The information below pertains to the 2022 Course. 2023 Program details will be posted by the end of July.

Schedule

Monday
Dec 5

• 08:15 - Welcome Remarks

  Ivan Rohan

• 08:30 - Plenary 1

  • Cardiology game changers 20222
    Jacqueline Joza
  • What's up in HTN - 2022 Update
    Sheldon Tobe / Rahul Jain
  • MAID - What is your role as non MAID providers?
    David Dannenbaum
  • CHF 2021 Ggidelines update
    Nadia Gianetti

• 11:00 - Workshops A

  • ECG Interpretation for the FP Office
    Jacqueline Joza
  • C-CHANGE guideline update 2022 - Bringing together Canada's CV focused guidelines
    Sheldon Tobe / Rahul Jain
  • CKD and cysts: Where two worlds meet
    Irith Lebovich
  • Lipid guidelines 2021
    George Thanassoulis
  • Controversial cases in thrombosis - The clot thickens
    Carolyne Elbaz
  • Migraine toolkit 2022 update
    Robert Altman
  • Get inVulved
    Samantha Benlolo
  • Dying to help: Pearls for symptom control for the non-PC physician
    Jean Zigby

• 13:00 - Plenary 2

  • Common GIM consults that could be avoided
    Luc Trudeau
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease
    Serge Mayrand
  • How to outfox Big Pharma: Providing the best diabetes therapies to our patients at a lower cost to society
    Jean-Francois Yale
  • The evolving role of insulin therapy for type 2 diabetes over past 30 years
    Tina Kader

• 15:30 - Workshops B

  • Incidentalomas - When to be concerned?
    Luc Trudeau
  • Interactive case studies in type 2 diabetes
    Jean-Francois Yale
  • Insulin pumps 101
    Tina Kader
  • Approach to early cognitive impairment in the office
    Fadi Massoud
  • Celiac disease
    Yidan Lu
  • Demystifying pediatric abdominal pain
    Terry Sigman
  • How the pandemic has affected the mental health of adolescents and how to prepare for the longer-term consequences
    Perry Adler / Banafcheh Hejazi
  • Tough cases of lower urinary tract symptoms - latest therapeutic options
    Peter Chan

Tuesday
Dec 6

• 08:30 - Plenary 3

  • A virus we can treat: Treating Hepatitis C in the office
    Vanessa Pasztor
  • Palliative Care
    Justin Sanders
  • Before you send them home…Informed discharge - lessons from the CMPA
    Janet Nuth
  • Mending the broken heart after COVID-19 infection
    Thao Huynh

• 11:00 - Workshops C

  • Alcohol use disorder: Can I really help my patient?
    Vanessa Pasztor
  • Managing end stage symptoms of CHF/COPD
    Justin Sanders
  • Iffy about Mife? Improving access to medical abortion in family practice
    Samantha Cogan
  • Safe prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding
    Sylvia Duong
  • Down but not out: Mental health disability management in the new age
    Fiore Lalla
  • An approach to wound care - From diagnosis to dressings
    Mark Karanofsky
  • Challenging patient encounters: Communication and documentation tips
    Janet Nuth
  • Meno - Metro - Oligo: A simplified approach to abnormal uterine
    My Lan Graziani

• 13:00 - Plenary 4

  • Breast cancer screening in average and high risk patients in 2022
    Stephanie Wong
  • Indigenous Health
    Alex McComber
  • Vaccine Up-date 2022: will the new technologies introduced during the pandemic change the vaccine landscape?
    Brian Ward
  • Birthmarks - When should I worry?
    Fatemeh Jafarian

• 15:30 - Workshops D

  • Updates on breast cancer pathology and treatment
    Stephanie Wong
  • Travel vaccines: infections - including COVID - that can make a trip particularly memorable
    Brian Ward
  • Am I walking the cultural safety path as a family physican?
    Alex McComber
  • Immigrant health - Practical pearls for your practice!
    Lavanya Narasiah
  • Common ocular emergencies
    Marino Discepola
  • Hip clicks, In-toeing, Bow Legs, Knock Knees, Flat Feet – Who, (if any) should be referred?
    Thierry Benaroch
  • Caring for transgender and non-binary patients
    Rachel Bond
  • All live Sunscreens: Why, what, how?
    Fatemeh Jafarian

