Led by Josh Carpenter, MD, Family Medicine Physician, OSF HealthCare, Illinois; and Noman Shahid, MD, Family Medicine Physician, Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group & Instructor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Complete your ABFM Knowledge Self-Assessment (KSA) in a collaborative, classroom style setting alongside your peers. No advance preparation is required. Participants will review all questions as a group, with expert faculty guiding the discussion and providing clinical insights throughout the session.

Questions are answered through audience polling, and participants work together with faculty to determine the best answers. Upon completion, participants receive 10 ABFM certification points and 8 live CME credits.

Registration for the workshop does not include any applicable ABFM fees.

Join us for a live, in-person, interactive, small-group discussion tackling real-world challenges in anticoagulation management for atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolism. This unbranded, non-promotional session is designed for open, peer-to-peer dialogue. These are interactive, practical, case-based discussions led by experienced medical professionals.

Led by Christina Wells, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, DipABLM, Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine & Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Mile Square Health Center

Complete your ABFM Knowledge Self-Assessment (KSA) in a collaborative, classroom style setting alongside your peers. No advance preparation is required. Participants will review all questions as a group, with expert faculty guiding the discussion and providing clinical insights throughout the session.

Questions are answered through audience polling, and participants work together with faculty to determine the best answers. Upon completion, participants receive 10 ABFM certification points and 8 live CME credits.

Registration for the workshop does not include any applicable ABFM fees.

1:00 PM | Welcome; Nikhil Vatti, MD, CAQSM, Sports Medicine, Southern Illinois University Team Physician & US Soccer Federation Preferred Provider
1:00 PM | Musculoskeletal Physician Examination; Jacob Luther, MD, MPH, Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician, Endeavor Health
2:00 PM | Splinting and Immobilization Hands-on; Deepak Patel, MD, FAAFP, FACSM, CIC, Rush Copley Sports Medicine
3:15 PM | Joint Injections non-Ultrasound guided lecture; Snigdha Kalidindi, MD, Sports Medicine Physician, Riverside Healthcare
3:45 PM | Taping Types and Uses and Tole of the Flow of Medical Care; Louis A. Bustos, MS.Ed, ATC, LAT, Certified Athletic Trainer, Anderson University
4:15 PM | Physical Therapy and Its Benefits; Ami P. Hampole, DO, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician, Advocate Medical Group

Closing the Menopause Care Gap: Confident, Evidence-Based Perimenopause and Menopause Management in Primary Care

Presented by Naomi Parrella, MD, FAAFP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM

Session Description: Menopause care is having a genuine inflection point: the FDA revised hormone-therapy labeling in late 2025, new non-hormonal options have reached the market, and Illinois is folding perimenopause and menopause into continuing education. This session pulls that fast-moving landscape into one practical, guideline-anchored hour for family physicians, covering recognition and diagnosis, current hormonal and non-hormonal options, bone and metabolic health, and the communication habits that help every clinician hear midlife women more fully. The goal is a shared, up-to-date reference we can all use on Monday morning, and to meet Illinois' perimenopause and menopause education expectations, including the provider-awareness elements that address bias in the clinical encounter.

Learning Objectives: (1) Recognize and diagnose perimenopause and menopause clinically across the reproductive-aging spectrum, distinguishing vasomotor, genitourinary, sleep, mood, cognitive, and musculoskeletal presentations from common mimics, without over-reliance on unnecessary lab testing. (2) Select evidence-based management using current hormonal and non-hormonal options, including the 2025 FDA hormone-therapy labeling changes and newly approved therapies, applying shared decision-making, timing/"window" considerations, and individualized risk assessment consistent with Menopause Society guidance. (3) Integrate long-term risk reduction into the menopause visit, including bone health and osteoporosis screening and prevention alongside the cardiometabolic and body-composition changes of the transition. (4) Apply communication strategies that reduce bias and dismissal in the care of midlife women, accounting for cultural variation in how menopause is experienced and expressed and describe how this satisfies the Illinois implicit-bias continuing-education requirement.

Brain Trust 3.0: Using the 4Cs to Accelerate Early Interventions in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Presented by Raj C. Shah, MD

Session Description: Advances in blood-based biomarkers, lifestyle and medical interventions to delay cognitive decline, and approved therapeutics in the early stages of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease are rapidly altering the landscape for the prevention, diagnosis, and management of dementia. In order to prevent delays in the application of early interventions, family physicians will play a larger role in the care of people at risk or living with dementia. In this continuation of the Brain Trust webinars, we will explore how to put the early interventions into practice through the lens of the 4Cs framework of primary care.

Learning Objectives: (1) Name one recent advance in Alzhiemer's Disease and Related Dementia that is changing the tools available to family physicians. (2) Evaluate the pros and cons of particular guidance for primary care physicians to engage their patients living with or at risk for dementia uisng the 4Cs framework.

Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers

Presented by Ronald Rembert Jr., MD, FAAFP

Session Description: Why is cultural competency important? The 2002 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, brought into stark focus the issues of inequities based on minority status in health care services. The IOM report concluded that, “Bias, stereotyping, prejudice, and clinical uncertainty on the part of healthcare providers may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.”

Learning Objectives: (1) What is cultural competency? (2) Why is cultural competency necessary? (3) How can we as health care providers become more culturally competent?

Presented by Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Please visit our page about Dr. Davis, the keynote address, and the AAFP update by clicking here.