ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OTTAWA

5TH ANNUAL CLINICAL DAY the Ottawa interdisciplinary event for health professionals

Friday, 24 February 2012 v Centurion Conference & Event Center v 170 Colonnade Rd S, Ottawa, ON

The Academy of Medicine Ottawa (AMO) will host its 5th Annual Clinical Day on Friday, 24 February 2012. AMO’s Clinical Day, the interdisciplinary education event for health professionals , is designed for physicians, nurses and allied health professionals, with the objective of improving clinical practice and the health of patients.

This year's unique event addresses a spectrum of health care issues that are of interest to health providers. CME sessions include social media in health care, sleep disorders, palliative rehabilitation, dermatology, heart health and sex therapy. The intent is to deliver the highest level of continuing medical education in an interdisciplinary format with a program that will build aware - ness of options, resources and strategies.

The Academy of Medicine Ottawa supports you in enhancing your care of patients through the many phases of their lives. We anticipate an enjoyable day of learning and networking!

Featuring keynote speaker: Dr. Samantha Nutt, Founder and Executive Director, Canada Global health: going beyond the clinical experience

Register now! To participate in the AMO’s Clinical Day, please complete and return the registration form with payment. Space is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis, upon receipt of registration form and fee. Early bird registration fees (for payments made by 31 Oct. 2011) Registration fees (for payments made after 31 Oct. 2011) AMO members: $75 AMO members: $90 Non-members: $150 Non-members: $180 Non-member Physicians in Residency: $80 Non-member Physicians in Residency: $100 International Medical Graduates: $80 International Medical Graduates: $100 Medical Students: no charge Medical Students: no charge Free parking.

Platinum sponsor

Organizing committee: Dr. Alykhan Abdulla, Dr. Sanjay Acharya, Dr. Keith Anderson, Dr. Gail Beck, Dr. Lee Donohue, Dawna Ramsay and Marc Tanguay

The Academy of Medicine Ottawa is a branch society of the Medical Association and represents Ottawa physicians, both locally and provincially. We advocate on behalf of physicians and for best quality health care delivery and practices for patients.

1867 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, ON K1G 5W8 v Telephone 613 733-2604 v Fax 613 733-9083 v [email protected]

www.ontariomd.ca/groups/amo Program

7:00 am – 8:00 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 am WELCOME 8:05 am – 8:50 am PLENARY • Acquire a broader understanding of the role of medicine Global Health: going beyond the clinical experience and health care providers in advocacy, human rights and Samantha Nutt, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC, CM social justice. • Learn about threats to health on a global level and the policy measures required to address these challenges. • Acquire a deeper understanding of international health and the role of the clinical practitioner in improving health outcomes.

9:00 am – 1:00 pm EXHIBITS

8:50 am – 3:30 pm CME SESSIONS (all sessions include a 15 minute Q&A period) 8:50 am – 9:40 am Session 1. Social media in health care: an interactive workshop • Learn how social media can be used by you and by your patients to influence health decision making. Facilitated by Sarah Hutchison, BSc, MHSc, LLM, CHE • Begin to learn how social media can be part of your routine communications with patients. Session will include a hands on workshop to use Twitter, YouTube, • Learn about some risks to health professionals from Facebook and widgets, buttons and badges. social media.

9:40 am – 10:20 am NUTRITIONAL BREAK AND EXHIBITS 9:40 am – 10:20 am BOOK SALE AND SIGNING, DR. SAMANTHA NUTT Dr. Samantha Nutt’s riveting new book, Damned Nations , is set to be released on 25 October 2011 through McClelland & Stewart Ltd. This extraordinary humanitarian gives us a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world — and a new and provocative vision for changing course on our growing militarization.

