2025 North Carolina Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting

Friday, January 31-Sunday, February 2, 2025
Ballentyne Hotel | Charlotte, NC

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2025 North Carolina Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting

Fostering Excellence in Internal Medicine

The NC Chapter is pleased to offer a meeting space to learn, recharge, and facilitate face-to-face discussion with your peers, chapter leaders, and guest speakers!

Join your internal medicine colleagues at the next NC Chapter scientific meeting January 30 - January 30, 2025:

  • Earn CME credits and MOC points and connect with other internists who know your challenges and can help you find solutions.
  • Experience top-notch education from expert faculty, meet new people and connect with old friends, and learn about ways to get involved with our Chapter.
  • This meeting will help you meet your needs as a physician and help you provide the best care for your patients using the latest information.

We look forward to seeing you at the Ballentyne Hotel in Charlotte NC!

Marion Mull McCrary, MD, FACP
ACP Governor, North Carolina Chapter

Meeting Highlights
  • Back by popular demand: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits will be provided;
  • Darilyn Moyer, MD, MACP, Executive Vice President and CEO of ACP, will give the keynote address during the Governor’s Awards Dinner;
  • Presentation of the 2025 Laureate and Volunteerism Awards;
  • See the latest from the training programs at the Resident and Student Poster Competition as well as posters from Early Career Physicians;
  • Internal medicine residency training programs and medical students will compete in Doctor’s Dilemma;
  • Select your choice of special interest group lunch roundtables;
  • Enjoy breakfast and breaks in the exhibit area, which will feature products and services of interest to physicians and their practices.
Program Committee
  • William C. Lippert, MD, FACP
  • Donna M. Williams, MD, FACP
  • Nicholas R. Young, MD, FACP

6.75 CME & MOC Available

Release Date: February 2, 2025
Termination Date: February 2, 2026

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The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.75 medical knowledge 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 credit 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.

Agenda

Saturday, February 1

Time Session
8:00-9:00 AM Clinical Pearls in ID and Rheumatology
Katherine R. Schafer, MD, FACP
Rachel M. Wolfe, MD
9:20-9:45 AM Updates on Cognitive Impairment/Dementia
Maryjo L. Cleveland, MD
Updates in Hospital Medicine
Raj N. Nagaraj, MBBS, MPH
9:45-10:10 AM Review on disorders of gut/brain interactions
Jennifer L. Wellington, DO
Management of acute HF exacerbations
Priyesh A. Patel, MD
10:10-10:35 AM Treatments for the general internist on Obesity
Jamy Ard, MD
Inpatient DM management
Christopher T. Kelly, MD
10:35-11:00 AM Updates in Outpatient Medicine
Scott L. Furney, MD, MBA
POCUS Cases
Kelli C. Dunn, MD
11:30 AM-12:15 PM PD Panel for Students
TBD
NC Chapter Business Meeting
Marion M. McCrary, MD, FACP
12:15-1:30 PM Lunch and Interest Groups Doctor's Dilemma
1:30-2:40 PM Chief Presentation Talks I
2:50-4:00 PM Chief Presentation Talks II
7:30-8:30 PM Keynote Presentation
Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, FACP

Sunday, February 2

Time Session
8:00-8:30 AM Advocacy Update
Alan Skipper, CMP, CAE
8:30-9:30 AM Reproductive Rights Panel
Meghan Boone, LLM, JD, BA
Christina M. Rinaldi, DO
Karen R. Gerancher, MD
9:45-10:15 AM Story Slam
10:15-11:15 AM Opiate Talk
Hannah Florian, MD
11:15-11:55 AM Escape from Ballanytne
Anthony T. Dang, MD

North Carolina Chapter Registration

Categories By 12/1 After 12/1
ACP Member $199 $249
ACP Resident/Fellow Member $0 $0
ACP Medical Student Member $0 $0
ACP Affiliate Member $149 $199
Nonmember Physician $274 $324
Nonmember Resident $0 $175
Nonmember Medical Student $0 $175
Nonmember Allied Health Professional $174 $224
Speakers $0 $0

Questions? If you have trouble registering online, please contact Member and Product Support at 800-ACP-1915 or direct at 215-351-2600 (M-F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET).

FAQ

Registration Information

Registration fees include the three days of meeting sessions, the Friday evening reception, continental breakfast, lunch and breaks, as well as the CME certificate and electronic copy of the course handouts.

After December 1, registration fees will increase. Please note that refunds of registration fees will not be made after Friday, January 17. Refunds, less $25, will be made for cancellations received prior to that date.

Members whose dues were not paid for the current fiscal year will receive the nonmember registration rate.

Can I follow along on social media?

Yes, follow/like the NC Chapter through the meeting on social media! Use the hashtag #IMProud.

Cancellations and Refunds

Notice of cancellation must be made in writing (fax, mail, or e-mail). Cancellations will not be accepted by telephone. After December 1, registration fees will increase. Please note that refunds of registration fees will not be made after Friday, January 17. Refunds, less $25, will be made for cancellations received prior to that date.
Individuals who fail to attend the course (no-shows) will not be entitled to any refund.

Hotel Accommodations

We have reserved a block of rooms at the following rates until January 9, 2025. When making your reservation, be sure to mention that you will be attending the ACP NC Chapter meeting. The rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so make your reservation as early as possible by calling the hotel directly at 704-248-4000 or registering online.

Single/Double: $269.00
The Ballantyne Hotel
10000 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy
Charlotte, NC 278277

MyACP Account

If you have any difficulty accessing your MyACP account, you can reset your username and password. You can do so by clicking on the MyACP link at the top of the ACP web site. Nonmembers are advised to use their e-mail address as their username when creating a password. If you require additional assistance, please contact us (M-F, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET) via web chat or call 800-ACP-1915 or 215-351-2600 or via e-mail at help@acponline.org

Participant Photography

As a participant in the chapter meeting, your photograph may be taken as a focus or background subject, to be used in chapter communications. If you would not like your photo taken, please inform chapter staff.

ACP Chapters Meeting Code of Conduct

ACP is a community that values collegiality, respect for patients and each other, and medicine’s standards of ethics and professionalism. ACP members are guided by the content and spirit of the ACP Pledge and by their commitment to the ethics of medicine, including those in the ACP Ethics Manual.  “Physicians’ conduct as professionals and as individuals should merit the respect of the community.” 

ACP expects members, staff, and others who participate in events and activities involving ACP to treat others as you would like to be treated – with courtesy, respect for differences, and in ways that appropriately represent the profession of internal medicine. As set forth in ACP’s Anti-Harassment Policy, ACP does not tolerate any form of harassment, including intimidation, hostility, or other unwelcome and offensive communication or treatment.

If you experience or observe harassing, inappropriate or otherwise unprofessional behavior, or you have concerns about how you have been treated by an ACP member or staff or anyone else at an ACP meeting or event, you may report the incident to acpevents@acponline.org or call 215 351-7750.

The chapter reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate; including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and the chapter reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.

For other questions about the chapter meeting, contact Megan Eberle at 919-623-3838 or meberle@ncmedsoc.org.

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