Harvard Updates in General Internal Medicine for Specialists 2025 (Videos + Slides)

Advances, Updates, Guidelines, and Best Practices in General Internal Medicine—Expressly for Specialists
Updates in General Internal Medicine for Specialists will be held January 27–31, 2025. You can attend online as the course is live streamed, or in person in Boston, MA. All sessions will be recorded and made available to all participants to view online, at your convenience.
Overview
In this unique program, Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty, representing more than 30 fields of medicine and surgery, share updates and provide recommendations to ensure you are current with the recent advances in both general internal medicine and select specialties. General Internal Medicine for Specialists covers the clinical breadth of internal medicine and the working knowledge specialists need in order to understand the most important advances outside your field of expertise.
Whether you are a psychiatrist or pathologist, cardiologist or anesthesiologist, surgeon or hospitalist, you can rely on this program for updates and advances that impact day-to-day practice, clinical decisions, and patient care.
2025 Updates, Strategies, and Tools to Improve Patient Care
The program’s curriculum provides broad and inclusive content ranging from clinical controversies to specific new and innovative therapies. General Internal Medicine for Specialists was developed by experienced practitioners, and sessions are presented by Harvard faculty and select guest speakers dedicated to peer-to-peer education. They will succinctly and effectively summarize material and provide focused updates, emphasizing specific recommendations for clinical practice and improved patient care.
Topics covered in the 2025 program include:

Ischemic heart disease
Hepatitis
Stroke
Chronic obstructive lung disease
Diabetes management
Menopause management
Anticoagulation
Non-diabetes endocrinology
Cognitive decline
Congestive heart failure
Common eye problems
Management of GI complaints
Breast cancer risk
Renal medicine
Sleep disorders
Basic orthopedics

Atrial fibrillation
Lipid management
Disease prevention and health promotion
Osteoporosis management
Asthma
Prostate cancer
Colon cancer
Genetic testing
Managing obesity
Headaches
Allergy medicine
Thyroid disorders
Hypertension
Cancer screening
Lower back pain

Whatever your specialty, you can rely on General Internal Medicine for Specialists for practical updates that ensure a working knowledge of current internal medicine practices and a familiarity with critical advances across a broad range of specialties. This program is designed to provide focused updates of general medicine topics for specialists, and to cover a vast amount of information efficiently and effectively, including:

Current guidelines and management strategies for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, lipid disorders, hypertension, chronic lung disease, sleep disturbances, cognitive decline
Strategies for assessing and managing interacting comorbidities
Potential adverse interactions between medications you prescribe and those prescribed by others
Focused examination techniques in basic orthopedics
Women’s health topics
Up-to-date therapies in cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, oncology and more
Inter-specialty clinical decision-making
The most current evidence-based screening and prevention practices
Breakthrough innovations with proven patient benefit
How medical practices can positively address health care inequities and disparities
How climate changes affect health

Learn from the Best Clinical Faculty at Harvard Medical School
This program is led by active expert practitioners and committed teachers, each with extensive experience in the care of patients and in peer-to-peer presentations to colleagues. The Harvard faculty and select guest speakers will cover state-of-the-art advances and recommendations. You will take home relevant, up-to-date, and evidence-based strategies and tools to improve your patient care.

