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ForwardForefront First: UChicago Medicine Medical Group Second Annual CME Event
Chicago, IL US
September 19, 2026
This activity is designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and a shared understanding of institutional standards across the UChicago Medicine Medical Group by providing evidence-based updates and best practices in key areas of community medicine. It aims to reduce practice variation, strengthen clinical decision-making, improve care coordination and referral efficiency, and increase awareness of innovations, system capabilities, and referral pathways within a large academic-community health network. By addressing potential knowledge gaps and reinforcing current evidence-based guidelines, the activity seeks to enhance consistency in care delivery and support improved patient outcomes across care settings.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for physicians and advanced practice providers from the UChicago Medicine Medical Group and faculty physicians from the Biological Sciences Division.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Apply current evidence-based screening, diagnostic, and treatment recommendations for common adult and pediatric conditions encountered in community practice.
- Integrate current recommendations for recognizing and managing pediatric neurologic, endocrine, and mental health disorders in primary care settings.
- Analyze system-level factors that influence quality metrics, population health outcomes, and timely access to care across academic and community practice settings.
- Evaluate indications for specialty referral and multidisciplinary management in patients with complex medical and behavioral health conditions.
- Assess emerging therapies and innovations relevant to the management of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, menopause, obesity, and cancer care.
| Time | Session | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Adult Sessions | ||
| 8:20 AM | Updates in Lung Cancer Screening and Surgical Treatment | Jessica Donington, MD |
| 9:00 AM | Managing Osteoporosis in 2026 | Keith Reich, DO |
| 9:40 AM | Break | |
| 10:00 AM | Menopause: An Approach to Evaluation and Management of Symptoms | Monica Christmas, MD |
| 10:40 AM | Cardiology Updates: New Guidelines for Lipid Management and Hypertension | Kathleen Drinan, DO |
| 11:20 AM | UCM Medical Group Metric Performance and ACO Trends | George Weyer, MD |
| Pediatric Sessions | ||
| 8:20 AM | Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Headaches: When to Refer | Emily Doll, MD |
| 9:00 AM | Recognition and Management of Pediatric Mental Health Disorders in Primary Care | Khalid Afzal, MD |
| 9:40 AM | Break | |
| 10:00 AM | Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Children: Challenges and Management Strategies | Katie O’Sullivan, MD |
| 12:00 PM | Adjourn | |
The agenda is subject to change.
David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago
1201 E 60th St
Chicago, IL
60637
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
For more information about the program, contact Melva Lavizzo via email.
The David Rubenstein Forum combines a variety of spaces, both formal and informal, large and small, calm and animated, focused and diffuse, scheduled and spontaneous. Its ten-story tower features vibrant and distinct “neighborhoods.” For example, the third and fourth floors are home to Friedman Hall, a 285-seat auditorium optimized for spoken word, including keynote speeches, invited-speaker addresses, and select performances; a two-story lounge connects these floors and other neighborhoods. Meeting rooms on the eighth and ninth floors feature premium furnishings, finishes, and equipment, such as the Peter May Boardroom, a tiered meeting space that seats over 70. The Rubenstein Forum’s unique position on the Midway allows for expansive views of the campus, surrounding communities, downtown Chicago, and Lake Michigan.
PARKING
Parking information is available on the Rubenstein Forum transportation page.
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office via email at email.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTOR
Amit M. Joshi, MD
Clinical Associate of Family Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, UCM Medical Group
Clinical Associate of Family Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, UCM Medical Group
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and, where appropriate, in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and, where appropriate, in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine MOC II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.5 MOC points 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.
American Board of Pediatrics MOC Part II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics's (ABP) 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 ABP MOC credit.
American Board of Internal Medicine MOC II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.5 MOC points 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.
American Board of Pediatrics MOC Part II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics's (ABP) 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 ABP MOC credit.
American Board of Surgery CC and Self-Assessment Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
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