March 8, 2008

This one-day symposium is designed to provide up-to-date information on how to recognize, diagnose, treat, and manage common rheumatologic conditions. Primary care physicians or those that provide primary care to their patients are the target audience. We will emphasize early diagnosis, identification of risk factors for prognosis, intervention early rather than later, and side effects or toxicities to treatment strategies.

A partnership between primary care physicians and rheumatologists is critical to identify situations that require immediate management as well as when time is not so important. We will emphasize the role of pain management in certain conditions like osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia, new paradigms for treatment of inflammatory joint diseases, and the latest advances in our understanding of the consequences of osteoporosis.

Our always popular hands-on sessions with the experts will again emphasize office-based practices such as joint examinations and injections, how to deal with the patient who presents with a single swollen joint or many swollen joints, what to do with a positive ANA or Rheumatoid Factor, popular alternative/complementary medicine approaches, and sports medicine issues. Finally, we will present a noon lecture during lunch where the problem of pulmonary hypertension will be addressed.

This course will be held at:

For a brochure of this program, click here.

For online registration, click here.

If questions, please contact this meeting's coordinator:

Barbara Stokes, CME Coordinator

Phone: (310) 423- 2935

email: stokes@cshs.org

If you need additional information on any CME program, please contact the Office of Continuing Medical Education at (310) 423-5548