Accreditation:
UP Health System – Marquette is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society to provide accredited continuing education for physicians. UP Health System – Marquette designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACCREDITED PROVIDER # 4000539
Session Title: Friday Keynote; High Tech medicine-strategies to reposition family medicine as primary in the new healthcare ecosystem
Faculty: Bengt Arnetz, MD, PhD, MPH, MScEpi, FACOEM
Learning Objectives:
How current structural, patient and provider demographics, and payment models challenges the traditional organization of healthcare and invites new actors.
Established and emerging trends and technological development within digital medicine with relevance to the future of family medicine.
How primary care by strategically and proactively integrating digital medicine into their primary are practice will strengthen their critical role in the healthcare ecological system and become a key partner in delivering patient centered as well as @home hospital service.
Session Title: Rural Behavioral Health: Challenges and Changes
Faculty: Jason Bombard, DO - Aspirus Ironwood Clinic
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to recognize the differences and challenges inherent in providing mental health care in rural areas.
Participants will recognize and analyze the different challenges and changes that COVID and other current events have caused to the current state of mental healthcare.
Participants will be able to evaluate and recognize ways to help make mental healthcare more accessible and reduce stigma.
Session Title: Lifestyle and Wellness Integration: improving personal wellness for yourself and your patients
Faculty: Ryan Brang, MD - NorthCountry Health Direct Primary Care
Learning Objectives:
Examine the basics of wellness and how to apply this to your own health care goals.
Develop skills to educate patients and the public on wellness and nutrition.
Formulate strategic wellness and nutrition plans
Session Title: Opportunities for Collaboration in Musculoskeletal Care in the Upper Peninsula
Faculty: Zachariah DeYoung, MD - Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center
Learning Objectives:
Create collaborative relationships among primary-care, sports-medicine, and orthopedic providers in the Upper Peninsula to enhance the delivery of musculoskeletal patient care in the region.
Develop and deploy continuing medical education and practice-enhancement resources relevant to musculoskeletal care to providers in geographically isolated areas.
Encourage talented students in the Upper Peninsula to seek careers in musculoskeletal medical care and athletic training in rural communities.
Session Title: Assessment and Management of Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the Perinatal Period
Faculty: Claire Drom, MD - St. Cloud Hospital, CentraCare Clinics
Learning Objectives:
Understand how to categorize psychiatric symptoms in the perinatal period and use these differentiations to formulate diagnoses.
Identify psychiatric treatment considerations unique to the perinatal period.
Integrate into clinical practice a risk versus risk analysis to choose first- and second-line treatments for mood and anxiety disorders in the perinatal period.
Session Title: Obesity – It’s Not What You Think
Faculty: Erica Griffin, MD - UP Health System - Marquette
Learning Objectives:
Analyze cases to improve quality of patient care in management of obesity.
Learn which medications to prescribe that may lessen the risk of obesity when treating other conditions.
Formulate appropriate treatment plans for the diagnosis of obesity
Counsel for appropriate expectations regarding weight loss
Session Title: Addressing social determinants of health through development of a health and social resource website: a healthcare provider-academic partnership
Faculty: Kelly Kamm, MHS, PhD and Robin Meneguzzo, FNP-C, IFMCP - Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology, Michigan Technological University
Learning Objectives:
Differentiate the distal and proximal adverse impacts of social determinants on health in a rural community .
Apply community based participatory research methods to a healthcare provider-academic partnership .
Identify relevant resources for patient referrals using www.upresources.org website.
Session Title: Where did I put my keys? The Neurologic Basis of Aging and the diseases that accompany it.
Faculty: Brian MacFalda, DO, MBA - MyMichigan Health
Learning Objectives:
Analyze some of the key features of the aging brain and biologic basis it.
Contrast the major types of dementia and identify the distinguishing features on physical exam.
Differentiate the clinical exam of a patient with Parkinson’s and Essential Tremor.
Apply Stroke risk factor modification to Stroke and TIA patients for optimal outcomes.
Develop an understanding of searching for alternative diagnosis for a suspected seizure in the elderly.
Session Title: Diabetes as a specialty in rural communities; how to expand important aspects of diabetes care to our rural settings.
Faculty: Gayle Maslakow, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, BC-ADM - Aspirus Ironwood, Aspirus Ontonagon, & Aspirus Iron River Clinics
Learning Objectives:
Utilize multiple resources to design an initiative-taking comprehensive team at the primary care level to manage people living with pre-diabetes and diabetes to reduce complications and improve outcomes.
Utilize diabetes technology options, and telehealth systems to reduce medical inertia in the rural healthcare setting by employing tactics of remote patient monitoring and connected care.
Reduce fragmented diabetes care and design a realistic, comprehensive approach to complex diabetes care and reduce co-morbid complications arising from extended wait for specialty care.
Session Title: Vaccine Efficacy and Vaccine Hesitancy in an Era of New Vaccines
Faculty: Andrew Pekosz, PhD - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Abram Wagner, PhD - School of Public Health, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Learning Objectives:
Understand how virus surveillance is utilized to help inform changes in vaccine efficacy
Demonstrate how changes in the circulating virus leads to changes in virus fitness
Differentiate patients based on their vaccine beliefs and attitudes
Utilize nudges in clinical practice to present an opt-out choice regarding vaccination