Wellness Time

Start your day off right by joining others in the lobby for a walk, run, or possibly yoga!

Breakfast / Exhibits

Your opportunity to get those Treasure Hunt forms signed and learn about new products, services, and much more.

Crucial Conversations

Walt Mills, MD
Melissa Nothnagle, MD

A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong... Sound familiar? Common in everyday life of family physicians, these conversations, when handled poorly or ignored, lead to strained relationships and dismal results, often impacting patient care and physician well-being. In this session, you will be introduced to a framework – Crucial Conversations – that allows participants to speak persuasively not abrasively, foster teamwork and better decision-making, build acceptance rather than resistance, and resolve individual and group disagreements. Learners will practice some crucial conversation concepts and receive tools and resources to continue practicing and learning more about the principles of crucial conversations.

Hot Topics in Infectious Disease

George Kent, MD

This session will provide you with the latest information regarding the gut microbiome and its impact on health and disease. In addition, we will cover vaccines, antibiotics, and guidelines for treating common infections (including STIs).

Heart to Heart: A Review and Update of Major Issues in Cardiovascular Care

Mark Dressner, MD

During this session, we will review the different types of cardiac testing and when to order each. We will review the 2018 Guideline of the Management of Blood Cholesterol. We also will briefly review the latest updates on aspirin usage, different dietary oils, and the role of coffee.

The BATHE Technique: Efficient and Effective Psychotherapy in Primary Care 

Tessa Stecker, MD

This session is intended to address the challenge of providing efficient and effective psychotherapy in the outpatient clinical setting by providing a framework to systematically address the needs of patients and provide appropriate resources, treatments, interventions, and next steps.

Celebration Luncheon

Join us as we celebrate our family medicine award winners, install our new officers, and welcome new Fellows.

Leading in Crisis: Family Medicine’s Role in the Opioid Epidemic

Diana Coffa, MD

Family physicians play a key role in their communities and this session will provide learners with information and inspiration to become more active in changing lives.

Exhibit Program Ends

Optional CME Sessions

Practice Inquiry Workshop

Kimberly Duir, MD
Catherine Sonquist Forest, MD, MPH

This session will introduce Practice Inquiry (PI), a small group learning model focused on case-based clinical uncertainty. Considerable literature substantiates how clinical uncertainty, inherent in primary care practice, is only partially reduced by practice guidelines and that time-strapped PCPs usually tackle patient complexity alone. These conditions incubate both clinician dissatisfaction and medical error. Additional fee applies.

“Meet Ups”

Connect in the main meeting room with like-minded peers interested in discussing important issues like women in practice, integrative medicine, alternative practice models, new parenting, retirement, and more.

Service Opportunity: Del Rio Beach Clean Up

Return of the Natives Restoration - csumb.edu/ron

Join your peers, get some exercise, and help clean up Del Rio Beach! We'll walk as a group to the beach and help keep Monterey beautiful by removing trash before it reaches our waterways. Let's do our part and help keep our parks and natural areas healthy and safe for people to enjoy.

CAFP Foundation FunD Run/Walk

Join us on the Monterey Coastal Trail for our 2nd annual CAFP-F FunD Run! We'll join together in support of student and resident activities - and our health! 

Breakfast and Table Talks: Latest issues for family medicine physicians

Join your colleagues over breakfast in the beautiful Ferrantes Bayview Room for great discussions about topics that interest you!

Morning Opening: CAFP and Sacramento Update

Come listen to how CAFP's work has impacted and continues to impact the primary care community and your patients' lives though advocacy efforts and much more.

Pathways in Management: Osteoarthritis and Chronic Low Back Pain

Blair Cushing, DO

A practical session providing learners with evidence-based pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options and emerging treatment modalities that should be considered in managing these conditions. Clinicians will learn to navigate the evidence-based non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic OA and CLBP guidelines and treatment options, by providing practical insight, tips, and excellent resources to use in practice.

Break

Partnering with Gender-Diverse Youth and Their Families

Scott Nass, MD

Participants will learn about development of gender identity in childhood, best practices for partnering with youth and their families, and specific interventions available to support transgender and gender-diverse youth.

Clearing the Smokescreen: An Update on Cannabis

Tauheed Zaman, MD

A concise update on cannabis, its medical and non-medical formulations, risks, and treatment of cannabis use disorder. The contents are meant to enable family medicine physicians to have more informed and effective conversations with their patients regarding these issues. It is inherent for primary care providers to appreciate the risks and benefits of cannabis use. This session will provide an update of medicinal cannabis use, describe the system of cannabinoid receptors and endocannabinoids in the body, and outline results from clinical trials investigating cannabis and its main components. Although delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive component, the medicinal potential of the other cannabinoids – especially cannabidiol (CBD) - will be discussed.

Leading with Your Heart

Katrina Miller, MD

In this session, learners will be inspired and reminded of their value and the importance of listening to your heart, gut, and mind. Learners will focus on maintaining a balance of life, an excellent practice, and relationships with peers and patients. Only through clearing the negative and focusing on the positive can we continue to move forward and be successful. The practice starts with us individually, but is synergistically stronger when we work together to help each other be stronger, smarter, and happier.

Closing Remarks - Conference Ends

Carol Havens, MD

Chris Flores, MD

Optional Post-Conference Workshops

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course (blended learning - 4 hours live + 4 hours online)

The Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) specifies that training is necessary for physicians to obtain a waiver to engage in office‐based treatment of opioid use disorders using drugs approved by the FDA on Schedules III, IV, and V. This course addresses those requirements using a curriculum approved by CSAT/SAMHSA and ASAM.

This workshop has recently been updated to include an evidence-based curriculum designed by national experts. Course participants are exposed to the highest quality evidence-based practices when using buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorders. The case-based learning formats show learners how to apply this new knowledge. Additional fee applies.

Women's Health KSA

Rebecca Bertin, MD
Tenessa MacKenzie, MD

This interactive Knowledge Self-Assessment (KSA) Workgroup on Women's Health will take learners through the 60 KSA questions with discussion of correct answers and references. At the end of the session, all attendees' answers will be submitted to ABFM for partial completion of MOC Part II and 8 AAFP prescribed credits. Additional fee applies.