Schedule

Monday, January 27, 2025

7:45am to 8:00am

Course Introduction

Course Directors

8:00am to 8:55am

Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: Treatment Choices in 2025

Eric M. Isselbacher, MD

8:55am to 9:00am

Break

9:00am to 9:55am

Review and Updates in Hypertension Management

Ksenia Blinnikova, MD, MPH

9:55am to 10:10am

Break

10:10am to 11:05am

Updates in Stroke Prevention and Treatment

Mariel G. Kozberg, MD, PhD

11:05am to 11:10am

Break

11:10am to 12:05pm

Genetic Testing

David J. Einstein, MD

12:05pm to 1:05pm

Break*

1:05pm to 2:00pm

Frequently Asked Questions in Hematology: A Case-Based Approach

David B. Sykes, MD, PhD

2:00pm to 2:05pm

Break

2:05pm to 3:00pm

2025 Heart Failure Update for Subspecialists

Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH

3:00pm to 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm to 4:10pm

Ophthalmology in Primary Care

Mina A. Farahani, MD, MS

4:10pm to 4:15pm

Break

4:15pm to 5:10pm

Diseases of the Foregut

Kyle D. Staller, MD, MPH

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

8:00am to 8:55am

Update in Renal Medicine

David J.R. Steele, MD

8:55am to 9:00am

Break

9:00am to 9:55am

Diabetes: An Update for Subspecialists

David M. Nathan, MD

9:55am to 10:10am

Break

10:10am to 11:05am

Asthma

Nancy Lange-Vaidya, MD

11:05am to 11:10am

Break

11:10am to 12:05pm

Hyperlipidemia 2025

Scott Kinlay, MBBS, PhD

12:05pm to 1:05pm

Break*

1:05pm to 2:00pm

Colon Cancer

Ramona Lim, MD

2:00pm to 2:05pm

Break

2:05pm to 3:00pm

Update on Anticoagulants and Venous Thromboembolism

Rachel P. Rosovsky, MD

3:00pm to 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm to 4:10pm

Lung Cancer Therapy

Christina L. Costantino, MD

4:10pm to 4:15pm

Break

4:15pm to 5:10pm

Overview of Sleep Medicine

James E. Mojica, MD

5:10pm to 7:00pm

Welcome Reception (for in-person attendees)

Join colleagues and faculty for networking and refreshments

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

8:00am to 8:55am

Managing Obesity

Jane S. Sillman, MD

8:55am to 9:00am

Break

9:00am to 9:55am

Common Outpatient Infections: Current Treatment Recommendations

Kristen M. Hysell, MD, MPH

9:55am to 10:10am

Break

10:10am to 11:05am

Updates in Addressing Headaches

Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts

11:05am to 11:10am

Break

11:10am to 12:05pm

Prostate Cancer

Marc B. Garnick, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts

12:05pm to 1:05pm

Break*

1:05pm to 2:00pm

Principles of Care for the Older Adult

Deborah Lee, MD

2:00pm to 2:05pm

Break

2:05pm to 3:00pm

Atrial Fibrillation

E. Kevin Heist, MD

3:00pm to 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm to 4:10pm

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Walter O’Donnell, MD

4:10pm to 4:15pm

Break

4:15pm to 5:10pm

New Practices for Managing Osteoporosis and Reducing Fractures

Sharon H. Chou, MD

Thursday, January 30, 2025

8:00am to 8:55am

Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia: Update 2025

Andrew E. Budson, MD

8:55am to 9:00am

Break

9:00am to 9:55am

Infectious and Metabolic Liver Disease

Raymond T. Chung, MD

9:55am to 10:10am

Break

10:10am to 11:05am

Breast Cancer: Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment

Michelle C. Specht, MD

11:05am to 11:10am

Break

11:10am to 12:05pm

Treating Tobacco Use: Optimizing for Enduring Outcomes

Nancy A. Rigotti, MD

12:05pm to 1:05pm

Break*

1:05pm to 2:00pm

Opioid Use Disorder

Ellie Grossman, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit and Opioid Education and Pain Management Training in Massachusetts

2:00pm to 2:05pm

Break

2:05pm to 3:00pm

Understanding Disparities in Specialty Care

Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH and  Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH

3:00pm to 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm to 4:10pm

Updates in Allergy: What to Know in 2025

Anna R. Wolfson, MD

4:10pm to 4:15pm

Break

4:15pm to 5:10pm

Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist, Hand Pain: Diagnosis and Management

Thomas J. Gill, MD

Friday, January 31, 2025

8:00am to 8:55am

Women’s Health: Managing Menopause

Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts

8:55am to 9:00am

Break

9:00am to 9:55am

Common Thyroid Problems

Gilbert H. Daniels, MD

9:55am to 10:10am

Break

10:10am to 11:05am

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts

11:05am to 11:10am

Break

11:10am to 12:05pm

Healthcare Delivery in the Face of Climate Change

Wynne Armand, MD

12:05pm to 1:05pm

Break*

1:05pm to 2:00pm

Lower Back Pain Evaluation and Treatment Approaches

Dana H. Kotler, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts

2:00pm to 2:05pm

Break

2:05pm to 3:00pm

Case Studies in Reproductive Endocrinology

Frances Hayes, MBBCh, BAO

3:00pm

Course Concludes

*There are many convenient and varied lunch options within a short walking distance of the in-person course venue.