UCSF Controversies in Women’s Health: A Comprehensive Update

This practical update reviews a full range of common but controversial issues in women’s health, emphasizing new developments in preventive care for women. The UCSF Controversies in Women’s Health program covers a broad range of topics, including the diagnosis and treatment of common gynecologic and medical disorders of women, to help healthcare professionals better handle day-to-day controversies of office practice, discuss and implement new guidelines for preventive medicine, and diagnose and treat common disorders.

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, participants will be able to:

• Discuss and implement new guidelines for women for prevention and early detection of cancer with clinical exams, pap tests, genetic tests, and diagnostic imaging.
• Discuss and implement new guidelines for women to prevent infectious diseases with vaccines, screening, and counseling.
• Discuss and implement current guidelines for women to prevent cardiovascular diseases with treatment of hypertension, lipid disorders, and aspirin.
• Diagnose and treat common and controversial problems in women’s health including osteoporosis, menopause, fibromyalgia, obesity, cognitive impairment, sports injuries, and allergies.
• Counsel patients about new developments in genetic testing.
• Understand new treatment options for women with gynecologic cancers.
• Counsel patients about treatment options in contraception.
• Provide comprehensive health care for transgender patients.
• Select the best diagnostic tests.
• Evaluate and prescribe new medications.
• Utilize optimal strategies to enhance value in medical practice.
• Advocate for quality health care services for women.

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for family physicians, internists, gynecologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and all others involved in providing quality health care for women. Special attention will be paid to the day-to-day controversies of office practice, emphasizing preventive medicine, diagnosis and treatment of common disorders, issues in women’s health, and current approaches to management of chronic illness.

Topics and Speakers

The program features expert speakers discussing a range of topics, including:

• Preventive Medicine for Women: Well-Woman Visits in 2018, with George F. Sawaya, MD.
• Prevention of Common Infections in Women: Best Practices in Vaccination, with Lisa Winston, MD.
• Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Current Guidelines for Hypertension, Lipids, and Aspirin, with Robert B. Baron, MD, MS.
• Preventing, Recognizing, and Managing Opiate Use Disorders, with Katherine Julian, MD.
• Clinical Strategies in Women’s Health: Updates in Contraception, with Christine E. Dehlendorf, MD, MAS.
• Current Concepts in Caring for Transgender Patients, with Maddie Deutsch, MD, MPH.
• Current Strategies for Menopause Management, with Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH.
• Understanding Central Sensitization Syndromes: Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pelvic Pain, and Painful Bladder Syndrome, with Molly Heublein, MD.
• Updates in Breast Cancer Screening, with Karla M. Kerlikowske, MD.
• Best Practices in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, with Bruce J. Miller, MD.
• Cutting-edge Genetics, Made Easy, with Mary E. Norton, MD.
• Gynecologic Cancers in the Age of Precision Medicine, with Lee-may Chen, MD.
• Management of Obesity: Diet, Drugs, and Surgery, with Michelle Guy, MD.
• Current and Emerging Strategies for Osteoporosis, with Douglas C. Bauer, MD.

This comprehensive program provides 11.75 hours of estimated time to complete and is available from March 1, 2018, to February 28, 2021.