Meetings By Mail Cleveland Clinic 3rd Annual Primary Care + 2025

• Target Audience: primary care physicians
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• Information:

Release Date: 12/15/25

Topics include: geriatric medicine, infectious disease, pain management, sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease, obesity, fertility preservation, hormone therapy, cancer screening, UTIs, depression, substance abuse disorder, clinical uses of marijuana and much more.

Who Should Enroll

Primary care physicians & family medicine doctors managing diverse patient populations.

Nurse practitioners & physician assistants working in outpatient or community health settings.

Pharmacists involved in chronic disease medication management.

Residents and fellows in internal medicine or family medicine preparing for board exams.

Allied health professionals supporting patient care in women’s health and behavioral medicine.

What You’ll Learn

Women’s health updates: fertility preservation, hormone therapy, cancer screening, UTIs.

Behavioral medicine: depression, substance abuse, sleep apnea, pain management.

Chronic disease management: cardiovascular disease, obesity, infectious disease, geriatric medicine.

Practical strategies: new medical management approaches for common primary care conditions.

• Topics:

Session 1: Primary Care Updates I

Assessment and Prevention of Falls in the Elderly

Anne Vanderbilt, CNP, CNS

Men’s Health: Common Benign Penile and Testicular Disorders

Peter Bajic, MD

Updates on Perioperative Medical Management for Noncardiac Surgery

Mariel Manlapaz, MD

Melanie Malec, MD

Keynote Presentation: The Value of Feeling Valued: How Organizations Can Support Individual Physicians & APPs

Kevin D. Hopkins, MD

Session 2: Primary Care Updates II

Measles: The Need to Know Right Now for Primary Care

Donald Dumford III, MD

Scleroderma in Primary Care

Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS

Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Back Pain

Korrie Beverley-Waters, DO

Celiac Disease vs Gluten Intolerance in Adults and Children

Claire Jansson-Knodell, MD

Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Understanding the Sleep Study and Non-Mechanical Device Treatment

Brian Chen, MD

Session 3: Women’s Health I

Female Fertility Preservation

Mindy Christianson, MD, MBA

Integrative Medicine Support for Stress Management

Yufang Lin, MD

Menopausal Hormone Therapy

Nayoung Sung, MD

Ovarian Cancer

Kevin Elias, MD

Multiple Sclerosis in Women

Lindsay Ross, MD

Session 4: Women’s Health II

Obesity Treatment in Women

Reena Bose, MD

Hair Loss in Women

Melissa Piliang, MD

Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Leslie Cho, MD

Enhancing Early Detection: Updates in Breast Cancer Screening and Supplemental Imaging

Lakshmi Khatri, MD

Recurrent UTI and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Shannon Wallace, MD

Session 5: Behavioral Medicine I

Infections in Persons Who Inject Drugs, With a Focus on Infective Endocarditis: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned

Steven Gordon, MD

Substance Abuse Disorder: Risk Assessment, Screening and Intervention

David Streem, MD

Update on Marijuana and Clinical Implications

Amy Zack, MD and Robert Bales, MD

Biology and Pathophysiology of the Endocannabinoid System

Kenneth Koncilja, MD

Session 6: Behavioral Medicine II

Integrative Behavioral Health and Wellness

Robert Saper, MD, MPH

Evidence Based Nonpharmacological Therapies for Depression

Melanie Malec, MD

Depression in the Aging Patient

Kathleen Rogers, MD