2024 Alabama and Mississippi Chapters Meeting Hub

Friday, May 31-Sunday, June 2, 2024
Hotel Effie Sandestin | Miramar Beach, FL

2024 Alabama and Mississippi Chapters Meeting Hub

Fostering Excellence in Internal Medicine

Thank you for attending our chapter meeting! 

Otis Gowdy, Jr., MD, MBA, FACP
ACP Governor, Mississippi Chapter
Ross B. Vaughn, MD, FACP
ACP Governor, Alabama Chapter

Meeting Highlights
  • Medical Ethics
  • Doctor's Dilemma
  • ChatGPT Panel
  • Updates in Oncology, Cardiology, Pulmonology & Rheumotology
  • Breakout Sessions for Hospitalists, Primary Care and MKSAP
  • Thieves' Market
Program Committee
  • Jesse Faulk MD
  • Otis Gowdy Jr MD FACP
  • Alonso Heudebert MD
  • Allison Rogers MD FACP
  • Ross Vaughn MD FACP
  • Ashley Villarreal MD

Agenda

Access the meeting materials by clicking the session title links within the Agenda below.

Thursday, May 30

Time Session
5:00-7:00 PM Alabama Chapter Governor's Council Meeting
7:00-9:00 PM Mississippi Chapter Governor's Council Meeting

Friday, May 31

Time Session
7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast & Welcome
Ross Vaughn MD FACP
Otis Gowdy Jr MD FACP
Ashley Villarreal MD
Allison Rogers MD FACP
8:00-9:00 AM Medical Ethics
Sharon Douglas MD
9:00-10:00 AM Genetics for Cancer Risk
Ayesha Munir MD
Cassandra Gurganus MS CGC
10:00-10:30 AM Resident Oral Vignettes, Part 1
10:30-11:00 AM Medical Shorts: Cardiology
Kushdeep Chahal MD
11:00 AM-Noon Breakout Sessions (attendees choose 2 of 3)
  #1 DEI: MicroAgressions Workshop
KiKi Titer MD
#2 Outpatient Billing Updates
Ross Vaughn MD FACP
#3 LOR in ChatGPT World
Ryan Kraemer MD FACP
Vernon Rayford MD PharmD FACP
Sharon Douglas MD
Noon-1:30 PM Lunch & Medical Student and ECP Poster Session
1:30-2:00 PM Medical Shorts: Internal Medicine Pearls
Robert Centor MD MACP
2:00-3:00 PM Resident Oral Vignettes, Part 2
3:00-4:30 PM Doctor's Dilemma Round 1
Alonso Heudebert MD

Saturday, June 1

Time Session
7:00-7:45 AM Breakfast & Affinity Group Chats
7:45-8:00 AM State of the Chapters
Ross Vaughn MD FACP
Otis Gowdy Jr MD FACP
8:30-9:00 AM Medical Shorts: Gastrointerology
Donny Kakati MD
9:00-10:00 AM Obesity Panel
Jarrett Morgan MD
Brytney Cobia MD
Elizabeth Fryoux MD
10:00-11:00 AM Breakout Sessions (attendees choose 2 of 3)
  #1 Update in Hospital Medicine
KiKi Titer MD
#2 Update in Primary Care
Vernon Rayford MD PharmD FACP
#3 MKSAP Rapid Fire
Sujana Reddy DO 
Austin Oslock MD
11:15-11:45 AM Fostering Excellence in Internal Medicine
Omar Atiq MD MACP
11:45-12:45 PM Lunch & Resident/Fellow Poster Session
Jesse Faulk MD
1:15-2:00 PM Thieves Market
Ryan Kraemer MD FACP
2:00-2:30 PM Medical Shorts: Pulmonology
Kimberly Bridges MD
2:30-3:00 PM Medical Shorts: Rheumatology
John Bridges MD
3:00-4:30 PM Doctor's Dilemma Round 2
Alonso Heudebert MD
4:30-6:00 PM Laureate Reception

Sunday, June 2

Time Session
8:00-10:00 AM Coffee and Convos (mentoring/networking breakfast)

Meeting Evaluation and CME/MOC Credit

To claim CME & MOC credit or to generate a certificate of participation you will be asked to first complete an evaluation survey.

Release Date: June 2, 2024
Termination Date: June 2, 2025

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The American College of Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 13.25 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credit claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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ACP Chapters Meeting Code of Conduct

ACP is a community that values collegiality, respect for patients and each other, and medicine’s standards of ethics and professionalism. ACP members are guided by the content and spirit of the ACP Pledge and by their commitment to the ethics of medicine, including those in the ACP Ethics Manual.  “Physicians’ conduct as professionals and as individuals should merit the respect of the community.” 

ACP expects members, staff, and others who participate in events and activities involving ACP to treat others as you would like to be treated – with courtesy, respect for differences, and in ways that appropriately represent the profession of internal medicine. As set forth in ACP’s Anti-Harassment Policy, ACP does not tolerate any form of harassment, including intimidation, hostility, or other unwelcome and offensive communication or treatment.

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For other questions about the chapter meeting, contact Christi Long, Executive Director at 334-954-2575 or alamedgroups@gmail.com.

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