Title: Empowering Hospitalists: From Clinical Care to System Optimization 

Speaker: Leigh Anne Goodman, DO, FHM, FACP

Objectives: 

1. Review High-Yield Practice-Changing Clinical Updates for Hospitalists. 
2. Explore Hospitalists' Unique Power to Improve Patient Care Delivery.
3. Highlight Recent Hospitalist (and Resident!) EHR Workflow Optimization Efforts. 

Date: May 10, 2024

Title: Evolution of the Artificial Heart: Firsthand Account

Speaker: Dr. O.H. Frazier, MD

Objectives:

1. Identify previous limitations to a successful artificial heart.
2. Indentify future goals of a permanent implantable artificial heart. 

Date: February 16, 2024

Title: Cannabis Takes Page from Tobacco Playbook: Repeating a Public Health Crisis

Speaker: Gary Kirkilas, DO

Objectives: 

1. Relate how the cannabis industry is using similar marketing techniques as the tobacco industry in order to decrease the perception of risk and increase youth use.
2. Review what current research shows about the impact that cannabis advertising has on youth cannabis use. 
3. Understand the legislative attempts here in Arizona to restrict cannabis advertising that targets youth.

Date: January 12, 2024

Title: Race Conscious Medicine

Speakers: Atsuko Koyama, MD, MPH, Denege Ward-Wright, MD, Katherine Dahl, MD, Julie Crawford, MD, Anita Rasheed, MD, Christina Bergin, MD

Objectives: 

1. Define race-based vs. race-conscious medicine.
2. Demonstrate how race-based medicine perpetuates health inequities. 
3. Formulate strategies on how to challenge race-based algorithms. 
4. Identify at least 1 tangible change in your practice to actively incorporate race-conscious medicine. 

Date: December 8, 2023

Title: Social Determinants of Health in the Hospital: A Practical Look at How We Can Do Better

Speakers: Jacob Anderson, DO, Kristohper LaTour, MD, MPH, Jason Leubner, MD, Dylan McCreary, MD, Nafis Shamsid-Deen, MD, FCCP

Objectives:

1. Discuss how social determinants of health impact our patients in the hospital setting.
2. Determine how to identify what social determinants of health may be impacting our patients. 
3. Define ways to engage interdisciplinary teams in the hospital to address social determinants of health and prevent the perpetuation of health disparities. 

Date: September 15, 2023

Title: Reproductive Justice in Healthcare
Speakers: Nichole Mahnert and Sheena Galhorta
Objectives: 

1. Review the historical context of reproductive justice in health care. 
2. Develop strategies to help women navigate through reproductive health concerns. 
3. Expand your resource list to assist in access to equitable reproductive health care. 

Date: May 27, 2022
 

Title: From Boomers to Zoomers: Working in Multi-generational Healthcare Teams
Speaker: Vasu Bhavaraju
Objectives: 

1. Differentiate features of the 4 current generations in the workforce. 
2. Identify how each generation approaches supervision, mentorship, learning, and professionalism. 
3. Implement ways to work successfully within multigenerational teams in the medical workplace. 

Date: April 29, 2022

Title: Health Equity through Poetry 
Speaker: Rosemarie Dombrowski
Objectives: 

1. To reexamine one of the most important/iconic relationships between poetry and medicine in 19th century America in order to explore the lessons it teaches us—specifically, how we can navigate the medical landscape with greater equity and compassion through poetry.  
2. To further discuss some of the poetic tools used in narrative medicine and the quest for healthcare equity, such as championing patient agency through writing becoming more empathetic providers by reading poetry learning to better communicate and connect with patients whose languages and narratives may be unfamiliar to us through the use of medical poetry 

Date: April 1, 2022 

Title: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 
Speakers: Leonardo Trasande and Jim G. Hendrick
Objectives: 

1. Describe the key characteristics of endocrine disrupting chemicals. 
2. Explain mechanisms by which these chemicals adversely affect human health. 
3. Describe safe and simple steps to limit exposure. 

Date: February 11, 2022
 

Title: Implicit Gender Bias and Microaggressions
Speaker: Arghavan Salles
Objectives: 

1. Participants will be able to define implicit bias. 
2. Participants will be able to give examples of how bias impacts the careers of women. 
3. Participants will be able to take action to support women's careers. 

