Fridays at the University Metabolic Day – May 6, 2022

This session will be online only.

Agenda

0830  SGLT2 Inhibitors – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Dr. Josef Silha

0920  Top Questions of Relevance to Primary Care – Dr. Bill Leslie

1010 The Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines – Dr. Priya Manjoo

1100 Stretch Break

1130   Application of the Canadian Hypertension Guidelines – a Case-Based Approach – Dr. Ross Feldman

1220 Fatty Liver Disease – New Insights and Cardiometabolic Optimization – Dr. Jonathan Gabor

1320 Closing remarks

Objectives

• Recognize common disorders that are affected by weight (Communicator, Medical Expert)
• Prescribe medications used in the treatment of various metabolic disorders and select the appropriate use of new treatments for each condition (Communicator, Scholar, Medical Expert)
• Select screening for the various conditions discussed, if appropriate (Medical Expert, Communicator, Collaborator)
• Describe new directions that each topic is taking as the fields continue to develop (Scholar, Medical Expert)
• Identify the type of patient that would require referral to an expert in that field, when appropriate (Collaborator, Medical Expert)

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Registration

Physicians: $175
Other health professionals: $75
Residents/students: $30

This event is available via livestream. You will be emailed connection information prior to the event.

Only paid registrants can receive credits and access speakers’ presentations post-event.

Study Credits

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for up to 4.5 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for a maximum of 4.5 hours.

Participants should only claim credit for the actual number of hours attended.

The University of Manitoba CPD Medicine Program is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME).

Per CPD Medicine policy, the department requires any refund or cancelation request to be submitted in writing up to 14 days before an event. A $50 administrative fee will be withheld to cover transaction and administrative costs. Refund or cancelation requests made less than 14 days before an event may be considered on a case-by-case basis