Wednesday
Dec 7

• 08:30 - Plenary 5

  • Are we managing menopause differently in 2022?
    Cleve Ziegler
  • Rheum for the “whole” patient: An opportunity for collaboration with primary care
    Michael Starr
  • Sports medicine pearls
    J. Scott Delaney
  • Hematuria pearls: Tell me something I don't already know
    Tiina Podymow

• 11:00 - Workshops E

  • Troubleshooting biologics: What the GP should know
    Michael Starr
  • Treatment resistant depression
    Daniel Zigman
  • Seeing back pain in the office
    J. Scott Delaney
  • ER Procedures for Non-ER Docs: Managing the airway, placing a chest tube, getting into the circulation
    H. Mitchell Shulman
  • COPD: Who does, and does not, benefit from triple therapy?
    Pierre Ernst
  • Counting Heffalumps: Insomnia in the elderly (a geriatrician’s POV)
    Wendy Chiu
  • End-stage renal disease: Following a patient with eGFR <25 ml/min
    Tiina Podymow
  • Community management of pediatric eating disorders
    Holly Agostino

• 13:00 - Plenary 6

  • Antibiotics - Shorter is better
    Trong Tien Nguyen
  • Doctor, my child snores like my husband. Is that a problem?
    Sheila Jacob
  • Pediatric appendicitis: Have we figured it out?!
    Emil Sherif
  • Right patient, right target, right time: Radiologically-guided Injections for pain management
    Mohan Radhakrishna
  • Pediatric asthma
    Christine McCusker
  • Melanoma vs. pigmented lesions (A Practical Approach)
    Beatrice Wang

• 16:20 - Closing Remarks

  Ivan Rohan

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Schedule

Monday
Dec 4

• 08:15 - Welcome Remarks

  Ivan Rohan

• 08:30 - Plenary 1

  • Atrial fibrillation management pearls
    Mathieu Walker
  • Update on hypertension - when to worry
    Sheldon Tobe / Rahul Jain
  • Update on lipid management in 2023
    George Thanassoulis
  • CHF: using meds wisely
    Richard Sheppard

• 11:00 - Workshops A

  • Medical wearables and devices for patients
    Daniel E. Lalla
  • Office evaluation of suspected angina
    Mathieu Walker
  • PCOS - A pediatric perspective
    Preetha Krishnamoorty
  • What's up in Hypertension
    Rahul Jain/Sheldon Tobe
  • MAID discussion - the tough cases
    David Dannenbaum
  • Medical cannabis
    Claude Cyr
  • Assessing disability and workplace restrictions in spinal pain
    Mohan Radhakrishna
  • Applying the 2021 CCS Dyslipidemia Guidelines in Clinical Practice
    George Thanassoulis
  • Successful management of andropause, low T and hypogonadism in aging men: Tricks of the trade
    Peter Chan
  • Electrolytes abnormalities for the hospitalist
    Daniel Blum

• 13:00 - Plenary 2

  • Derailed by sex, drugs, & rock 'n roll
    Martin Gignac
  • Infectious pediatric rashes
    Earl Rubin
  • Contraception: What's new?
    Giuseppina Di Meglio
  • When are recurrent infections an immune disorder: Approach to immunodeficiencies
    Reza Alizadehfar

• 15:30 - Workshops B

  • Latest wisdom on breastfeeding - tips & tricks
    Anjana Srinivasan
  • HPV
    Samantha Benlolo
  • Should we be PRObiotics
    Rilla Schneider
  • Long-COVID: the marathon nobody signed up for
    Leighanne Parkes
  • How I treat type 2 diabetic nephropathy
    Tiina Podymow
  • Pearls in office management of diabetic urgencies that do not require immediate referral
    Natasha Garfield
  • Approach to cognitive issues in the office
    Julia Chabot
  • Approach to polyneuropathy
    Rami Massie
  • Anemias (iron replacement incl. IV iron)
    Carolyne Elbaz
  • Does this child have a genetic syndrome? And what should I do about it?
    Teresa Rudkin