“This is an extraordinary book. All of us living in the comfort and affluence of industrialized countries owe it to the rest of humanity to read this powerful book.” – David Suzuki, co-founder, The David Suzuki Foundation

Damned Nations will be available for purchase for $29.99 + tax. 10:20 am – 11:10 am Session 2. Sleep: the golden chain that ties health and our bodies • Describe the importance of sleep and impact of sleep together. A review of sleep disorders disorders in the community. Elliott Kyung Lee, MD, FRCPC, D.ABPN Sleep Medicine, Addiction • Understand common sleep disorders and how they can Psychiatry, D.ABSM be assessed and treated. 11:10 am – 12:00 pm Session 3. Palliative rehabilitation: it works! • Introduction to palliative rehabilitation and survivorship. Martin Chasen, MBChB, FCP(SA), MPhil(Pall Med) • Difficulties experienced by patients who have advanced cancer. • Issues related to cancer survivorship.

12:00 pm – 12:50 pm LUNCH AND EXHIBITS 12:50 pm – 1:40 pm Session 4. Front line dermatology • Review dermatology problems presenting to primary care Tad Pierscianowski, CD, MBBS, MRCP(UK), FRCPC (Internal Medicine providers. & Dermatology), FAAD • Provide some useful diagnostic and therapeutic pearls.

1:40 pm – 2:30 pm Session 5. Heart health Don’t gamble with your heart – know the risks • Review and understand traditional and new risk factors John Fulop, MD, FRCPC, FACC for coronary heart disease. • Review and understand risk stratification tools. • Review and understand risk modification strategies.

Make your heart grow stronger – exercise prescription and • Review cardiac prevention rehabilitation elements, cardiac rehabilitation exercise guidelines, exercise risk stratification and Michèle de Margerie, MD, CCFP prevention strategies. • Review exercise prescription methods. 2:30 pm – 3:20 pm Session 6. Sexuality, libido and clinical challenges in sex therapy • A day in the life of a sex therapist: patient questions and Sue McGarvie, BA, MA, Cert F.Ed concerns. • Low libido and inhibited sexual dysfunction: solutions and treatment. • Therapists and physicians: working together for overall patient health.

3:20 pm – 3:30 pm WRAP UP, EVALUATION AND DRAW FOR PRIZES ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

