Program at A Glance

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

TIME (+4 GMT) ACTIVITY SPEAKER Moderator
17:00 – 18:45 Session 1: Conference Opening Mahmoud AlHawamdeh
17:00 - 17:10 Welcome Address Hussein Saadi, MD
17:10 - 17:35 Hospital Medicine and Population Health: how hospitalists play a vital role in the Population Health Chris Frost, MD
17:35 - 18:00 Q & A
18:00 - 18:15 Leadership talk Jorge Guzman, MD
18:15 - 18:30 Q & A
18:30 - 19:00 NON-CME Symposium: Triple-Drug Therapy in Hypertension Management: Why and When? Mustafa Ahmed, MD
19:00 - 19:30 NON-CME Symposium: Emerging Advances in Reducing Renal Complications of T2D Ossama Barakat, MD
19:30 – 20:45 Session 2: COVID-19 Ajmal Kazman
19:30 - 19:45 Diagnosis Adnan Alatoom, MD
19:45 - 20:00 Treatment options Ahmad Nusair, MD
20:00 - 20:10 Neurological Seby John, MD
20:10 - 20:20 ICU Management Fadi Hamed, MD
20:20 - 20:30 Leading organizations during turbulent times: experience from the COVID pandemic Madhu Sasidhar, MD
20:30 - 20:40 Impact of covid19 on mental health Samer Makhoul - ACNP
20:40 - 21:00 Q & A

Friday, November 20th, 2020

TIME (+4 GMT) ACTIVITY SPEAKER Moderator
16:00 – 16:30 Keynote Lecture Saaid AbdelGhani
16:00 – 16:25 The Doctor will See you Now: Virtual Care in the time of a Pandemic Benji K. Mathews, MD, FACP, SFHM IP
16:25 - 16:30 Q & A
16:30 - 17:35 Session 3: Respiratory Benazir Hakkim
16:30 - 16:55 Putting evidence into Practice , a case based approach to COPD Zaid Zoumot, MD
16:55 - 17:10 Sleep Apnea and overlap syndromes Sobia Farooq, MD
17:10 - 17:25 Recent developments in the use of biologic agents targeting key cytokines in severe asthma Mohamed Abuzakouk, MD
17:25 - 17:35 Q & A
17:35 - 18:05 NON-CME Symposium: Asthma Management - Are we controlling asthma or being controlled by symptoms? Norbert Berend, MD FRACP FAPSR
18:05 - 19:05 Session 4: Geriatric and End of Life Care Jamshed Khan
18:05 - 18:20 Quick Geriatric assessment in the ambulatory setting Mujtaba Ali, MD
18:20 - 18:35 End of Life-Allowance of Natural Death Christos Dimopoulos, BM, DGM, FRCPS (Glasgow)
18:35 - 18:50 Delirium Ayesha Ahmed, MD
18:50 - 19:05 Q & A
19:05 - 20:05 NON-CME Symposium: Standardized Reporting in Glucose Monitoring Symposium Samer El-Kaissi, MD
20:05 - 20:35 Session 5: Endocrinology l Fawad Khan
20:05 - 20:20 The Impact of Technology in Diabetes Management: Where are we now and what does the future hold Hamid Farooqi, MD
20:20 - 20:35 Inpatient Management of diabetes Hammad Hussain, MD
20:35 - 21:05 NON-CME Symposium: Is it time to REWIND the clock? Improving diabetes related outcomes with Dulaglutide Akrem Elmalti, MD
21:05 - 21:45 Session 5: Endocrinology ll Fawad Khan
21:05 - 21:20 Hyperthyroidism Samer El-Kaissi, MD
21:20 - 21:35 IM fasting not just another FAD diet Ronney Shantouf, MD
21:35 -21:50 Q & A
21:50 - 22:20 NON-CME Symposium: Charting New path with Insulin
Co-Formulation
Mohammed Al-Khatib, MD
22:20 - 22:50 Keynote Lecture Abed Hmaid
22:20 - 22:50 US Hospital Medicine Danielle Scheurer, MD

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

TIME (+4 GMT) ACTIVITY SPEAKER Moderator
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote Lecture Saqib Aziz
16:00 - 16:30 Considerations on the Identification and Management of Patients at High Risk for Breast Cancer Stephen Grobmyer, MD
16:30 - 17:00 Session Break for Networking & Sponsored Activities
17:00 - 18:15 Session 6: Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation Yousif Hassan
17:00 - 17:15 Lipid Disorder Mahmoud Traina, MD
17:15 - 17:30 Update on Peripheral Vascular Disease Faisal Hassan, MD
17:30 - 17:45 Anticoagulation in Inpatient Settings Mahmoud AlHawamdeh, MD
17:45 - 18:00 Cardiac stress testing Rumman Langah, MD
18:00 - 18:15 Q & A
18:15 - 18:45 Session Break for Networking & Sponsored Activities
18:45 - 20:00 Session 7: Pre-Op Evaluation, Skin and Rheumatologic Updates Azeem Saeed, MD
18:45 - 19:00 Pre- op evaluation Silvia Mulero, MD
19:00 - 19:15 Things We Do for No Reason Saaid AbdelGhani, MD
19:15 - 19:30 Skin and soft tissue infections Mohamed Mooty, MD
19:30 - 19:45 Indication and interpretation of common rheumatologist testing Rajaie Namas, MD
19:45 - 20:00 Q & A
20:00 - 20:30 Session Break for Networking & Sponsored Activities
20:30 - 21:45 Session 8: Gastroenterology Nazem Hafez
20:30 - 20:45 Enteral Nutrition Abdulla Shatnawi, MD
20:45 - 21:05 Inflammatory Bowel Disease at CCAD Zaher Koutoubi, MD
21:05 - 21:20 Colorectal polyps and understanding colonoscopy results: What you should know in 2020 Ammar Khair, MD
21:20 - 21:35 Indications for Liver Transplantation in 2020: What the Internist needs to know Shiva Kumar, MD
21:35 - 21:45 Q & A
21:45 - 22:15 Session Break for Networking & Sponsored Activities
22:15 - 22:30 Session 9: Conference Closing
22:15 - 22:30 Closing Remarks Hussein Saadi, MD