Dr. Steven Poirier

Specialty:

Family Medicine

About The Speaker

Dr. Steven Poirier is a dedicated Family Physician with 22 years of experience providing high-quality, compassionate care to patients in a variety of settings. He has practiced rural family medicine and rural emergency medicine for 3 years after graduating and then transitioned into a larger center and practiced both, Hospital in-patient Medicine as a hospitalist, and Family Medicine in the office setting.  This has allowed him to acquire both the knowledge and skills essential to all aspects of care form prevention, to emergency to acute and subacute care, as well as medicine for all age groups from birth to end of life care.
With a commitment to staying at the forefront of medical advancements, Dr. Poirier has received extensive training in Longevity Medicine and Men’s Vitality Medicine.  He is also a regular teacher which allows him to keep up to date in an ever-changing world of medical information.

Teaching:
Dr. Poirier has been involved in teaching the current and the next generation of physician since 2013:

• Associate professor for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto at the level of Lecturer.
• Preceptor through the Rural Ontario Medicine Program and one the preceptors for the francophone stream of the medicine programme at the University of Ottawa.
• Preceptor through the medical school at University College Cork in Ireland that is affiliated with Medcan.

Dr. Rick Ward

Specialty:

Family Medicine

About The Speaker

Dr. Ward is a community-based Family Physician practicing in a large interdisciplinary medical home in NW Calgary caring for close to 25,000 patients.  Dr. Ward is Clinical Associate Professor in the Cummings School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and has special clinical interest in Chronic Disease Management and Mental Health.  His leadership position with Primary Care Alberta – Medical Director, Primary Care for the Calgary Zone, allows him to contribute to community-based initiatives bringing together Specialty Care and Primary Care to improve population health outcomes.  For over two decades, Rick has contributed to national and regional guideline and pathway development in a variety of disease and therapeutic areas.

CME Topics

Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Men’s Vitality

Dr. Poirier-

• Canadian Dyslipidemia guidelines
  • Review current guidelines including 2021 Canadian Dyslipidemia guidelines and 2023 Peer simplified lipid guideline: Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care
  • Apply guidelines to real life cases whether treatment should be initiated
• Dyslipidemia Treatment
  • Cite the current biomarkers/modifiers in the guidelines: a closer at Lp(a) and Apo
  • Apply the use of the Lp(a) and ApoB to real life cases whether treatment should be initiated
• Pathophysiology of Atherosclerosis
  • Examine the process of developing atherosclerosis
  • Discuss the timeline to plaque rupture and end organ damage.
• Endothelial Dysfunction, inflammation, and Coronary Artery Disease
  • List the new biomarkers available and how they relate to the atherosclerosis timeline
  • Illustrate how to use the new biomarkers for further risk stratification and possible earlier initiation of treatment for prevention.
• Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Explore what the available options are for screening in terms of cardiovascular imaging specifically: The carotid intima-media thickness test (CIMT) and Coronary Artery Calcium Score
  • Cite the role for the carotid intima-media thickness test (CIMT) and Coronary Artery Calcium Score in early detection.
  • Examine the need for a more aggressive approach to managing the risk factors associated with heart disease and stroke.
• Diet and Lifestyle coaching for disease prevention
  • Describe the current activity guidelines and simple dietary changes that are beneficial
  • Illustrate t motivational coaching for lifestyle changes and medical intervention for prevention of disease.

Dr. Ward-

• Primary Care Lipid Challenges – a case-based approach
  • Update of CCS Lipid Guidelines
  • Practical approach to use of guidelines in common primary care scenarios
• Diabetes Update – so many patients, so many choices!
  • Update of Diabetes Canada guidelines
  • Case based approach to integrating guidelines into care
• Eating Disorders – a non-specialist approach to common eating disorders
  • Review presentation and diagnosis of eating disorders
  • Management approach to common eating disorders

• “To sleep, perchance to dream”
  • Assess and diagnose patients who present with sleep issues
  • A treatment approach to sleep disorders
• Talk therapy demystified
  • Review evidence-based psychotherapy/counseling options
  • Case based discussion – what therapy is most appropriate?
• Adult ADHD
  • Identifying clinical presentations where ADHD should be suspected
  • Approach to managing adults with ADHD
• MCI and Dementia – early detection of memory issues in primary care
  • Review the diagnostic criteria for MCI and Dementia
  • Identify management strategies
• Treatment Resistant (Difficult to treat) Depression
  • Algorithmic approach to management of depression – emphasis on pharmacologic and non-therapeutic interventions
  • Evidence based strategies for difficult to treat depression
• Weighing in on obesity management
  • Initial identification and investigation of patients with obesity
  • A paradigm for medical management of obesity

• Sex Medicine – a primer and overview for generalists
  • Provide an overview and approach to patients presenting with sexual complaints
  • Practical strategies for management of common sexual complaint

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