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5th Annual Internal Medicine in Primary Care
7-Night Alaska Cruise Conference
Round-trip Seattle, Washington
July 31 - August 07, 2020
Celebrity Solstice
20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Course Fees
$725.00 for Physicians
$650.00 for Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, and Others
(The conference tuition does not include the cost of the cruise)
Course Cancellations:
A full refund minus a $50.00 processing fee will be given for written cancellations received by June 30, 2020. Refunds cannot be honored after this date and tuition will be applied as full payment for any of future meetings organized by Continuing Education Company (including land-based conferences). No refund will be given for no-shows. Occasionally, speakers or topics need to be changed.
In the unlikely event that the conference is canceled, CEC will refund the registration fee in full, but is not responsible for any travel or hotel costs incurred. However, we will not cancel any meeting due to lack of attendance.
SPECIAL OFFER: Earn a total of 35 CME credits with our Special Alaska Cruise CME Offer! Attend the 5th Annual Internal Medicine in Primary Care Conference (20 CME Credits) and you will
receive a FREE online 15 credit CME course from CME365.*
*Offer valid only for participants who attend all days of the live 5th Annual Internal Medicine in Primary Care Conference. Access to the online CME course will be sent to registrants after they have attended and successfully
completed the live conference. The online CME course is not transferable. This offer is not valid if you cancel your registration or are a no show at the live conference.
Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and other Health Care Professionals.
Program Purpose / Objectives
Agenda:
Time
Agenda
Speaker
FRIDAY JULY 31, 2020
12:00 - 1:00pm
BOARD: Seattle, WA
1:00 - 3:00pm
Conference sign-in/ Registration and material pickup (Conference Center)
4:00pm
SAIL
SATURDAY August 1st, 2020 - At Sea All Day
7:30 - 8:30am
Contemporary Management Of Type 2 Diabetes: Focus On Non-Insulin Therapies
L. Young, MD
8:30 - 9:30am
Honing In On The CV And Renal Benefits Of Current Diabetes Therapies
L. Young, MD
9:30 - 9:45am
BREAK
9:45 - 10:45am
Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Functions Test's
B. Pearlman, MD
10:45 - 11:45am
The ABC's of Viral Hepatitis
B. Pearlman, MD
11:45am - 1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00 - 2:00pm
Cardiovascular exam
E. Needham, MD
2:00 - 3:00pm
Gout and Pseudogout
E. Needham, MD
3:00 - 3:15pm
BREAK
3:15 - 4:15pm
An Overview Of Movement Disorders
R. Rodriguez, MD
4:15 - 5:15pm
Evaluation And Treatment Of Headaches
R. Rodriguez, MD
SUNDAY August 2, 2020
7:00am - 4:00pm
Ketchikan, Alaska
MONDAY August 3, 2020
6:00am - 10:00am
Endicott Arm & Dawes Glacier
1:30pm - 10:00pm
Juneau, Alaska
TUESDAY August 4, 2020
7:00am - 6:00pm
Skagway, Alaska
6:30pm - 10:30pm
Alaska Inside Passage
WEDNESDAY August 5, 2020 - At Sea All Day
7:30 - 8:30am
Evaluation Of The Patient With Numbness And Tingling
R. Rodriguez, MD
8:30 - 9:30am
The Patient With Memory Concerns
R. Rodriguez, MD
9:30 - 9:45am
BREAK
9:45 - 10:45am
Asthma in Adults
E. Needham, MD
10:45 - 11:45am
CV Pharmacology Update
E. Needham, MD
11:45am - 1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00 - 2:00pm
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): The Essentials
B. Pearlman, MD
2:00 - 3:00pm
Liver Pearls: Dispelling Common Misconceptions
B. Pearlman, MD
3:00 - 3:15pm
BREAK
3:15 - 4:15pm
Insulin Therapy in the Contemporary management of Type 2 Diabetes
L. Young, MD
4:15 - 5:15pm
Interpreting Abnormal Endocrine Tests
L. Young, MD
THURSDAY August 6, 2020
8:00am - 9:00am
Top 10 Evidence-based Medicine Updates
E. Needham, MD
9:00am - 10:00am
Endocrinology and Diabetes Cases
L. Young, MD
10:00 - 10:15am
BREAK
10:15 - 11:15am
Neurology Cases
R. Rodriguez, MD
11:15am - 12:15pm
The Care of the Cirrhotic Patient
B. Pearlman, MD
5:30pm - 11:59pm
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
FRIDAY August 7, 2020
6:00am
Port of Arrival: Seattle, WA
Accreditation
Physicians
AAFP: This live activity, 5th Annual Internal Medicine in Primary Care, with a beginning date of July 31, 2020 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™: Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Continuing Education Company designates this live activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity..
ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 20 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 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 credit.;
AOA: CME activities approved for AAFP credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.
CFPC:Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive 20 MAINPRO-M1 credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Nurse Practitioners:
AANPCP:The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program accepts AAFP Prescribed credit andAMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
ANCC: According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal.
Physician Assistants:
AAPA: The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts AAFP Prescribed credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for AAPA Category 1 CME credit.
Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All conferees, their families, and guests must book their cruise within the University at Sea® meeting group through University at Sea® at 800-926-3775 or by registering online. This ensures our company can provide conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Thank you for your cooperation.
Faculty
Eddie Needham, MD, FAAFP
Program Director and Academic Chairman
AdventHealth Winter Park Family Medicine Residency Program
Professor of Medicine, UCF-COM
Clinical Associate Professor, SU-COM
Winter Park, FL
Eddie Needham, MD is the Program Director and Academic Chairman for the AdventHealth Winter Park Family Medicine Residency Program in Winter Park, Florida. Additionally, he is a Professor of Medicine at UCF-COM and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at FSU-COM. He practices full-service family medicine providing care from “conception to resurrection”. He has taught family medicine for 25 years and performs many outpatient and inpatient procedures.
He served as a physician in the US Army for seven years. In 2013, Dr. Needham received the Full-Time Florida Family Physician Educator award. He has previously received the AFMRD Gold Award as a Program Director in 2017, the GAFP Teacher of the Year in 2007 and the 1996 AAFP Parke-Davis Teacher awards. It is his joy and passion to teach students of medicine the wonders of the human body. He loves his wife of 31 years, his five adult children, the rigors of triathlons, the wonder and surprise of fishing, and mountain top experiences with friends.
Brian Pearlman, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AAHIVS
Medical Director, Center for Hepatitis C, Wellstar Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia
Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Brian Pearlman, MD is the Medical Director for Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center's Center for Hepatitis C in Atlanta, Georgia, and is Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and Professor of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine. He completed his medical degree at the University of Miami and post-graduate training at both the University of Texas, Southwestern and Baylor University Medical Center.
Dr. Pearlman is Fellow for the American College of Physicians, and Fellow for the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease as well as certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He is also a member of the American Gastroenterological Association. He had sat on the Board of Directors for The American Liver Foundation, Southeast Chapter.
Dr. Pearlman is widely published in leading journals such as The Lancet, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, The Lancet Infectious Disease, Clinical Infectious Diseases and the American Journal of Medicine. He is active in both patient care and in teaching physicians. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards and is an active investigator in multiple liver-related clinical trials, some of which are in collaboration with the CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis.
Laura A. Young, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Laura A. Young, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences at Michigan State University, Dr. Young and her MD/PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Young completed her residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of several professional organizations including American Diabetes Association and Endocrine Society. Dr. Young specializes in the care of patients with diabetes.
She enjoys working closely with patients to help them realize and achieve both their short and long-term health goals. Her research program focuses on a wide breadth of areas in diabetes, but Dr. Young has a special interest in the use of technology in diabetes. A common thread throughout much of Dr. Young's research is the use of novel behavioral approaches to improve the care of patients with diabetes.
The overarching goal of her clinical and research efforts is to help patients with diabetes live happier, healthier lives. In addition to her clinical work and research, Dr. Young spends a significant amount of her time at UNC working with trainees. In addition to mentoring medical students and residents, she is he Endocrinology Fellowship Program Director. In her free time, Dr. Young enjoys taking long walks, cooking, gardening, and spending time with family and friends.
Our staff can assist you with all your travel arrangements.
Questions? Call us at 800-422-0711.
We can assist you with all your travel arrangements. We'd be happy to help you plan your flights, hotels or tours before and/or after your cruise conference.
