Schedule
Welcome to the 2022 Washington ACP Annual Meeting. Below is the schedule for the precourse and annual meeting days.

Annual Meeting Chairs:
Anita Chopra, MD FACP and Deepthi Mani, MD MPH FACP
Precourse – Thursday, November 3, 2022
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Track 1: Outpatient Precourse
By Precourse Chairs – Nkeiruka Duze, MD FACP CPC CRC and Prachi Munshi, MD
Updates in Ambulatory GIM
By Addie McClintock, MD & Chris Knight, MD
Updates in Women’s Health
By Megan Loring, MD
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment & Management in Asymptomatic Patients
By Ranjini Krishnan, MD, MS, FACC
Chronic Pain Management
By Andrew Friedman, MD
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Track 2: Inpatient Precourse in Partnership with SHM
Precourse Chairs – Jesse Levin, MD & Raman Palabindala, MD MBA SFHM FACP
The Business Side of Inpatient Medicine
By Christopher Kim, MD, MBA, SFHM & Joseph Joo, MD
Caring for Transplant Patients in the Hospital
By Yilin Zhang, MD & Jesse Levin, MD
Leaving Against Medical Advice
By Raman Palabindala, MD MBA SFHM
Updates in Hospital Medicine Presented by SHM
By Rachel Thompson, MD MPH & Therese Franco, MD SHM FACP
5:00pm - 6:00pm
SHM Networking Reception
Day 1 – Friday, November 4, 2022
6:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast
7:15am - 8:15am
Workshops Round 1
*Antibotics for the Internist/Antibiotic Stewardship (webcast)
By Rupali Jain, PharmD & Paul Pottinger, MD, DTMH, FACP, FIDSA
Physician Wellness Workshop by Wellbeing Champions
By Cathrine Wheeler, MD, FACP
Inpatient Management of Alcohol Use Disorder & Withdrawal
By Shamim Nejad, MD, FASAM, FACLP
Headaches
By Natalia Murinova, MD, MHA
8:15am - 8:30am
Break
8:30am - 8:45am
Governor’s Welcome & Story Slam (Clark Parrish, PeaceHealth Group)
By Governor Chris Knight, MD FACP
8:45AM - 10:15AM
COVID-19 Symposium:
Updates in COVID Therapeutics, Post-COVID Conditions, COVID Resilience, and Pandemic Preparedness
By Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD, Janna Friedly, MD, Jeff Duchin, MD
10:15AM - 10:30AM
Break
10:30am - 11:00am
Residents’ Session: Oral Presentations
11:00am - 11:40am
Dermatology Review
By Kendra Bergstrom, MD
11:40am - 12:30pm
Updates in Diabetes Mellitus
By Savitha Subramanian, MD
Updates in Cardiology
By Neal Chatterjee, MD, MSc
12:30PM - 1:45PM
Lunch, Business Meeting, & Awards
1:45pm - 2:45pm
John Vassall Annual Lecture for Justice & Equity in Medicine:
Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthcare
By John Vassall, MD, FACP
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Break
3:00pm - 3:50pm
Updates in Pulmonology & Critical Care
By Richard Kim, MD
3:50pm - 4:22pm
Residents’ Session: Oral Presentations & Story Slam (Sarah Gunby, University of Washington)
4:22pm - 5:25pm
Debate on Diverticulitis and Antibiotics
By Seth Cohen, MD, MSc & Jeffery Jacobs, MD, Moderated By: Rachel Safran, MD FACP
5:25pm - 6:30pm
Governor’s Reception & Poster Judging
Day 2 – Saturday, November 5th, 2022
7:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast
7:15am - 8:15am
Workshops Round 2
*How to Get Better at Diagnosis (webcast)
By Doug Paauw, MD, MACP
Mentoring & Training Leaders to Improve Diversity
By Nwando Anyaoku, MD, MPH, MBA
Advocacy Updates
By Chris Wong, MD & Stephanie Fosback, MD, FACP
Osetoporosis
By Arinola Dada, MD
Challenging Patient Encounters
By Sarah Steinkruger, MD
8:15am - 8:30am
Break & Story Slam (Anna Shamitoff, VA Puget Sound Regional Health Center)
8:30AM - 9:15am
Updates in Mental Health
By Lydia Chwastiak, MD
9:15am - 10:00am
How the Other Half Eats: the Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By Priya Fielding Singh, PhD
10:00am - 10:30am
Residents’ Session: Oral Presentations
10:30am - 10:45am
Break
10:45am - 11:30am
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Articles That Changed My Practice
By Rachel Safran, MD FACP & Michael Stewart, DO
11:30am - 12:15pm
bay
Care in the Patient with Dementia
By Barak Gaster, MD FACP
12:15PM -1:45PM
Lunch, Medical Jeopardy, Abstract Awards
1:45PM - 2:45PM
Workshops Round 3
*Outcome Differences in Women of Color (webcast)
By Nkeiruka Duze, MD, FACP & Teera Crawford, MD
Sports Medicine Workshop
By Greg Nakamoto, MD, FACP & Leslie Yen, MD
Opioid Use Disorder
By Jared Klein, MD, MPH & Amy Kennedy, MD, MSc
Volunteering for Physicians
By Anita Chopra, MD, FACP; Seema Abbasi,MD; Mehr Grewal
FACP Workshop
By Chris Knight, MD, FACP
2:45PM - 3:00PM
Break
3:00PM - 3:40PM
Updates in Nephrology
By Henry Mroch, MD FACP
3:40pm - 4:30pm
New Drugs
By Chris Knight, MD, FACP
4:30pm - 4:45pm
Story Slam (Zachary Kerosky, Madigan Army Medical Center) & Closing Remarks
By Chris Knight, MD, FACP
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