Fostering Excellence in Internal Medicine

Join us for the upcoming ACP Louisiana Chapter Scientific Meeting on Friday, January 22 at the LSU Center for Advanced Learning and Simulation.

Expand your knowledge, earn CME/MOC, and connect with peers and chapter leaders.

You'll experience engaging educational sessions from expert faculty, meet new people, and connect with old friends, and learn about opportunities to get more involved with the ACP Louisiana Chapter.

We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans.

Angela M. McLean, MD, FACP 
ACP Governor, Louisiana Chapter


Meeting Highlights
  • Financial Literacy and Billing & Coding
  • AI & EMR
  • Updates in Menopause, Diabetes, Hematology and Lipids
  • Dermatology for the Internist
  • Dementia & Decision Making
  • Discuss best practices for physician wellness;
  • Career Reflections
Program Committee
  • Wartelle Castille, Jr, MD, FACP 
  • Lee Engel, MD, PhD, MACP 
  • Janice Ford, MD 
  • Ankita Gupta, MBBS 
  • Marlon Joseph, MD, FACP 
  • Angela McLean, MD, FACP 
  • James Morris, MD, FACP 
  • Murthy Muthuswamy, MD, FACP

 

 

Agenda

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

Schedule

TimeSession
8:25-8:30 AMWelcome
Angela McLean, MD FACP
8:30-10:20 AMSession 1: Practice Management
Financial Planning for Physicians
David Dies, MD MBA
Updates in Billing & Coding for the Internist
Charles Hamori MD MACP CPC
Better Time, Not Less Time: What AI in the EMR Is Actually Doing to Your Day
Jason Hill, MD MS MMM
10:20-10:30 AMBreak
10:30-11:00 AMBusiness Meeting & Awards
11:00 AM-Noon2027 ACP Update
Charles Hamori MD MACP CPC  
Angela Johnson, MD FACP
Noon-12:20 PMBreak
12:20-2:10 PMSession 2: Guideline Updates
Menopause Masterclass :Practical Cases Every Internist Will See
Elizabeth Lapeyre MD, FACOG, MSCP, ABOIM  
Navigating Anticoagulation: Current Recommendations and Clinical Pearls
Ankia Gupta, MBBS FACP  
Update in Dyslipidemia
Neeraj Jain MD, FACP, FACC
2:10-2:30 PMBreak
2:30-4:20 PMSession 3: Three D's
Dementia and Delirium
Shreedhar Kulkarni, MBBS  
Dermatology Update
Chris Haas MD FAAD  
Diabetes: The Evolving Landscape of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Weighing the Costs, Side Effects, and New Breakthroughs
Taniya De Silva MD
4:20-4:30 PMBreak
4:30-5:30 PMReflections on a career in Internal Medicine
William E Davis, MD MACP  
James Morris, MD FACP  
Angela McLean, MD FACP
 

 

CME & MOC

To claim CME & MOC credit or to generate a certificate of participation you will be asked to first complete an evaluation survey.

Release Date: DATE
Termination Date: DATE


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

 

 

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 meeting, contact Sarah Wardrop at 225-364-9480 or laacpchaptermeeting@gmail.com.

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