The Care and Feeding of Evidence-Based Medicine
Friday, May 4, 2012 
8:00am - 9:00am
The Queen’s Conference Center, Auditorium
AMA PRA Credit: 1.0

Speakers: 
Frank L. Tabrah, MD (Professor, Department of Physiology, and Emeritus Professor of Community Health, UH John A. Burns School of Medicine and Research Investigator, Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu, HI)

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe principles of valid research design.
2. Discuss practical ways to evaluate outcomes information useful in clinical practice.
3. Summarize sources of dependable online clinical outcomes information.
4. Identify the practical barriers to the clinical application of evidence-based data.

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Update in Joint Replacement Surgery
Friday, May 11, 2012
8:00am - 9:00am
The Queen’s Conference Center, Auditorium
AMA PRA Credit: 1.0

Speaker:
Jeffery Kimo Harpstrite, MD (Assistant Professor of Surgery, UH John A. Burns School of Medicine)

Learning Objectives:

1. Review indications for joint replacement surgery.
2. Review the latest results for joint replacement surgery.
3. Review important research results in arthroplasty surgery.

For More Information:
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Stroke Update: New Ideas and Treatments for Acute Strokes and Secondary Prevention
Friday, May 18,  2012
8:00am - 9:00am
The Queen’s Conference Center, Auditorium
AMA PRA Credit: 1.0

Speakers: 
Douglas Valenta, MD, PT (lNeurohospitalist, The Queen’s Medical Center)

Learning Objectives:

1. Delineate the classes, mechanisms of actions, and interactions for new anticoagulants.
2. Describe the usage of new anticoagulants in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
3. Describe the current ideas of acute treatment of stroke with tenecteplase, 4-1/2 hour window and wake up strokes.

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Pharmacological Management of Alcoholism
Friday, May 25, 2012
8:00am - 9:00am
The Queen’s Conference Center, Auditorium
AMA PRA Credit: 1.0

NOTE: Held jointly with the UH Department of Psychiatry.  It is sponsored by the Hawaii Consortium for Continuing Medical Education (HCCME) and listed FYI ONLY:

Speakers: 
Visiting Professor, Stephen Burd, MB, BS, FRANZCP, FAChAM (Director, Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry, Northern Sydney Central Coast Health; and Clinical Associate Professor, Discipline of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney)

Learning Objectives:
TBA

For More Information:
Call Jan Hanashiro at 808.691.7594