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Next Steps in Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship CME Symposium

8/26/2019
Author: Lisa Segerstrom, Ambulatory Education and Training

You are invited to attend this CME-accredited event! Be sure to register soon.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

6:00 – 9:00 PM, Valley Medical Center, MAC Auditorium

(Note: This is a repeat of the same course held July 16)

Target Audience

Primary and Urgent Care physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician assistants.

About the Course

This course is designed to address the overuse of antibiotics in respiratory illnesses and the use of unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotics in common infections encountered in the Urgent and Primary Care settings. Content will be clinically oriented and include the demonstration of motivational interviewing techniques for shared decision-making surrounding appropriate antibiotic use.

Objectives

At the end of this educational activity, attendees will be able to:

  • Define the goals of an outpatient antibiotic stewardship program;
  • Describe evidence-based approaches to improving antibiotic prescribing;
  • Describe the need for antimicrobial stewardship in ambulatory care;
  • List infectious syndromes for which antibiotics are unnecessarily prescribed;
  • Identify tools to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care settings;
  • Describe shared decision-making strategies for antibiotic prescribing in respiratory illnesses;
  • Identify examples of EHR tools which standardize antibiotic prescribing for otitis media.

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 PM Registration and Dinner

6:00 – 6:10 Welcome and Introduction – Todd S. Bouchard, MD

6:10 – 6:20 Four Core Elements of Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship – Todd S. Bouchard, MD

6:20 – 7:05 Dialogue Around Respiratory Illness Treatment: Communication strategies to promote judicious antibiotic use – Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH (July 16) and Nicole Poole, MD, MPH (Sept. 17)

7:05 – 7:35 MITIGATE: A Toolkit for Improving Antimicrobial Prescribing in Urgent Care Settings – Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS

7:35 – 7:50 Antibiotic Usage Reports – Zahra Kassamali Escobar, PharmD

7:50 – 8:30 VMC Antimicrobial Recommendations – Mike Hori, MD (July 16) and Greg Morlin, MD (Sept. 17)

a. Where recommendations come from

b. Understanding the VMC antibiogram

c. Current recommendations for CAP, OM, UTI, and soft tissue infections

8:30 – 8:45 EHR Tools: Using Epic Smart Sets – Kyung Min Lee, MD

8:45 – 8:55 Panel Discussion and Q&A – Facilitated by Todd S. Bouchard, MD

8:55 – 9:00 PM Conclusion and Evaluation

Registration

Pre-registration is required to properly plan catering.

To register, please complete this survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTZ3QC9

OR

Email the following to ClinicEducationandTraining@valleymed.org

  • First and Last Name
  • Discipline (i.e., MD, DO, ARNP, etc.)
  • Primary clinic location
  • Phone
  • Date Selected (July 16th or Sept. 17th)

Faculty Committee
Todd S. Bouchard, MD
Program Co-Chair
Associate Medical Director, Urgent Care
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center

Zahra Kassamali Escobar, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Washington School of Pharmacy

Michael Hori, MD
Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center

John Lewis, MD
Program Co-Chair
Urgent Care, Capitol Hill Medical Center
Washington Permanente Medical Group

Kyung Min Lee, MD
Assistant Medical Director, Urgent Care
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center

Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH
Professor and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine
University of Washington Department of Pediatrics
Investigator, Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development
Seattle Children's Research Institute

Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, Emergency Department and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
University of California – Davis

Gregory Morlin, MD
Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center

Nicole Poole, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Washington School of Medicine

Accreditation
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington is accredited by the Washington State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
This activity meets the criteria for up to 3.0 hours of Category I CME credit to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.

Disclosure
Kaiser Permanente requires that all individuals participating in a KPWA CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship with a commercial interest that might pose a potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest with regard to that faculty or planning member’s contribution to the program.
Individuals listed above have disclosed that their participation/presentation includes no promotion of any commercial products or services, they do not have any financial relationships with a commercial interest, and they do not anticipate discussing any off-label uses of a product.
Individuals listed below have provided the following disclosures of financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with one or more commercial interest. They agree that they will not promote any commercial products or services and they do not anticipate discussing any off-label uses of a product.
Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS – Grant/Research Support: Biofire, Gilead, Roche. Consultant: Biorad, Qvella. Speakers Bureau: Cepheid

Location
Valley Medical Center
Medical Arts Center (MAC) Auditorium
Renton, Wash.
Driving Directions and Map:
https://www.valleymed.org/about-us/directions-to-our-campus/

For More Information
Lisa Segerstrom, MA, CPPS
Manager, Ambulatory Education and Training
UW Medicine | Valley Medical Center
17910 Talbot Road South
Renton, WA 98055
Phone: 425.228.3440 x5238
Email: Lisa_Segerstrom@ValleyMed.org

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