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All Assembly sessions will be recorded and streamed to SMA’s YouTube Channel.
You are encouraged to share these on your social media channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/smartmedicineonline 

Business of Medicine Simplified

Thursday, October 31

6:00 pm - Ethics and Motivating Change in a Millennial Workforce, Stan Harris, PhD
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Friday, November 1, 2019

7:30 am Opportunities in Value Based Reimbursement, Joni Wyatt
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8:30 am - Don’t Stop at MD, Think like an Entrepreneur, Nneka Unachuwku, MD, FAAP
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9:45 am - State of Rural Health in the South, Kala Blakely, DNP, CRNP, NP-C
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10:45 am - MedMal 101: Contract, Claims, and Risk Management, Teddy Gillen
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1:00 pm - Marketing and Promoting Your Medical Practice, Robert Martin
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2:00 pm - Health Information Technology (HIT): “Bridging the Gap”, Jake Lancaster, MD, MSHA, MSACI
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Saturday, November 2, 2019

10:15 - Publishing a Manuscript, G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE, MPH, MABE, DBE
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Oral Abstract Presentations

Oral Presentations Will Be Presented on Saturday, November 2 from 1:00-5:15 pm

All Assembly sessions will be recorded and streamed to SMA’s YouTube Channel.
You are encouraged to share these on your social media channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/smartmedicineonline

Time Title Presenter
1:00 Marshall University Surgery Resident Radiation Safety  Ruth Pula Gerola, BSN, MD
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1:15 A Disparity of Depression: How Ethnicity and Spoken Language Impacts Care Jonathan Michael Nahmias, BS
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1:30 Fishing for Sepsis: Skin Findings, Abdominal Pain, and Fever in a Cirrhotic Patient Meaghan Olivia Coyne, BS
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1:45 Kinetic Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate: A Bedside tool for Early Detecting Acute Kidney Injury Phuonganh Le, BS
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2:00 An Analysis of Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy and Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Mark Daniel Cromer, BS
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2:15

Abruption of the Succenuriate Lobe of a Placenta: Clinical Decision Making

 Morgan Stickler, MD
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2:30 When Negative Imaging And Cultures Fool The clinical Picture Of A Brain Abscess And What to Trust Jared B Mullins, DO
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2:45 Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers in Rural Appalachia Errington Thompson, MD, FACS
3:00 Break  
3:15 Analyzing the Efficacy of Transition of Care Visits in a Patient Cantered Medical Home Courtney Wellman, MD
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3:30 Role of BMI and Duration of Epidural Analgesia on the Incidence of Instrumentation Rates During Labor Melinda Hui Mei Chai, BA
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3:45 Syncope in a 20 Year Old Female: An Unusual Etiology Mallory Danielle Browning, BS, MS
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4:00 Does Surgical Intervention Help with Neurological Recovery in a Lumbar Spinal Gun Shot Wound? A Case Report and Literature Review Denslow Allerton Trumbull, BS
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4:15 Sex-Related Differences in the Efficacy and Safety of Extended Thromboprophylaxis with Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Acutely Ill Medical Patients Christopher D'Marius Jackson, MD
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4:30 Effect of Age on the Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Antico-agulants for Preventing Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Christopher D'Marius Jackson, MD
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4:45 Patient Experience with Enhanced Recovery And Early Discharge For Minimally Invasive Sacrocolpopexy: A Qualitative Study Obafunbi Abimbola, BA
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5:00 Impella Device Success: Walking Home after Cardiogenic Shock from Ventricular Fibrillation Christopher Taylor Smith, DO
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5:15 Abstract Wrap-up and Adjourn  
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Poster Abstract Presentations

Poster Presenters Will Be Available to Answer Questions and
Discuss Posters on Saturday morning, November 2 from 8:00-10:00 am

POSTER # TITLE PRESENTER
P01 Common Costs in Rare Cases of Recurrent Biliary Pancreatitis Post-Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Hytham Rashid, DO, MPH
P02 An Unusual Case of Disseminated Nocardial Infection Resulting in Brain Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient Talha Perwez, MD
P04 Paradoxic septic emboli in a setting of tricuspid valve infective endocarditis and atrial septal defect: A case report Catherine Ann Adams, BS, MD
P05 Danger of Using Antidiarrheals as First-Line in Collagenous Colitis Shoaib Khan, MD
P06 Middle Mediastinal Squamous Cell Carcinoma With SIADH: A Rare Case FNU Sapna, MD
P07 Resistant Hyperkalemia  - Think Adrenal! Binita Dipak Vadhar, MBBS
P08 Syncope in a 20 Year Old Female:  An Unusual Etiology Mallory Danielle Browning, BS, MS
P09 A student-led interactive campaign day teaching UME trainees to Choose Wisely Sudarshan J Mohan, BS, MS and

