Dr. Gerald Levine

Specialty:

Family Medicine

About The Speaker

Dr. Gerald Levine graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1982 and the University of Toronto Family Medicine School in 1984. From 1985 to 2017 he ran his family medical practice in Barrie, Ontario, and has focused on stress management, burnout prevention and mindfulness facilitation since 2006.

He has conducted stress management/burnout prevention staff training for the Canadian Mental Health Association York Region, Canadian Mental Health Association Simcoe, York Support Services Network and Simcoe County Elementary Teachers Federation.

He has also hosted workshops on stress management/burnout prevention for many family practitioners and specialists, the General Practitioner Psychotherapy Association of Canada, Ontario Social Workers Association, Georgian Bay Cancer Support Network, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit and many more.

He has enjoyed being on faculty for a number of  CME Away trips and looks forward to this one!

Dr. Peter Lin

Specialty:

Family Physician

About The Speaker

Dr. Peter Lin is the Director of Primary Care Initiatives at the Canadian Heart Research Centre.  He was also a contributing author to the Canadian Diabetes Guidelines 2013 and 2018 on the vascular protection section. He is also the past Associate Editor for the Elsevier Web Portal – Practice Update Primary Care.

Dr. Lin has lectured extensively on Diabetes (SGLT2i, GLP1-RA, GLP1-GIP), CV disease, lipids (PCSK9 inhibitors), CKD, COPD, Asthma, cancers, drug interactions, herb interactions, vaccinations, dementia, osteoporosis, effects of microplastics, Artificial Intelligence (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly).  He has worked on the KDIGO guidelines to help improve care for CKD patients. He has been the Co-Chair of the Immunizations Across the Lifespan Conference in Canada for the last 4 years. He was actively following and educating about the COVID-19 pandemic right from the beginning.

He reaches out to the public with his role as a medical contributor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) which is the national news agency in Canada.  He has received an award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for excellence in medical education.

CME Topics

PHYSICIAN WELLNESS, CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND THE FUTURE OF AI IN MEDICINE

Dr. Levine-

• Physician Stress and Burnout/Concepts of Mindfulness for Self Care
  • Recognize and assess stress and burnout symptoms
  • Explore mindfulness concepts and practices for self care
• Applied Mindfulness: Mastering Listening, Communication, Thoughts and Emotions
  • Acquire mindfulness concepts for listening, communicating, managing thoughts and emotions
  • Implement mindfulness to effectively manage listening, communication, thoughts and emotions
• Applied Mindfulness: Pain Management/PTSD/Addiction
  • Explain the basis of mindfulness-based pain ,PTSD and addiction management
  • Become familiar with mindfulness-based pain, PTSD and addiction management strategies and resources
• Mindfulness of Emotional Health: Positivity and Response Flexibility
  • Acquire the theories of positive psychology and response flexibility
  • Engage in practical positive psychology and response flexibility practices
• A Mindful Approach to Teamwork, Difficult Patients/Colleagues
  • Understand your role in promoting teamwork and managing difficult patients and/or colleagues
  • Develop mindful strategies to enhance teamwork and manage difficult personalities
• Mindful Time Management
  • Investigate time management challenges at work and home
  • Explore practical time management solutions
• Applied Mindfulness: Burnout Management
  • Evaluate knowledge of mindful self-compassion
  • Examine practical mindful self-compassion for burnout management
• The Mindful Physician
  • Review mindfulness concepts and skills to manage stress and burnout
  • Identify challenges and solutions for continued practice

Dr. Lin -

• Huffing and Puffing - COPD - Gold guidelines
  • Cite the new COPD Guidelines – both the GOLD and Canadian guidelines to our COPD patients
  • Examine the importance of mortality benefits for our patients
• Huffing and wheezing - Asthma - GINA guidelines
  • Illustrate how to use the GINA guidelines to help patients with asthma of all stages and severity
  • Explain anti-inflammatory reliever strategy

• AI - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Navigating the New Reality of AI in Medicine)
  • Describe how AI is changing the way we practice medicine
  • Explore the potential pitfalls based on how AI was trained and will be trained
  • Illustrate how to use AI and get the benefits while minimizing the potential harm

• Keeping your Kidneys Working - SGLT2i, GLP1-RA, and Finerenone
  • Explain how SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP1 and Finerenone are defining new pillars for patients with CKD.
  • Discuss the use of SGLT2i can be used in diabetes and non-diabetic CKD.

• So many shots - Vaccines - Shingles, RSV, Flu and Covid
  • Identify patients that need these vaccines
  • Explain the vaccinations and their benefits

• Cancer - What's the cool stuff?
  • Cite the new developments in diagnostics, surveillance
  • Discuss the new immune modulating treatment for cancer

• Drug Interactions - A primer for all physicians
  • Explore a framework to think about drug interactions
  • Explain how to actively help patients avoid these drug interactions

• Microplastics – A New CV Risk Factor?
  • Describe microplastics and its effects on the body especially as a CV risk factor
  • Illustrate how to help patients reduce their exposure to microplastics