Nevada Chapter 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
UNLV Thomas & Mack Center - Stripview Pavilion | Las Vegas, NV

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Nevada Chapter 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting

Building Community Through Education and Advocacy

The Nevada Chapter is pleased to offer a safe 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 NV Chapter scientific meeting October 1, 2024:

  • 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 UNLV Thomas & Mack Center - Stripview Pavilion, Las Vegas Nevada!

Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, MD, MPH, FACP
ACP Governor, Nevada Chapter

Meeting Highlights
  • Doctor's Dilemma 
  • Advocacy
  • Updates in Menapause Management
  • Refugee Health
  • Anticoagulation Pearls
  • Substance Use Disorders
  • ID Pearls
  • CKM and GLP-1s
Program Committee
  • Olawale Akinyemi
  • Edwin Avallone, DO
  • Kimberly Bates, MD
  • T. Brian Callister, MD
  • KaChon Lei, MD
  • Mark McKenzie, MD
  • Jeffrey Murawsky, MD
  • Sujatha Pitani, MD
  • Katika Shetty, MD
  • Aditi Singh, MD
  • Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, MD

6.5 CME & MOC Available

Release Date: October 1, 2024
Termination Date: October 1, 2025

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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 6.5 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 6.5 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.

Agenda

Tuesday, October 1

Time Session
9:00 AM-1:00 PM Registration, Exhibits
9:00-11:00 AM Medical Student and Resident/Fellow Scientific Abstract Competition/Posters
11:00-11:15 AM Break
11:15 AM-Noon Doctor's Dilemma® Competition
Chief Resident Council
Noon-1:15 PM Welcome, Business Meeting, Announce Winners of Poster Contest; Lunch
Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, MD, MPH, FACP
Aditi Singh, MD, FACP
John Varras, MD, FACP
1:15-2:15 PM Getting to Recovery – Overcome Barriers to Care for Substance Use Disorders
Maureen Strohm, MD, FAAFP, DFASAM
2:15-2:45 PM CKM Syndrome and Updates in the Use of GLP-1
Quang Nguyen, DO, FTOS
2:45-3:15 PM What ID Physicians Think We Should Know
Kevin Murphy, MD, FACP
3:15-3:30 PM Break
3:30-4:15 PM Menopause & Hormone therapy: Evidence-based Practices for Today’s Clinicians
Amber Champion, MD
Deepali Kashyap, MD, FACOG, IFMCP, NCMP
4:15-4:45 PM Updates in Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation, Mechanical Valves, and Acute Coronary Syndrome
KaChon Lei, MD
4:45-5:15 PM Mindfulness for What's Most Important
Sujatha Pitani, MD
5:00-6:15 PM Let’s Take a Hike Together! Advocacy to Strengthen Internal Medicine in a Challenging World
Shari M. Erickson, MPH
6:15-8:15 PM Dinner and Awards: Keynote Speaker - Leadership Day and Beyond: The Many Avenues Physicians Become Advocates
Alejandro Moreno, MBBS, MPH, JD, MACP

Nevada Chapter Registration

Categories Registration Rates
ACP Member $120
ACP Resident/Fellow Member $0
ACP Medical Student Member $0
ACP Affiliate Member $80
Nonmember Physician $170
Nonmember Resident $80
Nonmember Medical Student $0
Nonmember Allied Health Professional $80

Questions? If you have trouble registering online, please contact Member and Product Support at 800-ACP-1915 or direct at 215-351-2600 (M-F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET).

FAQ

Registration Information

Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, all scientific sessions and materials, and CME documentation.

Members whose dues were not paid for the current fiscal year will receive the nonmember registration rate.

Can I follow along on social media?

Yes, follow/like the NV Chapter through the meeting on social media! Use the hashtag #IMProud.

  • Instagram: @nevadaacp

I cannot access my account

If you have any difficulty accessing your ACP account, you can reset your username and password. You can do so by clicking on the MyACP link at the top of the ACP web site. If you require additional assistance, please contact us (M-F, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET) via web chat or call 800-ACP-1915 or 215-351-2600 or via e-mail at help@acponline.org

I do not have an ACPonline account

Nonmembers are advised to use their e-mail address as their username when creating a password. If you require additional assistance, please contact us (M-F, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET) via web chat or call 800-ACP-1915 or 215-351-2600 or via e-mail at help@acponline.org

Hotel Accommodations

We have reserved a block of rooms at the following rates until September 6, 2024. When making your reservation, be sure to mention that you will be attending the ACP NV Chapter meeting. The rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so make your reservation as early as possible by calling the hotel directly at 800-473-7625 or registering online.

Single/Double: $99.00
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
4455 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, Nevada 89169

MyACP Account

If you have any difficulty accessing your MyACP account, you can reset your username and password. You can do so by clicking on the MyACP link at the top of the ACP web site. Nonmembers are advised to use their e-mail address as their username when creating a password. If you require additional assistance, please contact us (M-F, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET) via web chat or call 800-ACP-1915 or 215-351-2600 or via e-mail at help@acponline.org

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 Katina Shehie at 702-671-2358 or nvchaptered@gmail.com.

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