Lauren Keenan, BS
P10 Rheumatic Heart Disease Presenting as Multivalvular Prolapse Nida Zubair, MBBS, MD
P11 Somatization and Psychological Stress in Adult Outpatient Uncontrolled Asthmatics Matthew Hardy Moore, BS
P12 Discrepancies in the Use of Imaging for Kidney Stone Diagnosis and Management Zixuan Yi, BS
P13 Well Water Screening in Suffolk, VA for Contaminants Affecting Human Health Francis Duc-Hung Pham, BS
P14 Complete Heart Block As Manifestation of Cardiac Sarcoid in a Previously Undiagnosed Young Woman Scott T Arno, MD, PhD
P15 Entire Coronary Circulation Arising from the RSV Krishna Vedala, MD, MPH, BSc
P16 Galactose-α-1,3 galactose allergy presenting as anaphylaxis Aaron O Brooks, DO, MS
P17 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Katie O'Connell, MS
P19 Filling in the Gaps: Family Medicine Resident QI Project to Increase Knowledge of Skin Cancer Screening Techniques Leslee Rice, and

Morgan L. Efaw, DO
P20 The Health Status of Patients at Tulane University School of Medicine’s Student-Run Free Clinics in New Orleans, Louisiana Torrence Minh Tran, BA
P21 A Qualitative Assessment of Healthcare Experiences and Perceptions Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women with a History of Drug Use Alexandra Ranucci, BS
P23 Accommodative Esotropia Greater at Near Fixation: Can a Patch Test Differentiate a Subtype of Those with Deviation Greater at Near? J. Reeves Ellis Samaha, MD MPH
P24 Tracheolaryngeal squamous cell carcinoma in a female with extensive mucosal spread without metastasis Rania A. Al Asmar, MBBS
P25 Clinical Markers in Comparison with Adrenaline Test in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) to Determine High Orthostatic Norepinephrine Levels Ayesha Bakhtiar, MBBS
P26 Medical Adherence in Vietnamese Americans with Hypertension David Vo, BA
P27 Spontaneous cerebral spinal fluid rhinorrhea with meningocele secondary to congenital foramen rotundum defect: A case report and review of literature Jonathan Arias, BS
P29 Postviral Rapid Gastric Emptying: A Case Report Luke Padgett Hedrick, BS
P30 Case Report: Myasthenia Gravis - Primary presentation as acute dehydration with no ocular manifestations Farah Alsaati, MD
P31 A Modified Technique for Performing a Cricothyroidotomy in a Difficult Patient Babatunde Adeyemi, DO
P32 Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans of the Breast: A Unique Presentation Randi Goldstein, BS
P36 Atypical Clinicopathological Presentation And A Definite Postmortem Diagnosis Of Diffuse Large B- Cell Lymphoma Kelechi Eremina Emmanual, MD
P37 Rural Patient Attitudes Towards Residents Participating in Orthopaedic Surgery Thomas Schmicker, MD, MS
P38 Complicated Post-Operative Colectomy in a High Risk Patient Dantwan Smith, MD, MBA, MS, BS, AA
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Southern Medical Association’s Annual Scientific Assembly

Southern Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Southern Medical Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

CME Credit for The Session – “Payment and Revenue – Contracting with Payers”
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the session “Payment and Revenue – Contracting with Payers,” to be presented by Dianne Love, PhD, is now being offered on demand. There is no fee to participate in this activity, and CME credit is provided. To view the lecture in its entirety and instructions to earn credit, click here. You may complete this on-demand course at your convenience.

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Maintenance of Certification Knowledge Points

ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

To receive CME credit and/or ABIM Medical Knowledge MOC points, you MUST attend the activity, pass the post-test with minimum grade of 80%, and complete the attendance attestation/evaluation form (links will be emailed post-conference). For ABIM MOC points, your information will be shared with the ABIM through the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS). Please allow 6-8 weeks for your MOC points to appear on your ABIM records.

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