Georgia Chapter 2025 Meeting Hub

Friday, October 24 - Sunday, October 26, 2025
Renaissance Waverly Atlanta | Atlanta, GA

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Georgia Chapter 2025 Meeting Hub

Fostering Excellence in Internal Medicine

The GA Chapter is pleased to offer a meeting space to learn, recharge, and facilitate face-to-face discussion with your peers, chapter leaders, and guest speakers!

Join your internal medicine colleagues at the next GA Chapter scientific meeting October 24 - 26, 2025:

  • Earn CME credits and MOC points and connect with other internists who know your challenges and can help you find solutions.
  • Experience top-notch education from expert faculty, meet new people and connect with old friends, and learn about ways to get involved with our Chapter.
  • This meeting will help you meet your needs as a physician and help you provide the best care for your patients using the latest information.

We look forward to seeing you in Renaissance Waverly Atlanta, Atlanta GEORGIA!

Clyde Watkins, Jr, MD, FACP
ACP Governor, Georgia Chapter

Meeting Highlights
  • Workshops including: Practical AI for Internists: Tools, Tips, and Tactics; Obesity; Heart Sounds (students and residents)
  • Inpatient and Outpatient Tracks
  • Doctor's Dilemma
  • Chronic Heart Failure
  • Outpatient Billing
  • Dermatology
  • Management of Osteoporosis Beyon Bisphosphonates
  • IP Periop Management
Program Committee
  • Bhavin Adhyaru, MD, FACP
  • Prabhava Bagla, MD, FACP
  • Reema Hamid Dbouk, MD, FACP
  • Mary Downing, MD, FACP
  • Justin Ertle, MD
  • Norbeto Fas, MD, FACP
  • Andrew Hearn, MD (Resident Representative)
  • Jason Higdon, MD, FACP
  • John Kim, MD, FACP
  • Birju Patel, MD, FACP
  • Mike Quinn, MD, FACP
  • Zahraa Rabeeah, MD, FACP
  • Brian Ribeiro, MD, FACP
  • Yoo Mee Shin, MD
  • Ananth Vadde, MD, FACP
  • Lela Ward, MD, FACP
  • Clyde Watkins, MD, FACP
  • Charles Weeks (Medical Student Representative)

Agenda

Access the live feeds by clicking the 'Access the Virtual Meeting' buttons within the Agenda below.

Friday, October 24

Time Session
7:30 AM-5:00 PM Registration
8:00 AM-Noon Resident Podium Presentations
Alyce Oliver, Ph.D., MD, FACP
9:00-11:00 AM Obesity Workshop & Escape Room
Alicia Shelly, MD, FACP, DABOM
10:00 AM-Noon Heart Sounds Workshop (Residents & Students Only)
Jennifer Giuseffi, MD
Mikhail Akbashev, MD, FACP
Shaheen Fatima, MD
Babar Junaidi, MD
Viniya Patidar, MD
Yoo Mee Shin, MD
Noon-1:00 PM Exact Sciences Product Theater & Lunch
Exact Sciences
12:30-1:30 PM Product Theater & Lunch: Detect and Help Prevent CRC With the Cologuard Plus Test
Durado Brooks, MD, FACP
12:30-2:30 PM Practical AI for Internists: Tools, Tips, and Tactics
Reema Dbouk, MD, FACP
Kajal Patel, MD
Mary Solis, MD
Mary Stout, MD
Pam Vohra-Khullar, MD, FACP
12:30-2:30 PM Student Mock Interviews
Jason Higdon, MD, FACP
1:00-2:30 PM Resident Programming TBD
2:00-3:00 PM Poster Mounting - Residents and Students
Jason Higdon, MD, FACP
Mike Quinn, MD, FACP
3:00-5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Jason Higdon, MD, FACP
Mike Quinn, MD, FACP
5:00-6:00 PM Governor's Reception
Clyde Watkins, Jr., MD, FACP
6:00-7:00 PM IMG Meet and Greet
Catherine Apaloo, MD, FACP
7:00-9:00 PM Student Jeopardy and Awards Dinner
Jason Higdon, MD, FACP

