Education for Health Care Providers
Purpose
The Pacific Health Foundation is dedicated to improving patient care through the ongoing education of patients, physicians, and other healthcare professionals.
The mission of the Pacific Health Foundation’s Liver Symposium CME program is to enhance the health care of under-served populations by providing a variety of interactive and relevant AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™CME programs for physicians and health care professionals in the Bay Area. The enhancement of providers’ competency in the areas of hepatology and gastroenterology will ensure that the clinical needs of the patient population are well served.
Topics from Past Liver Symposiums 2002-2007
- Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Function Tests
by Lawrence Friedman, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital - Updates in Hepatitis B
by Emmett B. Keeffe, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center - Updates in Hepatitis C
by Kris Kowdley, M.D., Virginia Mason Medical Center - Evaluation of Liver Mass
by Daniel Sze, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University Medical Center - Fatty Liver Revisited
by Nathan Bass, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco - Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
by Tony Bass, M.D., University of California, San Francisco - Management of Complications of Liver Cirrhosis
by Ruel T. Garcia, M.D., San Jose Gastroenterology - Hepatoma: Screening and Treatment
by Mindie H. Nguyen, M.D. M.A.S., Stanford University Medical Center - Hepatitis C Treatment of Relapsers and Nonresponders
by Mitchell L. Shiffman, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University - Importance of Minor Elevations of Liver Tests
by Christopher Bowlus, M.D. University of California, Davis - Hepatitis C in Primary Care: Importance of Early Diagnosis
by Ruel T. Garcia, M.D., San Jose GastroenterologyRole of Hepatitis Vaccines in Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases
by Emmett B. Keeffe, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center