UCSF CME: Diabetes Update and Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism
* LIVE STREAMED ONLY *

Overview:

The Diabetes Update section on Thursday focuses on new ideas and therapies relevant to patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism on Friday and Saturday will provide the clinician with updated, pragmatic information about the
management of common endocrinologic and metabolic problems, as well as insight into important current areas in clinical research. Formal presentations will be accompanied by question and answer periods with general discussion. Clinical cases will focus on common
endocrine problems encountered in clinical practice.

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is intended for general internists, family physicians, general practitioners, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals. It is expected that the participants will gain new life skills and strategies to manage these disorders.

LIVE STREAM MEETING
This course will be offered as a virtual conference. Login instructions along with the digital syllabus will be shared with the attendees a week before the meeting. Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand (Available within a week after the conference) for any session that you miss, available for 30 days after the course.

Objectives:

At the completion of this program, course participants will be able to:

• Use newly introduced drugs to control glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes;
• Utilize data from sensors to improve glucose control in their patients with type 2 diabetes;
• Assess and treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease;
• Appreciate how fat distribution causes metabolic problems;
• Have insight into the pathophysiology of different kinds of diabetes;
• Appreciate relationship between occult autoimmunity and development of overt disease;
• Evaluate for and treat cardiac disease in people with diabetes;
• Evaluate and treat patients with hypoglycemia.

ADVANCES IN ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

At the completion of this program, course participants will be able to:

• Improve their management of patients with osteoporosis;
• Manage malignancy associated bone disease;
• What you should consider when you see a young person with osteoporosis;
• Appreciate how tumor genetics can be used to optimize treatment of thyroid cancer;
• Nonsurgical approaches to managing thyroid nodules;
• Evaluating and treating men with infertility;
• Optimally manage patients with Graves’ disease;
• Obtain an overview of how to manage endocrine diseases in the pregnant woman;
• Deliver high quality care for patients with an incidental adrenal nodule;
• Identify and treat mineralocorticoid hypertension;
• Manage commonly encountered bone, lipid, pituitary, adrenal and thyroid disorders (clinical cases)
• Identify and treat commonly seen lipid problems.

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Nurses:
For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants:
AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pharmacists:
The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Registered Dieticians:
The Commission on Dietetic Registration accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to Dietetic practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Geriatric Medicine:
The approved credits shown above include 1.75 credits toward meeting the requirement under California Assembly Bill 1820, Geriatric Medicine

Maintenance of Certification:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 18.25 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 credits 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 points.

Course Outline:

G = Geriatric Credit  

Chairs:

Umesh Masharani, MB, BS, MRCP
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Faculty:

(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)

Travel & Lodging:

Interactive Webinar
Live Stream