Saturday, October 25

Time Session
7:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration
7:00-7:45 AM Education Committee Meeting
John Kim, MD, FACP
Health & Public Policy Committee Meeting
Jin Lee, MD, FACP
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, MACP
Membership Committee Meeting
Lora Denton, MD, MACP
Resident Council Meeting
Oladipo Odeyinka, MD
Surya Bussa, MD
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast
7:55-8:00 AM Opening Remarks
John Kim, MD, FACP
8:00-9:00 AM Management of Systolic/Diastolic Chronic Heart Failure
William Hannah, MD
9:10-10:10 AM How to Become a Clinical Educator
Daniel Hunt, MD, MHM, FACP
10:10-10:30 AM BREAK
10:30-11:30 AM Breast Care for Primary Care
Kathleen Jeffrey, MD
11:40 AM-12:40 PM Advocacy in Medicine: Why Physicians Matter
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, MACP
Jin Lee, MD, FACP
Dylan Baker, MBBS, FACP
12:40-1:30 PM TOWN HALL & LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PM What's New in Geriatric Medicine?
Maulik Patel, MD, HDMC
1:30-2:15 PM Inpatient Periop Management
Babar Junaidi, MD, FACP
2:00-5:00 PM RESIDENT DOCTOR'S DILEMMA / AWARDS
Jin Lee, MD, FACP
2:40-3:40 PM Thyroid Nodules
Edward Chin, MD, MACP
2:25-3:10 PM Updates in Internal Medicine
Dustin Smith, MD
3:20-4:05 PM Management of Common Causes of Hypoxia
Ankita Agarwal, MD, MSc
3:40-4:00 PM BREAK
4:00-5:00 PM Outpatient Billing
Steve Adams, COC, CPC, CPMA, CRC, CPE-I, CEMC, FCS, PCS
4:15-5:00 PM Inpatient Management of Diabetes
Patricia Hwang, MD
6:00-7:30 PM Awards Reception
Clyde Watkins, Jr., MD, FACP

Sunday, October 26

Time Session
7:00 AM-Noon Registration
7:00-8:00 AM Fellowship Breakfast
Clyde Watkins, Jr., MD, FACP
Women's Networking Breakfast
TBD
7:00-8:30 AM Breakfast
7:55-8:00 AM Opening Remarks
John Kim, MD, FACP
8:00-9:00 AM Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal: Clinical Insights and Applications
Elizabeth McCord, MD
9:10-10:10 AM Dermatology
Justin Cheeley, MD
10:10-10:30 AM BREAK
10:30-11:30 AM Treatment of Osteoporosis - Beyond Bisphosphonates
Bridget Sinnott, MD
11:40-12:40 PM Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine
Richard Blatt, MD
12:40 PM ADJOURN

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: October 26, 2025
Termination Date: October 26, 2026


The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.5 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 16.5 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.

FAQ

Equipment and Materials

Create a Zoom Account!

Our meeting will be conducted on the Zoom platform and all registered attendees will be have links to the Zoom meeting through this page. If you do not have a Zoom account, we recommend you sign up for one before the meeting. Sign up is free. Click here to sign up.

Test Your Equipment in Advance

  • Please test and check your system at least 15 minutes prior to meeting. This includes your network connection, device battery life, and speakers.
  • We recommend you use a computer or a tablet for the best experience. The system is not responsive on a cell phone.

Control Your Environment as Best You Can

  • Mute other devices that might interfere with your computer audio.
  • Create a learning-conducive environment, eliminating as many distractions as possible. Close out of other tabs and mute notifications, if possible.
  • Prepare your space with anything you may need during the virtual program (appropriate chargers, note-taking materials, water, etc.).

Troubleshooting Technical Difficulties

  • Some networks cause slides to advance more slowly than others. If your slides are behind or you are having audio issues, please try to refresh the page.

Participant Photography

As a participant in the chapter meeting, your photograph may be taken as a focus or background subject, to be used in chapter communications. If you would not like your photo taken, please inform chapter staff.

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.

If you experience or observe harassing, inappropriate or otherwise unprofessional behavior, or you have concerns about how you have been treated by an ACP member or staff or anyone else at an ACP meeting or event, you may report the incident to acpevents@acponline.org or call 215 351-7750.

The chapter reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate; including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and the chapter reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.

For other questions about the chapter meeting, contact Susan Saify at 646-271-6109 or ssaify@gaacp.org.

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