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CME and Agenda

CME Activities and Schedule


Below lists the tentative schedule of educational, business and social events programming. Please note that this is subject to change.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

     

7:00 am - 4:30 pm

 

Registration Desk Open

7:00 am - 8:00 am

 

Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:00 am - 9:00 am

 

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: An Evidence Based Review

Speaker: Charles Webb, DO, FAAFP, FAMSSM

9:00 am - 10:00 am

 

Rethinking Uncomplicated UTIs: A Comprehensive Review of Diagnosis, Management, and Novel and Emerging Treatment Options

Speaker: Matthew Rosenberg, MD

10:00 am - 10:30 am

 

Break with Exhibitors

10:30 am - 11:30 am

 

Early Cancer Detection and Colorectal Cancer Screening

Speaker: Mark Kirkikis, PharmD, CPGx

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

 

Lunch with Exhibitors

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm 

 

CME SESSION

Speaker: Sterling Ransone, MD, FAAFP

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

 

The Wake-Up Workshop Initiative: Your Practical, Comprehensive Guide to Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Speaker: Nicholas Pennings, DO, DABOM, MFOMA, FACOFP, FAAFP and Jeremy D. McConnell, MD, MFOMA, Dipl ABOM

2:30 pm - 6:30 pm

 

Foundation Golf Tournament

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

 

CME SESSION

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

 

From Preparation to PrEP and HIV: Addressing Primary Care Needs for the LGBTQ+ Community

Speaker: David Janese, MD and Ronald Slipman, MD, FAAFP

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

 

Welcome Reception

 

Friday, July 25, 2025

     

7:00 am - 12:45 pm

 

Registration Desk Open

7:00 am - 8:00 am

 

Breakfast with Exhibitors

7:00 am - 8:00 am

 

Past President's Breakfast

8:00 am - 9:00 am

 

Changing the Future for Families With HoFH: Long-Term Benefits of Early Diagnosis and Treatment for Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Speaker: James A. Underberg, MD, MS, FACPM,
FACP, FNYAM, FASPC, FNLA

9:00 am - 10:00 am

 

Overcoming Obesity: A PCP’s Guide to Comprehensive Obesity Care

Speaker: Amal Othman, MD, DABOM, FOMA

10:00 am - 10:45 am

 

Break with Exhibitors

10:45 am - 11:45 am

 

MASLD and MASH: Early Identification to Decrease Associated Complications

Speaker: Thomas Jensen, MD

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

 

BRIDGING COMMUNITY: Collaborative Efforts in Early Detection and Intervention for Alzheimer’s Disease

Speaker: Brianna Wynne, MD, FAAFP and TBD

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

 

General Assembly Meeting with Lunch

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

 

Awards and Installation Ceremony

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

 

Presidents Party and Foundation Fundraiser

 

Saturday, July 26, 2025

     

7:00 am - 4:30 pm

 

Registration Desk Open

7:00 am - 8:00 am

 

Breakfast with Exhibitors

7:00 am - 8:00 am

 

Residency Directors Breakfast

8:00 am - 9:00 am

 

Difficult-to-Control Diabetes: Consider Hypercortisolism

Speaker: Stephen Brunton, MD, FAAFP, CDCES

9:00 am - 10:00 am

 

From Trauma to Treatment: Managing PTSD in the Primary Care Setting

Speaker: Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP and Lori Davis, MD

10:00 am - 10:45 am

 

Break with Exhibitors

10:45 am - 11:45 am

 

New and Emerging Approaches for Treating VMS Associated with Menopause

Speaker: Stephen Brunton, MD, FAAFP, CDCES

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

 

A Focus on Family Physicians in the Care of Patients with HIV

Speaker: TBD and Ronald Slipman, MD, FAAFP

12:45 pm - 1:00 pm

 

Lunch Pickup

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

 

Evaluation and Management of Acute Abdominal Pain

Speaker: Kabiul Haque, MD

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

 

GSK US CGA: RSV Primary Care at the Center of RSV Prevention: Community- Focused Strategies to Foster Trust and Vaccine Acceptance

Speaker: Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

 

Shedding Light on Type 2 Diabetes: Weight Management, Co-morbidities & Future Breakthroughs

Speaker: Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

 

Membership Social/Reception

 

Sunday, July 27, 2025

     

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

Registration Desk Open

8:00 am - 9:00 am

 

Non-CME Breakfast Symposium – Product Theater for Zepbound® (tirzepatide) Injection

Speaker: Tiffany N. Lowe Clayton, DO, DABOM, MHPE

9:00 am - 10:00 am

 

An Overview of Vascular Disease in Primary Care

Speaker: Kabiul Haque, MD

10:00 am - 11:00 am

 

Navigating Gastrointestinal Challenges: Insight into GERD and H. pylori Management

Speaker: Joel John Heidelbaugh, MD, FAAFP, FACG

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

Hematology Update for Primary Care

Speaker: Nakhle Saba, MD

12:15 pm

 

Annual Meeting Concludes

 
 
 
 

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