Date: February 4, 2022 

Title: Zoo to ICU
Speaker: Nick Mark, MD 
Objectives: 

1. Understand the extremes of human physiology via animal examples (e.g. lactate in hibernation, severe anemia in arctic fish). 
2. Understand how human diseases can recapitulate unique features of animal anatomy/physiology (e.g. "Buffalo chest", BUN/Cr ratio in vampire bats). 
3. Understand how highly conserved features of vertebrate physiology can suggest best practice patterns in humans (e.g. tidal volume is the same for every mammal except dolphins). 

Date: January 14, 2022 

Title: More than a feeling: The science of compassion
Speaker:
Objectives:  

1. Understand the current evidence around how compassion impacts patient outcomes and physician well-being. 
2. Discuss the principle of common humanity and the opportunities for connection across. 
3. Apply strategies to increase compassion. 

Date: May 14, 2021 

Title: Benefits of Poetry for Practitioners and Patients
Speaker: Rosemarie Dombrowski
Objectives:  

1. To explore the benefits of the medical humanities, and more specifically, the power of poetry as an augmentative treatment for patients and a wellness-practice for medical students and physicians.  
2. These objectives will be achieved through a combination of qualitative and arts-based studies a discussion of the facilitation practices and modalities of Revisionary Arts, the therapeutic poetry nonprofit the reading and discussion of a medical poem an expressive writing exercise and optional sharing. 

Date: April 16, 2021 

Title: Eat the Oysters Keep the Pearls: Thriving while effectively processing feedback

Speaker: Jennifer Hunt, MD
Objectives:  

1. Discover how to disentangle feedback from the feedback giver. 
2. Learn 4 questions that will help you get specific about feedback. 
3. Practice an easy tool to improve for feedback resiliency. 

Date: March 19, 2021

Title: Now is the Time: Harnessing the moment to support trainees who are underrepresented in medicine

Speaker: Quentin R. Youmans

Objectives: 

1. Discuss tools for UIM trainee recruitment in 2020.  
2. Explore the ways in which implicit and explicit bias affect the training environment and how to respond in support.  
3. Define the role of mentorship in supporting UIM trainees over the span of their training journeys. 

Date: December 11, 2020

Title: The Art and Science of the Jugular Venous Pulse

Speaker: Andre Mansoor, MD

Objectives:  

1. Learn how to best identify the jugular venous pulse. 
2. Learn how to best perform a quantitative assessment of the jugular venous pulse. 
3. Learn how to best perform a qualitative assessment of the jugular venous pulse. 

Date: September 25, 2020

Title: Career Planning in Academic Medicine

Speaker: Guadalupe Federico-Martínez, PhD

Objectives:  

1. Establish rationale for entering/remaining in academic medicine. 
2. Provide a brief overview of the multiple professorial options physicians and other health professionals can integrate into if a career in academic medicine is desired. 
3. Review and synthesize the most critical yet often overlooked dimensions in career planning for successful progression in academic medicine. 

Date: August 21, 2020

Title: Emerging situation: Novel 2019 Coronavirus
Speaker: R. Nicholas Staab, MD, MSPH
Objectives: 

1. Have situational awareness of 2019-nCoV in Arizona, US and World. 
2. Become familiar with the most updated resources for healthcare providers diagnosing and managing potential or confirmed patients with 2019-nCoV. 
3. Learn the transmission, clinical presentation and prevention mechanisms of the emerging 2019-nCoV. 

Date: January 31, 2020

Title: Feedback, Entrustment, and Motivation: Getting to the heart of the matter in medical education
Speaker: Cheryl W. O'Malley, MD
Objectives: 

1. Describe how the level of entrustment for specific professional activities informs daily decisions regarding level of supervision and autonomy.  

2. Understand the factors impacting motivation. 

3. Apply discussions of work-based observation to improved assessment and feedback. 

4. Provide relevant updates on how these apply to our current roles.  

Date: September 7, 2018

Title: Dine Cultural Sensitivity with Illness
Speaker: Sheila Goldtooth

Objectives:  

1. Explain culturally appropriate communication with terminally ill patients and their family. 

2. Identify ways to practice respect of the Din4 Culture. 

Date: July 13, 2018