Tuesday
Dec 5

• 08:30 - Plenary 3

  • Things to know when starting to exercise
    J. Scott Delaney
  • Hyperthyroidism
    Magali Bidal St-Aubin
  • Proper use of diagnostic tests in rheumatology: Pearls for the Family Physician
    Delphine Keyaert
  • NASH
    Giada Sebastiani

• 11:00 - Workshops C

  • Managing common issues in long-term care
    Mark Karanofsky
  • Virtual care considerations: Medico-legal tips to enhance your practice
    Cheryl Hunchak
  • Joint reduction techniques
    J. Scott Delaney
  • Taking the pain out of treating opioid use disorder. Updates for 2023
    Vanessa Pasztor
  • Hyperthyroidism
    Magali Bidal Saint Aubin
  • How to order the appropriate biochemistry laboratory tests or are diagnostic laboratories open bars?
    Julie St-Cyr
  • Hepatitis B
    Christina Greenway
  • Management of rheumatic patient on a day to day basis
    Delphine Keyaert
  • Chronic pain: information to the patient
    Allen Steverman

• 13:00 - Plenary 4

  • What has the COVID pandemic done to asthma care?
    Pierre Ernst
  • Lesions on skin of colour
    Robin Wiviott
  • Anything new in Breast cancer screening
    Guylène Thériault
  • What's new in migraine in 2023?
    Robert Altman

• 15:30 - Workshops D

  • Deprescribing in older adults : What, when, and why to consider?
    Louise Papillon-Ferland
  • Practical approach to a cognitive complaint in the office: clinical cases and discussion
    Fadi Massoud
  • Breast cancer screening
    Guylène Thériault
  • Joint injections
    Michael Stein
  • Headache clinic - case discussions
    Robert Altman
  • Dentistry 101 for family medicine
    Robert Karanofsky
  • Internal med on call
    Samuel Mamane
  • Please hit subscribe: the effects of social media on teens
    Ton-Yee Quan
  • Moving towards cultural safety, anti-racism and reconciliation
    Darlene Kitty
  • Let's stop to stress over IBS
    Gad Friedman

Wednesday
Dec 6

• 08:30 - Plenary 5

  • Elder care: Tips for your toolbox
    Wendy Chiu
  • Evaluation of cognitive impairment in the office: for whom? when? And how?
    Fadi Massoud
  • Are all hives allergies?
    Christine McCusker
  • ADHD in adults
    Fiore Lalla

• 11:00 - Workshops E

  • Myths and realities of food desensitization
    Christine McCusker
  • Counting heffalumps: Insomnia in older persons (a geriatrician's POV, redux)
    Wendy Chiu
  • What to do while waiting for joint replacement
    Karen Meyer
  • Stress incontinence: Treat them with poise. They depend on you.
    Marie-Claude Lemieux
  • Eye emergencies in the office
    Devinder Cheema
  • Rabies
    Paul Le Guerrier
  • How can we keep up with the literature? A data-informed approach based on the daily POEM
    Roland Grad
  • New roads and old alleys in psychiatric treatment: psychedelia and such!
    Fiore Lalla
  • Adolescent addiction
    Nicholas Chadi
  • Obesity medical management - practical tips and a fresh perspective
    Jasmine Kler

• 13:00 - Plenary 6

  • Family Medicine as a mission- From wonderful developments in Brazil over 25 years to a reality with no family medicine in Benin
    Monique Bourget
  • Obesity treatment - Are GLP1s the new miracle?
    Jasmine Kler
  • Anxiety in the elderly
    Lisa Palladini
  • Atopic dermatitis: An update
    Fatemeh Jafarian
  • Contemporary management of abnormal uterine bleeding
    Cleve Ziegler
  • Psychedelics
    Joseph Schwarcz

• 16:20 - Closing Remarks

  Ivan Rohan

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