PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR01 General Session II: This Year in Review in Long-Term Care

General Session II: This Year in Review in Long-Term Care

In this session, we present 9-12 articles published in the past year which have the potential to impact the practice of medicine and the processes of care for frail elders in the continuum of care. All articles are chosen through a Modified Delphi approach and critically appraised by experienced, multidisciplinary practitioners and educators. This presentation has been well received each year and is often the site of spirited discussion.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Consider changes in your practice based on recent publications.
  • Identify publications that are controversial and/or may affect the direction of research.
  • Describe techniques for critiquing publications.
  • Discuss the recent evidence relevant to PA-LTC populations.

Milta Little, DO, CMD

Milta Little, DO, CMD, is an Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Duke University. She joined the Duke Division of Geriatrics in 2019 from St. Louis University, where she completed her fellowship training and started her academic career. She has extensive experience in caring and advocating for older adults across care settings. Dr. Little is the incoming President for AMDA: The Society for PALTC Medicine. Her primary scholarly interests are interprofessional education, deprescribing initiatives, and implementation of Dementia-Friendly and Age-Friendly Health System programs across settings of care.

Angela Sanford, MD, CMD

Angela Sanford, MD, CMD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She is the interim director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine. She is a certified medical director and functions as a medical director in the nursing home, assisted living and homehealth care setting. She is clinically active in the PALTC setting, ambulatory clinic, and hospital geriatric medicine consult services. Dr. Sanford supervises medical students, residents and geriatric medicine fellows in the geriatric continuum of care.

Julie Gammack, MD, CMD, FACP

Julie Gammack, MD, CMD, FACP, received her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota followed by an internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was on faculty for two years at Baylor College of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and then joined Saint Louis University Division of Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Gammack is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education. She is a former program director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, Certified Medical Director, and is a medical director at a teaching nursing home. Her teaching and administrative interests are focused on long-term care and medical education.

  • 1.75 CME
  • 1.75 CMD Clinical
  • 1.75 MOC
  • 1.5 Pharmacology Credit

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.75 clinical hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Pharmacology Credit: This activity satisfies the requirement for 1.5 Pharmacology Hour(s) for Nurse Practitioners.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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