PLENARY. Global health: going beyond the clinical used to combat the anorexia/cachexia syndrome. He is also a reviewer experience for the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Palliative and Dr. Samantha Nutt (Sam) is a medical doctor with more than 15 years End of Life Care Peer Review Committee. of experience working in war zones. Committed to peace, human rights and social justice, she has worked in some of the world's most violent SESSION 4. Front line dermatology flashpoints with War Child Canada, the and non-gov - Dr. Tad Pierscianowski completed medical school in London, England ernmental organizations (NGOs) in Darfur, , , The in 1973 and his residency in Internal Medicine in the UK in 1976. He Democratic Republic of Congo, , , , emigrated to Canada in 1977 and joined the Canadian Armed Forces. , northern , and the Thai-Burmese border. He practised as a GP for three years in Montreal and caught the derm Over the course of her professional career and as the Founder and bug! After completing dermatology training in , he was head of Executive Director of War Child Canada, Dr. Nutt has spearheaded dermatology for the Canadian Armed Forces for 11 years. He was efforts to provide direct humanitarian support and long term program - uOttawa Dermatology Program Director from 1977 –2002. Since1990 ming to war-affected children and their families, and to promote greater he has been Attending Staff of the Dermatology Leg Ulcer Clinic at awareness in Canada concerning the rights of children everywhere. In TOH. Dr. Pierscianowski has been in private practice in general derma - May 2011, she was honoured with an appointment to the Order of tology since 1977. He is a founding member and Treasurer of the Canada. Dr. Nutt is on staff at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto National Capital Skin Disease Foundation. He has been Chair of the and is an Assistant Professor at the in the Dermatology Residency Selection Committee from 2004 to present. Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her much-anticipat - ed book, Damned Nations , reflects on her 15 years in some of the world’s SESSION 5. Heart health most violent flashpoints and is scheduled for release in October 2011. Don’t gamble with your heart — know the risks SESSION 1. Social media in health care: an interactive Dr. John Fulop graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979, workshop Medicine and Cardiology training in Toronto. Interests include general Sarah Hutchison has worked within organized medicine during her cardiology, non-invasive testing and adult congenital heart disease. professional career. She has extensive experience in regulatory and gov - ernance issues within the health care system. Presently she is the Make your heart grow stronger — exercise prescription and cardiac Executive Director of Information Management with the Ontario rehabilitation Medical Association (OMA) and is also the Chief Administrative Dr. Michèle de Margerie studied dietetics at Laval University in Officer of OntarioMD (subsidiary of the OMA). In her role with Quebec City before earning her MD at Sherbrooke University in OntarioMD she is responsible for Corporate Services and is the Privacy Quebec. She completed her Family Medicine training at McGill Officer. Prior to the OMA, she worked for the College of Physicians University in Montreal and is the recipient of the Canadian and and Surgeons of Ontario. Sarah holds a MHSc from the University of American College of Family Practice Certificates. Dr. de Margerie was a Toronto and a LLM in Health Law from Osgoode along with a CHE visiting clinician at Sart Tilman University Hospital in Liège, Belgium, designation from the Canadian College of Health Service Executives. where her research focused on metabolic diseases and the interactions of obesity, diabetes and diet. She was clinical associate professor at Brown SESSION 2. Sleep: the golden chain that ties health and University in Providence, Rhode Island. She implemented and led a our bodies together. A review of sleep disorders tobacco prevention program in her community before returning to Dr. Elliott Lee is Assistant Professor at the Royal Ottawa Mental Canada in 2000. She is Director of FrancoForme, a LHIN funded Health Centre where he works in the Sleep Disorders Clinic and French Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Program at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Originally from Alberta, he did his psychiatry Heart Institute and has an outpatient practice in residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he com - Barrhaven. pleted fellowships in both sleep medicine and addiction psychiatry and became board certified in the United States in both these areas. SESSION 6. Sexuality, libido and clinical challenges in sex therapy SESSION 3. Palliative rehabilitation: it works! Sue McGarvie is one of Canada’s best known therapists, and has spe - Dr. Martin Chasen is Medical Director, Palliative Care Rehabilitation, cialized in troubleshooting quickly, specific sex and relationship issues Associate Professor, Division of Palliative Care, University of Ottawa since the early 90s. Sue's professional training is in psychology and and Scientist at the Élisabeth Bruyère Research Institute. He stems from reproductive medicine, and she has been a registered therapist since South Africa and was actively involved in the establishment of the 1992. She is the founder of The Ottawa Sex Therapy Clinic and has McGill Cancer Nutrition and Rehabilitation program at the Royal been a member of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Victoria Hospital in Montreal. He moved to Ottawa to establish the Canada, the Canadian Urology Association and the Federation of Palliative Care Rehabilitation Program. This is a new concept that Medical Women. She is also the author of three books on sexuality. She addresses the needs of patients with cancer and their families. The pro - was nominated for the Roman’s Canadian Women Entrepreneur for gram provides patients with a rehabilitative, individually tailored pro - 2002, and is a Woman of Distinction winner. Sue was also a founding gram of exercise and activities, nutritional advice, psychological help director of the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre at The and social services assistance. Dr. Chasen has initiated original research Ottawa Hospital. She is best known as a talk show host with Astral on new drugs to combat the anorexia/cachexia syndrome. He is the Media with her syndicated show Sex with Sue. She resides in Ottawa principal investigator on a number of trials including original drugs with a clinical practice in the west end. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OTTAWA 5TH ANNUAL CLINICAL DAY the Ottawa interdisciplinary event for health professionals

Friday, 24 February 2012 v Centurion Conference & Event Center v 170 Colonnade Rd S, Ottawa, ON

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Early bird registration fees (for payments made by 31 Oct. 2011) Registration fees (for payments made after 31 Oct. 2011) AMO members: $75 + $9.75 HST = $84.75 AMO members: $90 + $11.70 HST = $101.70 Non-members: $150 + $19.50 HST = $169.50 Non-members: $180 + $23.40 HST = $203.40 Non-member Physicians in Residency: $80 + $10.40 HST = $90.40 Non-member Physicians in Residency: $100 + $13 HST = $113 International Medical Graduates: $80 + $10.40 HST = $90.40 International Medical Graduates: $100 + $13 HST = $113 Medical Students: no charge Medical Students: no charge

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