetes
William Harper
   
08:20 – 08:40 Hyperthyroidism; approach and management
Meera Luthra
   
08:40 – 09:00 Management of acute hypercalcemia
Tom Kouroukis
   
09:00 – 09:20 Who and how to investigate for adrenal
insufficiency?
Ally Prebtani
   
09:20 – 09:40 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break
   
10:00 – 10:20 Drugs to avoid in pregnancy
Dan Perri
   
10:20 – 10:40 How to use opioids in non-cancer chronic pain patients?
Roman Jovey
   
10:40 – 11:00 Avoiding drug interactions
Mitch Levine
   
11:00 – 11:20 How to determine drug allergy; who and how to
test for it?
Susan Waserman
   
11:20 – 11:40 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
11:40 – 01:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

01:00 – 01:20

How to treat refractory hypertension
Darin Treleaven

   
01:20 – 01:40 Use and misuse of advance directives
William Molloy
   
01:40 – 02:00 How to assess frailty in the elderly?
George Heckman
   
02:00 – 02:20 When to use drug therapy in the cognitively impaired patient?
Tricia Woo
   
02:20 – 02:40 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
02:40 – 03:00 Coffee Break
   
03:00 – 03:20 Anemia in the elderly; how far to investigate?
Deborah Marcellus
   
03:20 – 03:40 Approach to the high ferritin and high iron
saturation
Parveen Wasi
   
03:40 – 04:00 When is thrombocytopenia ITP?
Donald Arnold
   
04:00 – 04:20 Panel Discussion Q&A
   
04:20 – 05:00 Debate: Cholinesterase inhibitors for all patients
with dementia
Christopher Patterson vs. Anne Holbrook
   
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