Cruise Itinerary
DATE
PORT OF CALL
ARRIVE
DEPART
Fri Jul 31
Seattle, Washington
-
4:00 pm
Sat Aug 01
*At Sea - Cruising
-
-
Sun Aug 02
Ketchikan, Alaska
7:00 am
4:00 pm
Mon Aug 03
Endicott Arm & Dawes Glacier
5:30 am
10:00 am
Mon Aug 03
Juneau, Alaska
1:30 pm
10:00 pm
Tue Aug 04
Skagway, Alaska
7:00 am
6:00 pm
Tue Aug 04
Alaska Inside Passage
6:30 pm
10:30 pm
Wed Aug 05
*At Sea - Cruising
-
-
Thu Aug 06
Victoria, British Columbia
5:30 pm
11:59 pm
Fri Aug 07
Seattle, Washington
6:00 am
-
*Tentative course schedule, actual class times may differ.
Ports of Call
Seattle, Washington - Sailing out on a cruise from Seattle? Make sure you spend a few a days in the beautiful Emerald City. If you’re a nature lover, this jewel in the Pacific Northwest is the perfect place for you to explore ahead of your cruise vacation. Though it offers plenty of metropolitan delights — think great restaurants, bars, a ton of shopping and lots (and lots) of hip coffee shops — Seattle is a big city with a wild, great-outdoors soul. It’s surrounded by ancient forests, sprawling public parks and, of course, the misty Puget Sound, where you can slow-moving tugboats, sleek kayaks and the occasional pod of whales. Head to Discovery Park for beautiful views of the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges or visit the Olympic Sculpture Park near Elliott Bay. And if you’re craving a drink and a tasty bite to eat, head to one of Seattle’s many rooftop bars and take advantage of those extra-long northern summer days while you sip local brews and expertly crafted cocktails.
At Sea - Cruising - Cruising
Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan sits at the southern end of Alaska’s Inside Passage— a gateway to the wild landscapes and seascapes of Misty Fjords National Monument. The canned salmon capital of the world, it’s a hub for fishing and outdoor sports. It’s also home to three tribes of Northwest Coast Indians, making it a great place to get a taste for the local culture. You’ll see it in the colorful, hand-carved totems that line the city’s streets and parks, and in the unique stilted homes that cling to Deer Mountain’s slopes. If you want to get up close and personal with nature, venture into the Tongass National Forest, the largest in the United States. Or head to Ketchikan Creek Waterfall for amazing views of downtown Ketchikan and a glimpse at the yearly salmon runs.
Endicott Arm & Dawes Glacier - One of Alaska's lesser-known gems, Endicott Arm Fjord marks the southern edge of Fords Terror Wilderness area. As you drift through its 30 -mile-long stretch, you can't help but be awed by the sorrounding granite cliffs, mountain valleys and dozens of gushing waterfalls. Drifting icebergs, deep blue waters and a spectacular tidewater glacier only add to this natural spectacle's appeal.
Skagway, Alaska - The tiny town of Skagway still looks like it did during the Klondike Gold Rush over 100 years ago— and today it remains an outpost for thrilling Alaskan adventure. An old-time street car ride along bustling Broadway Street reveals well-preserved buildings, including the state’s oldest hotel. You can see engraved walrus tusks at the Corrington Museum, or get lost in riveting historical reenactments around town. If outdoor adventure is more your thing, there are plenty of ways to amp up the adrenaline, from sledding with Alaskan Huskies on Laughton Glacier to rafting Lynn Canal, the longest fjord in North America.
Victoria, British Columbia - Though Toronto and Vancouver are the more famous Canadian destinations, it’s high time for the sophisticated and beautiful city of Victoria, British Columbia (BC) to have its big moment. The quaint charm and English manners of Victoria will take you back in time to the days of British occupation in the 19th century. Victoria is known as “the garden city” for its lushness and its commitment to keeping the city beautiful. Head to Butchart Garden or Beacon Hill Park to enjoy nature during your time in port.
Of course, a little history lesson is another must while on a cruise to Victoria, BC. Tour the expertly maintained Craigdarroch Castle and the Parliament Buildings, or stop in the Royal BC Museum, a natural history museum dedicated to the history of human settlement in the region. There’s also the Emily Carr House, a museum dedicated to the life and works of the famous painter, Emily Carr. Victoria exudes an intellectualism where art galleries and afternoon tea await you, but so do long bicycle rides along the seafront. Stylish cafes and restaurants are modernizing the city, all while maintaining its signature look: something straight out of a postcard.
Our staff can assist you with all your travel arrangements.
Questions? Call us at 800-422-0711.
We can assist you with all your travel arrangements. We'd be happy to help you plan your flights, hotels or tours before and/or after your cruise conference.
