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Grand Rounds – Outpatient Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

Event Details:

Overview:

Did you know alcohol kills more people every year than diabetes? During this presentation, Dr. Laura P. Houston will explain how harm from alcohol can be prevented using a quick 1 question screener.  She will also discuss how withdrawal can be treated in many patients using non-controlled options such as gabapentin and carbamazepine.  Finally, she will review FDA approved treatments and give guidance on the role of Etg/Ets  to assist follow up visits.  

Objectives:

• Recognize the scope of alcohol problem compared to diabetes
• Increase familiarity with alcohol use disorder diagnosis
• Identify tools to quickly screen and assess risky alcohol use during patient encounters
• Discuss how to treat outpatient withdrawal and approved treatments for maintenance of alcohol use disorder

Financial Disclosures:

Laura Pareso Houston, MD, FASAM has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD,  Margaret Finley, MD, Yun Shi, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Lauren Fuller, MD, and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine  
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations. 

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:

Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact:

Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu