2025 CME Beach Retreat Agenda
Friday, January 24, 2025
12:00 pm Registration begins
2-3 pm First Do No Harm: Why We Should Listen to Our Patients, Even When They’re Hard to Believe: Jennifer Bryan, MD
3-4 pm Infectious Disease and the Antibiotics to use: Ray Chakra, MD
4-5 pm The Last Frontier of Physician Leaders: Jeremy Sunseri, MD
5:30 pm Welcome Reception & Vendor Expo begins with the Vendors
7:00 pm Dinner and Keynote Address:
Complex Care: The Family Experience: Tasha Firoza Faruqui, D.O.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
8:00 – 8:30 am Buffet Breakfast with the Vendors
8:30-11 am Managing Obesity Panel Presentation:
- A Comprehensive Approach to Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Mechanism of Action, Medication Side Effect Management, and Lifestyle Modification: Nikita Shah, DO
- Nutrition Considerations for Obese Populations: Kait Richardson, RDN, LD
- Pediatric Specialist: TBA
11 am-12 pm Modern Approaches to Gastroparesis: Chris Johnson, MD, FACS
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break with Vendors
1-2 pm Laser Ablation to Enhance Therapies for Patients with Malignant Brain Tumors: Maryam Rahman, MD
2-3 pm Navigating the current treatment landscape in Glioblastoma: Ashley Ghiaseddin, MD
3-3:30 Break with Vendors
3:30:-4:30 pm Advanced diagnostics in lung cancer: where we’ve been, where we are and where we are soon to be: Luke Yuhico, MD
4:30-5:30 pm Plastic Surgery; Where Art meets Science: Steven Clark, MD
Sunday, January 26, 2025
7:30 am Coffee Bar in the Vendor Room to jumpstart the day!
8:00 am-10:00am Narcotics Prescribing Course: Joshua Lenchus, DO
10-10:45 am Brunch with the Vendors
10:45- 11:45 am Florida Laws Rules and Medical Ethics: Mike Igel, JD
12-2 pm Prevention of Medical Errors: Kevin Mercer, JD and Myka Whitman
