2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series: Considerations for the Primary Care Provider Following Patients with Rheumatic Diseases

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2025 Rheumatology for Primary Care Webinar Series
January 13  |  January 27  |  February 10  |  March 3  |  March 24 2025
12:00PM – 1:15PM Eastern Time Zone

The Office of CPD and the Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology has put together a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on Rheumatology.  The Webinar series clarifies the rheumatology referral process, provides information on community-based resources for arthritis care, and outlines when to order common rheumatology labs and how to interpret their results.  The Webinar series will incorporates participant questions (collected before each session) related to the topic presented to ensure each presentation is as relevant and useful to the audience as possible.  The format will be a didactic presentation using case-based scenarios followed by a question-and-answer period.

Register for the full series or individual sessions!
Early Bird Deadline: December 16, 2024

• Full Series Early Bird Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $120 +HST
• Full Series Early Bird Rates Resident: $80 +HST
• Full Series Regular Rates Physician and Other Healthcare Professionals: $165 +HST
• Full Series Regular Rates Resident: $100 +HST
• Individual Sessions: $50 +HST

Session Schedule

1. Monday, January 13, 2025
   Considerations for the Primary Care Provider Following Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
   Dr. Elliot Hepworth
2. Monday, January 27, 2025
   Who, What, When, and How to Refer to Rheumatology
   Dr. Julie D’Aoust
3. Monday, February 10, 2025
   Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: A Primary Care Physician’s Primer on Sys-temic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjogren’s Syndrome
   Dr. Maysoon Eldoma
4. Monday, March 3, 2025
   Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Gout in Primary Care
   Dr. Priyanka Chandratre
5. March 24, 2025
   Diagnosis and Management of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
   Dr. Raymond Chu

Questions? 
Please contact Kristen McCoy, Lead Coordinator, Event Management