We are excited to bring the UBC Therapeutics Initiative annual educational event/half-day conference to you in both in-person and virtual format this year.
Join the discussions about new research on: back pain, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and optimal prescribing presented by new and veteran faculty members at the Therapeutics Initiative, featuring presentations by Dr. Anshula Ambasta, Dr. Wade Thompson, Dr. Rita McCracken, and Dr. Aaron Tejani.
Participate in an innovative session to design new communication pathways among healthcare providers.
Can’t join us live on Oct 15?
All lectures will be recorded and available to watch on-demand for up to 3 months after the event.
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Agenda
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(Pacific Time)PRESENTATION TITLE SPEAKER 8:00 Registration opens 8:30 Welcome remarks Dr. Rita McCracken
Dr. Aaron M. Tejani8:45 Making diabetes care fit for older persons
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will review considerations for managing diabetes in older persons (particularly frail, older persons with multi-morbidity and/or functional limitations), including A1c targets, and evidence on benefits and harms of specific medications. He will discuss how to individualize therapy among older persons according to their individual health context. Finally, he will review when and how to consider deintensifying diabetes management for individual patients.Dr. Wade Thompson 9:10 Mechanical back pain in primary care – which drugs “work”?
A review of mechanical back pain for primary care clinicians, including pearls for differentiating it from other causes of pain, a review of populations most affected and the natural history of the condition. We will also review what is known about expected harms and benefits of pharmaceutical therapies.Dr. Rita McCracken 9:35 Break 10:00 Concurrent sessions Stream A How do we facilitate or improve collaborative medication reviews between pharmacists and prescribers? (group discussion)
** More details coming soonFacilitators TBC Stream B Practical tips to optimize collaborative medication reviews between pharmacists and prescribers
**More details coming soonFacilitators TBC 11:00 Navigating complicated issues in hypertension management
Participants will be given tips on how to move new and existing hypertension patients towards the most evidence-informed treatment and targets. Topics covered are listed below:- Understand the diagnostic approach to hypertension in adults and identifying drug-related causes for hypertension (e.g. possible prescribing cascades)
- Describe ways to move patients toward evidence-informed management (e.g. deintensification, changing drug classes)
- Describe how to individualize the BP target goal for different types of patients (e.g. elderly, non-elderly, DM, CKD)
Dr. Anshula Ambasta 11:30 Optimizing drug therapy with all the tools in the toolbox
Using pharmacology, kinetics (e.g. half-life), and drug effect estimates, participants will be given practical tips to help optimize drug therapy for individuals. Several examples will be used to explain when fast or slow dose titration might be required and when slow or fast tapering is safest.Dr. Aaron M. Tejani 11:55 Closing Remarks 12:15 Lunch and networking
(In-person attendees only)13:00 Conference Ends