Take a look at our upcoming CME conferences. Lots of educational opportunities!
Metabolic Health in Motion
Friday, September 19, 2025, 8:00 am – Saturday, September 20, 2025, 5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Coralville, Coralville, IA
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Metabolic associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has become the most common chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting nearly a quarter of the global population. The rising incidence of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome has driven this surge, making MASLD a leading cause of advanced liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. As these conditions progress, MASLD is expected to surpass alcohol and viral hepatitis as the leading indication for liver transplantation globally, contributing significantly to healthcare burdens. Liver transplant remains the only effective curative treatment for decompensated-cirrhosis, and it is a limited resource. That, in combination with the particular challenges that MASLD patients’ management pose, make it indispensable to focus on increased awareness to promote early diagnosis of MASLD and preventive strategies. Aimed at the medical community, a series of lectures to review the state of the art of this important issue will be scheduled. Different levels of care and several medical specialties will be involved to provide a holistic overview.Over the course of two days, international expert speakers will review the state of the art in MASLD. This update will include epidemiology, risk factors, etiology, disease progression, lifestyle changes (dietary modifications, exercise programs), pharmacological treatments, endoscopic treatments, surgical treatments, liver transplantation, donation and outcomes.
See also: Liver Wellness at Iowa
Iowa Cardiovascular Summit
Friday, October 3, 2025, 8:00 am – Saturday, October 4, 2025, 12:10 pm
Graduate Hotel, Iowa City , IA
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Updates in cardiology, heart failure and electrophysiology guidelines for therapies including advanced heart
failure treatments, mechanical circulatory support, pharmacological treatment as well as current device therapy for cardiac patients.
Objectives:
- Discuss the pathophysiology and diagnosis of heart failure
- Review the role of cardiac imaging in heart failure
- Discuss the definition and classification of heart failure
- Discuss unusual cardiomyopathy cases
- Identify emerging devices for treatment of heart failure
- Identify the best methods of treatments for atrial arrhythmias
- Explain the treatment options for ventricular arrhythmias in heart failure
- Review valvular heart disease and examine therapies for treatments valvular cardiomyopathy
- Identify candidates for LVAD and heart transplant therapy
- Discuss channelopathies and identify patients for genetic counseling
- Review guidelines and identify candidates for Left Atrial Appendage Closure
- Review challenging EKG patterns
- Explain changes in cardiac imaging
- Review updates in lipid managment
- Discuss hemodynamic monitoring in heart failure
Progress 2025: Learning Together in the 21st Century
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7:15 am – Friday, October 10, 2025, 3:00 pm
Hilton Garden Inn (Grand Ballroom), Des Moines, IA
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Emphasizing the interprofessional team approach to patient care, the annual Progress conference combines internal medicine and pharmacy continuing education programs into a single multi-track program offering plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and hot topics in a combined interprofessional format. This conference will discuss practice changing diagnostic and therapeutic changes in a wide range of clinical medicine.
Topics include:
Changing Therapies in Menopause
Medical Management of Obesity
Osteoporosis Across the Continuum
End of Life Care
Pain Management
Issues in Hospitalist Medicine
Current Topics in Allergy/Immunology 2025: Immune Mutiny: Updates on Immune Dysregulation
Friday, October 10, 2025, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Courtyard by Marriott, iowa City, IA
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Updates in the field of allergy/immunology focused on immune dysregulation.
- Apply anti-inflammatory therapy options in the setting of hyperinflammation
- Summarize side effects of cancer immunotherapies
- Analyze data on new asthma, hereditary angioedema, and chronic urticaria therapies
Advances in Diabetes and Obesity Management 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025, 8am – 4:45pm
Levitt Center for University Advancement, Iowa City , IA
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This is one-day live activity in which experts will deliver lectures covering topics in diabetes and obesity with focus in new development and have discussion with participants.
Highlights inlcude: the effects of Diabetes on muscle strength and atrophy; the role of GLP-1/GIP medications in diabetes and obesity, including practical issues in prescribing GLP-1/GIP medications and new indications for GLP-1/GIP medications; a role of skeletal muscle in glucose and energy homeostasis, etc; keynote by Marcio Griebeler, MD, Director, Enterprise Obesity Center and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.