2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend Annual Conference & Exhibition
Wednesday, December 4 – Sunday, December 8, 2024 – The Omni Grove Park Inn
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
2:00 pm – 8:00 pm Registration Desk Opens
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Optional KSA Workshop: Heart Disease
Jonathon Firnhaber, MD
4:00 pm – 7:30 pm Exhibitor Registration & Set Up
Thursday, December 5, 2024
7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Desk Open
7:00 am – 7:45 am Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
7:45 am – 8:00 am Welcome & Introductions
8:00 am – 9:00 am Shedding Light on Type 2 Diabetes: Weight Management, Co-Morbidities, & Future Breakthroughs – PART I
Paul Doghramji, MD & Jay Shubrook, DO
9:00 am – 10:00 am Beyond Numbers: Fostering Successful Primary Care Obesity Management Through the Lens of Cultural Humility
Nicholas Pennings, DO & Amy Allen, RN (Patient)
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:30 am -11:30 am Calling Family Physicians to Action in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Shortening the Time to Diagnosis for Improved Patient Outcomes
Matthew Martinez, MD
11:30 am – 12:30 pm I Think It’s My Thyroid: A Review of Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Katherine Haga, DO
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Optional Non-CME Satellite Lunch | Wegovy
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Secondary & Rare Causes of Hypertension
Anthony Viera, MD
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Transforming Cancer Control: Integrating Multicancer Early Detection Technology in the Family Practice Setting
Mylynda Massart, MD, PhD
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? The Family Physician and Secondary CVD Prevention
Thomas R. White, MD
4:30 pm General Sessions Adjourn
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm 90 Min Optional CME Workshop Introduction to Medical Auricular Acupuncture
Robert Agnello, DO
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm 90 Min Optional CME Workshop: Type 2 Diabetes Workshop Part II
Paul Doghramji, MD & Jay Shubrook, DO
Friday, December 6, 2024
7:00 am – 4:45 pm Registration Desk Open
7:30 am – 8:00 am Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
8:00 am – 9:00 am Maximizing the Adolescent Well-Visit: Immunizations, Depression, Risky Behaviors
Richard W. Lord, Jr., MD, MA
9:00 am – 10:00 am Exploring AI’s Potential in Healthcare: What to Expect, How It Will Be Regulated, and Examples in Action
Kristina Hines, DO; Francis Myers, JD; & TBD
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:30 am – 10:45 am Distinguished Family Physician of the Year Award Presentation
10:45 am – 11:45 am Moving the Needle in Older Adults: A Provider Townhall to Enhance Vaccine Uptake
Pamela Rockwell, MD
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm State of the Academy & Awards Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Desserts in the Exhibit Hall
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Meet with Research Poster Presenters Opportunity
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm New Approaches to Asthma Treatment Selection and Assessment
Barbara Yawn, MD
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Patient Centered Approaches to Reproductive Health
Janalynn Beste, MD
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Optional CPP Seminar: Keeping it Real: Practical Tips for Your Practice
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm – Arrivals / Check-In
3:25 pm – 3:30 pm – Welcome / Introductions
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm – Precepting 101 – How & Why
Kellner Pruett, MD
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm – NC Professionals Health Program: Who We Are, What We Do, and How We Can Help You or Your Practice in a Time of Need
Joe Jordan, JD
5:15 pm – 5:30 pm – Stretch Break
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Practice Innovation | A panel discussion.
Landon Allen, MD, Beth Hodges, MD, & Tom Wroth, MD
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Family Medicine on the Frontlines: Opioid Overdose is the Top Public Health Issue of Our Generation
Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH
4:30 pm General Sessions Adjourn
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm 90 min Optional CME Workshop: Family Docs Can Prevent Fractures – Osteoporosis: A Case Based Presentation
Lisa Cassidy-Vu, MD
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Student/Resident/ New Physician Social
Saturday, December 7, 2024
7:00 am – 4:45 pm Registration Desk Open
7:30 am – 8:00 am Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
7:30 am – 8:00 am Meet with Research Poster Presenters Opportunity
8:00 am – 9:00 am Pharmacological Management of Insomnia
Sandy Robertson, PharmD
9:00 am – 9:30 am NC Medical Board Presentation: Top 5 Investigated Issues and How to Avoid Them
Devdutta Sangvai, MD
9:30 am – 10:00 am True Life or Limb Threatening Surgical Emergencies
Thomas Eisenhauer, MD
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:30 am Exhibitors Tear Down
10:30 am – 10:45 am Degree of Fellow Convocation Ceremony
10:45 am – 11:30 am Blow! Blow! Blow! PFTs and the Office Family Physician
Jill Ohar, MD
11:00 am Career Fair Vendor Set-Up
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy – A New Treatment for Family Physicians?
Karl “Bert” Fields, MD
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Demystifying Radiology
Kevin Hiatt, MD
12:45pm – 1:45 pm OPTIONAL Non-CME Lunch “Health Heros Roundtables”
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm A Family Physician’s Approach to Tremors: How to Distinguish Between Different Tremors
Stephen Harward, MD
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Optional Resident Workshop & Career Fair
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Dermatology in Pictures: An Illustrative Guide to Dermatologic Conditions for the Family Physician
Brian Rayala, MD
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Breaking the Strain: Innovative Approaches to Reducing Admin Burden
Aram Alexanian, MD
4:30 pm General Sessions Adjourn
6:30 pm – 10:30 pm Presidential Gala
Sunday, December 8, 2024
7:30 am – 12:15 pm Registration Desk Open
7:30 am – 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:45 am Doctor, What Vitamins and Supplements Should I Be Taking?
Sandy Robertson, PharmD
8:45 am – 9:30 am The Gun Violence Epidemic: What Family Physicians Need to Know About this Public Health Crisis
Sanjay Batish, MD
9:30 am –- 9:44 am Short Break in Foyer
9:45 am – 10:15 am Fractures Not to Miss For All Ages
Jeff Ham, DO
10:15 am – 11:00 am Compliantly Performing the Medicare Wellness Visit and Getting Paid for What We Do Enoch “Nick’ Ulmer, MD, CPC
11:00 am – 11:30 am Rapid Fire: Top 10 Best Family Medicine Studies of 2024- The abstract & the take-home message
Amir Barzin, DO, MS
11:30 am Conference Adjourns